a town or city with a harbor where ships load or unload, especially one where customs officers are stationed
a strong, sweet, typically dark red fortified wine, originally from Portugal, typically drunk as a dessert wine
a port in Egypt, on the Mediterranean coast at the northern end of the Suez Canal; population 570,600 (est. 2006). It was founded in 1859
a deep red port, especially one matured in wood for only a few years and then fined
the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a port on the southern tip of South Andaman Island in the Bay of Bengal; population 75,000
the principal port of Gabon, on the Atlantic coast south of Libreville; population 150,000 (est. 2009)
an industrial port city in southeastern Michigan, on Lake Huron and the St. Clair River; population 30,869 (est. 2008)
the capital of Mauritius, a port on the northwestern coast; population 150,000 (est. 2007)
a port on the coast of South Australia, on the Spencer Gulf north of Adelaide; population 17,950 (2008)
a small exit point in a fortification for the passage of troops when making a sally
a connector by which a device that sends data one bit at a time may be connected to a computer
a port bound by treaty to be open to foreign trade, especially in 19th- and early-20th-century China and Japan
a connector for a device that sends or receives several bits of data simultaneously by using more than one wire
a port in southeastern Nigeria, on the Gulf of Guinea at the eastern edge of the Niger delta; population 1,020,000 (est. 2007)
an industrial and military port city in southwestern California, northwest of Los Angeles; population 21,478 (est. 2008)
the capital of Papua New Guinea, located on the southern coast of the island of New Guinea, on the Coral Sea; population 307,600 (est. 2009)
a village on the south bank of the Mersey. Founded and built in the 1880s by Viscount Leverhulme, it provided model housing for the employees of his ‘Sunlight’ soap factory
port wine of special quality, all of one year, bottled early and aged in the bottle
a port in NW England on the estuary of the River Mersey; population 66,400 (est. 2009)
a port in South Africa, on the coast of the province of Eastern Cape; population 1,146,400 (est. 2009). Settled by the British in 1820, it is now an automobile-manufacturing city and beach resort
a harbor, border town, or airport by which people and goods may enter a country
the capital of Haiti, a port on the western coast of Hispaniola; population 1,998,000 (est. 2007). Founded by the French in 1749, it became capital of the new republic in 1806. The city was devastated in January 2010 by an earthquake that claimed more than 200,000 lives
the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, a port on the northwestern coast of the island of Trinidad; population 54,000 (est. 2007)
a slender conifer with dense foliage and lower branches arising at ground level. Native to a small area of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon, it is widely grown for timber and as an ornamental with many cultivars
a resort and retirement city in east central Florida; population 154,353 (est. 2008)
a kind of large, deep red birthmark, a persistent hemangioma or nevus, typically on the face
with the wind coming from the port (or starboard) side of the boat
either of two Australian acacias which were introduced into South Africa where they have become naturalized
in adverse circumstances one welcomes any source of relief or escape