11-letter words containing c, a, o, m
- cognominate — of or relating to a cognomen
- collembolan — any small primitive wingless insect of the order Collembola, which comprises the springtails
- collenchyma — a strengthening and supporting tissue in plants, consisting of elongated living cells whose walls are thickened with cellulose and pectins
- collimating — Present participle of collimate.
- collimation — to bring into line; make parallel.
- collunarium — a solution for application in the nose; nose drops.
- cologarithm — the logarithm of the reciprocal of a number; the negative value of the logarithm
- colonialism — Colonialism is the practice by which a powerful country directly controls less powerful countries and uses their resources to increase its own power and wealth.
- columbarium — a vault having niches for funeral urns
- columnarity — the fact or quality of being columnar
- columniated — having columns or arranged in columns
- combat boot — a heavy army boot
- combat duty — active service
- combat gear — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
- combat team — a combination of military units, usually of different types, as infantry and artillery, temporarily under one command while on special combat mission.
- combat zone — (in warfare) an area where fighting is taking place
- combatively — In a combative way.
- combativity — Synonym of combativeness.
- combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
- combination — A combination of things is a mixture of them.
- combinative — resulting from being, tending to be, or able to be joined or mixed together
- combinators — Plural form of combinator.
- combinatory — combinative
- come across — If you come across something or someone, you find them or meet them by chance.
- come and go — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
- come of age — If something comes of age, it reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people.
- come-all-ye — a street ballad or folk song
- comedically — from a comedic point of view or in a comedic manner
- comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
- 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.
- comfortably — If you do something comfortably, you do it easily.
- 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.
- comicalness — The state or quality of being comical.
- comisserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- comma fault — the use of a comma, rather than a semicolon, colon, or period, to separate related main clauses in the absence of a coordinating conjunction: often considered to be incorrect or undesirable, especially in formal writing.
- command car — a vehicle for use by a commander and staff.
- command key — (on a computer keyboard) a key used when executing commands
- commandable — able to be commanded
- commandants — Plural form of commandant.
- commandeers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commandeer.
- commandment — The Ten Commandments are the ten rules of behaviour which, according to the Old Testament of the Bible, people should obey.
- commemorate — To commemorate an important event or person means to remember them by means of a special action, ceremony, or specially-created object.
- commendable — If you describe someone's behaviour as commendable, you approve of it or are praising it.
- commendably — worthy of praise: She did a commendable job of informing all the interested parties.
- commendator — a person who holds a commendam
- commensally — In a commensal manner.
- commentable — a remark, observation, or criticism: a comment about the weather.
- commentated — Simple past tense and past participle of commentate.