porous

porous is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. 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.
2. adjective. full of pores or vessels or holes

   Synonyms: poriferous

3. adjective. allowing passage in and out

   "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"

   Synonyms: holey

4. adjective. able to absorb fluids

   "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"

   "compacting the soil to make it less porous"

Synonyms

poriferous, holey

Common word forms

porously, porousness

Words from these letters

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