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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

power breakfast
noun a meeting of influential people to conduct business while eating breakfast

power broker
powerbroker noun a person who is important by virtue of the people or votes they control; `a power broker who does you a favor will expect you to return it`

power company
power service noun a public utility that provides electricity

power cord
noun a cord to conduct power to an electrical appliance

power couple
noun a couple both of whom have high-powered careers or are politically influential

power dive
noun a dive of an airplane that is accelerated both by gravity and by the power of the engine

power drill
noun a power tool for making holes in hard materials

power hammer
noun a power tool for drilling rocks

power hunger
status seeking noun a drive to acquire power

power line
power cable noun cable used to distribute electricity

power loading
noun the ratio of the weight of an airplane to its engine power

power loom
noun a loom operated mechanically

power module
noun module that provides power to operate other modules

power mower
motor mower noun a lawn mower powered by a gasoline motor

power of appointment
noun authority given (in a will or deed) by a donor to a donee to appoint the beneficiaries of the donor`s property

power of attorney
noun a legal instrument authorizing someone to act as the grantor`s agent

power outage
power failure noun equipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails; `the ice storm caused a power outage`

power pack
noun a device for converting a power supply to a voltage required by particular equipment

power play
noun an aggressive attempt to compel acquiescence by the concentration or manipulation of power; `she laughed at this sexual power play and walked away`

power point
noun a wall socket

power politics
gunboat diplomacy noun diplomacy in which the nations threaten to use force in order to obtain their objectives

power saw
saw 1 sawing machine noun a power tool for cutting wood

power series
noun the sum of terms containing successively higher integral powers of a variable

power shovel
excavator noun a machine for excavating

power station
power plant noun an electrical generating station

power steering
power-assisted steering noun automotive steering where engineer power amplifies the torque applied to the steering wheel

power structure
pecking order noun the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body

power system
power grid noun a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region

power takeoff
PTO noun a device that transfers power from an engine (as in a tractor or other motor vehicle) to another piece of equipment (as to a pump or jackhammer)

power tool
noun a tool driven by a motor

power trip
noun (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people

power unit
noun a measure of electric power

power user
noun (computing) a computer user who needs the fastest and most powerful computers available

power walking
noun a form of cardiopulmonary exercise consisting of rapid walking accompanied by vigorous swinging of the arms

power worker
power-station worker noun a worker at a power station

power-assisted
adjective supplementing or replacing manual effort; `power-assisted steering`

power-driven
adjective powered by a motor; `a power-driven hand tool`

powered
adjective (often used in combination) having or using or propelled by means of power or power of a specified kind; `powered flight`; `kerosine-powered jet engines`

powerful
adjective having great power or force or potency or effect; `the most powerful government in western Europe`; `his powerful arms`; `a powerful bomb`; `the horse`s powerful kick`; `powerful drugs`; `a powerful argument`

powerhouse
noun a team considered to be the best of its class

powerless
adjective lacking power

powerlessly
adverb in a powerless manner

powerlessness
impotence noun the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble

Powhatan
noun the Algonquian language of the Powhatan

powwow
noun a council of or with Native Americans

Powys
John Cowper Powys noun British writer of novels about nature; one of three literary brothers (1872-1963)

Powys
noun British writer of allegorical novels; one of three literary brothers (1875-1953)

pox
noun a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks

poxvirus
noun any of a group of viruses that can cause pox diseases in vertebrates

Poyang
noun a lake in central China that is connected to the Chang Jiang by a canal

practicability
practicableness noun the quality of being usable

practicably
feasibly adverb in a practicable manner; so as to be feasible

practical
adjective having or put to a practical purpose or use; `practical mathematics`; `practical applications of calculus`

practical application
noun the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose; `he advocated the application of statistics to the problem`; `a novel application of electronics to medical diagnosis`

practical joke
noun a prank or trick played on a person (especially one intended to make the victim appear foolish)

practicality
noun concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities

practically
adverb almost; nearly; `practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train`; `he was practically the only guest at the party`; `there was practically no garden at all`

practice
pattern noun a customary way of operation or behavior; `it is their practice to give annual raises`; `they changed their dietary pattern`

practice
noun translating an idea into action; `a hard theory to put into practice`; `differences between theory and praxis of communism`

practice range
noun a place for practicing golf shots

practiced
practised adjective skillful after much practice

practitioner
practician noun someone who practices a learned profession

praenomen
noun the first name of a citizen of ancient Rome

praetor
pretor noun an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic

praetorian
praetorial adjective of or relating to a Roman praetor; `praetorial powers`

Praetorian Guard
noun the elite bodyguard of a Roman Emperor in ancient Rome

praetorium
pretorium noun the tent of an ancient Roman general

praetorship
noun the office of praetor

pragmatic
pragmatical adjective of or concerning the theory of pragmatism

pragmatic sanction
pragmatic noun an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land

pragmatically
adverb in a realistic manner; `we want to build a democratic society, but we must act pragmatically`

pragmatics
noun the study of language use

pragmatism
noun (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value

pragmatist
noun a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of her actions

Prague
Praha noun the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic in the western part of the country; a cultural and commercial center since the 14th century

Praia
Cidade de Praia noun the capital of Cape Verde on Sao Tiago Island

prairia Sabbatia
Texas star 2 Sabbatia campestris noun prairie herb with solitary lilac-colored flowers

Prairial
noun ninth month of the Revolutionary calendar (May and June); the month of meadows

prairie
noun a treeless grassy plain

prairie aster
Aster turbinellis noun violet-flowered perennial aster of central United States having solitary heads

prairie bird`s-foot trefoil
compass plant 4 prairie lotus noun North American annual with red or rose-colored flowers

prairie chicken
prairie grouse noun brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies

prairie coneflower
noun coneflower of central to southwestern United States

prairie cordgrass
freshwater cordgrass noun North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns

prairie dog
prairie marmot noun any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry

prairie fox
Vulpes velox noun small grey fox of the plains of western North America

prairie gentian
tulip gentian noun one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas

prairie gourd
prairie gourd vine noun perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit

prairie mallow
red false mallow noun false mallow of western United States having racemose red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Malvastrum

prairie mimosa
prickle-weed noun perennial herb of North American prairies having dense heads of small white flowers

prairie orchid
prairie white-fringed orchis noun orchid of boggy or wet lands of north central United States having racemes of very fragrant creamy or greenish white flowers

prairie rattlesnake
prairie rattler noun widely distributed between the Mississippi and the Rockies

prairie smoke
purple avens 2 Geum triflorum noun North American perennial with hairy basal pinnate leaves and purple flowers and plume-tipped fruits

prairie soil
noun a type of soil occurring under grasses in temperate climates

prairie star
Lithophragma parviflorum noun plant with mostly basal leaves and slender open racemes of white or pale pink flowers; prairies and open forest of northwestern United States to British Columbia and Alberta

prairie sunflower
Helianthus petiolaris noun similar to the common sunflower with slender usually branching stems common in central United States

prairie vole
Microtus ochrogaster noun typical vole of the extended prairie region of central United States and southern Canada

prairie wake-robin
prairie trillium noun trillium of central United States having dark purple sessile flowers

prairie white-fringed orchid
Platanthera leucophea noun of central North America; a threatened species

prairie willow
Salix humilis noun slender shrubby willow of dry areas of North America