Word Meanings - POROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood. "The veins of porous earth." Milton.
Related words: (words related to POROUS)
- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - EARTHLY-MINDED
Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n. - EARTH FLAX
A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - EARTHDIN
An earthquake. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - EARTHSTAR
A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores. - EARTHBRED
Low; grovelling; vulgar. - EARTHBANK
A bank or mound of earth. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - EARTHQUAVE
An earthquake. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - EARTHDRAKE
A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding. - EARTHNUT
A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to: The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum. The peanut. See Peanut. - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - EARTHEN
Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe. - HAVANA
Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n. - EARTH SHINE
See EARTH - EARTHMAD
The earthworm. The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes. Holland. - HAVERSIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. - POLYSPOROUS
Containing many spores. - UNEARTHLY
Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n. - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - INSHAVE
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves. - SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
The substance of the medullary sheath. - HETEROSPORIC; HETEROSPOROUS
Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other. - MIDDLE-EARTH
The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.