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Posers
- noun - a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
- a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not
- a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor; "the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos"
Posies
- noun - A short motto or line of verse inscribed inside a ring
- an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present
- Small bunch of flowers
Posits
- noun - (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
- put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot"
- put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
- take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature"
Posses
- noun - a temporary police force
Pothos
- noun - any of various tropical lianas of the genus Scindapsus
- evergreen liana widely cultivated for its variegated foliage
Pottos
- noun - a kind of lemur
- arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail
Pounds
- noun - 16 ounces avoirdupois; "he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds"
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs; "unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound"
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle; "pound the roots with a heavy flat stone"
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist"
- move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the room"
- move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast"
- partition off into compartments; "The locks pound the water of the canal"
Powers
- noun - (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power; "being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage"; "during his first year in office"; "during his first year in power"; "the power of the president"
- (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second)
- a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
- a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
- a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron"
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority; "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil"
- physical strength
- possession of controlling influence; "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"; "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade"
- possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities)
Poyous
- noun - Argentine armadillo with six movable bands and hairy underparts