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Cupel :: Cupel (n.) A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime)..

Leachy :: Leachy (a.) Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like..

Imporosity :: Imporosity (n.) The state or quality of being imporous; want of porosity; compactness.

Porous :: 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..

Vaporousness :: Vaporousness (n.) The quality of being vaporous.

Acrosporous :: Acrosporous (a.) Having acrospores.

Imperforata :: Imperforata (n. pl.) A division of Foraminifera, including those in which the shell is not porous..

Cancellated :: Cancellated (a.) Open or spongy, as some porous bones..

Perforata :: Perforata (n. pl.) A division of corals including those that have a porous texture, as Porites and Madrepora; -- opposed to Aporosa..

Heterosporous :: Heterosporous (a.) Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other.

Chatty :: Chatty (n.) A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc..

Steamship :: Steaminess (n.) The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness.

Spongilla :: Spongiform (a.) Resembling a sponge; soft and porous; porous.

Dynamite :: Dynamite (n.) An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition..

Alcarraza :: Alcarraza (n.) A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface..

Stean :: Steamy (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty..

Carbonado :: Carbonado (n.) A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous..

Soak :: Soak (v. i.) To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter..

Vaporiform :: Vaporiform (a.) Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance..

Oecoid :: Oecoid (n.) The colorless porous framework, or stroma, of red blood corpuscles from which the zooid, or hemoglobin and other substances of the corpuscles, may be dissolved out..

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