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pompe à vélo: bicycle pump
pomper: to pump; to copy; to grow angrier as time goes on, especially if there are no further reasons to do so; to fellate; to annoy
pomper l'air: to annoy
pomperie: pumphouse
pompes funèbres: undertaker's, funeral home, funeral parlour
pompette: tipsy
pompeur: pumper
pompeuse: pumper
pompeusement: pompously
pompeux: pompous, bombastic (affectedly grand)
pompidolien: of Le Pompidou; of Georges Pompidou
pompier: fireman, firefighter; blowjob
pompiste: pump station attendant
pompiérisme: pompierism
pompon: pompon (bundle of yarn, string, ribbon, etc.); culmination; climax; a very good or bad exemplar or end result
pomponnable: primpable
pomponner: to primp, titivate, prettify
pompé: pumped
pompéien: Pompeiian
pomélo: grapefruit; pomelo
pomœrium: pomerium
ponant: the west; the western ocean (rather than the Mediterranean)
ponantais: western
ponce: pumice; hot alcoholic beverage made with gin or rum
ponceau: corn poppy; poppy colour
ponceau: a small bridge; culvert
poncer: to rub down with an abrasive, to sand; to copy with pouncing paper
ponceuse: sander, sanding machine (machine used for sanding)
ponch: post-1990 spelling of punch (“punch (drink)”)
poncho: poncho
poncif: banality, derivative, stereotype
ponction: puncture (especially a surgical one); deduction, that which is taken away (such as a tax)
ponctionner: to puncture; to deduct (tax, etc.)
ponctualité: punctuality
ponctuation: punctuation
ponctuel: punctual, on time; pointlike; infrequent, occasional
ponctuellement: punctually; occasionally, less frequently, only at certain times
ponctuer: to punctuate
ponctué: punctuated
pondaison: egglaying season
pondeur: oviparous; egg-laying
pondeuse: an egg laying hen; a woman who gives birth to many children; a breeder
pondichérien: Pondicherrian (of, from or relating to the union territory of Puducherry, India)
pondoir: nest box
pondre: to lay (eggs); to give birth
pondérable: ponderable
pondéral: weight
pondérateur: pondering
pondération: weighting; balance
pondérer: to weight (applying a weighting to)
pondéreux: weighty, ponderous
poney: pony
pongidé: pongid
pongiste: ping pong player
pont: bridge; deck
pont aérien: airlift
pont d'or: golden hello
pont disulfure: disulfide bond
pont flottant: pontoon bridge
pont suspendu: suspension bridge