| antheridiophore | (noun) gametophore bearing antheridia as in certain mosses and liverworts | - |
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| ashore | (adverb) towards the shore from the water | - |
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| carpophore | (noun) a slender stalk that furnishes an axis for a carpel | - |
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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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| conidiophore | (noun) a specialized fungal hypha that produces conidia | - |
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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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| foreshore | (noun) the part of the seashore between the highwater mark and the low-water mark | - |
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| gametophore | (noun) a modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts | - |
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| gynophore | (noun) the stalk of a pistil that raises it above the receptacle | - |
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| inshore | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land | Synonyms: onshore, shoreward |
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| (adjective) close to a shore | - |
| (adverb) toward the shore | - |
| 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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| 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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| offshore | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the land | Synonyms: seaward |
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| (adjective) at some distance from the shore | - |
| (adverb) away from shore; away from land | - |
| onshore | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land | Synonyms: inshore, shoreward |
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| (adjective) on the edge of the land | - |
| (adverb) on or toward the land | - |
| 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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| 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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| (verb) convey by semaphore, of information | - |
| (verb) send signals by or as if by semaphore | - |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) support by placing against something solid or rigid | Synonyms: prop, prop up, shore up |
| (verb) arrive on shore | Synonyms: land, set ashore |
| (verb) serve as a shore to | - |
| siphonophore | (noun) a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored | - |
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| sporangiophore | (noun) stalk bearing one or more sporangia | - |
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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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| terpsichore | (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dance, dancing, saltation |
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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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| (verb) compromise oneself for money or other gains | - |
| (verb) have unlawful sex with a whore | - |
| (verb) work as a prostitute | - |