Crossword-Solution: ORIFICE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Orifice | n. | A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “ORIFICE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Vent, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Vent aperture | 1 answer |
| Pore, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Mouth of a clam | 1 answer |
| Ear canal, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Aperture that opens into a bodily cavity | 1 answer |
| Anatomical opening | 1 answer |
| Mouth-like opening | 2 answers |
| Anatomical aperture | 2 answers |
| ostiole | 3 answers |
| Foramen | 5 answers |
| stoma | 5 answers |
| AN APERTURE OR HOLE THAT OPENS INTO A BODILY CAVITY | 10 answers |
| Hole in the head? | 11 answers |
| Slot __ | 11 answers |
| perforation | 17 answers |
| Window-___ | 28 answers |
| Inlet. | 31 answers |
| APERTURE ___ | 34 answers |
| mouth | 49 answers |
| Hole __ | 57 answers |
| Vent | 60 answers |
| Eye | 70 answers |
| Opening | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ORIFICE (5)
Nor do we need to seek any other reason for the number of these pellicles beyond this that the orifice of the venous artery being of an oval shape from the nature of its situation, can be adequately closed with two, whereas the others being round are more conveniently closed with three.
Below this repulsive orifice the face was quite blank to the chin, for the thing had no mouth that I could discover.
Jav was shrieking still, and clawing at the royal couch that had already commenced to slide toward the centre of the room, where both Thuvia and Carthoris suddenly noted a small orifice which grew in diameter as the floor assumed more closely a funnel-like contour.
The orifice in the plates of the _Nautilus_ was first closed, and fastened down by means of a false key, with which Ned Land had provided himself; the opening in the boat was also closed.
But her face was a larger and freer copy, and her mouth in especial a happy divergence from that conservative orifice, a little pair of lips at once plump and pinched, that looked, when closed, as if they could not open wider than to swallow a gooseberry or to emit an “Oh, dear, no!” which probably had been thought to give the finishing touch to the aristocratic prettiness of the Lady Emmeline Atheling as represented, forty years before, in several Books of Beauty.
Quotes with ORIFICE (3)
Ambulances were cool. “You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts,” I said to the EMT as I picked up a silver gadget that looked disturbingly like an alien orifice probe, broke it, then promptly put it back, hoping it wouldn’t leave someone’s life hanging in the balance because the EMT couldn’t alien-probe his orifices.
Fireflies out on a warm summer's night, seeing the urgent, flashing, yellow-white phosphorescence below them, go crazy with desire; moths cast to the winds an enchantment potion that draws the opposite sex, wings beating hurriedly, from kilometers away; peacocks display a devastating corona of blue and green and the peahens are all aflutter; competing pollen grains extrude tiny tubes that race each other down the female flower's orifice to the waiting egg below; luminescent s…
It's funny, this - so many words to describe the same thing,” she smiled...“Penis is simply an anatomical appendage, as exciting as a finger or a phalange. A willy is something small and flaccid, and at least slightly humorous. Prick is the organ as viewed with distaste, perhaps with so much as to describe the entire body it’s attached to, like a dick, but more so. Phallus is a symbol of fertility, but my favourite... is the cock, which is only ever the hard, real thing, unle…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1979–2025).