12-letter words containing c, o, a, l
- coloquintida — colocynth (defs 1, 2).
- color-bearer — the person assigned to carry the colors, or flag, as in a parade or ceremony
- color-caster — an announcer, especially in sports, who provides supplementary information or comment.
- colorisation — The process of converting to color.
- colorization — Colorization is a technique used to add colour to old black and white films.
- colour chart — a chart with samples of paint colours
- colour guard — a military guard in a parade, ceremony, etc, that carries and escorts the flag or regimental colours
- colour phase — a seasonal change in the coloration of some animals
- colourations — Plural form of colouration.
- colporrhaphy — (surgery) suturing of a defect in the wall of the vagina.
- columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- columniation — the arrangement of architectural columns
- come-all-you — a street ballad, especially in England.
- comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
- comma splice — comma fault.
- command line — typed instructions that access a computer system
- commandingly — being in command: a commanding officer.
- commemorable — worthy of being commemorated
- commensalism — a close association or union between two kinds of organisms, in which one is benefited by the relationship and the other is neither benefited nor harmed
- commensality — eating together at the same table.
- commentarial — a series of comments, explanations, or annotations: a commentary on the Bible; news followed by a commentary.
- commercially — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
- commiserable — worthy of commiseration; pitiable
- commissarial — Of or pertaining to a commissary.
- common pleas — in some U.S. states, a court having general and original jurisdiction over civil and criminal trials
- commonalties — Plural form of commonalty.
- commonplaces — Plural form of commonplace.
- commonwealth — The Commonwealth is an organization consisting of the United Kingdom and most of the countries that were previously under its rule.
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- compellation — appellation
- compellative — an appellation
- compilations — Plural form of compilation.
- compiliation — Misspelling of compilation.
- complacently — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- complainable — That may be complained of.
- complainants — Plural form of complainant.
- complainings — complaints
- complaintive — Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.
- complaisance — deference to the wishes of others; willing compliance
- complanation — the act of flattening or making level
- complemental — complementary; completing.
- complex salt — a salt that contains one or more complex ions
- complex wave — a waveform consisting of a fundamental frequency with superimposed harmonics
- complexation — the formation of a complex
- complexional — Relating to complexion.
- compliancies — compliance (defs 1, 2, 4).
- complicating — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- complication — A complication is a problem or difficulty that makes a situation harder to deal with.