Words that rhyme with diaspore

v 1: love intensely; "he just adored his wife"

adv 1: towards the shore from the water; "we invited them ashore"

adv 1: earlier in time; previously; "I had known her before"; "as I said before"; "he called me the day before but your call had come even earlier"; "her parents had died four years earlier"; "I mentioned that problem earlier" [syn: earlier, before] 2: at or in the front; "I see the lights of a town ahead"; "the road ahead is foggy"; "staring straight ahead"; "we couldn't see over the heads of the people in front"; "with the cross of Jesus marching on before" [syn: ahead, in front, before]

n 1: Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States [syn: wild boar, boar, Sus scrofa] 2: an uncastrated male hog

n 1: a person who evokes boredom [syn: bore, dullard] 2: a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) [syn: tidal bore, bore, eagre, aegir, eager] 3: diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: bore, gauge, caliber, calibre] 4: a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes [syn: bore, bore-hole, drill hole] v 1: cause to be bored [syn: bore, tire] [ant: interest] 2: make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool; "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall" [syn: bore, drill]

n 1: a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program" [syn: core, nucleus, core group] 2: the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core" 3: the central part of the Earth 4: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty- gritty] 5: a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill 6: an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality [syn: Congress of Racial Equality, CORE] 7: the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work [syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist] 8: (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories; "each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit" [syn: core, magnetic core] 9: the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place 10: a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil v 1: remove the core or center from; "core an apple"

n 1: an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support [syn: corps, army corps] 2: a body of people associated together; "diplomatic corps"

n 1: a heavy rain [syn: downpour, cloudburst, deluge, waterspout, torrent, pelter, soaker]

n 1: half the width of an em [syn: en, nut]

n 1: front paw; analogous to the human hand

n 1: a short riding boot that fastens with a buckle at the side [syn: jodhpur, jodhpur boot, jodhpur shoe]

n 1: larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte [syn: megaspore, macrospore]

n 1: smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte

n 1: a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people [syn: rapport, resonance]

n 1: a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand [syn: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefthander, lefty, southpaw] 2: a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right; "their pitcher was a southpaw" [syn: left-hander, lefty, southpaw]

n 1: an asexual spore of some algae and fungi that moves by means of flagella

n 1: an industrial city of central India to the southeast of Delhi [syn: Jabalpur, Jubbulpore]

n 1: the capital of Singapore; one of the world's biggest ports [syn: Singapore, capital of Singapore] 2: a country in southeastern Asia on the island of Singapore; achieved independence from Malaysia in 1965 [syn: Singapore, Republic of Singapore] 3: an island to the south of the Malay Peninsula [syn: Singapore, Singapore Island]

n 1: state in northeastern India

n 1: a small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae

n 1: corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands [syn: stony coral, madrepore, madriporian coral]

n 1: a plant spore formed by two similar sexual cells