| poi | (noun) Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment | - |
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| poignance | (noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignancy |
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| poignancy | (noun) a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) | Synonyms: pathos |
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| (noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignance |
| poignant | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: affecting, touching |
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| (adjective) keenly distressing to the mind or feelings | - |
| poignantly | (adverb) in a poignant or touching manner | Synonyms: affectingly, touchingly |
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| poikilotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: ectotherm |
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| poikilothermic | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermous |
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| poikilothermous | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermic |
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| poilu | (noun) thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S. | Synonyms: chicken purloo, purloo |
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| (noun) a French soldier (especially in World War I) | - |
| poinciana | (noun) a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana | Synonyms: bird of paradise, Caesalpinia gilliesii, Poinciana gilliesii |
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| poinsettia | (noun) tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Christmas flower, Christmas star, Euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf |
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| point | (noun) sharp end | - |
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| (noun) a wall socket | Synonyms: power point |
| (noun) the gun muzzle's direction | Synonyms: gunpoint |
| (noun) a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs | Synonyms: breaker point, distributor point |
| (noun) the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip | Synonyms: pointedness |
| (noun) an outstanding characteristic | Synonyms: spot |
| (noun) a distinguishing or individuating characteristic | - |
| (noun) a geometric element that has position but no extension | - |
| (noun) an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: detail, item |
| (noun) the object of an activity | - |
| (noun) a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | Synonyms: full point, full stop, period, stop |
| (noun) a brief version of the essential meaning of something | - |
| (noun) a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer | Synonyms: head |
| (noun) a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list | Synonyms: item |
| (noun) the dot at the left of a decimal fraction | Synonyms: decimal point, percentage point |
| (noun) the precise location of something; a spatially limited location | - |
| (noun) a promontory extending out into a large body of water | - |
| (noun) one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan | - |
| (noun) a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch | - |
| (noun) the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest | - |
| (noun) any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass | Synonyms: compass point |
| (noun) a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect | - |
| (noun) a V shape | Synonyms: peak, tip |
| (noun) a very small circular shape | Synonyms: dot |
| (noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: degree, level, stage |
| (noun) an instant of time | Synonyms: point in time |
| (verb) give a point to | Synonyms: sharpen, taper |
| (verb) repair the joints of bricks | Synonyms: repoint |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, indicate, show |
| (verb) indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle | - |
| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, indicate, signal |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: charge, level |
| (verb) be positionable in a specified manner | - |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, place, target |
| (verb) mark with diacritics | - |
| (verb) mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes | - |
| (verb) mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics | - |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, steer |
| (verb) sail close to the wind | Synonyms: luff |
| (verb) be oriented | Synonyms: orient |
| pointed | (adjective) having a point | - |
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| (adjective) direct and obvious in meaning or reference; often unpleasant | - |
| pointedly | (adverb) in such a manner as to make something clearly evident | - |
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| pointedness | (noun) the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip | Synonyms: point |
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| (noun) the quality of being obviously directed at a particular person or thing | - |
| pointel | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graver, graving tool, pointrel |
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| pointer | (noun) a strong slender smooth-haired dog of Spanish origin having a white coat with brown or black patches; scents out and points to game | Synonyms: Spanish pointer |
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| (noun) an indicator as on a dial | - |
| (noun) (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions | Synonyms: cursor |
| (noun) a mark to indicate a direction or relation | Synonyms: arrow |
| pointfulness | (noun) The state or condition of having meaning, relevance or force. | - |
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| pointillism | (noun) a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France | - |
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| (noun) a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France | - |
| pointillist | (adjective) of or relating to pointillism | Synonyms: pointillistic |
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| (noun) a painter who uses the technique of pointillism | - |
| pointillistic | (adjective) of or relating to pointillism | Synonyms: pointillist |
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| pointless | (adjective) not having a point especially a sharp point | Synonyms: unpointed |
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| (adjective) having no points scores | Synonyms: goalless, hitless, scoreless |
| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted |
| pointlessly | (adverb) in a pointless manner | - |
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| pointlessness | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, senselessness, vacuity |
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| pointrel | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graver, graving tool, pointel |
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| pointsman | (noun) a policeman stationed at an intersection to direct traffic | - |
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| poise | (noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: aplomb, assuredness, cool, sang-froid |
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| (noun) a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second | - |
| (noun) a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium | - |
| (verb) hold or carry in equilibrium | Synonyms: balance |
| (verb) cause to be balanced or suspended | - |
| (verb) prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult | Synonyms: brace |
| (verb) be motionless, in suspension | - |
| poised | (adjective) marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action | - |
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| (adjective) in full control of your faculties | Synonyms: collected, equanimous, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed |
| poison | (noun) anything that harms or destroys | - |
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| (noun) any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism | Synonyms: poisonous substance, toxicant |
| (verb) administer poison to | - |
| (verb) add poison to | Synonyms: envenom |
| (verb) kill with poison | - |
| (verb) kill by its poison | - |
| (verb) spoil as if by poison | - |
| poisonberry | (noun) Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible | Synonyms: black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum |
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| poisoner | (noun) someone who kills with poison | - |
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| poisoning | (noun) the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill | - |
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| (noun) the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance | Synonyms: intoxication, toxic condition |
| poisonous | (adjective) not safe to eat | - |
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| (adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | Synonyms: venomous, vicious |
| (adjective) having the qualities or effects of a poison | Synonyms: toxicant |
| poisonously | (adverb) in a very malevolent manner | Synonyms: venomously |
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