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- English Word Porkwood Definition The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood.
- English Word Pornerastic Definition Lascivious; licentious.
- English Word Pornographic Definition Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing.
- English Word Pornography Definition Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.
- English Word Pornography Definition A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.
- English Word Porosity Definition The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density.
- English Word Porotic Definition A medicine supposed to promote the formation of callus.
- English Word Porous Definition 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.
- English Word Porously Definition In a porous manner.
- English Word Porousness Definition The quality of being porous.
- English Word Porousness Definition The open parts; the interstices of anything.
- English Word Porpentine Definition Porcupine.
- English Word Porpesse Definition A porpoise.
- English Word Porphyraceous Definition Porphyritic.
- English Word Porphyre Definition Porphyry.
- English Word Porphyries Definition of Porphyry
- English Word Porphyrite Definition A rock with a porphyritic structure; as, augite porphyrite.
- English Word Porphyritic Definition Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively fine-grained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline.
- English Word Porphyrization Definition The act of porphyrizing, or the state of being porphyrized.
- English Word Porphyrize Definition To cause to resemble porphyry; to make spotted in composition, like porphyry.