English words starting with pound

Meanings of Pound:

noun

A unit of weight equal to 16 oz. avoirdupois (0.4536 kg), or 12 oz. troy (0.3732 kg).

Usage examples:

A short ton is the standard u.s. ton of 2,000 pounds and measures weight.

verb

Strike or hit heavily and repeatedly.

Usage examples:

Patrick pounded the couch with his fists

Meanings of Pound-sterling:

noun

The official name of the pound used as money in the uk

Meanings of Poundage:

noun

A payment of a particular amount per pound sterling of the sum involved in a transaction.

Usage examples:

He sifts through his papers again to repeat the agreement on business rates which commits the execu…

Meanings of Poundages:

noun

A payment of a particular amount per pound sterling of the sum involved in a transaction.

Usage examples:

He sifts through his papers again to repeat the agreement on business rates which commits the execu…

Meanings of Poundal:

noun

A unit of force equal to that required to give a mass of one pound an acceleration of one foot per second per second.

Meanings of Poundals:

noun

A unit of force equal to that required to give a mass of one pound an acceleration of one foot per second per second.

Meanings of Poundcake:

noun

A rich cake containing a pound, or equal weights, of each chief ingredient, typically flour, butter, and sugar.

Meanings of Pounded:

verb

Strike or hit heavily and repeatedly.

Usage examples:

Patrick pounded the couch with his fists

noun

A unit of weight equal to 16 oz. avoirdupois (0.4536 kg), or 12 oz. troy (0.3732 kg).

Usage examples:

A short ton is the standard u.s. ton of 2,000 pounds and measures weight.

Meanings of Pounder:

noun

A person or thing weighing a specified number of pounds.

Usage examples:

Sloan set a blue-shark record with a 184-pounder

suffix

Weighing the number of pounds or fraction of a pound mentioned

Usage examples:

"what sort of burger do you want?" "i think i'll have a quarter-pounder.", mainly us the newest mem…

Meanings of Pounders:

noun

A person or thing weighing a specified number of pounds.

Usage examples:

Sloan set a blue-shark record with a 184-pounder

Meanings of Pounding:

noun

Repeated and heavy striking or hitting of someone or something.

Usage examples:

The pounding of the surf on a sandy beach

verb

Strike or hit heavily and repeatedly.

Usage examples:

Patrick pounded the couch with his fists

Meanings of Poundless:

adjective

Without so much as a pound (of money); poor.

Meanings of Poundman:

noun

A man employed to impound stray animals, (now us) specifically a man who works for a public pound, especially a dogcatcher.

Meanings of Poundmaster:

noun

= pound-keeper .

Meanings of Pounds:

noun

A unit of weight equal to 16 oz. avoirdupois (0.4536 kg), or 12 oz. troy (0.3732 kg).

Usage examples:

A short ton is the standard u.s. ton of 2,000 pounds and measures weight.

verb

Strike or hit heavily and repeatedly.

Usage examples:

Patrick pounded the couch with his fists

Meanings of Poundstone:

noun

A natural stone used as a weight, especially in measuring quantities of butter; especially a fossil echinoid of a particular kind (so used because they consistently had a weight of approximately one pound).