10-letter words containing a, l, o, c
- coal depot — a place at which coal may be deposited, stored, etc
- coal field — an area containing significant coal deposits.
- coal miner — A coal miner is a person whose job is mining coal.
- coal-black — of a very dark black
- coalescent — to grow together or into one body: The two lakes coalesced into one.
- coalescing — Present participle of coalesce.
- coalfields — Plural form of coalfield.
- coalheaver — One who feeds coal into a furnace.
- coalitions — Plural form of coalition.
- coalmaster — the owner of a colliery
- coastlands — Plural form of coastland.
- coastlines — Plural form of coastline.
- coat-tails — Coat-tails are the two long pieces at the back of a tailcoat.
- cobb salad — a salad consisting mainly of chopped lettuce, chicken, cheddar, egg, bacon, avocado, vinaigrette, and blue cheese
- cocatalyst — a substance that acts in tandem with another as a catalyst
- cochlearia — Plural form of cochlearium.
- cockabully — any of several small freshwater fish of New Zealand
- cockalorum — a self-important little man
- cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
- cockleboat — cockboat.
- codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
- codewalker — (programming, tool) A program component that analyses other programs. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new 'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
- codswallop — If you describe something that someone has just said as codswallop, you mean that you think it is nonsense.
- coelacanth — a primitive marine bony fish of the genus Latimeria (subclass Crossopterygii), having fleshy limblike pectoral fins and occurring off the coast of E Africa: thought to be extinct until a living specimen was discovered in 1938
- coelomatic — of or relating to a coelom
- coequality — The condition of being coequal.
- cognisable — Alternative form of cognizable.
- cognizable — perceptible
- cognizably — In a cognizable manner.
- cognominal — Of or relating to a cognomen.
- colatitude — the complement of the celestial latitude
- colcannons — Plural form of colcannon.
- cold cream — an emulsion of water and fat used cosmetically for softening and cleansing the skin
- 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 start — the reloading of a program or operating system
- 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-water — designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom
- coldstream — a town in SE Scotland, in Scottish Borders on the English border: the Coldstream Guards were formed here (1660). Pop: 1813 (2001)
- colemanite — a colourless or white glassy mineral consisting of hydrated calcium borate in monoclinic crystalline form. It occurs with and is a source of borax. Formula: Ca2B6O11.5H2O
- coleoptera — the largest order in the animal kingdom; the beetles
- coleorhiza — a protective sheath around the radicle in grasses
- coll' arco — (of performance with a stringed instrument) with the bow.
- collagraph — An artistic print made through the printmaking process of collagraphy.
- collapsars — Plural form of collapsar.
- collapsing — Present participle of collapse.
- collapsion — (archaic) collapse.
- collar rot — a disease of plants, characterized by cankers that girdle the stem, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani.
- collarbone — Your collarbones are the two long bones which run from throat to your shoulders.