| LAMPOON | • lampoon n. A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution. • lampoon v. To satirize or poke fun at. • LAMPOON v. to ridicule by personal satire. |
| LOOPING | • looping v. Present participle of loop. • looping n. Something that loops; a looped pattern or action. • looping n. The running together of ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination. |
| PELOTON | • peloton n. (Cycle racing) A group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders; the pack. • peloton n. (Military, chiefly historical) Synonym of platoon (“a small group of soldiers”) or synonym of section… • PELOTON n. the main body of riders in a bicycle race. |
| PLATOON | • platoon n. (Military) A unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company. • platoon n. A group of self-driving vehicles travelling in a close convoy and communicating electronically with each other. • platoon n. (Education, historical) A group of children in the platoon grouping education system. |
| PLONKOS | • plonkos n. Plural of plonko. • PLONKO n. (Australian slang) an alcoholic esp. one who drinks wine. |
| PLOSION | • plosion n. (Phonetics) Pronunciation of a consonant that is characterised by completely blocking the flow of air… • PLOSION n. a release of breath after articulating certain consonants. |
| POBLANO | • poblano n. A mild green chile pepper native to Mexico; when dried, the chilis are called anchos or chiles anchos… • Poblano prop.n. A surname from Spanish. • POBLANO n. a kind of long, wide, dark-green moderately hot chili used esp. in Mexican cooking. |
| POLARON | • polaron n. (Physics) The object (a quasiparticle) that results when an electron (or hole) in the conduction band… • POLARON n. a free electron trapped by polarization charges on the surrounding molecules. |
| POLONIE | • POLONIE n. (Scots) a child's polonaise, a stately Polish dance of moderate tempo. |
| POLYGON | • polygon n. (Geometry) A plane figure bounded by edges that are all straight lines. • polygon n. (Geometry) The boundary of such a figure. • polygon n. (Geometry, more generally) A figure comprising vertices and (not necessarily straight) edges, alternatingly. |
| POOLING | • pooling n. (Resource management) Grouping together of various resources or assets. • pooling v. Present participle of pool. • POOL v. to contribute to a common fund. |
| PROLONG | • prolong v. (Transitive) To extend in space or length. • prolong v. (Transitive) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of. • prolong v. (Transitive) To put off to a distant time; to postpone. |
| PULTOON | • pultoon n. Alternative form of puttun (“Indian regiment”). • PULTOON n. (Hindi) an Indian regiment, also PULTUN, PULTAN, PULTON. |
| UNSPOOL | • unspool v. To remove (Film, cotton, etc.) from a spool; unwind. • unspool v. (Aviation) To reduce the thrust of a jet engine to idle in flight. • unspool v. (Slang) To screen a film. |
| VANPOOL | • vanpool n. The transport of a pool of commuters in a shared van. • vanpool v. (Transitive) To transport people in a vanpool. • vanpool v. (Intransitive) To be transported in a vanpool. |
| VOLPINO | • Volpino n. Short for Volpino Italiano (“an Italian breed of dog”). • VOLPINO n. (Italian) a small Italian dog with long straight hair. |