Porous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for POROUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• 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.
ADJECTIVE:
• having minute openings, also POROSE
• (of a rock or other material) having minute interstices through which liquid or air may pass
• not retentive or secure
• allowing liquid to pass through gradually
• able to absorb fluids
• full of pores or vessels or holes
• allowing passage in and out

Words related to POROUS

leachy14 porously13 porousness12

Words that contain POROUS

imporous12 porously13 saporous10 soporous10 vaporous13 leaporous11 nonporous11 oosporous11 stuporous11 aposporous14 exosporous19 isosporous12 porousness12 vaporously18 zoosporous21 endosporous14 homosporous18 microporous17 microsporous18 porousnesses14 tetrasporous14 vaporousness17 arthrosporous18 heterosporous18 basidiosporous19 vaporousnesses19

How to use POROUS in a sentence

• In a cross section of Oak or Chestnut the wood is first very open and porous and then close.
• Now it was a long pool, for the tide was in, and the sea, working through the porous, frost-riven rocks, had half-filled it with water.
• Trees are held upright in the soil by means of roots which reach to a depth of many feet where the soil is loose and porous.
• But even then a mass of ice is not continuous or compact throughout, for it is rendered completely porous by air-bubbles, the presence of which is easily explained.
• If the soil is open and porous, warm air and warm rains can enter readily and carry heat to the lower soil.
• Give them a rich porous soil, and pot them rather firmly, but not so firmly as to render it impossible for the roots to penetrate, or the bulb will be raised above the soil.
• If dough is left standing in a warm place a number of hours, it swells up with gas and becomes porous, and when baked, is less compact and hard than the savage bread.
• Fahrig dries it and places it in another vat, with carbon or platinum conducting plates separated by a porous partition.
• This is another species of turpentine, yielded by a tree growing in Lampong, called kruyen, the wood of which is white and porous.
• There were, however, a number of extensive caves in the porous limestone cliffs, any of which might prove to be the sequence of the road.
• On withdrawing the bell glass of hydrogen, the latter becomes diffused externally, a lower pressure occurs in the porous vessel, and the level of the water rises.
• This plant is best adapted to dry soils calcareous in their composition and somewhat porous in character.
• He said it came off easier than a porous plaster does.
• A poor soil is usually porous, admitting more wholesome air and sunshine, and it is through these vital forces that trees and men grow taller and hardier.
• The only rocks noticed in the parts traversed by the boats were, as I have before said, of red porous sandstone.
• The formation of the island was a reddish porous sandstone.
• Something dark and lingering like iodine had given her chin the double cross and her apron looked like the remnants of a porous plaster.
• The limestone rock of which the island was composed was porous as a sponge.
• Ned declared afterwards that Stacy must be porous, for the smoke came out of his pockets.
• Besides this difficulty of having the water separated from the porous masses which are to be consolidated, there is another with which, upon this supposition, we have to struggle.
• The decayed leaves and twigs are so light and porous that they soak up most of the rain as it falls and hold the water indefinitely.
• It is very light in consequence of its porous nature, and it is wonderfully indestructible.
• A little water poured in the vent hole of the porous jar or carbon cylinder will tend to hasten the action.
• The sheets are next thoroughly dried, first between sheets of porous blotting-paper under moderate pressure and at a temperature between 15 deg.

Similar words containing POROU without suffix s

imporous12 porously13 saporous10 soporous10 vaporous13 leaporous11 nonporous11 oosporous11 stuporous11 aposporous14 exosporous19 isosporous12 porousness12 vaporously18 zoosporous21 endosporous14 homosporous18 microporous17 microsporous18 porousnesses14 tetrasporous14 vaporousness17 arthrosporous18 heterosporous18 basidiosporous19 vaporousnesses19

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