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11-letter words containing c, o, a

  • clean house — to clean and put a home in order
  • clean up on — to defeat; beat
  • cleaned out — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
  • clear round — an instance of a horse and rider clearing all barriers without making any mistakes
  • cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
  • cleistogamy — self-pollination and fertilization of an unopened flower, as in the flowers of the violet produced in summer
  • cleptocracy — Alternative form of kleptocracy.
  • cleptomania — kleptomania
  • clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
  • climatology — the study of climate
  • clock in at — If something such as a CD or film clocks in at a particular amount of time, it is that amount of time long.
  • clock radio — a radio combined with an alarm clock in a compact cabinet, the clock serving as a timer to turn the radio on or off at a preset time.
  • clock watch — a watch that strikes the hours. Compare repeater (def 3).
  • clock-radio — a device combining the functions of a radio and alarm clock which can be used to play the radio at a set time
  • cloisonnage — cloisonné work
  • clorazepate — a benzodiazepine, C 16 H 13 ClN 2 O 4 , used in the treatment of chronic anxiety states and as an adjunct in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal.
  • close brace — right brace
  • close ranks — to maintain discipline or solidarity, esp in anticipation of attack
  • close reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
  • close shave — a narrow escape
  • closed game — a relatively complex game involving closed ranks and files and permitting only nontactical positional manoeuvring
  • closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
  • closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
  • clostridial — any of several rod-shaped, spore-forming, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Clostridium, found in soil and in the intestinal tract of humans and animals.
  • cloth-eared — deaf
  • clotrimazol — Alternative form of clotrimazole.
  • cloud grass — a grass, Agrostis nebulosa, of Spain, having clusters of tiny spikelets on slender stalks, used in bouquets.
  • cloud layer — a continuous or fragmented distribution of clouds all sharing the same cloud base.
  • cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
  • cloudscapes — Plural form of cloudscape.
  • cloxacillin — a semisynthetic penicillin used to treat staphylococcal infections due to penicillin-resistant organisms
  • cluj-napoca — city in Transylvania, NW Romania: pop. 322,000
  • cnidoblasts — the cell within which a nematocyst is developed.
  • co-chairman — one of two or more joint chairmen.
  • co-location — (networking)   /koh'loh-kay`sh*n/ or /koh`loh-kay'sh*n/ (Or "colocation") Providing network connections such as Internet leased lines to several servers housed together in a server room. This is typically provided as a commercial service. The hyphenated form is correct and the most common on the web, followed by "colocation". "collocation" (/ko`loh-kay'sh*n/, not /koh'-/), is an old word with a similar meaning. It is common in dictionaries and follows the pattern of other Latin-derived words like collect, college, and collate, but is least common on the web. The verbal form is "to colocate" or "co-locate" (commonly /koh'loh`kayt/, also (US) /koh`loh'kayt/).
  • co-ordinate — If you co-ordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
  • co-relation — correlation
  • coacervates — Plural form of coacervate.
  • coach class — the US and Canad. name for economy class
  • coach horse — a horse, usually strong and heavily built, for drawing a coach.
  • coach house — a building in which a coach is kept
  • coach party — a group of people who travel together on a coach trip
  • coach screw — a large screw with a square head used in timber work in buildings, etc
  • coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
  • coade stone — a ceramic imitation of carved stonework popular in England around 1800.
  • coadjacency — the state of two or more things being adjacent in experience or thought
  • coadjutants — Plural form of coadjutant.
  • coadjuvancy — (rare) cooperation, mutual effort, joint-help.
  • coadunation — (obsolete) union into a single body or mass; unity.
  • coadventure — adventure in which two or more share.
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