Index of English words, starting with "po"

(1) - Potent (n.) One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.
(2) - Potent (n.) A staff or crutch.
(3) - Potent (n.) A prince; a potentate.
(4) - Potent (a.) Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.
(5) - Potent (a.) Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.
(6) - Potent (a.) Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine.

(1) - Potentate (a.) One who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch.

(1) - Potential (n.) The energy of an electrical charge measured by its power to do work; hence, the degree of electrification as referred to some standard, as that of the earth; electro-motive force.
(2) - Potential (n.) In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with respect to the coordinates are equal to the components of the force at the point considered; -- also called potential function, or force function. It is called also Newtonian potential when the force is directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the distance from the center.
(3) - Potential (n.) Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.
(4) - Potential (a.) Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
(5) - Potential (a.) Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.

(1) - Potentiality (n.) The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.