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14-letter words containing co

  • cacodylic acid — a colorless, crystalline, deliquescent, poisonous solid, (CH 3) 2 AsOOH, used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes and as an herbicide.
  • cafe con leche — a drink made by mixing strong coffee with hot or scalded milk
  • caicos islands — a group of islands in the Caribbean: part of the British dependency of the Turks and Caicos Islands
  • camp counselor — activities supervisor
  • canadian bacon — cured, smoked pork taken from the loin in a boneless strip and having a hamlike flavor
  • canicola fever — an acute febrile disease of humans and dogs, characterized by inflammation of the stomach and intestines and by jaundice: caused by a spirochete, Leptospira canicola.
  • cape cod canal — a canal in SE Massachusetts, connecting Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod Bay. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • captain cooker — a wild pig
  • carcinosarcoma — a malignant tumour composed of carcinoma and sarcoma
  • castelo branco — Humberto de Alencar [oon-ber-too di ah-len-kahr] /ũˈbɛr tʊ dɪ ɑ lɛ̃ˈkɑr/ (Show IPA), 1900–67, Brazilian general and statesman: president 1964–67.
  • casual contact — the level of contact at which a person is not subject to contracting a communicable disease from another, especially nonsexual contact with a person infected with a venereal disease.
  • cater-cornered — diagonally placed; diagonal
  • catty-cornered — cater-cornered
  • cercopithecoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the primate superfamily Cercopithecoidea (Old World monkeys)
  • cerro de pasco — a town in central Peru, in the Andes: one of the highest towns in the world, 4400 m (14 436 ft) above sea level; mining centre. Pop: 70 000 (latest est)
  • chalcotrichite — a fibrous variety of cuprite.
  • champagne cork — a cork used in a champagne bottle
  • chaparral cock — roadrunner
  • character code — a machine-readable code that identifies a specified character or a set of such codes
  • charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
  • charter colony — a colony, such as Virginia or Massachusetts, created by royal charter under the control of an individual, trading company, etc, and exempt from interference by the Crown
  • cheque account — an account at a bank or a building society upon which cheques can be drawn
  • chimney corner — a recess that contains a seat in a large open fireplace; inglenook
  • chocolate cake — a cake flavoured with cocoa or chocolate
  • chocolate drop — a small disc of chocolate
  • chocolate milk — milk flavored with chocolate syrup or powdered chocolate.
  • chocolate tree — cacao (def 1).
  • chondrosarcoma — A type of bone cancer, a cartilage-based tumour.
  • church council — (in certain Lutheran churches) a body of lay delegates chosen from the congregation and charged with supporting the pastor in religious instruction, contributions to the church, etc.
  • cinema complex — a building containing several cinemas
  • circumcolumnar — surrounding a column.
  • clarendon code — four acts passed by the Cavalier Parliament between 1661 and 1665 to deal with the religious problems of the Restoration
  • class conflict — conflict between different social or economic classes
  • clerk of court — an officer of the court who maintains the records, among other duties
  • closed cornice — a slightly projecting wooden cornice composed of a frieze board and a crown molding without a soffit.
  • closed couplet — a couplet that concludes with an end-stopped line.
  • co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
  • co-conspirator — a fellow conspirator; associate or collaborator in a conspiracy.
  • co-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • co-religionist — A person's co-religionists are people who have the same religion.
  • co-respondents — men's two-coloured shoes, usually black and white or brown and white
  • co-trimoxazole — an antibiotic consisting of a mixture of trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole (a sulfa drug): used esp to treat infections of the urinary tract and lungs (as in AIDS)
  • coach operator — a company that operates a business involving the transport of passengers in coaches
  • coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
  • coach-and-four — a coach together with the four horses by which it is drawn.
  • coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
  • coal-tar pitch — a residue left by the distillation of coal tar: a mixture of hydrocarbons and finely divided carbon used as a binder for fuel briquettes, road surfaces, and carbon electrodes
  • coarse-grained — having a large or coarse grain
  • coarticulation — concomitance of articulation, as in fro, ostensibly a succession of three discrete sounds but physically a single articulation (f-) blending into a coarticulation (-fr-), which blends into an articulation (-r-), which blends into a coarticulation (-ro-), which blends into an articulation (-o).
  • coast live oak — California live oak.
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