Definitions for orifice

orifice or·i·fice

Spelling: [awr-uh-fis, or-]
IPA: /ˈɔr ə fɪs, ˈɒr-/

Orifice is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in orifice (cefiior).

Definitions for orifice

noun

  1. an opening or aperture, as of a tube or pipe; a mouthlike opening or hole; mouth; vent.

Origin of orifice

1535-45; Middle French Late Latin ōrificium, equivalent to Latin ōr- (stem of ōs) mouth + -i- -i- + -fic-, combining form of facere to make, do

Examples for orifice

A jet of soapsuds plays on each drill from an orifice 1/32 in.

They can corrode through whatever human tissue they contact if swallowed or stuck into an orifice, sometimes in a matter of hours.

There had been only a superficial examination by Tomlinson of the orifice of the wound.

You can read about the film's various sex scenes and orifice exploration right here.

It was not difficult then to stop up the orifice with a little fat.

He soon picked out the orifice of Marie Antoinette's chimney.

Fasting in Islam means not putting anything in any orifice of the body.

He examined the edge of the orifice where the rock rested upon it.

Many of the travelers did not even move as they left the orifice.

One may take a sheep's bladder into the orifice of which a tube is fastened.

Word Value for orifice
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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