pothole
A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic.
A pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream.
A vertical cave system, often found in limestone.
A pit resulting from unauthorized excavation by treasure-hunters or vandals.
A shallow hole dug for the purpose of prospecting for opal or gold.
A hyperlink with text displayed on a page that is different from the title of the page to which the text links; a piped link.

potholes
plural of pothole

potomitan
A sacramental post or pillar in the middle of the peristyle in front of a voodoo temple, used as the focus of certain rituals.

potomitans
plural of potomitan

potrero
A long mesa on the flank of a mountain.

potreros
plural of potrero

pottager
Alternative form of potager (“porringer; kind of cup or dish”).
An assistant cook who made soups or stews.

pottagers
plural of pottager

pourlieu
Archaic form of purlieu.

pourlieus
plural of pourlieu

pourpresture
Alternative form of purpresture.

pourprestures
plural of pourpresture

poursuivant
Archaic form of pursuivant.

poursuivants
plural of poursuivant

pousada
a Portuguese inn

pousadas
plural of pousada

poutinerie
A restaurant that specializes in making poutine.

poutineries
plural of poutinerie

poutinery
Alternative spelling of poutinerie (“a restaurant that specializes in making poutine”).

powdike
A dike around a marsh or fen.

powdikes
plural of powdike

powerhouse
A power station; the building housing a power station
Any source of power, energy or strength; a source of influence or inspiration
A very good hand of cards, likely to win.

powerhouses
plural of powerhouse

pozoleria
A restaurant which specializes in pozole.

pozolerias
plural of pozoleria

praecoma
Alternative form of precoma.

praelection
Obsolete form of prelection.

praelections
plural of praelection.

praeternature
Rare spelling of preternature.

prealgebra
A school (in the US, middle school) course that introduces students to concepts needed to learn algebra.
A particular form of Lie algebra; also applied analogously to other types of algebra.

prealgebras
plural of prealgebra

preaudience
Precedence of rank at the bar among lawyers.

prebusiness
Any course of study taken by an undergraduate in preparation for study at a business school.

prechamber
The area around the spark plug in a cylinder of an internal-combustion engine (or in the cylinder head of a diesel engine) where combustion begins

prechambers
plural of prechamber

precipitabilities
plural of precipitability

precipitability
The quality, state, or level of being precipitable.

precipitationshed
The water and land area which contributes evaporation to a given location's precipitation, like an atmospheric watershed.

precoma
A lethargic state approaching coma.

precomas
plural of precoma

precursorship
The position or condition of a precursor.

predecoherence
A quantum state that leads to decoherence

predicament
A definite class, state or condition.
An unfortunate or trying position or condition.
That which is predicated; a category.

predicaments
plural of predicament

predrinks
Alcoholic drinks consumed before a party, pub crawl or other social event.
A session of pre-drinking, often involving drinking games.

preductule
A passage in the bile duct intermediate in size between a ductule and a canaliculus

preductules
plural of preductule

prelaw
Any course of study taken by an undergraduate in preparation for study at a law school.

prelection
A public lecture or reading, especially delivered at a college or university.

prelections
plural of prelection

prepharmacy
A course of study taken by an undergraduate in preparation for working in the field of pharmacy.

prepuna
Alternative spelling of Prepuna.

presbyteries
plural of presbytery

presbytership
The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.

presbytery
The home of a Roman Catholic parish priest.
A section of a church reserved for the clergy, containing the altar.
Presbyters collectively; the body of presbyters of a congregation.
The district (jurisdiction) of those presbyters.
A body of elders in the early Christian church.

presentiality
presence (the state of being present).

presidio
A garrisoned place, especially one that is or was once under Spanish control.

presidios
plural of presidio

presuppositionalism
A school of Christian apologetics that presumes Christian faith is the only basis for rational thought.

preternature
The realm beyond the natural; the preternatural.

pretheology
A course of study taken by an undergraduate in preparation for studying theology.

prex
A president, especially of a university.

prexes
plural of prex

prexies
plural of prexie
plural of prexy

prexy
A president, especially of a college or university.

priapism
A potentially painful or harmful medical condition in which the erect penis does not return to its flaccid state (despite the absence of both physical and psychological stimulation), often as a result of a spinal injury.
An instance of this.
The obsessive focus on one's genitals or on the need for genital gratification.

priapisms
plural of priapism

primordialism
Devotion to, or persistence in, conditions of the primordial state.
The belief that each individual has a single inborn ethnic identity independent of historical processes.

primordialisms
plural of primordialism

printshop
A shop that sells prints.
A shop providing commercial copying and printing services.
Synonym of printing house, an institutional or commercial mass publisher.

printshops
plural of printshop

priories
plural of priory

priory
A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress.

prisonful
Enough to fill a prison.

prisonfuls
plural of prisonful

prisonhouse
The main building of a prison.

prisonhouses
plural of prisonhouse

prisonsful
plural of prisonful

prizeries
plural of prizery

prizery
A place where tobacco is packed into hogsheads.

proamnion
An area of the blastoderm at the cephalic end of a vertebrate embryo, in which there is no mesoderm separating the ectoderm and endoderm

proceedings
plural of proceeding

proconservator
An official archivist of official documents in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

proconservators
plural of proconservator

proctalgia
Pain in the anal or rectal region.

proctodaea
plural of proctodaeum

proctodaeum
Alternative spelling of proctodeum.

proctodaeums
plural of proctodaeum

proctodea
plural of proctodeum

proctodeum
The back ectodermal part of an alimentary canal.

proctodeums
plural of proctodeum

procurement
The purchasing department of a company.
The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment.
Efficient contrivance; management; agency.

procurements
plural of procurement

prodelta
The part of a river delta that is furthest offshore and in which deposition is slowest

prodeltas
plural of prodelta

prodromoi
plural of prodromos

prodromos
a skirmisher cavalry unit used in an Ancient Greek army for scouting ahead of the main force

produceableness
Alternative spelling of producibleness.

producibleness
producibility; the state or quality of being producible.

profusion
abundance; the state of being profuse; a cornucopia
lavish or imprudent expenditure; prodigality or extravagance

profusions
plural of profusion

progradation
The growth of a river delta farther out into the sea over time, as it gains more sediment

progradations
plural of progradation

progymnasium
A German classical school without the higher classes; a school preparatory to a gymnasium.

progymnasiums
plural of progymnasium.

proisocortex
An area of the neocortex

prokeimena
plural of prokeimenon

prokeimenon
In the liturgical practice of the Orthodox Church and Byzantine Rite, a psalm or canticle refrain sung responsorially at certain points of the Divine Liturgy or the Divine Office, usually to introduce a scripture reading.

prokimena
plural of prokimenon

prokimenon
Alternative form of prokeimenon.