aeciospore | (noun) spore of a rust fungus formed in an aecium | - |
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albacore | (noun) large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters | Synonyms: long-fin tunny, Thunnus alalunga |
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(noun) relatively small tuna with choice white flesh; major source of canned tuna | - |
antheridiophore | (noun) gametophore bearing antheridia as in certain mosses and liverworts | - |
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apishamore | (noun) a saddle blanket made of buffalo hide | - |
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archespore | (noun) primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops | Synonyms: archesporium |
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arthrospore | (noun) one of a string of thick walled vegetative resting cells formed by some algae and fungi | - |
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(noun) a body that resembles a spore but is not an endospore; produced by some bacteria | - |
ascospore | (noun) sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus | - |
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basidiospore | (noun) a sexually produced fungal spore borne on a basidium | - |
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battledore | (noun) an ancient racket game | Synonyms: battledore and shuttlecock |
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(noun) a light long-handled racket used by badminton players | Synonyms: badminton racket, badminton racquet |
bedsore | (noun) a chronic ulcer of the skin caused by prolonged pressure on it (as in bedridden patients) | Synonyms: decubitus ulcer, pressure sore |
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blastopore | (noun) the opening into the archenteron | - |
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bookstore | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookshop, bookstall |
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bore | (noun) a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes | Synonyms: bore-hole, drill hole |
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(noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: caliber, calibre, gauge |
(noun) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) | Synonyms: aegir, eager, eagre, tidal bore |
(noun) a person who evokes boredom | Synonyms: dullard |
carnivore | (noun) a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal | - |
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(noun) any animal that feeds on flesh | - |
carpophore | (noun) a slender stalk that furnishes an axis for a carpel | - |
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carpospore | (noun) a nonmotile spore of red algae | - |
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chlamydospore | (noun) thick-walled asexual resting spore of certain fungi and algae | - |
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chlamyphore | (noun) very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck | Synonyms: Chlamyphorus truncatus, fairy armadillo, pichiciago, pichiciego |
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chore | (noun) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee | Synonyms: job, task |
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chromophore | (noun) the chemical group that gives color to a molecule | - |
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claymore | (noun) an antipersonnel land mine whose blast is aimed at the oncoming enemy | Synonyms: claymore mine |
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(noun) a large double-edged broadsword; formerly used by Scottish Highlanders | - |
commodore | (noun) a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral | - |
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conidiophore | (noun) a specialized fungal hypha that produces conidia | - |
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conidiospore | (noun) an asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore | Synonyms: conidium |
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core | (noun) a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil | - |
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(noun) the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place | - |
(noun) (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories | Synonyms: magnetic core |
(noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
(noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, effect, essence, gist |
(noun) a small group of indispensable persons or things | Synonyms: core group, nucleus |
(noun) the center of an object | - |
(noun) the central part of the Earth | - |
(noun) a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill | - |
counterbore | (noun) a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole | Synonyms: countersink, countersink bit |
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crore | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 7 zeros; ten million | - |
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ctenophore | (noun) biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb | Synonyms: comb jelly |
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drugstore | (noun) a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold | Synonyms: apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, pharmacy |
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encore | (noun) an extra or repeated performance; usually given in response to audience demand | - |
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endospore | (noun) a small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae | - |
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eyesore | (noun) something very ugly and offensive | - |
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folklore | (noun) the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture | - |
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fore | (noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft | Synonyms: bow, prow, stem |
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foreshore | (noun) the part of the seashore between the highwater mark and the low-water mark | - |
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fourscore | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight | Synonyms: 80, eighty, LXXX |
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furore | (noun) a sudden outburst (as of protest) | Synonyms: furor |
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(noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: craze, cult, fad, furor, rage |
gametophore | (noun) a modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts | - |
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gore | (noun) the shedding of blood resulting in murder | Synonyms: bloodshed |
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(noun) a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails | Synonyms: panel |
(noun) coagulated blood from a wound | - |
gosmore | (noun) European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears | Synonyms: California dandelion, capeweed, cat's-ear, Hypochaeris radicata |
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gynophore | (noun) the stalk of a pistil that raises it above the receptacle | - |
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hackamore | (noun) rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading | Synonyms: halter |
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hellebore | (noun) any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus | - |
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(noun) perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes | Synonyms: false hellebore |
herbivore | (noun) any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants | - |
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insectivore | (noun) small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals | - |
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(noun) any organism that feeds mainly on insects | - |
kinetochore | (noun) a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape | Synonyms: centromere |
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lakeshore | (noun) the shore of a lake | Synonyms: lakeside |
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lore | (noun) knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote | Synonyms: traditional knowledge |
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macrospore | (noun) larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte | Synonyms: megaspore |
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madrepore | (noun) corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands | Synonyms: madriporian coral, stony coral |
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manticore | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticora, mantiger |
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mastigophore | (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran |
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megaspore | (noun) larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte | Synonyms: macrospore |
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microspore | (noun) smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte | - |
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omnivore | (noun) an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances | - |
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(noun) a person who eats all kinds of foods | - |
oospore | (noun) a thick-walled sexual spore that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi | - |
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ore | (noun) a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona | - |
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(noun) a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined | - |
pinafore | (noun) a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing | Synonyms: jumper, pinny |
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pneumatophore | (noun) an air-filled root (submerged or exposed) that can function as a respiratory organ of a marsh or swamp plant | - |
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polyplacophore | (noun) primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates | Synonyms: chiton, coat-of-mail shell, sea cradle |
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polypore | (noun) woody pore fungi; any fungus of the family Polyporaceae or family Boletaceae having the spore-bearing surface within tubes or pores; the fruiting bodies are usually woody at maturity and persistent | Synonyms: pore fungus, pore mushroom |
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pore | (noun) any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal | - |
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(noun) a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass | Synonyms: stoma, stomate |
(noun) any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas) | - |
sagamore | (noun) a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief) | Synonyms: sachem |
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score | (noun) the act of scoring in a game or sport | - |
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(noun) a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: sexual conquest |
(noun) a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance) | Synonyms: grade, mark |
(noun) the facts about an actual situation | - |
(noun) a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages | Synonyms: musical score |
(noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grievance, grudge |
(noun) a set of twenty members | - |
(noun) grounds | Synonyms: account |
(noun) a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest | - |
(noun) a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally) | Synonyms: scotch |
(noun) an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar) | - |
seashore | (noun) the shore of a sea or ocean | Synonyms: coast, sea-coast, seacoast |
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semaphore | (noun) an apparatus for visual signaling with lights or mechanically moving arms | - |
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shore | (noun) a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support | Synonyms: shoring |
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(noun) the land along the edge of a body of water | - |
signore | (noun) an Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the English `sir'; used separately (not prefixed to his name) | - |
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siphonophore | (noun) a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored | - |
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smoothbore | (noun) a firearm that has no rifling | - |
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snore | (noun) the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound | Synonyms: snoring, stertor |
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(noun) the rattling noise produced when snoring | - |
sophomore | (noun) a second-year undergraduate | Synonyms: soph |
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sore | (noun) an open skin infection | - |
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sporangiophore | (noun) stalk bearing one or more sporangia | - |
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spore | (noun) a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion | - |
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sporophore | (noun) a spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of a sporophyte that develops spores; in ferns and mosses and liverworts is practically equivalent to the sporophyte | - |
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stevedore | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper |
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store | (noun) a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services | Synonyms: shop |
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(noun) a depository for goods | Synonyms: depot, entrepot, storage, storehouse |
(noun) an electronic memory device | Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory, memory board, storage |
(noun) a supply of something available for future use | Synonyms: fund, stock |
sycamore | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits | Synonyms: plane tree, platan |
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(noun) variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree | Synonyms: lacewood |
(noun) Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn | Synonyms: Acer pseudoplatanus, great maple, scottish maple |
(noun) thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore | Synonyms: Ficus sycomorus, mulberry fig, sycamore fig |
teliospore | (noun) a chlamydospore that develops in the last stage of the life cycle of the rust fungus | - |
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terpsichore | (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dance, dancing, saltation |
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tetraspore | (noun) one of the four asexual spores produced within a sporangium | - |
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threescore | (noun) a set with 3 times 20 members | - |
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tore | (noun) commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column | Synonyms: torus |
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tussore | (noun) oriental moth that produces brownish silk | Synonyms: Antheraea mylitta, tussah, tusseh, tusser, tussur |
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underscore | (noun) a line drawn underneath (especially under written matter) | Synonyms: underline |
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wherefore | (noun) the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores' | Synonyms: why |
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whore | (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, woman of the street, working girl |
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yore | (noun) time long past | - |
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zoospore | (noun) an asexual spore of some algae and fungi that moves by means of flagella | - |
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zygospore | (noun) a plant spore formed by two similar sexual cells | - |
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