All English words - page 2838

Meanings of Porkopolis:

noun

(a nickname for) a city prominent in the pork-packing industry, especially. cincinnati, ohio.

Meanings of Porky:

adjective

(of a person or part of their body) fleshy or fat.

Usage examples:

He bent his squat, porky frame over the rail of the bed

noun

A lie.

Usage examples:

You've been telling porkies

Meanings of Porno:

adjective

Pornographic.

Usage examples:

Porno magazines

noun

A pornographic film.

Usage examples:

A low-budget porno

Meanings of Pornocracy:

noun

Rule by prostitutes. frequently used specifically of the government of rome during the first half of the 10th century.

Meanings of Pornocrat:

noun

A member of a pornocracy.

Meanings of Pornograph:

noun

A piece of pornography; a work of pornography.

adjective

Pornographic.

Meanings of Pornographer:

noun

A person who produces or publishes pornography.

Usage examples:

He doesn't fit into the conventional image of a pornographer

Meanings of Pornographic:

adjective

Constituting or resembling pornography; obscene.

Usage examples:

Pornographic images

Meanings of Pornography:

noun

Printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate sexual excitement.

Usage examples:

She warned that access to hardcore pornography was shaping children's expectations of relationships

Meanings of Porogamic:

adjective

= porogamous .

Meanings of Porogamous:

adjective

Designating fertilization in which the pollen tube enters the ovule by the micropyle; relating to or displaying porogamy.

Meanings of Porogamy:

noun

Fertilization in which the pollen tube enters the ovule by the micropyle.

Meanings of Porometer:

noun

An instrument for measuring the degree of porosity; specifically one for estimating the sizes of the stomata of leaves by measuring the rate at which air can be passed through them.

Meanings of Pororoca:

noun

In brazil: a large tidal bore in the amazon basin.

Meanings of Poroscopy:

noun

A method of identifying a person from a fingerprint by matching the characteristic pattern of pores on a finger to the marks on the print.

Meanings of Porosimeter:

noun

An instrument for measuring the porosity or pore-size distribution of a material.

Meanings of Porosity:

noun

The quality or degree of having minute spaces or holes through which liquid or air may pass.

Usage examples:

Clays may have twice the porosity of sands

Meanings of Porotic:

adjective

Exhibiting, characterized by, or relating to porosis; specifically = "osteoporotic".

Meanings of Porous:

adjective

(of a rock or other material) having minute interstices through which liquid or air may pass.

Usage examples:

Layers of porous limestones

Meanings of Porphyra:

noun

A cosmopolitan genus of seaweeds (marine red algae, division rhodophyta, class bangiophyceae, order bangiales), with simple foliose thalli varying in colour from rose to purple; (also porphyra) a seaweed of this genus, which includes a number of edible species known as laver or purple laver in wales and england, nori in japan.

Meanings of Porphyraceous:

adjective

Porphyritic.

Meanings of Porphyrian:

adjective

Of or relating to porphyry or to his doctrines.

noun

A disciple or follower of porphyry.

Meanings of Porphyries:

noun

A hard igneous rock containing crystals of feldspar in a fine-grained groundmass.

Usage examples:

The fault places massive fractured greenstones over relatively undeformed feldspar andesite porphyry.

proper noun

(c.232–303), neoplatonist philosopher; born malchus. he was a pupil of plotinus, whose works he edited after the latter's death.

Meanings of Porphyrine:

noun

An amorphous alkaloid, c₂₁ h₂₅ n₃ o₂, obtained from the bark of the australian tree alstonia constricta (family apocynaceae), which produces a red colour on reaction with nitric acid.

Meanings of Porphyritic:

adjective

Relating to or denoting a rock texture containing distinct crystals or crystalline particles embedded in a compact groundmass.

Usage examples:

Coarser fractions additionally contain volcanic clasts of vesicular and porphyritic lava, tuff and …