10-letter words containing a, o, c
- coastguard — A coastguard is an official who watches the sea near a coast in order to get help for sailors when they need it and to stop illegal activities.
- coastlands — Plural form of coastland.
- coastlines — Plural form of coastline.
- coastwards — in the direction of the coast
- coat check — The coat check at a public building such as a theater or club is the place where customers can leave their coats, usually for a small fee.
- coat dress — a lightweight button-through garment that can be worn either as a dress or as a coat
- coat-tails — Coat-tails are the two long pieces at the back of a tailcoat.
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- coated pit — a clathrin-lined depression in the outer surface of a cell membrane, formed of receptors and their specific ligands, that becomes a coated vesicle upon endocytosis.
- coathanger — Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
- coatimundi — The ring-tailed coati, Nasua nasua, a south American carnivore.
- coatsworth — Elizabeth, 1893–1986, U.S. writer, especially of children's books.
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- 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
- cochabamba — a city in central Bolivia. Pop: 561 000 (2005 est)
- cochairman — a person who cochairs an organization
- cochampion — a joint champion
- cochlearia — Plural form of cochlearium.
- cockabully — any of several small freshwater fish of New Zealand
- cockalorum — a self-important little man
- cockamamie — If you describe something as cockamamie, you mean that it is ridiculous or silly.
- cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
- cockatrice — a legendary monster, part snake and part cock, that could kill with a glance
- cockchafer — any of various Old World scarabaeid beetles, esp Melolontha melolontha of Europe, whose larvae feed on crops and grasses
- cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
- cockleboat — cockboat.
- cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
- cocoa bean — the seed of the cacao
- cocreation — Joint creation.
- 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."
- codominant — (of genes) having both alleles expressed equally in the phenotype of the organism
- 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
- coenosarcs — Plural form of coenosarc.
- coenzyme a — a constituent of biological cells that functions as the agent of acylation in metabolic reactions
- coequality — The condition of being coequal.
- coetaneous — of the same age or period
- cofavorite — a joint favourite
- coffee and — coffee and a snack.
- coffee bag — a small bag containing ground coffee beans, infused to make coffee
- coffee bar — A coffee bar is a small café where non-alcoholic drinks and snacks are sold.
- coffee-and — coffee and a snack.
- coffeecake — a kind of cake or roll, often containing nuts, raisins, etc. or coated with sugar or icing, to be eaten with coffee or the like
- cofferdams — Plural form of cofferdam.
- cogenerate — To generate two forms of energy simultaneously.
- cogitating — to think hard; ponder; meditate: to cogitate about a problem.
- cogitation — concerted thought or reflection; meditation; contemplation: After hours of cogitation he came up with a new proposal.