Porous is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 75 anagrams from letters in porous (ooprsu).
1350-1400; Middle English, variant of porose Medieval Latin porōsus. See pore2, -ous
The soft layers are porous, and permit the diffusion of the acid from plate to plate.
Papillate -us: a surface with small elevations which are porous at tip.
It should be porous in a high degree—whether in winter weight or summer weight.
The vein was porous and water was constantly trickling out of it.
Among the biggest problems is the porous border Afghanistan shares with Pakistan.
Our porous borders are seen as a midterm election play-to-the-base appeal instead of a problem to be solved.
“The world is porous and full of holes…so you just find the cracks,” Austin says slyly.
Their house, which has never been painted, is sagging and rotted and porous.
The Brazilian defense, touted as impenetrable in pre-tournament hype, proved to be bedraggled, and porous.
Hanging from one of the sticks that supported the tent was a porous jar of water.
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