| axolotl | (noun) larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing | Synonyms: Ambystoma mexicanum, mud puppy |
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| bootlace | (noun) a long lace for fastening boots | - |
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| bootleg | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, contraband, smuggled |
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| (noun) the part of a boot above the instep | - |
| (noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: corn liquor, moonshine |
| (verb) produce or distribute illegally | - |
| (verb) sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol | - |
| bootlegger | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: moonshiner |
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| bootlegging | (noun) the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally | - |
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| (noun) the act of selling illegally or without permission | - |
| bootless | (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain |
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| bootlick | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
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| bootlicker | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, fawner, groveler, groveller, truckler |
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| bootlicking | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, sycophantic, toadyish |
| chipotle | (noun) a ripe jalapeno that has been dried for use in cooking | - |
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| footle | (verb) act foolishly, as by talking nonsense | - |
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| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| footless | (adjective) having no feet or analogous appendages | - |
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| footlights | (noun) theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors | - |
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| footling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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| footlocker | (noun) a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) | Synonyms: locker |
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| footloose | (adjective) free to go or do as one pleases | - |
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| hotline | (noun) a telefone line that provides direct and prompt information or advice to the caller in relation to a specific subject | Synonyms: hot line |
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| hotly | (adverb) in a heated manner | Synonyms: heatedly |
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| motley | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| (adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, sundry |
| (noun) a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England | - |
| (noun) a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume) | - |
| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| (verb) make motley; color with different colors | Synonyms: parti-color |
| (verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: variegate, vary |
| parrotlike | (adjective) mechanically imitated or repeated without thought or understanding | - |
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| pilotless | (adjective) lacking a pilot | - |
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| potlatch | (noun) a ceremonial feast held by some Indians of the northwestern coast of North America (as in celebrating a marriage or a new accession) in which the host gives gifts to tribesmen and others to display his superior wealth (sometimes, formerly, to his own impoverishment) | - |
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| potluck | (noun) whatever happens to be available especially when offered to an unexpected guest or when brought by guests and shared by all | - |
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| robotlike | (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, automatonlike, machinelike, robotic |
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| rootle | (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rout |
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| rootless | (adjective) wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community | Synonyms: vagabond |
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| rootlet | (noun) small root or division of a root | - |
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| rotl | (noun) a unit of weight used in some Muslim countries near the Mediterranean; varies between one and five pounds | - |
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| spotless | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, speckless, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spick |
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| spotlessly | (adverb) in a spotless manner | - |
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| spotlessness | (noun) the state of being spotlessly clean | Synonyms: immaculateness |
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| spotlight | (noun) a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer | Synonyms: spot |
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| (noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: glare, limelight, public eye |
| (verb) illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater | - |
| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, highlight, play up |
| tootle | (noun) the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument | - |
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| (verb) play (a musical instrument) casually | - |
| trotline | (noun) a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) | Synonyms: setline, spiller, trawl, trawl line |
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