Index of English words, starting with "po"

(1) - Portage (v. t. & i.) To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.
(2) - Portage (n.) A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry.
(3) - Portage (n.) Capacity for carrying; tonnage.
(4) - Portage (n.) The price of carriage; porterage.
(5) - Portage (n.) The act of carrying or transporting.
(6) - Portage (n.) A porthole.
(7) - Portage (n.) The amount of a sailor's wages for a voyage.
(8) - Portage (n.) A sailor's wages when in port.

(1) - Portal (a.) Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery.
(2) - Portal (n.) A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
(3) - Portal (n.) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
(4) - Portal (n.) By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.
(5) - Portal (n.) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
(6) - Portal (n.) The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
(7) - Portal (n.) A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.

(1) - Portamento (n.) In singing, or in the use of the bow, a gradual carrying or lifting of the voice or sound very smoothly from one note to another; a gliding from tone to tone.