Name Report For First Name PORTER:
PORTER
First name PORTER's origin is Other. PORTER means "gatekeeper". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with PORTER below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of porter.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with PORTER and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with PORTER - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming PORTER
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES PORTER AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH PORTER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (orter) - Names That Ends with orter:
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (rter) - Names That Ends with rter:
carterRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ter) - Names That Ends with ter:
usk-water brewster witter dexter auster kester easter ester eszter hester alister allister attewater ceaster chester colter coulter dieter fitzwalter fitzwater forester forrester foster holter hunter lester macalister peter sutter sylvester thaxter webster wireceaster worcester wynter walter alaster winter baxter atwater cater demeter ritter caster dempster leicester alter silvester rossiterRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (er) - Names That Ends with er:
clover hesper gauthier iskinder fajer mountakaber nader saber shaker taher abdul-nasser kadeer kyner vortimer yder ager ander iker xabier fleischaker kusner molner bleecker devisser schuyler vanderveer an-her djoser narmer neb-er-tcher acker archer bridger camber denver gardner jasper miller parker taburer tanner tucker turner wheeler symer jesper ogier oliver fearcher kellerNAMES RHYMING WITH PORTER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (porte) - Names That Begins with porte:
porteurRhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (port) - Names That Begins with port:
portia portierRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (por) - Names That Begins with por:
porfirio porfiro porrex porscheRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (po) - Names That Begins with po:
podarge pol polak poldi polikwaptiwa polites poll pollock pollux polly poloma polycarp polydamas polydeuces polydorus polyeidus polyhymnia polymestor polynices polyphemus polyxena pomeroy pommelraie pommeraie ponce poni pontus poppy posala poseidon poston poul powaqa powell powwawNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PORTER:
First Names which starts with 'po' and ends with 'er':
First Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 'r':
palmer papandr parr peadar pedar peer pekar pellanor pepper per peredur petr philander pilar piper prior priour pryorEnglish Words Rhyming PORTER
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PORTER AS A WHOLE:
| apporter | noun (n.) A bringer in; an importer. |
| colporter | noun (n.) Same as Colporteur. |
| exporter | noun (n.) One who exports; the person who sends goods or commodities to a foreign country, in the way of commerce; -- opposed to importer. |
| importer | noun (n.) One who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a country or state; -- opposed to exporter. |
| porter | noun (n.) A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages. |
| noun (n.) A carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage, etc.; for hire. | |
| noun (n.) A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar. | |
| noun (n.) A malt liquor, of a dark color and moderately bitter taste, possessing tonic and intoxicating qualities. |
| porterage | noun (n.) The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper. |
| noun (n.) Money charged or paid for the carriage of burdens or parcels by a porter. |
| porteress | noun (n.) See Portress. |
| porterhouse | noun (n.) A house where porter is sold. |
| reporter | noun (n.) One who reports. |
| noun (n.) An officer or person who makes authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates. | |
| noun (n.) One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers. |
| sporter | noun (n.) One who sports; a sportsman. |
| supporter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. |
| noun (n.) Especially, an adherent; one who sustains, advocates, and defends; as, the supporter of a party, faction, or candidate. | |
| noun (n.) A knee placed under the cathead. | |
| noun (n.) A figure, sometimes of a man, but commonly of some animal, placed on either side of an escutcheon, and exterior to it. Usually, both supporters of an escutcheon are similar figures. | |
| noun (n.) A broad band or truss for supporting the abdomen or some other part or organ. |
| transporter | noun (n.) One who transports. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PORTER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (orter) - English Words That Ends with orter:
| comforter | noun (n.) One who administers comfort or consolation. |
| noun (n.) The Holy Spirit, -- referring to his office of comforting believers. | |
| noun (n.) A knit woolen tippet, long and narrow. | |
| noun (n.) A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable. |
| dehorter | noun (n.) A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary. |
| distorter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, distorts. |
| exhorter | noun (n.) One who exhorts or incites. |
| extorter | noun (n.) One who practices extortion. |
| resorter | noun (n.) One who resorts; a frequenter. |
| retorter | noun (n.) One who retorts. |
| snorter | noun (n.) One who snorts. |
| noun (n.) The wheather; -- so called from its cry. |
| sorter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, sorts. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (rter) - English Words That Ends with rter:
| animadverter | noun (n.) One who animadverts; a censurer; also [Obs.], a chastiser. |
| asserter | noun (n.) One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor. |
| averter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, averts. |
| barter | noun (n.) The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods. |
| noun (n.) The thing given in exchange. | |
| verb (v. i.) To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck. | |
| verb (v. t.) To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor. |
| carter | noun (n.) A charioteer. |
| noun (n.) A man who drives a cart; a teamster. | |
| noun (n.) Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman | |
| noun (n.) A British fish; the whiff. |
| charter | noun (n.) A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance. |
| noun (n.) An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges. | |
| noun (n.) An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers. | |
| noun (n.) A special privilege, immunity, or exemption. | |
| noun (n.) The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below. | |
| verb (v. t.) To establish by charter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n. |
| controverter | noun (n.) One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. |
| converter | noun (n.) One who converts; one who makes converts. |
| noun (n.) A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal. |
| courter | noun (n.) One who courts; one who plays the lover, or who solicits in marriage; one who flatters and cajoles. |
| darter | noun (n.) One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts. |
| noun (n.) The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus; -- so called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. See Snakebird. | |
| noun (n.) A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The group includes numerous genera and species, all of them American. See Etheostomoid. |
| departer | noun (n.) One who refines metals by separation. |
| noun (n.) One who departs. |
| deserter | noun (n.) One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion. |
| diverter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, diverts, turns off, or pleases. |
| garter | noun (n.) A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg. |
| noun (n.) The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Bendlet. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bind with a garter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To invest with the Order of the Garter. |
| hurter | noun (n.) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like. |
| noun (n.) An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as of sin. | |
| noun (n.) Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief. | |
| noun (n.) One who hurts or does harm. | |
| verb (v. t.) A butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet. |
| imparter | noun (n.) One who imparts. |
| quarter | noun (n.) One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc. |
| noun (n.) The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds. | |
| noun (n.) The fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels of grain; as, a quarter of wheat; also, the fourth part of a chaldron of coal. | |
| noun (n.) The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full. | |
| noun (n.) One limb of a quadruped with the adjacent parts; one fourth part of the carcass of a slaughtered animal, including a leg; as, the fore quarters; the hind quarters. | |
| noun (n.) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp. | |
| noun (n.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin. | |
| noun (n.) A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc.; properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter. | |
| noun (n.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys. | |
| noun (n.) The after-part of a vessel's side, generally corresponding in extent with the quarter-deck; also, the part of the yardarm outside of the slings. | |
| noun (n.) One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point. | |
| noun (n.) One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds. | |
| noun (n.) The fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels of grain; as, a quarter of wheat; also, the fourth part of a chaldron of coal. | |
| noun (n.) The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full. | |
| noun (n.) One limb of a quadruped with the adjacent parts; one fourth part of the carcass of a slaughtered animal, including a leg; as, the fore quarters; the hind quarters. | |
| noun (n.) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp. | |
| noun (n.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin. | |
| noun (n.) A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc.; properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter. | |
| noun (n.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys. | |
| noun (n.) The after-part of a vessel's side, generally corresponding in extent with the quarter-deck; also, the part of the yardarm outside of the slings. | |
| noun (n.) One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point. | |
| verb (v. t.) A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris. | |
| verb (v. t.) A small upright timber post, used in partitions; -- in the United States more commonly called stud. | |
| verb (v. t.) The fourth part of the distance from one point of the compass to another, being the fourth part of 11¡ 15', that is, about 2¡ 49'; -- called also quarter point. | |
| verb (v. t.) Proper station; specific place; assigned position; special location. | |
| verb (v. t.) A station at which officers and men are posted in battle; -- usually in the plural. | |
| verb (v. t.) Place of lodging or temporary residence; shelter; entertainment; -- usually in the plural. | |
| verb (v. t.) A station or encampment occupied by troops; a place of lodging for soldiers or officers; as, winter quarters. | |
| verb (v. t.) Treatment shown by an enemy; mercy; especially, the act of sparing the life a conquered enemy; a refraining from pushing one's advantage to extremes. | |
| verb (v. t.) Friendship; amity; concord. | |
| verb (v. i.) To lodge; to have a temporary residence. | |
| verb (v. i.) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels. | |
| verb (v. t.) A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris. | |
| verb (v. t.) A small upright timber post, used in partitions; -- in the United States more commonly called stud. | |
| verb (v. t.) The fourth part of the distance from one point of the compass to another, being the fourth part of 11¡ 15', that is, about 2¡ 49'; -- called also quarter point. | |
| verb (v. t.) Proper station; specific place; assigned position; special location. | |
| verb (v. t.) A station at which officers and men are posted in battle; -- usually in the plural. | |
| verb (v. t.) Place of lodging or temporary residence; shelter; entertainment; -- usually in the plural. | |
| verb (v. t.) A station or encampment occupied by troops; a place of lodging for soldiers or officers; as, winter quarters. | |
| verb (v. t.) Treatment shown by an enemy; mercy; especially, the act of sparing the life a conquered enemy; a refraining from pushing one's advantage to extremes. | |
| verb (v. t.) Friendship; amity; concord. | |
| verb (v. i.) To lodge; to have a temporary residence. | |
| verb (v. i.) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels. |
| parter | noun (n.) One who, or which, parts or separates. |
| perverter | noun (n.) One who perverts (a person or thing). |
| recharter | noun (n.) A second charter; a renewal of a charter. |
| verb (v. t.) To charter again or anew; to grant a second or another charter to. |
| reverter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, reverts. |
| noun (n.) Reversion. |
| squirter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, squirts. |
| starter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race. |
| noun (n.) A dog that rouses game. |
| subverter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, subverts; an overthrower. |
| thwarter | noun (n.) A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or convulsive motions. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ter) - English Words That Ends with ter:
| abater | noun (n.) One who, or that which, abates. |
| abetter | noun (n.) Alt. of Abettor |
| absenter | noun (n.) One who absents one's self. |
| abstracter | noun (n.) One who abstracts, or makes an abstract. |
| abutter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river. |
| acater | noun (n.) See Caterer. |
| accelerometer | noun (n.) An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder. |
| accepter | noun (n.) A person who accepts; a taker. |
| noun (n.) A respecter; a viewer with partiality. | |
| noun (n.) An acceptor. |
| accipiter | noun (n.) A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores. |
| noun (n.) A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk. |
| acetimeter | noun (n.) An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid. |
| acetometer | noun (n.) Same as Acetimeter. |
| acidimeter | noun (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids. |
| acoumeter | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the acuteness of the sense of hearing. |
| acquitter | noun (n.) One who acquits or releases. |
| acroter | noun (n.) Same as Acroterium. |
| actinometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays. |
| noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the actinic effect of rays of light. |
| adapter | noun (n.) One who adapts. |
| noun (n.) A connecting tube; an adopter. |
| adelaster | noun (n.) A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus. |
| adjuster | noun (n.) One who, or that which, adjusts. |
| administer | noun (n.) Administrator. |
| verb (v. t.) To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament. | |
| verb (v. t.) To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tender, as an oath. | |
| verb (v. t.) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor. | |
| verb (v. i.) To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister. | |
| verb (v. i.) To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B. |
| admitter | noun (n.) One who admits. |
| adopter | noun (n.) One who adopts. |
| noun (n.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. |
| aerometer | noun (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the weight or density of air and gases. |
| aesthesiometer | noun (n.) Alt. of Esthesiometer |
| affecter | noun (n.) One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. |
| afflicter | noun (n.) One who afflicts. |
| affreighter | noun (n.) One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods. |
| affrighter | noun (n.) One who frightens. |
| affronter | noun (n.) One who affronts, or insults to the face. |
| after | adjective (a.) Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life. |
| adjective (a.) Hinder; nearer the rear. | |
| adjective (a.) To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. | |
| adverb (adv.) Subsequently in time or place; behind; afterward; as, he follows after. | |
| prep (prep.) Behind in place; as, men in line one after another. | |
| prep (prep.) Below in rank; next to in order. | |
| prep (prep.) Later in time; subsequent; as, after supper, after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was interposed between it and the clause. | |
| prep (prep.) Subsequent to and in consequence of; as, after what you have said, I shall be careful. | |
| prep (prep.) Subsequent to and notwithstanding; as, after all our advice, you took that course. | |
| prep (prep.) Moving toward from behind; following, in search of; in pursuit of. | |
| prep (prep.) Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to; as, to look after workmen; to inquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness. | |
| prep (prep.) In imitation of; in conformity with; after the manner of; as, to make a thing after a model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father. | |
| prep (prep.) According to; in accordance with; in conformity with the nature of; as, he acted after his kind. | |
| prep (prep.) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting. |
| agister | noun (n.) Alt. of Agistor |
| airometer | noun (n.) A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water. |
| alabaster | noun (n.) A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc. |
| noun (n.) A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster. | |
| noun (n.) A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. |
| albuminimeter | noun (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid. |
| alcalimeter | noun (n.) See Alkalimeter. |
| alcoholometer | noun (n.) Alt. of Alcoholmeter |
| alcoholmeter | noun (n.) An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale. |
| alcohometer | adjective (a.) Alt. of Alcohometric |
| aletaster | noun (n.) See Aleconner. |
| aleurometer | noun (n.) An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour. |
| alkalimeter | noun (n.) An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture. |
| allotter | noun (n.) One who allots. |
| altimeter | noun (n.) An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. |
| altometer | noun (n.) A theodolite. |
| ambidexter | noun (n.) A person who uses both hands with equal facility. |
| noun (n.) A double-dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes. | |
| noun (n.) A juror who takes money from both parties for giving his verdict. | |
| adjective (a.) Using both hands with equal ease. |
| ammeter | noun (n.) A contraction of amperometer or amperemeter. |
| amperemeter | noun (n.) Alt. of Amperometer |
| amperometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in amperes. |
| amphiaster | noun (n.) The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle. |
| amphitheater | noun (n.) Alt. of Amphitheatre |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PORTER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (porte) - Words That Begins with porte:
| porte | noun (n.) The Ottoman court; the government of the Turkish empire, officially called the Sublime Porte, from the gate (port) of the sultan's palace at which justice was administered. |
| ported | adjective (a.) Having gates. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Port |
| portegue | noun (n.) See Portague. |
| portemonnaie | noun (n.) A small pocketbook or wallet for carrying money. |
| portending | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Portend |
| portension | noun (n.) The act of foreshowing; foreboding. |
| portent | noun (n.) That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign. |
| portentive | adjective (a.) Presaging; foreshadowing. |
| portentous | adjective (a.) Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous. |
| adjective (a.) Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size. |
| portesse | noun (n.) See Porteass. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (port) - Words That Begins with port:
| port | noun (n.) A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol. |
| noun (n.) A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal. | |
| noun (n.) An opening in the side of a vessel; an embrasure through which cannon may be discharged; a porthole; also, the shutters which close such an opening. | |
| noun (n.) A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face. | |
| noun (n.) The manner in which a person bears himself; deportment; carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a proud port. | |
| noun (n.) The larboard or left side of a ship (looking from the stern toward the bow); as, a vessel heels to port. See Note under Larboard. Also used adjectively. | |
| verb (v.) A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively. | |
| verb (v.) In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and where they finish their voyages. | |
| verb (v. t.) To carry; to bear; to transport. | |
| verb (v. t.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms. | |
| verb (v. t.) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; -- said of the helm, and used chiefly in the imperative, as a command; as, port your helm. |
| porting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Port |
| porta | noun (n.) The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilus. |
| noun (n.) The foramen of Monro. |
| portability | noun (n.) The quality or state of being portable; fitness to be carried. |
| portable | adjective (a.) Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine. |
| adjective (a.) Possible to be endured; supportable. |
| portableness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being portable; portability. |
| portace | noun (n.) See Portass. |
| portage | noun (n.) A sailor's wages when in port. |
| noun (n.) The amount of a sailor's wages for a voyage. | |
| noun (n.) A porthole. | |
| noun (n.) The act of carrying or transporting. | |
| noun (n.) The price of carriage; porterage. | |
| noun (n.) Capacity for carrying; tonnage. | |
| noun (n.) A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters. |
| portague | noun (n.) A Portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half pounds sterling. |
| portal | noun (n.) A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing. |
| noun (n.) The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions. | |
| noun (n.) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment. | |
| noun (n.) By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church. | |
| noun (n.) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces. | |
| noun (n.) A prayer book or breviary; a portass. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery. |
| portamento | noun (n.) In singing, or in the use of the bow, a gradual carrying or lifting of the voice or sound very smoothly from one note to another; a gliding from tone to tone. |
| portance | noun (n.) See Port, carriage, demeanor. |
| portass | noun (n.) A breviary; a prayer book. |
| portate | adjective (a.) Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate. |
| portative | adjective (a.) Portable. |
| adjective (a.) Capable of holding up or carrying; as, the portative force of a magnet, of atmospheric pressure, or of capillarity. |
| portcluse | noun (n.) A portcullis. |
| portcrayon | noun (n.) A metallic handle with a clasp for holding a crayon. |
| portcullis | noun (n.) A grating of iron or of timbers pointed with iron, hung over the gateway of a fortress, to be let down to prevent the entrance of an enemy. |
| noun (n.) An English coin of the reign of Elizabeth, struck for the use of the East India Company; -- so called from its bearing the figure of a portcullis on the reverse. | |
| verb (v. t.) To obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut; to bar. |
| portcullising | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Portcullis |
| portfire | noun (n.) A case of strong paper filled with a composition of niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells. |
| portfolio | noun (n.) A portable case for holding loose papers, prints, drawings, etc. |
| noun (n.) Hence: The office and functions of a minister of state or member of the cabinet; as, to receive the portfolio of war; to resign the portfolio. |
| portglave | noun (n.) A sword bearer. |
| porthole | noun (n.) An embrasure in a ship's side. See 3d Port. |
| porthook | noun (n.) One of the iron hooks to which the port hinges are attached. |
| porthors | noun (n.) See Portass. |
| portico | noun (n.) A colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a building. |
| porticoed | adjective (a.) Furnished with a portico. |
| portiere | noun (n.) A curtain hanging across a doorway. |
| portigue | noun (n.) See Portague. |
| portingal | noun (n.) A Portuguese. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Portugal; Portuguese. |
| portion | noun (n.) That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything. |
| noun (n.) A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole. | |
| noun (n.) A part assigned; allotment; share; fate. | |
| noun (n.) The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance. | |
| noun (n.) A wife's fortune; a dowry. | |
| verb (v. t.) To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute. | |
| verb (v. t.) To endow with a portion or inheritance. |
| portioning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Portion |
| portioner | noun (n.) One who portions. |
| noun (n.) See Portionist, 2. |
| portionist | noun (n.) A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. |
| noun (n.) One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. |
| portionless | adjective (a.) Having no portion. |
| portise | noun (n.) See Portass. |
| portlast | noun (n.) The portoise. See Portoise. |
| portliness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being portly; dignity of mien or of personal appearance; stateliness. |
| noun (n.) Bulkiness; corpulence. |
| portly | adjective (a.) Having a dignified port or mien; of a noble appearance; imposing. |
| adjective (a.) Bulky; corpulent. |
| portman | noun (n.) An inhabitant or burgess of a port, esp. of one of the Cinque Ports. |
| portmanteau | noun (n.) A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys. |
| portmantle | noun (n.) A portmanteau. |
| portmote | noun (n.) In old English law, a court, or mote, held in a port town. |
| portoir | noun (n.) One who, or that which, bears; hence, one who, or that which, produces. |
| portoise | noun (n.) The gunwale of a ship. |
| portos | noun (n.) See Portass. |
| portpane | noun (n.) A cloth for carrying bread, so as not to touch it with the hands. |
| portrait | noun (n.) The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life. |
| noun (n.) Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words. | |
| verb (v. t.) To portray; to draw. |
| portraitist | noun (n.) A portrait painter. |
| portraiture | noun (n.) A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. |
| noun (n.) Pictures, collectively; painting. | |
| noun (n.) The art or practice of making portraits. | |
| verb (v. t.) To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (por) - Words That Begins with por:
| poraille | noun (n.) Poor people; the poor. |
| porbeagle | noun (n.) A species of shark (Lamna cornubica), about eight feet long, having a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail; -- called also mackerel shark. |
| porcate | adjective (a.) Having grooves or furrows broader than the intervening ridges; furrowed. |
| porcelain | noun (n.) Purslain. |
| noun (n.) A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware. |
| porcelainized | adjective (a.) Baked like potter's lay; -- applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain. |
| porcelaneous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Porcellaneous |
| porcellaneous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to porcelain; resembling porcelain; as, porcelaneous shells. |
| adjective (a.) Having a smooth, compact shell without pores; -- said of certain Foraminifera. |
| porcelanite | noun (n.) A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling jasper; -- called also porcelain jasper. |
| porcelanous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Porcellanous |
| porcellanous | adjective (a.) Porcelaneous. |
| porch | noun (n.) A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage porch, under Carriage, and Loggia. |
| noun (n.) A portico; a covered walk. |
| porcine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog. |
| porcupine | noun (n.) Any Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having the back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a foot long. The common species of Europe and Asia (Hystrix cristata) is the best known. |
| noun (n.) Any species of Erethizon and related genera, native of America. They are related to the true porcupines, but have shorter spines, and are arboreal in their habits. The Canada porcupine (Erethizon dorsatus) is a well known species. |
| poring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pore |
| poreblind | adjective (a.) Nearsighted; shortsighted; purblind. |
| porer | noun (n.) One who pores. |
| porgy | noun (n.) The scup. |
| noun (n.) The sailor's choice, or pinfish. | |
| noun (n.) The margate fish. | |
| noun (n.) The spadefish. | |
| noun (n.) Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish. | |
| noun (n.) Any one of numerous sparoid food fishes, as the jolthead porgy, the sheepshead porgy (Calamus penna) of the West Indies, the grass porgy (Calamus arctifrons) of Florida, and the red porgy (Pagrus pagrus) of Europe. |
| porifera | noun (n. pl.) A grand division of the Invertebrata, including the sponges; -- called also Spongiae, Spongida, and Spongiozoa. The principal divisions are Calcispongiae, Keratosa or Fibrospongiae, and Silicea. |
| poriferan | noun (n.) One of the Polifera. |
| poriferata | noun (n. pl.) The Polifera. |
| poriform | adjective (a.) Resembling a pore, or small puncture. |
| porime | noun (n.) A theorem or proposition so easy of demonstration as to be almost self-evident. |
| poriness | noun (n.) Porosity. |
| porism | noun (n.) A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions. |
| noun (n.) A corollary. |
| porismatic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Porismatical |
| porismatical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a porism; poristic. |
| poristic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Poristical |
| poristical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a porism; of the nature of a porism. |
| porite | noun (n.) Any coral of the genus Porites, or family Poritidae. |
| porites | noun (n.) An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms. |
| pork | noun (n.) The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food. |
| porker | noun (n.) A hog. |
| porket | noun (n.) A young hog; a pig. |
| porkling | noun (n.) A pig; a porket. |
| porkwood | noun (n.) The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood. |
| pornerastic | adjective (a.) Lascivious; licentious. |
| pornographic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing. |
| pornography | noun (n.) Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies. |
| noun (n.) A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution. |
| porosity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density. |
| porotic | noun (n.) A medicine supposed to promote the formation of callus. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PORTER:
English Words which starts with 'po' and ends with 'er':
| poacher | noun (n.) One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law. |
| noun (n.) The American widgeon. |
| podder | noun (n.) One who collects pods or pulse. |
| poetaster | noun (n.) An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art. |
| poinder | noun (n.) The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder. |
| noun (n.) One who distrains property. |
| pointer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, points. |
| noun (n.) The hand of a timepiece. | |
| noun (n.) One of a breed of dogs trained to stop at scent of game, and with the nose point it out to sportsmen. | |
| noun (n.) The two stars (Merak and Dubhe) in the Great Bear, the line between which points nearly in the direction of the north star. | |
| noun (n.) Diagonal braces sometimes fixed across the hold. |
| poiser | noun (n.) The balancer of dipterous insects. |
| poisoner | noun (n.) One who poisons. |
| poker | noun (n.) One who pokes. |
| noun (n.) That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals. | |
| noun (n.) A poking-stick. | |
| noun (n.) The poachard. | |
| noun (n.) A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States. | |
| noun (n.) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear. |
| polander | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Pole. |
| polarimeter | noun (n.) An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray. |
| polarizer | noun (n.) That which polarizes; especially, the part of a polariscope which receives and polarizes the light. It is usually a reflecting plate, or a plate of some crystal, as tourmaline, or a doubly refracting crystal. |
| polder | noun (n.) A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments. |
| poler | noun (n.) One who poles. |
| noun (n.) An extortioner. See Poller. |
| polisher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing. |
| politicaster | noun (n.) A petty politician; a pretender in politics. |
| poller | noun (n.) One who polls; specifically: (a) One who polls or lops trees. (b) One who polls or cuts hair; a barber. [R.] (c) One who extorts or plunders. [Obs.] Baex. (d) One who registplws votplws, or one who enters his name as a voter. |
| polluter | noun (n.) One who pollutes. |
| polymer | noun (n.) Any one of two or more substances related to each other by polymerism; specifically, a substance produced from another substance by chemical polymerization. |
| polypier | noun (n.) A polypidom. |
| pomander | noun (n.) A perfume to be carried with one, often in the form of a ball. |
| noun (n.) A box to contain such perfume, formerly carried by ladies, as at the end of a chain; -- more properly pomander box. |
| pomewater | noun (n.) A kind of sweet, juicy apple. |
| pomwater | noun (n.) Same as Pomewater. |
| ponderer | noun (n.) One who ponders. |
| pooler | noun (n.) A stick for stirring a tan vat. |
| popper | noun (n.) A utensil for popping corn, usually a wire basket with a long handle. |
| noun (n.) A dagger. |
| popularizer | noun (n.) One who popularizes. |
| porringer | noun (n.) A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer. |
| portrayer | noun (n.) One who portrays. |
| poser | noun (n.) One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact. |
| possessioner | noun (n.) A possessor; a property holder. |
| noun (n.) An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., as contrasted with mendicant friars. |
| poster | noun (n.) A large bill or placard intended to be posted in public places. |
| noun (n.) One who posts bills; a billposter. | |
| noun (n.) One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier. | |
| noun (n.) A post horse. |
| postiler | noun (n.) One who writers marginal notes; one who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the margin. |
| posttiller | noun (n.) See Postiler. |
| postmaster | noun (n.) One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses. |
| noun (n.) One who has charge of a post office, and the distribution and forwarding of mails. |
| postponer | noun (n.) One who postpones. |
| postrider | noun (n.) One who rides over a post road to carry the mails. |
| posturer | noun (n.) One who postures. |
| potager | noun (n.) A porringer. |
| potboiler | noun (n.) A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living. |
| potcher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, potches. |
| potentiometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring or comparing electrial potentials or electro-motive forces. |
| pother | noun (n.) Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother. |
| verb (v. i.) To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy. | |
| verb (v. t.) To harass and perplex; to worry. |
| potter | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. |
| noun (n.) One who hawks crockery or earthenware. | |
| noun (n.) One who pots meats or other eatables. | |
| noun (n.) The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin. | |
| verb (v. i.) To busy one's self with trifles; to labor with little purpose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to pother. | |
| verb (v. i.) To walk lazily or idly; to saunter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother. |
| poulder | noun (n. & v.) Powder. |
| poulter | noun (n.) A poulterer. |
| poulterer | noun (n.) One who deals in poultry. |
| pounder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill. |
| noun (n.) An instrument used for pounding; a pestle. | |
| noun (n.) A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying a twelve-pound ball is called a twelve pounder. |
| pound/keeper | noun (n.) The keeper of a pound. |
| pourer | noun (n.) One who pours. |
| pourparler | noun (n.) A consultation preliminary to a treaty. |
| pouter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, pouts. |
| noun (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast. |
| powder | noun (n.) The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust. |
| noun (n.) An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder. | |
| verb (v. t.) To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair. | |
| verb (v. t.) To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily. | |
| verb (v. i.) To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders. |
| power | noun (n.) Same as Poor, the fish. |
| noun (n.) Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power. | |
| noun (n.) Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force, or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the power of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of enthusiasm. | |
| noun (n.) Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance. | |
| noun (n.) The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government. | |
| noun (n.) The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity. | |
| noun (n.) A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host. | |
| noun (n.) A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good things. | |
| noun (n.) The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power. | |
| noun (n.) A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end. | |
| noun (n.) A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power. | |
| noun (n.) The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number. | |
| noun (n.) Mental or moral ability to act; one of the faculties which are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking, reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope, the number of times it multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it multiplies the apparent surface. | |
| noun (n.) An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power. |
| powter | noun (n.) See Pouter. |
| poynder | noun (n.) See Poind, Poinder. |
| polyphaser | noun (n.) A machine generating more than one pressure wave; a multiphaser. |
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