Soot

Noun

 * 1) Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.

Synonyms

 * lampblack

Verbs for Soot
—begrimes; —besmears; —besmirches; — blackens; —blots; —blurs; —contaminates; —defiles; —eclipses; —flocculates; —jets; —obscures; —reeks; —screens; —settles; — smears; —smirches; —smudges; —soils; — sullies; —tarnishes; —veils.

Thesaurus
air pollution, alluvion, alluvium, ash, ashes, attritus, bedarken, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmirch, besmoke, black, blacken, blackening, blacking, blackwash, blot, blotch, bran, brand, burnt cork, calx, carbon, carbon black, charcoal, cinder, clinker, coal, coke, coom, cork, cosmic dust, crow, crumb, crumble, darken, denigrate, deposition, deposits, diluvium, dinge, dirt, dirty, dirty up, draff, dregs, dross, dust, dust ball, ebon, ebonize, ebony, efflorescence, ember, fallout, farina, feces, filings, flour, froth, fume, gas black, grime, grits, groats, grounds, ink, jet, kittens, lampblack, lava, lees, lint, loess, meal, melanize, mire, moraine, muck, muck up, mud, muddy, murk, night, nigrify, offscum, oversmoke, pitch, powder, precipitate, precipitation, pussies, raspings, raven, reek, sawdust, scoria, scum, sediment, settlings, shade, shadow, silt, sinter, slag, slime, sloe, smirch, smoke, smudge, smut, smutch, stove black, sublimate, sullage, tar

Etymology
sot:, from, a derivation of (whence also English sit:). Cognate with Old Norse sót:, Old Dutch soet: and Middle Low German sot:. Compare similar ō-grade formation from the in Old Irish suide: and Balto-Slavic: Lithuanian suodžiai:, and  (Russian сажа:, Polish and Slovak sadza:, Bulgarian сажда:).

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian: մուր
 * Catalan: estalzí
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, Swiss spelling:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin:


 * Laz:
 * Lithuanian: suodžiai
 * Macedonian: саѓа, саѓи
 * Norwegian: /
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, копоть
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Udi:

Anagrams

 * Soto