Words That End With: POS

• a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display

• A person who is stingy, a cheapskate.

• A primitive trap, often set in the hope of swindling a win or draw from a losing position.

• Melancholy; a fit of ‘hypochondria’; a morbid depression.

• A hypochondriac.

• Sodium thiosulphate, a photographic fixing agent.

• A hypoglycaemia attack in a person with diabetes.

• The substance sodium hyposulfite.

• A hypodermic syringe.

• Hypothecation.

• (in the study of law) A hypothetical case.

• A hypomelanistic snake.

• massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa

• an ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria

• A police officer assigned to a university campus.

• A field or plain in a Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking area.

• The act or principle of compensating.

• Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.

• The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount.

• A recompense or reward for service.

• An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.

• The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.

• The ability of one part of the brain to overfunction in order to take over the function of a damaged part (e.g. following a stroke).

• The action of competing.

• A contest for a prize or award.

• The competitors in such a contest.

• The act of putting together; assembly.

• A mixture or compound; the result of composing.

• The proportion of different parts to make a whole.

• The general makeup of a thing or person.

• An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce.

• A payment of money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling or fine.

• An agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.

• An essay.

• The formation of compound words from separate words.

• A work of music, literature or art.

• Typesetting.

• Applying a function to the result of another.

• The compounding of two velocities or forces into a single equivalent velocity or force.

• Consistency; accord; congruity.

• Synthesis as opposed to analysis.

• The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.

• Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.

• Compos mentis; of sound mind; sane

• of an appropriate or pertinent nature

• at an opportune time

• introducing a different topic

• a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind

• (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played

• the rate of some repeating event