10-letter words starting with co
- cogitative — capable of thinking
- cognisable — Alternative form of cognizable.
- cognisance — awareness, realization, or knowledge; notice; perception: The guests took cognizance of the snide remark.
- cognitions — Plural form of cognition.
- cognizable — perceptible
- cognizably — In a cognizable manner.
- cognizance — Cognizance is knowledge or understanding.
- cognominal — Of or relating to a cognomen.
- cohabitant — a person living together with another or others
- cohabitate — cohabit.
- cohabiting — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- coheirship — The state of being a coheir.
- coherences — Plural form of coherence.
- coherently — logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.
- cohesively — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- cohibition — restraint
- cohibitive — restrictive
- cohobating — Present participle of cohobate.
- cohobation — (dated, chemistry) The boiling of a material in a liquid with the repeated return of the distillate.
- cohomology — the abstract study of algebraic topology
- coiffeuses — Plural form of coiffeuse.
- coiffurist — a person who styles hair, especially for women.
- coimbatore — an industrial city in SW India, in W Tamil Nadu. Pop: 923 085 (2001)
- coin money — to earn or accumulate wealth rapidly
- coincident — Coincident events happen at the same time.
- coinciding — to occupy the same place in space, the same point or period in time, or the same relative position: The centers of concentric circles coincide. Our vacations coincided this year.
- coinsuring — Present participle of coinsure.
- coinventor — a fellow inventor
- coinvestor — a fellow investor
- cokebottle — (character, humour) /kohk'bot-l/ Any unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard. MIT people used to complain about the "control-meta-cokebottle" commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained about the "altmode-altmode-cokebottle" commands at MIT. After the demise of the space-cadet keyboard, "cokebottle" was used less, but was often used to describe weird or non-intuitive keystrokes. The OSF/Motif window manager, "mwm" keystroke for switching to the default keybindings and behaviour is control-meta-bang. Since exclamation mark might be thought to look like a Coke bottle, Motif hackers referred to this keystroke as "cokebottle". See also quadruple bucky.
- colatitude — the complement of the celestial latitude
- colcannons — Plural form of colcannon.
- colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
- colchicine — a pale-yellow crystalline alkaloid extracted from seeds or corms of the autumn crocus. It is used in the treatment of gout and to create polyploid plants by inhibiting chromosome separation during meiosis. Formula: C22H25NO6
- colchicums — Plural form of colchicum.
- cold color — a paint fixed to glass or to a ceramic object without firing.
- cold cream — an emulsion of water and fat used cosmetically for softening and cleansing the skin
- cold drink — a beverage that is chilled.
- cold frame — A cold frame is a wooden frame with a glass top in which you grow small plants to protect them from cold weather.
- cold front — the boundary line between a warm air mass and the cold air pushing it from beneath and behind as it moves
- cold light — light emitted at low temperatures from a source that is not incandescent, such as fluorescence, phosphorescence, bioluminescence, or triboluminescence
- cold start — the reloading of a program or operating system
- cold steel — the use of bayonets, knives, etc, in combat
- cold store — A cold store is a building or room which is artificially cooled so that food can be preserved in it.
- cold sweat — If you are in a cold sweat, you are sweating and feel cold, usually because you are very afraid or nervous.
- cold-drawn — (of metal wire, bars, etc) having been drawn unheated through a die to reduce dimensions, toughen, and improve surface finish
- cold-patch — to apply a cold patch to.
- cold-spell — a sudden onset of a relatively brief period of cold weather.
- cold-store — to store in cold storage.
- cold-water — designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom