16-letter words containing ot
- somehow or other — in an undetermined way
- sooty shearwater — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
- spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
- spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
- steam locomotive — a locomotive moved by steam power generated in its own boiler: still in commercial use in nations that have not yet converted entirely to diesel and electric locomotives.
- steamboat gothic — a florid architectural style suggesting the gingerbread-decorated construction of river boats of the Victorian period.
- stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
- stevedore's knot — a knot that forms a lump in a line to prevent it from passing through a hole or grommet.
- stick at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
- still photograph — a photograph taken from a cinema film which is used for publicity purposes
- straight shooter — a person who is forthright and upstanding in behavior.
- super-patriotism — a person who is patriotic to an extreme.
- surrogate mother — a person who acts in the place of another person's biological mother.
- synchrocyclotron — a type of cyclotron that synchronizes its accelerating voltage with particle velocity in order to compensate for the relativistic mass increase of the particle as it approaches the speed of light.
- temperature spot — a sensory area in the skin that selectively responds to increased or decreased temperature; a warm spot or a cold spot.
- thatched cottage — a cottage that has a roof that is thatched with straw, reed etc
- the cotton state — a nickname for Alabama
- the scotch-irish — people of Scotch-Irish descent
- the scots guards — a regiment of Guards Division of the British Army which dates back to 1642
- think nothing of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- three-toed sloth — a small sloth of the genus Bradypus, having three claws on each limb and very long forelimbs.
- to compare notes — If you compare notes with someone on a particular subject, you talk to them and find out whether their opinion, information, or experience is the same as yours.
- to cut both ways — If you say that something cuts both ways, you mean that it can have two opposite effects, or can have both good and bad effects.
- to foot the bill — If you have to foot the bill for something, you have to pay for it.
- to lose the plot — If someone loses the plot, they become confused and do not know what they should do.
- tread under foot — to oppress
- trichotillomania — a compulsion to pull out one's hair.
- trick photograph — a photograph that creates an illusion
- triiodothyronine — Biochemistry. a thyroid hormone, C 15 H 12 I 3 NO 4 , similar to thyroxine but several times more potent.
- two-pot screamer — a person easily influenced by alcohol
- unmarried mother — a woman who has a baby while she is not married
- ureterolithotomy — incision of a ureter for removal of a calculus.
- wellington boots — a leather boot with the front part of the top extending above the knee.
- x-ray photograph — a radiograph made with x-rays.
- xaverian brother — a member of a congregation of Roman Catholic laymen bound by simple vows and dedicated to education.
- xenotransplanted — Transplanted by xenotransplantation.
- yet another yacc — (tool) (Yay) An extension of Yacc with LALR2 parsing. Yay is available from Bull as part of the University of Waterloo Tools package maintained by <[email protected]>.