populated | (adjective) furnished with inhabitants | - |
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population | (noun) the act of populating (causing to live in a place) | - |
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(noun) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn | Synonyms: universe |
(noun) the people who inhabit a territory or state | - |
(noun) a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area | - |
(noun) the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.) | - |
populism | (noun) the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite | - |
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populist | (noun) someone who advocates the rights of the common people over those of the elite | - |
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populous | (adjective) densely populated | Synonyms: thickly settled |
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porbeagle | (noun) voracious pointed-nose shark of northern Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: Lamna nasus |
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porc | (noun) meat from a domestic hog or pig | Synonyms: pork |
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porcelain | (noun) ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic | - |
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porcelainize | (verb) coat with porcelain or a porcelain-like surface | - |
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porch | (noun) a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance | - |
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porcine | (adjective) relating to or suggesting swine | - |
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(adjective) repellently fat | Synonyms: gross |
(adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish |
porcupine | (noun) relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur | Synonyms: hedgehog |
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porcupinefish | (noun) spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: Diodon hystrix, porcupine fish |
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porcupines | (noun) meat patties rolled in rice and simmered in a tomato sauce | Synonyms: porcupine ball |
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pore | (noun) any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal | - |
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(noun) a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass | Synonyms: stoma, stomate |
(noun) any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas) | - |
(verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, focus, rivet |
porgy | (noun) important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide | - |
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(noun) lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: scup |
poriferan | (noun) primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | Synonyms: parazoan, sponge |
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poriferous | (adjective) full of pores or vessels or holes | Synonyms: porous |
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pork | (noun) meat from a domestic hog or pig | Synonyms: porc |
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(noun) a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents | Synonyms: pork barrel |
porkchop | (noun) chop cut from a hog | - |
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porker | (noun) a pig fattened to provide meat | - |
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porkfish | (noun) black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil | Synonyms: Anisotremus virginicus, pork-fish |
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porkholt | (noun) made of lamb or pork | - |
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porkpie | (noun) man's hat with a low, flat crown and a snap brim | Synonyms: porkpie hat |
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porn | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porno, pornography, smut |
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porno | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porn, pornography, smut |
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pornographer | (noun) someone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of the community mores | Synonyms: porn merchant |
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pornographic | (adjective) designed to arouse lust | Synonyms: adult |
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pornographically | (adverb) in a pornographic manner | - |
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pornography | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porn, porno, smut |
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poroporo | (noun) Australian annual sometimes cultivated for its racemes of purple flowers and edible yellow egg-shaped fruit | Synonyms: kangaroo apple, Solanum aviculare |
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porose | (adjective) forming a continuous series of pores | - |
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porosity | (noun) the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids | Synonyms: porousness |
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porous | (adjective) full of pores or vessels or holes | Synonyms: poriferous |
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(adjective) allowing passage in and out | Synonyms: holey |
(adjective) able to absorb fluids | - |
porousness | (noun) the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids | Synonyms: porosity |
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porphyria | (noun) a genetic abnormality of metabolism causing abdominal pains and mental confusion | - |
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porphyrin | (noun) any of various pigments distributed widely in living tissues | - |
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porphyritic | (adjective) (of rocks) consisting of porphyry or containing large crystals in a fine groundmass of minerals | - |
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porphyry | (noun) any igneous rock with crystals embedded in a finer groundmass of minerals | Synonyms: porphyritic rock |
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porpoise | (noun) any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth | - |
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porridge | (noun) soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick | - |
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porringer | (noun) a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle) | - |
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port | (adjective) located on the left side of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: larboard |
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(noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: embrasure, porthole |
(noun) (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals) | Synonyms: interface |
(noun) the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose | Synonyms: larboard |
(noun) sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal | Synonyms: port wine |
(noun) a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country | - |
(verb) modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform | - |
(verb) drink port | - |
(verb) carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons | - |
(verb) carry, bear, convey, or bring | - |
(verb) turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship | - |
(verb) put or turn on the left side, of a ship | - |
(verb) land at or reach a port | - |
(verb) bring to port | - |
porta | (noun) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity | Synonyms: opening, orifice |
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portability | (noun) the quality of being light enough to be carried | - |
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portable | (adjective) easily or conveniently transported | - |
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(adjective) of a motor designed to be attached to the outside of a boat's hull | - |
(noun) a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried | - |
portage | (noun) carrying boats and supplies overland | - |
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(noun) overland track between navigable waterways | - |
(noun) the cost of carrying or transporting | - |
portal | (noun) a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically) | - |
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(noun) a short vein that carries blood into the liver | Synonyms: hepatic portal vein, portal vein, vena portae |
(noun) a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet | Synonyms: portal site |
portcullis | (noun) gate consisting of an iron or wooden grating that hangs in the entry to a castle or fortified town; can be lowered to prevent passage | - |
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portend | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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portent | (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication |
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portentous | (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical |
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(adjective) ominously prophetic | Synonyms: fateful, foreboding |
(adjective) of momentous or ominous significance | Synonyms: prodigious |
portentously | (adverb) in a portentous manner | - |
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porter | (noun) a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley | Synonyms: porter's beer |
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(noun) a person employed to carry luggage and supplies | - |
(noun) a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars) | Synonyms: Pullman porter |
(noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary |
(verb) carry luggage or supplies | - |
porterage | (noun) the transportation of burdens by porters | - |
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(noun) the charge for carrying burdens by porters | - |
porterhouse | (noun) large steak from the thick end of the short loin containing a T-shaped bone and large piece of tenderloin | Synonyms: porterhouse steak |
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portfolio | (noun) the role of the head of a government department | - |
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(noun) a large, flat, thin case for carrying loose papers or drawings or maps; usually leather | - |
(noun) a list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution | - |
(noun) a set of pieces of creative work collected to be shown to potential customers or employers | - |
porthole | (noun) a window in a ship or airplane | - |
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(noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: embrasure, port |
portico | (noun) a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area | - |
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porticoed | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostylar, amphiprostyle, amphistylar |
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portiere | (noun) a heavy curtain hung across a doorway | - |
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portion | (noun) the allotment of some amount by dividing something | Synonyms: parcel, share |
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(noun) something less than the whole of a human artifact | Synonyms: part |
(noun) an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal | Synonyms: helping, serving |
(noun) assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | Synonyms: part, percentage, share |
(noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowery, dowry |
(noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it | Synonyms: component, component part, constituent, part |
(noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck |
(verb) give out | Synonyms: allot, assign |
portly | (adjective) euphemisms for `fat' | Synonyms: stout |
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portmanteau | (noun) a large travelling bag made of stiff leather | Synonyms: Gladstone, Gladstone bag |
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(noun) a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings | Synonyms: blend, portmanteau word |
portrait | (noun) any likeness of a person, in any medium | Synonyms: portrayal |
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(noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portraiture, portrayal |
portraitist | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: limner, portrait painter, portrayer |
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portraiture | (noun) the activity of making portraits | - |
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(noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portrait, portrayal |
portray | (verb) portray in words | - |
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(verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: depict, limn |
(verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: impersonate |
(verb) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture | Synonyms: present |
portrayal | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: delineation, depiction |
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(noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, enactment, personation |
(noun) any likeness of a person, in any medium | Synonyms: portrait |
(noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, depiction, portraying |
(noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portrait, portraiture |
portrayed | (adjective) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | Synonyms: depicted, pictured |
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portrayer | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: limner, portrait painter, portraitist |
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portraying | (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, depiction, portrayal |
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portulaca | (noun) a plant of the genus Portulaca having pink or red or purple or white ephemeral flowers | - |
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portwatcher | (noun) a watchman on a wharf | Synonyms: port watcher |
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pose | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectation, affectedness, mannerism |
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(noun) affected manners intended to impress others | Synonyms: airs |
(noun) a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes | - |
(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
(verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: impersonate, personate |
(verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, position, put, set |
(verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: model, posture, sit |
(verb) behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others | Synonyms: posture |
(verb) offer for others to consider | Synonyms: present |
posed | (adjective) arranged for pictorial purposes | - |
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poser | (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: sticker, stumper, toughie |
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(noun) a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor | Synonyms: model |
(noun) a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not | Synonyms: poseur |
poseur | (noun) a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not | Synonyms: poser |
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poseuse | (noun) a woman poseur | - |
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posh | (adjective) elegant and fashionable | Synonyms: classy, swish |
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posing | (noun) (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait) | Synonyms: sitting |
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posit | (noun) (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning | Synonyms: postulate |
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(verb) take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom | Synonyms: postulate |
(verb) put before | Synonyms: put forward, state, submit |
(verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: deposit, fix, situate |
position | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, positioning |
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(noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, office, place, post, situation |
(noun) (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player | - |
(noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: lieu, place, stead |
(noun) the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom | - |
(noun) the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated | Synonyms: spatial relation |
(noun) the arrangement of the body and its limbs | Synonyms: attitude, posture |
(noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: perspective, view |
(noun) a rationalized mental attitude | Synonyms: posture, stance |
(noun) an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute | Synonyms: side |
(noun) an item on a list or in a sequence | Synonyms: place |
(noun) the particular portion of space occupied by something | Synonyms: place |
(noun) a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons | Synonyms: military position |
(noun) the appropriate or customary location | - |
(noun) the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society | Synonyms: status |
(noun) a condition or position in which you find yourself | Synonyms: situation |
(verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, pose, put, set |
(verb) cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation | - |
positionable | (adjective) capable of being positioned | - |
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positional | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by position | - |
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positioner | (noun) (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track | Synonyms: rotary actuator |
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(noun) a device used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals. | - |
positioning | (adjective) causing to fall into line or into position | Synonyms: aligning |
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(noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, position |
positive | (adjective) characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc. | - |
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(adjective) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen | Synonyms: confirming |
(adjective) reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion | - |
(adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positivist, positivistic |
(adjective) involving advantage or good | Synonyms: plus |
(adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: confident, convinced |
(adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: electropositive, positively charged |
(adjective) marked by excessive confidence | Synonyms: cocksure, overconfident |
(adjective) formally laid down or imposed | Synonyms: prescribed |
(adjective) greater than zero | - |
(adjective) impossible to deny or disprove | Synonyms: incontrovertible, irrefutable |
(noun) a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject | - |
(noun) the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution | Synonyms: positive degree |
positively | (adverb) downright | - |
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(adverb) so as to be positive; in a positive manner | - |
positiveness | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positivism, positivity |
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(noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positivity, profitableness |
(noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positivity |
(noun) an amount greater than zero | Synonyms: positivity |
(noun) the character of the positive electric pole | Synonyms: positivity |
positivism | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positiveness, positivity |
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(noun) the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) | Synonyms: logical positivism |
positivist | (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positive, positivistic |
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(noun) someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes | Synonyms: rationalist |
positivistic | (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positive, positivist |
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positivity | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positiveness, positivism |
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(noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, profitableness |
(noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positiveness |
(noun) an amount greater than zero | Synonyms: positiveness |
(noun) the character of the positive electric pole | Synonyms: positiveness |
positron | (noun) an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation | Synonyms: antielectron |
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posology | (noun) the pharmacological determination of appropriate doses of drugs and medicines | - |
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posse | (noun) a temporary police force | Synonyms: posse comitatus |
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posseman | (noun) an able-bodied man serving as a member of a posse | - |
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possess | (verb) have ownership or possession of | Synonyms: have, own |
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(verb) have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill | - |
(verb) enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas | - |
possessed | (adjective) of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon | Synonyms: demoniac, demoniacal |
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(adjective) influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion | Synonyms: obsessed |