| adore | (verb) love intensely | - |
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| 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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| anymore | (adverb) at the present or from now on; usually used with a negative | Synonyms: any longer |
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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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| ashore | (adverb) towards the shore from the water | - |
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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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| before | (adverb) at or in the front | Synonyms: ahead, in front |
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| (adverb) earlier in time; previously | Synonyms: earlier |
| 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 |
| (verb) make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool | Synonyms: drill |
| (verb) cause to be bored | Synonyms: tire |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) remove the core or center from | - |
| 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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| deplore | (verb) express strong condemnation of | - |
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| (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, bewail, lament |
| 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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| (verb) request an encore, from a performer | - |
| endospore | (noun) a small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae | - |
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| evermore | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: eternally, everlastingly, forever |
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| (adverb) at any future time; in the future | Synonyms: forevermore |
| explore | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: research, search |
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| (verb) travel to or penetrate into | - |
| (verb) inquire into a subject in detail | - |
| (verb) examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes | - |
| extempore | (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed |
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| (adverb) without prior preparation | Synonyms: extemporaneously, extemporarily |
| 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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| footsore | (adjective) having sore or tired feet | - |
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| fore | (adjective) situated at or toward the bow of a vessel | - |
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| (noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft | Synonyms: bow, prow, stem |
| (adverb) near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane | Synonyms: forward |
| foreshore | (noun) the part of the seashore between the highwater mark and the low-water mark | - |
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| forevermore | (adverb) at any future time; in the future | Synonyms: evermore |
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| fourscore | (adjective) being ten more than seventy | Synonyms: 80, eighty, lxxx |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight | Synonyms: 80, eighty, LXXX |
| frore | (adjective) very cold | - |
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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 |
| furthermore | (adverb) denoting additional information | Synonyms: in addition, moreover, what is more |
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| galore | (adjective) existing in abundance | Synonyms: abounding |
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| (adjective) in great numbers | - |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) cut into gores | - |
| (verb) wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument | - |
| 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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| hardcore | (adjective) extremely explicit | Synonyms: hard-core |
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| (adjective) intensely loyal | Synonyms: hard-core |
| 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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| hereinbefore | (adverb) in the preceding part of the current text | - |
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| heretofore | (adverb) used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time | Synonyms: as yet, hitherto, so far, thus far, til now, until now, up to now, yet |
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| ignore | (verb) be ignorant of or in the dark about | - |
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| (verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, neglect |
| (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, push aside |
| (verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: cut, disregard, snub |
| (verb) fail to notice | - |
| implore | (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: beg, pray |
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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 | - |
| 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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| 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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| more | (adjective) (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; above; more than | Synonyms: more than |
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| (adjective) (comparative of `many' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number | - |
| (adverb) used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs, indicates that the adjective or adverb is more of something | Synonyms: to a greater extent |
| (adverb) comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent | - |
| nevermore | (adverb) at no time hereafter | Synonyms: never again |
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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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| outscore | (verb) score more points than one's opponents | Synonyms: outpoint |
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| 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) | - |
| (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, focus, rivet |
| restore | (verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: regenerate, rejuvenate |
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| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, touch on |
| (verb) give or bring back | Synonyms: restitute |
| (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reestablish, reinstate |
| (verb) return to its original or usable and functioning condition | Synonyms: reconstruct |
| 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) | - |
| (verb) assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation | Synonyms: grade, mark |
| (verb) make underscoring marks | Synonyms: mark |
| (verb) gain points in a game | Synonyms: rack up, tally |
| (verb) get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance | - |
| (verb) make small marks into the surface of | Synonyms: mark, nock |
| (verb) induce to have sex | Synonyms: make, seduce |
| (verb) write a musical score for | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | (adjective) of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel | Synonyms: unrifled |
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| (noun) a firearm that has no rifling | - |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) breathe noisily during one's sleep | Synonyms: saw logs, saw wood |
| sophomore | (adjective) used of the second year in United States high school or college | Synonyms: second-year |
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| (noun) a second-year undergraduate | Synonyms: soph |
| sore | (adjective) roused to anger | Synonyms: huffy, mad |
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| (adjective) hurting | Synonyms: raw, sensitive, tender |
| (adjective) causing misery or pain or distress | Synonyms: afflictive, painful |
| (noun) an open skin infection | - |
| 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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