11-letter words containing ot
- autoerotism — pleasurable sensations or tensions arising in the erogenous body zones without external stimulation
- autopotamic — (of an organism) living or growing only in flowing freshwater streams.
- autorotated — Simple past tense and past participle of autorotate.
- autotheists — Plural form of autotheist.
- autotoxemia — autointoxication
- autotrophic — (of organisms such as green plants) capable of manufacturing complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources such as carbon dioxide, water, and nitrates, using energy from the sun
- auxotrophic — designating or of a mutant organism requiring more nutritional substances than its prototrophic parent because it has lost the ability to make a certain enzyme
- azotobacter — any bacterium of the family Azotobacteriaceae, important in nitrogen fixation in the soil
- baby lotion — a skin lotion for babies
- baby-mother — a young mother who has been abandoned by the baby's father just before or after the birth
- barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
- barracootas — Plural form of barracoota.
- barrel knot — a knot for fastening together two strands of gut or nylon, as fishing lines or leaders.
- baudot code — (communications) (For etymology, see baud) A character set predating EBCDIC and used originally and primarily on paper tape. Use of Baudot reportedly survives in TDDs and some HAM radio applications. In Baudot, characters are expressed using five bits. Baudot uses two code sub-sets, the "letter set" (LTRS), and the "figure set" (FIGS). The FIGS character (11011) signals that the following code is to be interpreted as being in the FIGS set, until this is reset by the LTRS (11111) character. binary hex LTRS FIGS -------------------------- 00011 03 A - 11001 19 B ? 01110 0E C : 01001 09 D $ 00001 01 E 3 01101 0D F ! 11010 1A G & 10100 14 H # 00110 06 I 8 01011 0B J BELL 01111 0F K ( 10010 12 L ) 11100 1C M . 01100 0C N , 11000 18 O 9 10110 16 P 0 10111 17 Q 1 01010 0A R 4 00101 05 S ' 10000 10 T 5 00111 07 U 7 11110 1E V ; 10011 13 W 2 11101 1D X / 10101 15 Y 6 10001 11 Z " 01000 08 CR CR 00010 02 LF LF 00100 04 SP SP 11111 1F LTRS LTRS 11011 1B FIGS FIGS 00000 00 [..unused..] Where CR is carriage return, LF is linefeed, BELL is the bell, SP is space, and STOP is the stop character. Note: these bit values are often shown in inverse order, depending (presumably) which side of the paper tape you were looking at. Local implementations of Baudot may differ in the use of #, STOP, BELL, and '.
- beanshooter — peashooter
- bear's-foot — either of two Eurasian hellebore plants, Helleborus foetidus or H. viridis, having leaves shaped like the foot and claws of a bear
- beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
- bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
- beer bottle — a bottle for beer
- bell-bottom — designating trousers or slacks that are flared beginning at the knee or mid-calf
- betrothment — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- bibliotheca — a library or collection of books
- big brother — People sometimes use Big Brother to refer to a person, government, or organization when they think it has complete control over people and is always checking what they do.
- big-footing — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- bird's-foot — a European leguminous plant, Ornithopus perpusillus, with small red-veined white flowers and curved pods resembling a bird's claws
- body lotion — skin lotion for use on the body
- bogtrotting — the act of roaming over boggy areas, or living in boggy areas
- boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bootlegging — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
- bootlicking — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- boottopping — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
- botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
- botanomancy — a form of divination in which tree branches or leaves are burnt
- botany wool — a fine wool from the merino sheep
- botheration — bother
- bottle baby — an infant fed by bottle from birth, as distinguished from one who is breast-fed.
- bottle bank — A bottle bank is a large container into which people can put empty bottles so that the glass can be used again.
- bottle bill — a legislative bill that requires the charging of a refundable deposit on certain beverage bottles and cans, to encourage the return of these containers for recycling while at the same time reducing littering.
- bottle club — a so-called club in which patrons, nominally members, are served liquor from bottles purportedly belonging to them, without regard to liquor control laws
- bottle fern — a fern, Cystopteris fragilis, of rocky, wooded areas throughout North America, having grayish-green fronds and brittle stalks.
- bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
- bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
- bottle tree — any of several Australian sterculiaceous trees of the genus Sterculia (or Brachychiton) that have a bottle-shaped swollen trunk
- bottle-feed — If you bottle-feed a baby, you give it milk or a liquid like milk in a bottle rather than the baby sucking milk from its mother's breasts.
- bottle-jack — a large jack used for heavy lifts
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- bottled gas — butane or propane gas liquefied under pressure in portable containers and used in camping stoves, blowtorches, etc
- bottom bolt — a bolt at the bottom of a door or the like, sliding into a socket in the floor or sill and equipped with a device for keeping it raised when the door is not fastened.
- bottom fish — any fish that feeds or lives near the bottom of a body of water, as a flounder or catfish