13-letter words containing ot
- chukka (boot) — an ankle-high bootlike shoe, usually with two or three pairs of eyelets
- cleaner tooth — a saw tooth for cleaning loose chips from a kerf.
- cleistothecia — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
- clistothecium — cleistothecium.
- cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
- cloth of gold — cloth woven from silk threads interspersed with gold
- cloth-of-gold — a garden plant, Crocus augustifolius, of the iris family, native to the Crimean mountains, having orange-red flowers.
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- clothes horse — A clothes horse is a folding frame used inside someone's house to hang washing on while it dries.
- clothes-horse — Informal. a person whose chief interest and pleasure is dressing fashionably.
- clothes-press — a piece of furniture for storing clothes, usually containing wide drawers and a cabinet
- clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
- clotheshorses — Plural form of clotheshorse.
- clotted cream — Clotted cream is very thick cream made by heating milk gently and taking the cream off the top. It is made mainly in the south west of England.
- cloven-footed — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
- common scoter — a sea duck of northern regions, Melanitta nigra. The male plumage is black with white patches around the head and eyes
- compare notes — to exchange opinions
- compatriotism — a native or inhabitant of one's own country; fellow countryman or countrywoman.
- congress boot — a high shoe with an elastic insert in each side
- connotational — of, relating to, or involving connotation
- connotatively — the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning: A possible connotation of “home” is “a place of warmth, comfort, and affection.”. the act of connoting; the suggesting of an additional meaning for a word or expression, apart from its explicit meaning.
- contrafagotto — a contrabassoon
- corn rootworm — the larva of any of several leaf beetles of the genus Diabrotica that feeds on roots and underground stems: an agricultural pest, especially of corn.
- corticotropin — ACTH
- cosmothetical — cosmothetic
- cote d'ivoire — a republic in West Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: Portuguese trading for ivory and slaves began in the 16th century; made a French protectorate in 1842 and became independent in 1960; major producer of coffee and cocoa. Official language: French. Religion: Muslim majority, with animist, atheist, and Roman Catholic minorities. Currency: franc. Capital: Yamoussoukro (administrative); Abidjan (legislative). Pop: 22 400 835 (2013 est). Area: 319 820 sq km (123 483 sq miles)
- cotemporality — The state or characteristic of existing or occurring during the same period of time.
- coterminously — having the same border or covering the same area.
- côtes-d'armor — a department of W France, on the N coast of Brittany. Capital: St Brieuc. Pop: 553 969 (2003 est). Area: 6878 sq km (2656 sq miles)
- cotes-du-nord — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- cotransporter — (biochemistry) An integral membrane protein that actively transports molecules by using the concentration gradient of one molecule or ion concentration to force the other molecule or ion against its gradient.
- cottage fries — potatoes that have been thinly sliced and then fried
- cottage grove — a town in E Minnesota.
- cottage piano — a small upright piano
- cottage tulip — a late-flowering type of tulip, usually having pointed or elongated flowers.
- cotton mather — Cotton, 1663–1728, American clergyman and author.
- cotton picker — a machine for harvesting cotton fibre
- cottonpickin' — damned; confounded: That's a cottonpickin' lie.
- countermotion — an opposing motion
- creosote bush — a shrub, Larrea (or Covillea) tridentata of the western US and Mexico, that has resinous leaves with an odour resembling creosote, and can live for many thousands of years: family Zygophyllaceae
- crop rotation — the system of growing a sequence of different crops on the same ground so as to maintain or increase its fertility
- cross-footing — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
- crotch rocket — a high-speed, high-performance motorcycle characterized by an aerodynamic body shape which requires or encourages the driver to lean forward
- crotchetiness — The state or quality of being crotchety.
- crotonic acid — type of colourless acid
- cryotherapies — Plural form of cryotherapy.
- cucumber root — Indian cucumber root.
- culver's root — a tall North American scrophulariaceous plant, Veronicastrum virginicum, having spikes of small white or purple flowers
- cuprotitanium — (metallurgy) An alloy of copper and titanium obtained by reducing a mixture of copper and rutile.
- cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects