Crossword-Solution: POROUS 6 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Porous n. 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.

We have 38 clues for the answer “POROUS”

Clue Answers
Like tea bags 1 answer
Allowing for osmosis 1 answer
Allowing seepage 1 answer
FULL of holes like sponge 1 answer
Like a sponge 1 answer
Like intestinal walls 1 answer
Like much sandstone 1 answer
Like rock that stores fluid 1 answer
Like some borders 1 answer
Like sponges 1 answer
Absorbent, as a sponge 1 answer
Permeable by liquids 1 answer
Permeable to water 1 answer
Unlike raincoats 1 answer
Water-permeable 1 answer
Word for a weak infield 1 answer
allowing liquid to pass through gradually 1 answer
having holes 1 answer
leachy 1 answer
Allowing liquids or gases to pass through 2 answers
Like clay. 2 answers
Like pumice 3 answers
Not watertight 3 answers
Like Swiss cheese 3 answers
Like a sieve 3 answers
Spongelike 3 answers
pervious 4 answers
Leaky. 4 answers
permeable 4 answers
spongy 6 answers
Full of holes 7 answers
CHEESE WITH HOLES 10 answers
cheese Swiss 10 answers
ABLE TO ABSORB FLUIDS 11 answers
riddled 11 answers
Absorbent 11 answers
holey 15 answers
insubstantial 81 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POROUS (5)

God saw, Surveying his great Work, that it was good: For of Celestial Bodies first the Sun A mightie Spheare he fram’d, unlightsom first, Though of Ethereal Mould: then form’d the Moon Globose, and everie magnitude of Starrs, And sowd with Starrs the Heav’n thick as a field: Of Light by farr the greater part he took, Transplanted from her cloudie Shrine, and plac’d In the Suns Orb, made porous to receive And drink the liquid Light, firm to retaine Her gather’d beams, great Palace now of Light.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
For example, because porous => porosity generous => generosity hackers happily generalize: mysterious => mysteriosity ferrous => ferrosity obvious => obviosity dubious => dubiosity Also, note that all nouns can be verbed.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Not even a porous plaster on me this time.” On this Wednesday morning Marcus called McTeague out into the hall, to the head of the stairs that led down to the street door.
McTeague Frank Norris 2006
For the rest, whate'er The sets thou plantest in thy fields, thereon Strew refuse rich, and with abundant earth Take heed to hide them, and dig in withal Rough shells or porous stone, for therebetween Will water trickle and fine vapour creep, And so the plants their drooping spirits raise.
The Georgics Virgil 2008
How much denudation and degradation has been effected we have no means of determining, the porous, crumbling rocks being ill adapted for the reception and preservation of glacial inscriptions.
Steep Trails John Muir 1995

Quotes with POROUS (3)

Nature in her creative dreaming, dreamt the same thing both here and there, and if one spoke of imitation, then certainly it had to be reciprocal. Should one take the children of the soil as models because they possessed the depth of organic reality, whereas the ice flowers were mere external phenomena? But as phenomena, they were the result of an interplay of matter no less complex than that found in plants. If I understood our friendly host correctly, what concerned him was…
Thomas Mann Doctor Faustus
The world is not made of bread and honey…nor of the sweet flesh of girls. This world is made of clouds and of the shadows of clouds. It is made of mental landscapes, porous as air, where men and women are as trees walking, and as reeds shaken by the wind.
John Cowper Powys Wolf Solent
How quickly someone else's life can enter through the cracks we don't know are there until this foreign thing is inside of us. We are more porous than we know.
Emily Ruskovich Idaho
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 44 times in crossword archives (1971–2024).