13-letter words containing a, n, o
- collar button — the button used to fasten the collar down on a garment
- collieshangie — a quarrel
- colligational — Relating to colligation.
- collisionally — in the manner of a collision or collisions
- collocational — of or relating to a collocation or collocations
- colonialistic — of or relating to colonialism
- colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
- colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
- combativeness — The state of being combative.
- combinability — capable of combining or being combined.
- combinational — Of or pertaining to (a) combination.
- combinatorial — of or involving combination, esp. mathematical combination
- combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
- come in handy — If something comes in handy, it is useful in a particular situation.
- comfort woman — a girl or woman forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
- coming of age — When something reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people, you can refer to this as its coming of age.
- command paper — (in Britain) a government document that is presented to Parliament, in theory by royal command
- commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
- commandership — a person who commands.
- commaundement — Obsolete spelling of commandment.
- commemorating — Present participle of commemorate.
- commemoration — the act or an instance of commemorating
- commendations — the act of commending; recommendation; praise: commendation for a job well done.
- commensalisms — a companion at table.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
- commentations — Plural form of commentation.
- commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- commiseration — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- commissionary — Of, relating to, or conferring a commission.
- common canary — See under canary (def 1).
- common factor — a number or quantity that is a factor of each member of a group of numbers or quantities
- common iguana — the green iguana (Iguana iguana)
- common mallow — cheese1 (def 5).
- common market — A common market is an organization of countries who have agreed to trade freely with each other and make common decisions about industry and agriculture.
- common prayer — the liturgy of public services of the Church of England, esp Morning and Evening Prayer
- common rafter — a rafter having no function other than to bear roofing.
- common sallow — a small Eurasian willow tree, Salix cinerea, which has large catkins that appear before the leaves
- common tannin — Chemistry. any of a group of astringent vegetable principles or compounds, chiefly complex glucosides of catechol and pyrogallol, as the reddish compound that gives the tanning properties to oak bark or the whitish compound that occurs in large quantities in nutgalls (common tannin, tannic acid)
- commonalities — Plural form of commonality.
- commonwealths — Plural form of commonwealth.
- communalistic — Pertaining to communalism.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- communalizing — Present participle of communalize.
- communautaire — supporting the principles of the European Community (now the European Union)
- communicating — making or having a direct connection from one room to another
- communication — Communications are the systems and processes that are used to communicate or broadcast information, especially by means of electricity or radio waves.
- communicative — Someone who is communicative talks to people, for example about their feelings, and tells people things.