5-Letter Words Starting: COR

• (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin

• a port city in southern Ireland

• outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.

• (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells

• the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)

• a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line

• close a bottle with a cork

• stuff with cork

• dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality

• an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support

• a body of people associated together

• solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure

• cotton trousers made of corduroy cloth

• either of two Welsh breeds of long-bodied short-legged dogs with erect ears and a fox-like head

• a small group of indispensable persons or things

• an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality

• the center of an object

• the central part of the Earth

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill

• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

• (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories

• the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place

• a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil

• remove the core or center from

• a variable color averaging a deep pink

• the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry

• unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces

• marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs

• of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color