10-letter words containing a, t, c, o
- colatitude — the complement of the celestial latitude
- 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-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
- collar rot — a disease of plants, characterized by cankers that girdle the stem, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani.
- collarette — a woman's fur or lace collar
- collarstud — a stud that is used to attach a removable collar to a shirt
- collatable — able to be collated
- collateral — Collateral is money or property which is used as a guarantee that someone will repay a loan.
- collations — Plural form of collation.
- collegiate — Collegiate means belonging or relating to a college or to college students.
- colligated — Simple past tense and past participle of colligate.
- collimated — Simple past tense and past participle of collimate.
- collimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collimate.
- collimator — a small telescope attached to a larger optical instrument as an aid in fixing its line of sight
- colliquant — capable of liquefaction or dissolution
- colliquate — to melt or cause to melt
- colloblast — one of the cells covered with sticky granules on the tentacles of a ctenophore, which aid in capturing prey.
- collocated — to set or place together, especially side by side.
- collocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collocate.
- colocating — Present participle of colocate.
- colocation — Alternative spelling of collocation.
- coloration — The coloration of an animal or a plant is the colours and patterns on it.
- coloratura — Coloratura is very complicated and difficult music for a solo singer, especially in opera.
- colorature — (music) An elaborate melody, particularly in vocal music and especially in operatic singing of the 18th and 19th centuries, with runs, trills, leaps, etc.
- colorectal — of or relating to the colon and rectum
- colourcast — a colour television broadcast
- colourfast — A fabric that is colourfast has a colour that will not get paler when the fabric is washed or worn.
- colportage — the work of a colporteur.
- columnated — Architecture. a rigid, relatively slender, upright support, composed of relatively few pieces. a decorative pillar, most often composed of stone and typically having a cylindrical or polygonal shaft with a capital and usually a base.
- comandante — commandant.
- comatulids — Plural form of comatulid.
- combat car — a small armoured car
- combatable — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combatants — a nation engaged in active fighting with enemy forces.
- combatting — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combinator — (computer science) A lambda expression which has no free variables in it.
- come about — When you say how or when something came about, you say how or when it happened.
- comedietta — a short comic stage or musical production
- comicality — the quality of being comical
- comiserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- comitadjis — members of any guerrilla band in the Balkan countries or Macedonia
- comitative — (of a case) expressing accompaniment
- commandant — A commandant is an army officer in charge of a particular place or group of people.
- commandeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of command.
- commentary — A commentary is a description of an event that is broadcast on radio or television while the event is taking place.