| COLOPHON | • colophon n. (Printing, publishing) In manuscripts (typically before the invention of printing), the note, usually… • colophon n. (Printing) A printer’s or publisher’s identifying inscription or logo appearing at the front or end… • colophon n. (By extension, Internet) A page on a website identifying the details of its creation, such as the author’s… |
| LOOPHOLE | • loophole n. (Historical) A slit in a castle wall; today, any similar window for shooting a ranged weapon or letting… • loophole n. (Figurative) A method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule or law that can be exploited… • loophole v. (Military, transitive) To prepare a building for defense by preparing slits or holes through which to… |
| MONOPOLE | • monopole n. An appellation owned by a single winery. • monopole n. (Physics) A magnetic monopole. • monopole n. A monopole antenna. |
| MONOPOLY | • monopoly n. A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (Company, cartel etc.)… • monopoly n. An exclusive control over the trade or production of a commodity or service through exclusive possession. • monopoly n. The privilege granting the exclusive right to exert such control. |
| OILPROOF | • oilproof adj. Resistant to oil. • oilproof v. (Transitive) To make resistant to oil. • OILPROOF adj. impervious to oil. |
| OPTOLOGY | • optology n. (Rare) The study of sight. • OPTOLOGY n. the study of sight. |
| PODOLOGY | • podology n. Podiatry, chiropody. • PODOLOGY n. the study of the feet. |
| POLTFOOT | • poltfoot n. Alternative form of polt foot. • polt-foot adj. Having a distorted foot, or a clubfoot or clubfeet. • polt␣foot n. Clubfoot. |
| POLTROON | • poltroon n. An ignoble or total coward; a dastard; a mean-spirited wretch. • poltroon adj. Cowardly. • POLTROON n. a despicable coward, also POULTROONE. |
| POLYZOON | • polyzoon n. (Obsolete) A bryozoan. • POLYZOON n. one of the individual zooids forming the compound organism of a polyzoan. |
| POMOLOGY | • pomology n. (Botany) The study of pome fruit and of the cultivation of such fruit. • pomology n. (Botany) The study of fruit in general and of the cultivation of fruit. • pomology n. A work or treatise written on this subject. |
| POOLROOM | • poolroom n. (US) A room with pool tables where pool can be played, usually for a fee. • poolroom n. A room in a house or other domestic dwelling set up with a pool or snooker table. • POOLROOM n. an establishment for the playing of billiards, also POOLHALL. |
| POSOLOGY | • posology n. (Countable, uncountable, pharmacy, pharmacology) The study of the dosages of drugs, especially the determination… • posology n. (Uncountable, mathematics, historical, rare) In the works of English philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)… • POSOLOGY n. a branch of medicine that deals with drug dosages. |
| PROTOCOL | • protocol n. (Now chiefly historical) The minutes, or official record, of a negotiation or transaction; especially… • protocol n. (International law, now rare) An official record of a diplomatic meeting or negotiation; later specifically… • protocol n. (International law) An amendment to an official treaty. |
| SPODOSOL | • spodosol n. (Soil science) A type of soil that has a spodic horizon; includes most podsols. • SPODOSOL n. a type of ashy soil. |
| TOPOLOGY | • topology n. (Mathematics, uncountable) The branch of mathematics dealing with those properties of a geometrical… • topology n. (Topology) Any collection τ of subsets of a given set X that contains both the empty set and X, and… • topology n. (Medicine) The anatomical structure of part of the body. |