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Showing words for PELORUS using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Pelorus

leprous, pelorus, perlous, sporule

6 Letter Words for Pelorus

lopers, loupes, loures, polers, porule, poseur, poules, pouser, presul, proles, prouls, pulers, pulser, roules, sloper, souper, souple, splore, superl, uprose

5 Letter Words for Pelorus

elops, eorls, epulo, euros, eusol, lepus, lerps, loper, lopes, lores, loser, loupe, loups, loure, lours, louse, lures, luser, olpes, opelu, orles, orsel, ousel, poler, poles, pores, porus, poser, poule, pours, prole, prose, proul, puers, puler, pules, pulse, purls, purse, pusle, repos, resup, roles, ropes, rosel, roues, roule, rouls, roups, rouse, rules, seoul, slope, slorp, slour, sluer, slurp, soler, sorel, spole, spore, sprue, spule, spurl, super

4 Letter Words for Pelorus

eorl, epos, eros, esop, euro, leos, leps, lerp, lope, lops, lore, lors, lose, loup, lour, lues, lupe, lure, lurs, oles, olpe, opes, opus, ores, orle, oups, ours, pelu, pers, peru, peso, plur, plus, pole, pols, pore, pose, pour, pres, pros, puer, pule, puls, pure, purl, purs, repl, repo, reps, resp, roes, role, rope, rose, roue, roul, roup, rous, rues, rule, ruse, seor, sero, sloe, slop, slue, slup, slur, sole, sope, sore, soul, soup, sour, spor, spue, spur, suer, supe, supr, sure, ules, ures, urol, urps, user

3 Letter Words for Pelorus

els, eos, ers, esp, esr, esu, leo, lep, ler, les, leu, loe, lop, lor, los, lue, luo, lur, oer, oes, ole, olp, ope, ops, ore, orl, ors, ose, oup, our, ous, pel, per, pes, plu, pol, por, pos, pre, pro, prs, pul, pur, pus, rel, rep, res, rle, roe, ros, rps, rue, sel, sep, ser, sle, sol, sop, sou, spl, sue, sup, sur, ule, upo, ups, ure, urp, urs, use

Definitions for Pelorus

[1] a device for measuring in degrees the relative bearings of observed objects.
[2] a sighting device used in conjunction with a magnetic compass or a gyrocompass for measuring the relative bearings of observed points

Words nearby Pelorus

peloponnesian war, peloponnesus, pelops, peloria, pelorize, pelorus, pelota, pelotas, peloton, pelt, peltast

Origin of Pelorus

1850–55; perhaps < Latin Pelōrus, now Faro in Sicily, a cape which requires skill in navigation

Word origin for Pelorus

of uncertain origin, perhaps from Latin Pelōrus a dangerous Sicilian promontory