soot
Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
Synonyms
- carbon black
A kind of
- carbon
Related words
- besoot
- soot-proof
- sootbag
- sooten
- sooterkin
- sootflake
- sootish
- sootball
- soot devil
- soot wart
- soot-oh
- sootproof
Word history
From Old English "sōt".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “soot” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.