| 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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