9-Letter Words That End With: ORES

• an asexual spore of some algae and fungi that moves by means of flagella

• To use foreign labor to substitute for local labor.

• woody pore fungi; any fungus of the family Polyporaceae or family Boletaceae having the spore-bearing surface within tubes or pores; the fruiting bodies are usually woody at maturity and persistent

• the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture

• variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree

• any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits

• Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn

• thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore

• A type of fig, Ficus sycomorus, native to the Middle East; the sycamore tree of the Bible.

• a large double-edged broadsword; formerly used by Scottish Highlanders

• an antipersonnel land mine whose blast is aimed at the oncoming enemy