8-letter words starting with cou
- courtesy — Courtesy is politeness, respect, and consideration for others.
- courtier — Courtiers were noblemen and women who spent a lot of time at the court of a king or queen.
- courting — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- courtlet — a small court or courtyard
- courtney — a feminine and masculine name
- courtrai — a town in W Belgium, in West Flanders on the Lys River: the largest producer of linen in W Europe. Pop: 73 984 (2004 est)
- courtsey — Archaic spelling of curtsey.
- couscous — Couscous is a type of food that is made from crushed steamed wheat, or a dish consisting of this food served with a spicy stew. It is traditionally eaten in North Africa.
- cousinly — like or befitting a cousin.
- cousinry — a collection of cousins
- cousteau — Jacques Yves (ʒɑk iv). 1910–97, French underwater explorer
- couvades — a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.