11-letter words containing c, o, a, l, e
- conventuals — Plural form of conventual.
- conversable — easy or pleasant to talk to
- convictable — to prove or declare guilty of an offense, especially after a legal trial: to convict a prisoner of a felony.
- cool-headed — If you describe someone as cool-headed, you mean that they stay calm in difficult situations.
- copper-leaf — a Pacific Islands plant, Acalypha wilkesiana, of the spurge family, having showy, bronzy-green, usually red-mottled foliage and grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
- copperplate — a polished copper plate on which a design has been etched or engraved
- coral bells — a perennial, ornamental alumroot (Heuchera sanguinea) native to SW North America, with racemes of drooping pink or white flowers
- coral snake — any venomous elapid snake of the genus Micrurus and related genera, of tropical and subtropical America, marked with red, black, yellow, and white transverse bands
- corbel arch — a construction like an arch but composed of masonry courses corbeled until they meet.
- corbiculate — having corbiculae or pollen baskets
- cordialness — The state or quality of being cordial.
- cordilleran — a mountain system in W South America: the Andes and its component ranges.
- cordilleras — mountain system of W North America, including all mountains between the E Rockies & the Pacific coast
- core barrel — (in a core drill) a length of pipe for holding rock cores while they are being extracted from the drill hole.
- corner flag — a flag placed on a short pole marking a corner of a football pitch
- corniculate — having horns or hornlike projections
- corollaries — Plural form of corollary.
- corporately — of, for, or belonging to a corporation or corporations: a corporate executive; She considers the new federal subsidy just corporate welfare.
- corporeally — of the nature of the physical body; bodily.
- correctable — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- correlating — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- correlation — A correlation between things is a connection or link between them.
- correlative — If one thing is a correlative of another, the first thing is caused by the second thing, or occurs together with it.
- corruptable — Able to be corrupted.
- cotton lace — machine-made lace made from cotton
- counterplan — an opposing plan
- counterplay — a positive or aggressive action by the defending side, esp in chess
- counterplea — a reply to a plea
- counterseal — a smaller seal on the reverse of the main seal
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- cover glass — a thin square of mounted glass used to protect a photographic slide
- cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
- cowansville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- crab-plover — a black and white wading bird, Dromas ardeola, of the northern and western shores of the Indian Ocean.
- cradle roof — a roof having trusses the undersides of which form an arch.
- cradleboard — a wooden frame worn on the back, used by North American Indian women for carrying an infant.
- crenelation — Alternative form of crenellation.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- cut a melon — to declare an abnormally high dividend to shareholders
- cutaneously — In a cutaneous way.
- cyclazocine — an opiate antagonist used to inhibit the effects of morphine or heroin
- cycloalkane — any saturated hydrocarbon similar to an alkane but having a cyclic molecular structure and the general formula CnH2n
- cycloalkene — (organic chemistry) Any unsaturated alicyclic hydrocarbon.
- cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
- cyclohexane — a colourless insoluble flammable liquid cycloalkane with a pungent odour, made by hydrogenation of benzene and used as a paint remover and solvent. Formula: C6H12
- cyclopaedia — (archaic) The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge.