ballottement | (noun) a palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus) | - |
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blotter | (noun) the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station | Synonyms: charge sheet, day book, police blotter, rap sheet |
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(noun) absorbent paper used to dry ink | Synonyms: blotting paper |
charlotte | (noun) a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard | - |
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cocotte | (noun) a small casserole in which individual portions can be cooked and served | - |
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(noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
cotter | (noun) fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together | Synonyms: cottar |
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(noun) a medieval English villein | Synonyms: cottier |
(noun) a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands | Synonyms: cottar |
culotte | (noun) a divided skirt | - |
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dotterel | (noun) rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia | Synonyms: Charadrius morinellus, dotrel, Eudromias morinellus |
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frotteur | (noun) someone who masturbates by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd) | - |
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garotte | (noun) an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation | Synonyms: garrote, garrotte, iron collar |
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garrotte | (noun) an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation | Synonyms: garotte, garrote, iron collar |
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garrotter | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, strangler, throttler |
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gavotte | (noun) an old formal French dance in quadruple time | - |
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(noun) music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte | - |
globetrotter | (noun) someone who travels widely and often | Synonyms: world traveler |
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jotter | (noun) a small notebook for rough notes | - |
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lotte | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, monkfish |
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lottery | (noun) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots | Synonyms: drawing |
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(noun) something that is regarded as a chance event | - |
otter | (noun) freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur | - |
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(noun) the fur of an otter | - |
otterhound | (noun) hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat; bred for hunting otters | Synonyms: otter hound |
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plotter | (noun) an instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing graphs or pictures | - |
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(noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: coconspirator, conspirator, machinator |
(noun) a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action | Synonyms: schemer |
(noun) a clerk who marks data on a chart | Synonyms: mapper |
potter | (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramicist, ceramist, thrower |
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potterer | (noun) a person who putters about | Synonyms: putterer |
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pottery | (noun) the craft of making earthenware | - |
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(noun) ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln | Synonyms: clayware |
(noun) a workshop where clayware is made | - |
ravigotte | (noun) veloute sauce seasoned with chopped chervil, chives, tarragon, shallots and capers | Synonyms: ravigote |
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rottenness | (noun) the quality of rotting and becoming putrid | Synonyms: putrescence |
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(noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: corruption, putrescence, putridness |
rottenstone | (noun) a weathered and decomposed siliceous limestone; in powdered form it is used in polishing | Synonyms: tripoli |
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rotter | (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
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spottedness | (noun) the quality or state of being marked with spots. | - |
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spotter | (noun) someone who is the first to observe something | Synonyms: discoverer, finder |
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(noun) a worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers) | - |
(noun) a worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots | - |
(noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, watch |
teetertotter | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, seesaw, teeter-totter, teeter, teeterboard, tilting board |
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totterer | (noun) someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall | Synonyms: reeler, staggerer |
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trotter | (noun) a horse trained to trot; especially a horse trained for harness racing | Synonyms: trotting horse |
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(noun) foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food | - |