Portholes is valid Scrabble Word

Is portholes a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for PORTHOLES in dictionary:

NOUN:

a small window on the outside of a ship or aircraft.
an opening for firing a cannon through.

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How to use PORTHOLES in a sentence

In the middle watch, or between one and two next morning, George Ormond looked out of one of the port-holes, and called to Green, but received no answer.
A few heavily grated windows served as port-holes for their arrows.
He would sometimes get outside of the port-holes and peer into their muzzles, as a monkey into a bottle.
I wonder that they station no sentries at the port-holes, to see that no air is breathed, except according to Navy regulations.
I threw the woman from me, and just after that moment, the air that was between decks, drafted out at the port-holes very swiftly.
A canoe containing eleven persons went alongside his vessel, and raised the screens at the port-holes, to look in on the deck.
In each outer curve facing the enemy a firing platform, about waist-high, had been cut in the earth, with similar armored port-holes.
The deck itself was like a lake, and the portholes had to be opened in order to get rid of the water more quickly.
There was a crowd of little black cannon on deck and looking out of her port-holes, and she was anchored at each end to the hard ground.
Several of her portholes were knocked into one, and one of her eighteen-pounder guns had been thrown right back on to her breech, and pointed straight up to the sky.

Completing the square, to the south and west stretched a chain of oak posts set close together and pierced, as were the other walls of the stockade, by numerous portholes.
They set their counterfeit cannon in proper position at the portholes, and under each fastened heaps of powder so that they would explode with great force and noise.
Since the ship is in the Straits of Messina, and the glass set fair, the stewards have not closed the portholes nightly at present.
The windows were great portholes, and two large swinging lamps furnished the light.
Portholes are cut at intervals of twelve yards, so contrived that the gunners are safe from the shot of any possible assailants.
There was a dim blur of light from one of the after-cabin portholes and the shadow of figures passing to and fro inside could be seen.
The tube of the cylinder looked to be about twenty feet thick, and had circular windows or portholes that were brilliantly lighted.
Since the ship is in the Straits of Messina, and the glass set fair, the stewards have not closed the port-holes nightly at present.
There was no door on that side, but light streamed through a couple of large port-holes across which the curtains had not been drawn.
It seemed to him that he was being towed to sea on the back of a huge shark, by a big liner with a row of blazing portholes that winked at him like facetious eyes.
It was constructed of heavy timber and presented rather a forbidding appearance with its square corners, its ominous looking portholes, and strongly barred doors and windows.
But the stout gate withstood their united efforts, and the galling fire from the portholes soon forced them to fall back and seek cover behind the trees and the rocks.
As Silas entered four haggard and powder-begrimed men, who were kneeling before the portholes, looked up at him.
Under the decks were the cabins, the doors of which opened into the hold and were lighted by glazed portholes.
The port-holes in the turret were all closed, with the exception of the one at which the captain stood, and, of course, no one could see what was going on.
In the English navy the portholes had been cut so as to let the guns be pointed with considerable freedom, up or down, right or left.
She is armed, and the cannon can be seen protruding from her port-holes.
At close quarters, musket-balls, grape, and shells can be accurately thrown into ordinary port-holes, which removes the necessity of smashing any other holes in the armor.
Many dead bodies were tumbled through their port-holes into the sea.
He burst upon them unceremoniously, and threw open the darkened port-holes to let the sunlight in.
Through the port-holes he could see the deep-purple sky rising to give place to still deeper-purple sea as the ship rose with sickening regularity.
Finding this an impossibility, he took refuge in the deserted-writing-room, where all the port-holes were closed and the air as dead as that of an Egyptian tomb.
The little schooner runs up to leeward of where the great liner, with her long rows of gleaming portholes, lies rolling heavily in the sea.
It was a large sitting-room, extending through the whole beam, with big port-holes on each side.

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