Definitions for Soot

Soot soot

Spelling: [soo t, soot]
IPA: /sʊt, sut/

Soot is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in Soot (oost).

Definitions for Soot

noun

  1. a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.

verb (used with object)

  1. to mark, cover, or treat with soot.

Origin of Soot

before 900; Middle English; Old English sōt; cognate with Old Norse sōt

Examples for Soot

soot, methane, ozone, and HFCs are a lot less sexy than flying to Rio and making bold promises.

The gas had left what appeared to be like a daub of soot on the ceiling.

If you look inside, you'll find walls black with soot, smoke to make you cough, and a few women getting lunch ready.

Nothing, however, appeared to have been touched or disturbed, and there was no soot on the floor.

And I rubs my hand on the wall where he got over, and there was soot on it, and no mistake.

The shop was built of rough boards, and the inside was blackened with soot.

There is also soot staining the tiles, suggesting the bodies were burned or there had been a small blast.

Some computer models, he said, indicate that about half of the global warming in the Arctic is driven by methane and soot.

The button of soot has vanished into the limbo of superseded inventions.

Air pollution gets worse during drought; in California the problem is soot, and in Texas it was ozone.

Word Value for Soot
Scrable

4

Words with friends

4

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