13-letter words containing co
- antiscorbutic — preventing or curing scurvy
- apicoalveolar — articulated with the tip of the tongue in contact with or in approximation to the alveolar ridge.
- apicomplexans — Plural form of apicomplexan.
- appeals court — An appeals court is the same as an appellate court.
- approval code — An approval code is a PIN or other verification code needed to authorize a payment going through the cash register.
- arc cotangent — the angle, measured in radians, that has a cotangent equal to a given number. Symbol: cot −1. Abbreviation: arc cot.
- archidiaconal — of or relating to an archdeacon or his office
- arcticologist — a person who specializes in arcticology.
- art collector — a person who collects works of art
- arthroconidia — Plural form of arthroconidium.
- arthroscopies — Plural form of arthroscopy.
- ascoli piceno — a town in E central Italy, in the Marches: capital of the Roman province of Picenum; site of the massacre of all its Roman citizens in the Social War in 90 bc. Pop: 51 375 (2001)
- ascorbic acid — Ascorbic acid is another name for vitamin C.
- assembly code — assembly language
- asset account — An asset account is an account that records the assets owned by a company.
- astacological — relating to astacology
- at a discount — below the regular price
- atamasco lily — any of a genus (Zephyranthes) of bulbous plants of the lily family, with hollow stems, grassy leaves, and funnel-shaped flowers of yellow, pink, red, or purple-tinged white
- auguste comte — (Isidore) Auguste (Marie François) [ee-zee-dawr oh-gyst ma-ree frahn-swa] /i ziˈdɔr oʊˈgüst maˈri frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1798–1857, French founder of the philosophical system of positivism.
- aulic council — a council, founded in 1498, of the Holy Roman Emperor. It functioned mainly as a judicial body
- autotoxicosis — autointoxication.
- bacterioscopy — the examination of bacteria with a microscope.
- bandicoot rat — any of three burrowing rats of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia, of S and SE Asia: family Muridae
- bank discount — interest on a loan deducted from the principal amount when the loan is made and based on the loan's face value
- barbary coast — coastal region of N Africa, extending from Egypt to the Atlantic, inhabited chiefly by Berbers and once (until early 19th cent.) dominated by pirates
- barcoo salute — a movement of the hand to brush flies away from the face
- barnacle code — (programming, humour) Any piece of code (usually a static method) that has been appended to a class where it doesn't logically belong, due to a lack of anywhere else to put it.
- basel accords — the three sets of rules, Basel I, Basel II, and Basel III, for regulating the banking industry, drawn up by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
- baseline cost — the projected cost for an undertaking at the time it is budgeted
- beacon school — a notably successful school whose methods and practices are brought to the attention of the education service as a whole in order that they may be adopted by other schools
- beacon status — a ranking awarded by the government to an organization, rendering it eligible for extra funding, and aimed at encouraging organizations to share good practice with each other
- belgian congo — former Belgian colony (1908-60) in central Africa: now the country of Democratic Republic of the Congo
- bible college — an institution of higher education that specializes in Bible study, typically for the education of Protestant clergy
- biconditional — (of a proposition) asserting that the existence or occurrence of one thing or event depends on, and is dependent on, the existence or occurrence of another, as “A if and only if B.”.
- bicontinental — of, on, or involving two continents: a bicontinental survey.
- big-cone pine — Coulter pine.
- bill of costs — a statement of the total costs that are the responsibility of a party to a suit or action
- biocompatible — not rejected by the body
- bioconversion — the use of biological processes or materials to change organic substances into a new form, such as the conversion of waste into methane by fermentation
- bioecological — the study of the interrelations among living organisms in their natural environment; ecology.
- birth control — Birth control means planning whether to have children, and using contraception to prevent having them when they are not wanted.
- black country — a district in the English Midlands, around Birmingham: so called from the soot and grime produced by the many local industries.
- black economy — The black economy consists of the buying, selling, and producing of goods or services that goes on without the government being informed, so that people can avoid paying tax on them.
- blasco ibanez — Vicente (biˈθente). 1867–1928, Spanish novelist, whose books include Blood and Sand (1909) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916)
- blastomycosis — a fungal infection particularly affecting the lungs
- blood alcohol — alcohol that is circulating in the blood
- blood glucose — Blood glucose is glucose (= a type of sugar) in the bloodstream.
- blue copperas — a salt, copper sulfate, CuSO 4 ⋅5H 2 O, occurring naturally as large transparent, deep-blue triclinic crystals, appearing in its anhydrous state as a white powder: used chiefly as a mordant, insecticide, fungicide, and in engraving.
- book scorpion — any of various small arachnids of the order Pseudoscorpionida (false scorpions), esp Chelifer cancroides, which are sometimes found in old books, etc
- border collie — a medium-sized breed of collie with a silky usually black-and-white coat: used mainly as sheepdogs