English dictionary: words starting with bot - page 4

Meanings of Bottomlessness:

noun

The state or quality of being bottomless.

Meanings of Bottommost:

adjective

Lowest in place or rank.

Usage examples:

He examined the bottom-most layers of the sediment

Meanings of Bottomry:

noun

A system of merchant insurance in which a ship is used as security against a loan to finance a voyage, the lender losing their money if the ship sinks.

Usage examples:

Some of the more technical errors, like confusing ‘bottomry’ loans (on ships) with ‘respondentia’ l…

Meanings of Bottoms:

noun

The lowest point or part of something.

Usage examples:

The bottom of the page

verb

(of a situation) reach the lowest point before stabilizing or improving.

Usage examples:

Encouraging signs suggested the recession was bottoming out

adjective

In the lowest position.

Usage examples:

The books on the bottom shelf

Meanings of Bottoms-up:

idiom

Sometimes said by people in a friendly way just before drinking an alcoholic drink together

Meanings of Botuliform:

adjective

Having a cylindrical form with rounded ends; shaped like a sausage.

Meanings of Botulin:

noun

The bacterial toxin involved in botulism.

Usage examples:

They also suggest that the drug could be mass-produced and stockpiled as a deterrent to the use of …

Meanings of Botulinal:

adjective

Designating the bacteria or toxins that cause botulism; of or relating to these bacteria or toxins.

Meanings of Botulism:

noun

Food poisoning caused by a bacterium growing on improperly sterilized tinned meats and other preserved foods.

Usage examples:

Dr edmiston explained how anthrax, smallpox variola virus, botulism, and pneumonic plague fit the c…