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WET ROT

Specialty Definition: WET ROT

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

Plant disease. Source: European Union. (references)
 In wood, any rot characterised in its active state by a high moisture content, the rotting mass readily exuding water under moderate pressure, as with certain white rots. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. Timber decay set up when mine props have not been treated with zinc sulfate, etc., and are exposed to alternations of moisture and drying out. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WET ROT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

wet rot

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: WET ROT

Language Translations for "WET ROT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

vådforrådnelse (wet-rot), fremskredet raad. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

nat rot. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

märkälaho. (various references)

   

French

  

pourriture humide, carie aqueuse. (various references)

   

German

  

Nassfäule. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υγρά σήψις, υγρά σήψη. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nedves korhadás. (various references)

   

Italian

  

marciume umido, marciume molle (soft rot), marciume acquoso, carie umida (caries humida, moist caries). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etway otray

   

Portuguese

  

podridão húmida, cárie aquosa. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pudrición húmeda. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

våtröta. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: WET ROT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-o-r-t-t-w"

-1 letter: otter, rotte, torte, toter, tower, wrote.

-2 letters: rote, tore, tort, tote, tret, trot, trow, wert, wore, wort.

-3 letters: ore, ort, owe, ret, roe, rot, row, tet, tew, toe, tor, tot, tow, two, wet, woe, wot.

-4 letters: er, et, oe, or, ow, re, to, we, wo.

 Words containing the letters "e-o-r-t-t-w"
 

+1 letter: swotter.

 

+2 letters: outthrew, outtower, outwrite, outwrote, swotters.

 

+3 letters: cowritten, miterwort, mitrewort, northwest, outtowers, outwrites, stonewort, throwster, toweriest, typewrote, worthiest.

 

+4 letters: butterwort, downstater, flowerette, frowstiest, ghostwrite, ghostwrote, growthiest, miterworts, mitreworts, northwests, noteworthy, outtowered, outwrestle, outwritten, overwetted, rottweiler, stoneworts, throwsters, watchtower, waterfront, waterspout, woodcutter, zwitterion.

 

+5 letters: butterworts, downstaters, flowerettes, ghostwriter, ghostwrites, intergrowth, latticework, northwester, outtowering, outwrestled, outwrestles, overwetting, overwritten, rottweilers, southwester, trestlework, unworthiest, watchtowers, waterfronts, waterspouts, westernmost, whitethroat, woodcutters, zwitterions.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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