All foramen synonyms

noun foramen

• dent — If you dent the surface of something, you make a hollow area in it by hitting or pressing it.
• tunnel — an underground passage.
• void — Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.
• crater — A crater is a very large hole in the ground, which has been caused by something hitting it or by an explosion.
• pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
• window — an opening in the wall of a building, the side of a vehicle, etc., for the admission of air or light, or both, commonly fitted with a frame in which are set movable sashes containing panes of glass.
• gap — a department in SE France. 2179 sq. mi. (5645 sq. km). Capital: Gap.
• pit — the stone of a fruit, as of a cherry, peach, or plum.
• break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
• cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
• space — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
• mouth — Anatomy, Zoology. the opening through which an animal or human takes in food. the cavity containing the structures used in mastication. the structures enclosing or being within this cavity, considered as a whole.
• crack — If something hard cracks, or if you crack it, it becomes slightly damaged, with lines appearing on its surface.
• outlet — an opening or passage by which anything is let out; vent; exit.
• breach — If you breach an agreement, a law, or a promise, you break it.
• perforation — a hole, or one of a series of holes, bored or punched through something, as those between individual postage stamps of a sheet to facilitate separation.
• shaft — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
• tear — the act of tearing.
• chamber — A chamber is a large room, especially one that is used for formal meetings.
• den — A den is the home of certain types of wild animals such as lions or foxes.
• notch — an angular or V -shaped cut, indentation, or slit in an object, surface, or edge.
• dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
• opening — an open or clear space.
• vesicle — a small sac or cyst.
• stoma — Also, stomate. Botany. any of various small apertures, especially one of the minute orifices or slits in the epidermis of leaves, stems, etc., through which gases are exchanged.
• vent — a slit in the back or side of a coat, jacket, or other garment, at the bottom part of a seam.
• cranny — Crannies are very narrow openings or spaces in something.
• covert — Covert activities or situations are secret or hidden.
• hollow — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
• chasm — A chasm is a very deep crack in rock, earth, or ice.
• cistern — A cistern is a container which stores the water supply for a building, or that holds the water for flushing a toilet.
• lair — A wild animal's resting place, especially one that is well hidden.
• fissure — a narrow opening produced by cleavage or separation of parts.
• cavity — A cavity is a space or hole in something such as a solid object or a person's body.
• leak — an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes: a leak in the roof.
• cave — A cave is a large hole in the side of a cliff or hill, or one that is under the ground.
• nick — Old Nick.
• fracture — the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
• aperture — An aperture is a narrow hole or gap.
• cleft — A cleft in a rock or in the ground is a narrow opening in it.
• pockmark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
• gash — a long, deep wound or cut; slash.
• niche — an ornamental recess in a wall or the like, usually semicircular in plan and arched, as for a statue or other decorative object.
• shelter — something beneath, behind, or within which a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions, etc.; refuge.
• nest — a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
• peephole — a small hole or opening through which to peep or look, as in a door.
• puncture — the act of piercing or perforating, as with a pointed instrument or object.
• gorge — to swallow, especially greedily.
• hovel — a small, very humble dwelling house; a wretched hut.
• chink — A chink in a surface is a very narrow crack or opening in it.