7-letter words containing ot
- biotope — a small area, such as the bark of a tree, that supports its own distinctive community
- biotron — a climate-control chamber used to examine how living organisms respond to specific climatic conditions
- biotype — a group of genetically identical plants within a species, produced by apomixis
- bit rot — (jargon) A hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed, even if "nothing has changed". The theory explains that bits decay as if they were radioactive. As time passes, the contents of a file or the code in a program will become increasingly garbled. People with a physics background tend to prefer the variant "bit decay" for the analogy with particle decay. There actually are physical processes that produce such effects (alpha particles generated by trace radionuclides in ceramic chip packages, for example, can change the contents of a computer memory unpredictably, and various kinds of subtle media failures can corrupt files in mass storage), but they are quite rare (and computers are built with error detection circuitry to compensate for them). The notion long favoured among hackers that cosmic rays are among the causes of such events turns out to be a myth. Bit rot is the notional cause of software rot. See also computron, quantum bogodynamics.
- bleriot — Louis (lwi). 1872–1936, French aviator and aeronautical engineer: made the first flight across the English Channel (1909)
- blotchy — Something that is blotchy has blotches on it.
- blotted — a spot or stain, especially of ink on paper.
- blotter — A blotter is a large sheet of blotting paper kept in a special holder on a desk.
- bobotie — a South African dish consisting of curried mincemeat with a topping of beaten egg baked to a crust
- boeotia — a region of ancient Greece, northwest of Athens. It consisted of ten city-states, which formed the Boeotian League, led by Thebes: at its height in the 4th century bc
- boeotus — a son of Arne and Poseidon, and ancestor of the Boeotians.
- bon mot — A bon mot is a clever, witty remark.
- boot up — When you boot up a computer, you make it ready to use by putting in the instructions which it needs in order to start working.
- bootery — a shop selling boots and shoes
- boothia — Gulf ofinlet of the Arctic Ocean between Boothia Peninsula & Baffin Island
- booting — bootstrap
- bootleg — Bootleg is used to describe something that is made secretly and sold illegally.
- boottop — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
- borotra — Jean (Robert) (ʒɑ̃). 1898–1994, French tennis player: secretary general of physical education under the Vichy government (1940)
- botanic — Botanic means the same as botanical.
- botargo — a relish consisting of the roe of mullet or tunny, salted and pressed into rolls
- botched — bungled or mishandled
- botcher — to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed by up): He botched up the job thoroughly.
- bothnia — Gulf ofarm of the Baltic Sea, between Finland & Sweden
- bothole — a hole in an animal's hide made by the larva of the botfly
- botonee — (of a cross) having arms terminating in the form of a trefoil: cross botonée.
- bottega — a workshop or studio, particularly that part used by a master artist's assistants or pupils
- bottger — Johann Friedrich [yoh-hahn free-drikh] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1682–1719, German chemist.
- bottine — a light boot for women or children; half-boot
- bottled — Bottled gas is kept under pressure in special metal cylinders which can be moved from one place to another.
- bottler — A bottler is a person or company that puts drinks into bottles.
- bottrop — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Ruhr. Pop: 120 324 (2003 est)
- botulin — a potent toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum in imperfectly preserved food, etc, causing botulism
- bowknot — a decorative knot usually having two loops and two loose ends; bow
- bowshot — the distance an arrow travels from the bow
- boxplot — a graphical representation of numerical data consisting of a rectangular box with lines extending from each end
- boycott — If a country, group, or person boycotts a country, organization, or activity, they refuse to be involved with it in any way because they disapprove of it.
- bozotic — (abuse) (From Bozo the Clown, a famous circus personality, via "bozo" - a clod, idiot or generally silly person) any form of clown-like or ludicrous behaviour. The word also has echoes of "robotic", so bozotic behaviour is mindless, automaton-like stupidity.
- bradsot — braxy (def 1).
- brissot — Jacques-Pierre (ʒakpjɛr). 1754–93, French journalist and revolutionary; leader of the Girondists: executed by the Jacobins
- brothel — A brothel is a building where men can go to pay to have sex with prostitutes.
- brother — Your brother is a boy or a man who has the same parents as you.
- brotula — any of several chiefly deep-sea fishes of the family Brotulidae.
- bugfoot — Loch Ness Monster Bug
- buycott — a type of protest aimed at a company or country with dubious ethical standards in which consumers buy the products of another company or country
- by rote — by repetition; by heart (often in the phrase learn by rote)
- by-plot — subplot.
- cahoots — partnership; league (esp in the phrases go in cahoots with, go cahoot)
- calotte — a skullcap worn by Roman Catholic clergy
- camelot — (in Arthurian legend) the English town where King Arthur's palace and court were situated