11-letter words containing a, c, e, r, o
- coleopteran — any of the insects of the cosmopolitan order Coleoptera, in which the forewings are modified to form shell-like protective elytra. The order includes the beetles and weevils
- coleorhizae — Plural form of coleorhiza.
- colinearity — the state of being arranged in the same linear sequence
- collaborate — When one person or group collaborates with another, they work together, especially on a book or on some research.
- collar cell — choanocyte.
- collarbones — Plural form of collarbone.
- collaterals — security pledged for the payment of a loan: He gave the bank some stocks and bonds as collateral for the money he borrowed.
- colleterial — relating to a glandular organ (colleterium) in some insects
- collinearly — lying in the same straight line.
- color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
- coloradoite — a mineral, mercury telluride, HgTe, occurring in the form of grayish-black masses.
- colorbearer — a person who carries the colors or standard, especially of a military body. Compare guidon (def 2).
- colorcaster — an announcer, especially in sports, who provides supplementary information or comment.
- combat gear — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
- combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
- come across — If you come across something or someone, you find them or meet them by chance.
- come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
- comfortable — If a piece of furniture or an item of clothing is comfortable, it makes you feel physically relaxed when you use it, for example because it is soft.
- comic opera — a play largely set to music, employing comic effects or situations
- comic-opera — comically vainglorious; having farcically self-important aspects: a comic-opera army, proud in its ceremonial splendor but inept on the battlefield.
- comisserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- commandeers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commandeer.
- commemorate — To commemorate an important event or person means to remember them by means of a special action, ceremony, or specially-created object.
- commendator — a person who holds a commendam
- commentator — A commentator is a broadcaster who gives a radio or television commentary on an event.
- commercials — Plural form of commercial.
- commiserate — If you commiserate with someone, you show them pity or sympathy when something unpleasant has happened to them.
- commissaire — (in professional cycle racing) a referee who travels in an open-topped car with the riders to witness any infringement of the rules
- common year — an ordinary year of 365 days; a year having no intercalary period.
- comparative — You use comparative to show that you are judging something against a previous or different situation. For example, comparative calm is a situation which is calmer than before or calmer than the situation in other places.
- compartment — A compartment is one of the separate spaces into which a railway carriage is divided.
- compatriate — Misspelling of compatriot.
- compearance — the act of appearing in court
- compensator — a person or thing that compensates
- complainers — Plural form of complainer.
- comportable — (obsolete) suitable; consistent.
- comportance — comportment
- comprisable — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- computerate — If someone is computerate, they have enough skill and knowledge to be able to use a computer.
- comraderies — camaraderie.
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- concamerate — To arch over; to vault.
- concentrate — If you concentrate on something, or concentrate your mind on it, you give all your attention to it.
- concept art — art in which emphasis is placed on the means and processes of producing art objects rather than on the objects themselves and in which the various tools and techniques, as photographs, photocopies, video records, and the construction of environments and earthworks, are used to convey the message to the spectator.
- concernancy — concernment
- concertante — characterized by contrasting alternating tutti and solo passages
- concertinas — Plural form of concertina.
- concolorate — concolor
- concordance — If there is concordance between two things, they are similar to each other or consistent with each other.
- confarreate — of or relating to confarreation