pon-, posit-, pos-, -poning, -poned, -ponency, -ponent, -ponement, -pound

1. The way in which something is made or combined; especially, in terms of its different parts.
2. The way in which the parts of something are arranged; the parts of a visual image of an artist's composition of a group portrait.
3. The spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole.
4. The act or process of combining things to form a unified whole.
5. The act or process of creating something; such as, a piece of music or writing.
6. The formation of compound words from separate words.
7. The setting of type in preparation for printing.

1. A mixture of decaying organic matter, or vegetation, as from leaves and manure; used to improve soil structure and to provide nutrients.
2. A composition or a mixture.

1. A calm or tranquil state of mind; self-possession or self control.
2. Steadiness of mind under stress: "The father accepted his daughter's problems with composure and the mother reacted with equanimity."
3. Calm and steady control over the emotions.

1. A building or buildings, especially a residence or group of residences, set off and enclosed by a barrier.
2. Composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony.
3. An enclosed area used for confining prisoners of war.
4. Consisting of two or more substances, ingredients, elements, or parts.

1. Anyone who compounds or mixes different things.
2. Someone who attempts to bring people to terms of agreement.

1. Placing over against or in an opposite position.
2. Opposition, contrast, or antithesis.

1. To set in contrast, opposition, equilibrium, or balance.
2. To offer or place in opposition, response, or contrast.
3. To constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to someone or something.

1. To separate into constituent parts, or to cause something to separate into its constituent parts.
2. To break down organic matter from a complex to a simpler form, mainly through the action of fungi and bacteria, or to be broken down in this way.
3. To break something down into smaller or simpler parts.

1. Compounded more than once.
2. Compounded with things already composite.

1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts.

Separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc.

2. The act or result of decomposing; disintegration.
3. The biological breakdown or decay of organic materials.

1. To decompose.
2. Leaves having divisions that are themselves compound.

decompress

1. To cause a reduction in the atmospheric pressure of an enclosed space, or to experience such a reduction.
2. To allow a substance to expand to normal dimensions or volume by the removal of pressure, or to undergo this process.
3. To relax or to unwind; especially, after being busy or stressed.
4. To expand compressed electronic (computer) data to its normal extent, or to undergo this process.

depone

1. To make a deposition, to testify, or to declare something under oath.
2. To give evidence or to testify under oath, either in a written or a verbal form.

deponent

1. In law, someone who testifies under oath; especially, in writing.
2. Anyone who gives written testimony to be used as evidence in a court of justice.

depose

1. To remove someone from office or from a position of power.
2. To give evidence or to testify under oath, either in a written or verbal form.
3. To request and to record evidence from a witness.

Related word families intertwined with "to place, placing, to put; to add; to stay; to attach" word units: fix-; prosth-; stato-; the-, thes-.

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