Phrase Hound found 47 phrases and 24 compound words that contain polish. The most common are listed below. Open polish in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 47
- nail polishA cosmetic lacquer applied to the fingernails or toenails.
- shoe polishA product rubbed onto shoes to make them shine.
- Old PolishA historical form of the Polish language, spoken between the 9th and 16th centuries.
- Middle PolishA historical form of the Polish language, spoken between the 16th and 18th centuries.
- Polish-Lithuanian CommonwealthA confederation of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 1569–1795.
- Polish People's RepublicFormer official name of Poland: a country in Central Europe; used from 1952 to 1989 when it was a one-party, Marxist-Leninist state; officially known as the Republic of Poland from 1947 to 1952, but under the same form of government.
- Polish spaceA separable, completely metrizable topological space
- Polish notationA notation for arithmetic (and logical) formulae in which operations (respectively, quantifiers and operands) are written immediately before their operands, used to avoid the need for parentheses; for example, 3 * (4 + 7) is written as * 3 …
- Polish studiesAn academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the Polish language, Polish linguistics, and Polish sociolinguistics.
- Polish parliamentThe Sejm of the Republic of Poland.
- Polish Orthodox ChurchAn autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church.
- Polish-LithuanianOf, from or relating to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- French polishA type of varnish, consisting of shellac dissolved in methylated spirits, used to polish wood.
- furniture polishAny type of creams, pastes, or lotions designed to clean, protect, and shine wooden furniture.
- nail polish removerA solvent used to remove nail polish, usually mostly acetone.
- polish removerAny type of solvent used to remove polish that has been coated on a surface.
- Polish CorridorA former region of Poland which extended northwards to the Baltic coast and separated East Prussia from the rest of Germany, granted to Poland after the First World War to ensure Polish access to the coast.
- polish offTo finish completely, especially a food (polish the plate with one's tongue) or liquor.
- glacial polishThe appearance of rock after having been worn smooth by a passing glacier.
- anti-PolishAgainst or opposing the Poles or Poland.
- Polish bedA kind of canopy bed draped with a baldacchin.
- Polish MessianismA school of thought, chiefly of 19th-century Poland, which taught that the life of Jesus Christ was mirrored in the history of the Polish nation, meaning that it had to suffer, but would rise again and then lead Europe to a new and better …
- reverse Polish notationAn arithmetic notation in which numbers precede the operators to be applied to them.
- spit-and-polishpaying much attention to outward appearance
- Polish sausageSynonym of kielbasa: A spicy, smoked sausage of a particular kind from Eastern Europe.
Compound words 24
- PolishnessThe quality or state of being Polish.
- polishabilityThe quality or degree of being polishable.
- repolishTo polish again.
- unpolishTo deprive of polish
- electropolishTo brighten (a metal) by the electrolytic removal of its surface.
- micropolishTo polish by using a suspension of a very fine abrasive powder.
- nanopolishA polish containing nanoparticles
- overpolishTo polish too much.
- PolglishA variety of English incorporating Polish words or constructions.
- PonglishAn informal variety of the English language spoken by Polish people, incorporating Polish words and constructions.