Porpoise is valid Scrabble Word

Is porpoise a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for PORPOISE in dictionary:

VERB:

to move like a porpoise; specifically (of an aircraft, esp. a seaplane) to touch the water or ground and rise again
move through the water like a porpoise, alternately rising above it and submerging
(of an aeroplane) nose-dive during landing

NOUN:

a short-snouted genus of the dolphin family, also PORPESS, PORPESSE
a small toothed whale with a low triangular dorsal fin and a blunt rounded snout.
fishlike sea mammal
Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer.
A true dolphin (Delphinus); -- often so called by sailors.
any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to move forward with rising and falling motions

Words related to PORPOISE

pellack15 pellock15 porpesse12 porpoised14 porpoises13 porpoising15 seahog10

Words that contain PORPOISE

porpoised14 porpoises13

How to use PORPOISE in a sentence

Legend has picked up some straggling porpoise, and converted him, by a touch of her magical wand, into a Boanerges of literature.
This, joined to our own shouts of laughter, so terrified Patsey, that he started for the shore, floundering about in the water like a porpoise.
The fishes fitted it up at once as a twin-propeller, with results so satisfactory that the whale and the porpoise, coming long after, adopted the invention.
Twice, or three times, does the whole fleet go out over the bar and wheel and return, each boat racing to be first, with no more sense of danger than a porpoise at play.
Young, bringing a gift of porpoise meat and wild strawberries, and Hunter Joe had brought in a wild goat.
Last night our people caught a porpoise, which helped to diminish the bad effect of salt provisions.
Of a sudden, this brig gave a plunge, and she went down like a porpoise diving.
If the orator says that the Premier is like a porpoise in the sea under some special circumstances, the reporter gets in the porpoise even if he leaves out the Premier.
The boat was romping through the stiff sea like a playful porpoise, dipping and plunging.
Accordingly, Welles, Saco, and Cape Porpoise followed the example of Kittery and Gorgeana, and came under the government of Massachusetts.

She saw at once that he swam like a porpoise, keeping beneath and showing his head from time to time, breathing, then diving below the surface again.
Years ago the porpoise was a common and esteemed article of food in Great Britain and France, but now the skin and blubber only have a commercial value.
The Tundun-porpoise story seems to have arisen in gratitude to the porpoise, which drives fishes inshore, for the natives to catch.
He was bobbing up and down in the surf for all the world like some ungainly porpoise, and every time he moved he shot sunlit streams of water off his gross body.
It was many years before the inventor was able to enlist the aid of aquarium managers in securing porpoise skins for study.
A porpoise, for instance, has a large number of teeth, and in this feature resembles most fish, while it differs from all mammals.
The porpoise gave chase, whistling and grunting audibly.
With the food as bait they tried to lure the porpoise to the seacopter.
Just as one of the sailors was about to step over and descend, either a porpoise or some large fish shot from under the vessel and left quite a trail of light in its wake.
A black figure, like a huge porpoise, could be seen in the cold, grey water and then disappear in the darkness.
All did very well, though Pud was puffing and blowing like a porpoise and sweating like a foundryman when they stopped at the top of the hill for a short rest.
On the news that the Porpoise fleet, composed of six hundred great ships, was in sight of Alca, the bishop ordered a solemn procession.
The sport was infectious, and soon fat old Castleman was puffing like a tired porpoise, and sedate old Karl de Pitti was in the chase.
We landed and I rushed, puffing and dripping like a porpoise, to the wall gate, unlocked it and entered.
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SHIPWRECK OF THE PORPOISE, ARRIVAL OF THE CUMBERLAND AT MAURITIUS, AND IMPRISONMENT OF THE COMMANDER DURING SIX YEARS AND A HALF IN THAT ISLAND.
Departure from Port Jackson in the Porpoise, accompanied by the Bridgewater and Cato.
This was a revelation to the boys, for they had supposed it was only necessary to tilt the ship and dive just like a porpoise.
One day, about a thousand miles from California, a story spread of a porpoise at play, but the lonely creature passed astern like a bubble.
Old Orchard Ground, Wood Island Ground, Cape Porpoise Peaks.
All the grounds between Cape Porpoise and Boon Island are good lobster grounds.

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