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porthole
noun as in outlet
noun as in window
Example Sentences
He’s even built a concrete fire shelter against a hillside with two steel escape doors and porthole windows.
An officer inside emerged from a porthole at the top of the vehicle and trained a rifle on the passengers inside the big rig.
Inside, the shelves are packed with thousands of items: from an upturned bathtub and dented porthole, to intricately etched glassware and tiny buttons.
Tellingly, Johnson placed the Brick House’s only windows — three big mahogany-framed portholes — on the building’s back side, facing away from his glass retreat.
Back then, it looked like something out of a science-fiction film: a futuristic tower composed of 140 detachable, single-resident capsules with porthole windows, like a pile of eyes fixed on the city.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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