4-letter words containing t, o
- oont — (India) A camel.
- oort — Jan Hendrick. 1900–92, Dutch astronomer, who confirmed (1927) and developed the theory of galactic rotation. He was the first to propose (1950) the existence of a mass of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto (the Oort cloud)
- oost — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1600?–71, and his son, Jacob van, 1639?–1713, Flemish painters.
- opts — to make a choice; choose (usually followed by for).
- orts — Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- osta — Optical Storage Technology Association
- ot&e — operational test and evaluation
- otay — (nonstandard, eye dialect, childish) Alternative form of okay.
- otec — a solar energy conversion system for producing electricity, using warm and cold ocean layers to vaporize and condense a fluid that drives a turbine
- otic — of or relating to the ear; auricular.
- otis — Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- oto- — indicating the ear
- otoe — Oto.
- otoh — (chat) On the other hand.
- otsu — a city in S Honshu, Japan, on Lake Biwa.
- otto — c1175–1218, king of Germany 1208–15; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1209–15.
- oust — to expel or remove from a place or position occupied: The bouncer ousted the drunk; to oust the prime minister in the next election.
- out- — You can use out- to form verbs that describe an action as being done better by one person than by another. For example, if you can outswim someone, you can swim further or faster than they can.
- oute — Obsolete spelling of out.
- outs — away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: out of alphabetical order; to go out to dinner.
- pato — an Argentine game played by two teams of four on horseback, resembling a cross between polo and basketball, using a ball with six large leather handles, the object of which is to place or throw the ball through the opponent's net that hangs from a 9 feet (2.7 meters) high pole.
- peto — wahoo3 .
- phot — a unit of illumination, equal to 1 lumen per square centimeter. Abbreviation: ph.
- plot — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- poet — a person who composes poetry.
- polt — a thump or blow
- pont — (in South Africa) a river ferry, esp one that is guided by a cable from one bank to the other
- poot — a fart
- port — located on the left side of a vessel or aircraft.
- post — power-on self-test
- pote — to push, thrust
- pots — Plain Old Telephone Service
- pout — to thrust out the lips, especially in displeasure or sullenness.
- rato — rocket-assisted takeoff.
- riot — a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- root — Elihu [el-uh-hyoo] /ˈɛl əˌhyu/ (Show IPA), 1845–1937, U.S. lawyer and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1912.
- rort — a rowdy, usually drunken party.
- rota — Nino [nee-naw] /ˈni nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–1979, Italian composer.
- rotc — a body of students at some colleges and universities who are given training toward becoming officers in the armed forces. Abbreviation: ROTC, R.O.T.C.
- rote — the sound of waves breaking on the shore.
- roth — Phillip, born 1933, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- roti — roast.
- rotl — a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- roto — rotogravure.
- rout — a bellow.
- rtfo — renewable transport fuels obligation: an obligation placed on fuel suppliers to ensure that a certain percentage of their aggregate sales is made up of biofuels
- rtos — Real-Time Operating System
- ryot — a peasant.
- sato — Eisaku [ey-sah-koo;; Japanese ey-sah-koo] /eɪˈsɑ ku;; Japanese ˈeɪ sɑˌku/ (Show IPA), 1901–75, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1964–72; Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- scot — a native or inhabitant of Scotland.