Word Meanings - PIERCEABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That may be pierced.

Related words: (words related to PIERCEABLE)

• PIERCER
  1. One who, or that which, pierces or perforates; specifically: An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. A piercel. The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. An insect provided with an ovipositor.
• PIERCEL
  A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.
• PIERCING
  Forcibly entering, or adapted to enter, at or by a point; perforating; penetrating; keen; -- used also figuratively; as, a piercing instrument, or thrust. "Piercing eloquence." Shak. -- Pier"cing*ly, adv. -- Pier"cing*ness, n.
• PIERCE
  LL. pertusiare for pertusare, fr. L. pertundere, pertusum, to beat, push, bore through; per through + tundere to beat: cf. OF. pertuisier to pierce, F. pertuis a hole. Cf. Contuse, Parch, 1. To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed
• PIERCEABLE
  That may be pierced.
• PIERCED
  Penetrated; entered; perforated.
• TRANSPIERCE
  To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.
• IMPIERCE
  To pierce; to penetrate. Drayton.
• EMPIERCE
  To pierce; to impierce. Spenser.
• ENPIERCE
  To pierce. Shak.
• IMPIERCEABLE
  Not capable of being pierced; impenetrable. Spenser.
• EAR-PIERCER
  The earwig.