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9,747 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

Poitou
proper noun
a surname
Poitou-Charentes
proper noun
Poitou-Charentes (a former administrative region of France; since 2016 part of the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
Polack
noun, masculine
alternative spelling of Polak (Polack, person of Polish descent)
Polak
noun, masculine
Polack (person of Polish descent)
Polandball
noun, masculine
Polandball
Polichinelle
proper noun
Pulcinella (Italian theatrical character)
Polignac
proper noun
a surname
Pollestres
proper noun
Pollestres (a town and commune of Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitania, France, historically part of Northern Catalonia)
Pollux
proper noun
Pollux
Pologne
proper noun
Poland (a country in Central Europe)
Polonais
noun, masculine
Pole, resident or native of Poland
Polovtsien
noun, masculine
Polovtsian (male)
Polybe
proper noun
Polybius
Polycarpe
proper noun
a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Polycarp or Polycarpus
Polydeuce
proper noun
Polydeuces
Polydore
proper noun
a male given name from Ancient Greek, of historical usage, equivalent to English Polydorus
Polynésie
proper noun
Polynesia (a continental region of Oceania, including Easter Island, Hawaii, New Zealand, and most of the islands between them)
French Polynesia (an archipelago and overseas territory of France in Oceania)
Polynésien
noun, masculine
Polynesian person
Polyphème
proper noun
Polyphemus
Polytechnique
proper noun
the École polytechnique, a major institute of higher learning outside of Paris
Pomme
proper noun
a female given name
Pompey
proper noun
Pompey (a city in Meurthe-et-Moselle department, France)
Pompidou
proper noun
a surname; Georges Pompidou (1911–1974), French politician and President of France from 1969 until his death
Pompée
proper noun
a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Pompey
Pompéi
proper noun
Pompeii (an ancient city in the Roman Empire, in modern Italy)
Pompélona
proper noun
Pompelo (a city in Hispania)
Poméranie
proper noun
Pomerania (a former duchy, historical province of Prussia, and now a geographic region of Central Europe split between Germany and Poland on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea)
Ponant
proper noun
Western Europe; the western Mediterranean
Ponce
proper noun
a male given name from Latin
Pondichérien
noun, masculine
Pondicherrian (native or inhabitant of the union territory of Puducherry, India) (usually male)
Pondichéry
proper noun
Puducherry (a union territory in southern India, consisting of four geographically separated exclaves of former French India, namely its capital, Karaikal, Yanam, and Mahe); Puducherry, Pondicherry (the capital city of the union territory of Puducherry, India)
Poniatowski
proper noun
a surname from Polish
Pont
proper noun
Pontus (an ancient kingdom and cultural region covering the eastern half of the southern coast of the Black Sea, in Anatolia in modern Turkey; traditionally Greek-speaking); Pontus (a former province of the Roman Empire covering the western half of the Pontus region unified with Bithynia; in full, Bithynia et Pontus)
Pont-Aven
proper noun
Pont-Aven (a town in Finistère department, Brittany, France)
Pont-Euxin
proper noun
the Black Sea
Pont-Saint-Martin (a town in Loire-Atlantique department, France)
Pontacq
proper noun
Pontacq (a town and commune of Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, in southwestern France)
Ponte Euxine
proper noun
Euxine Sea
Pontiac
proper noun
a regional county municipality of Outaouais, Quebec, Canada; a municipality of Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais Regional County Municipality, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada
Pontivy
proper noun
Pontivy (a town in Morbihan department, Brittany, France)
Pontrieux
proper noun
Pontrieux (a town in Côtes-d'Armor department, Brittany, France)
Popasna
proper noun
Popasna (a city, the administrative centre of Popasna urban hromada, Siverskodonetsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, founded as a railway station in 1878, occupied by Russian forces since May 2022, heavily damaged during the war in Donbas and then razed to the ground during the Battle of Popasna)
Popasnaia
proper noun
alternative spelling of Popasnaïa
Popasnaïa
proper noun
Russian form of Popasna (“city in Popasna, Siverskodonetsk, Luhansk, Ukraine”)
Popaul
proper noun
a diminutive of the male given name Paul
Popesco
proper noun
a surname from Romanian
Popescu
proper noun
a surname from Romanian
Poppée
proper noun
a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Poppaea; Poppaea Sabina
Pordenone
proper noun
Pordenone (a province of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia autonomous region, Italy); Pordenone (the capital city of the province of Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia autonomous region, Italy)
Pori
proper noun
Pori (a municipality, the capital city of the region of Satakunta, Finland)
Pornic
proper noun
a municipality of Loire-Atlantique department, Pays de la Loire region, France
Porochenko
proper noun
a transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Пороше́нко (Porošénko)
Port Royal
proper noun
Port Royal; alternative form of Port-Royal
Port aux Basques
proper noun
Port aux Basques: dated form of Port-aux-Basques
Port-Fouad
proper noun
Port Fuad (a city in Egypt)
Port-Louis
proper noun
Port Louis (the capital city of Mauritius)
Port-Royal
proper noun
Port Royal (the former capital city of Jamaica); a location in Canada; a location in the United States of America
Port-Saïd
proper noun
Port Said (a city in Egypt)
Port-au-Prince
proper noun
Port-au-Prince (the capital city of Haiti)