sooty
Dark with residue
Sooty means covered with or resembling soot—the black powdery residue from burning.
A sooty chimney, sooty hands, a sooty film on the windows.
The word extends to anything dark or blackened: sooty clouds, sooty feathers.
In descriptions of color, sooty suggests a dull, grayish black rather than pure black.
Loose dry earth
- filthFoul, accumulated matter
- stainLasting surface discoloration
- smudgeUnclear dirty mark
- smearSpread or defame
residue · pollution · grease · muck · tarnish · discoloration · blemish · streaks
Indoor structure for burning
- flueChimney's inner passage
- sweepBrush clean with broom
- hearthFireplace floor area
- creosoteCoal-tar distillate for preservation
stovepipe · ash · embers · firewood · damper · chimneysweep · cinders · smoke
Industrial production facility
- smokestackIndustrial exhaust column
- furnaceEnclosed heat-producing structure
- forgeFurnace for shaping metal
- smelterOre-refining plant
foundry · steelworks · refinery · mill · boiler · coalmine · locomotive · steamship
Sunlight-activated urban pollution
- hazeMurky atmospheric suspension
- particulatesMinute airborne solids or droplets
- emissionsSubstances released into air
- exhaustUse up entirely
air quality · respiratory · visibility · urban · fumes · airborne · inhalation · fallout
dirt
Loose dry earth
smear · residue · pollution · grease · muck · tarnish · discoloration · blemish · streaks · fingerprints
fireplace
Indoor structure for burning
creosote · stovepipe · ash · embers · firewood · damper · chimneysweep · cinders · smoke · brickwork
charcoal
Burned wood residue
ink · ebony · raven · obsidian · onyx · graphite · slate · gunmetal · midnight · sable
factory
Industrial production facility
- smokestackIndustrial exhaust column
- furnaceEnclosed heat-producing structure
- forgeFurnace for shaping metal
smelter · foundry · steelworks · refinery · mill · boiler · coalmine · locomotive · steamship · exhaust
smog
Sunlight-activated urban pollution
- hazeMurky atmospheric suspension
- particulatesMinute airborne solids or droplets
- emissionsSubstances released into air
exhaust · air quality · respiratory · visibility · urban · fumes · airborne · inhalation · fallout · deposits
tern
Fork-tailed ocean bird
- shearwaterTube-nosed pelagic bird
- albatrossLong-winged oceanic bird
- moldForm-giving container
oystercatcher · falcon · grouse · mangabey · plumage · feathers · seabird · colonial · nesting · wingspan
- smokysmoky, smoking, smoldering, fuming, smoked
- fire statesablaze, afire, aflame, alight, blazing
- cleanlinessclean, cleanliness, clean up, dirty, neatness
- worn-outworn, shabby, tattered, threadbare, battered
- Blackened cookingcharred, burnt, seared, scorched, singed
- horse markingsblaze, snip, star, stripe, stocking
- black soot
- soot stains
- chimney sootCombustion residue in smokestacks
- soot particlesFine combustion byproduct fragments