10-letter words containing c, o, d, e, r
- coldstream — a town in SE Scotland, in Scottish Borders on the English border: the Coldstream Guards were formed here (1660). Pop: 1813 (2001)
- color-code — to use specific colors, according to a code, for wires, switches, cards, files, etc.
- colorbreed — to breed plants or animals selectively for the production of new varieties having a specific color or shade.
- colorfield — of, relating to, or characteristic of abstract painting in which large, flat areas of color are spread to cover the entire canvas and dominate over form and texture.
- colorslide — a color transparency, mounted usually between cardboard or plastic masks or glass plates, for projection onto a screen.
- colourbred — (of an animal) bred to be a particular colour
- come round — to be restored to life or consciousness
- come under — If you come under attack or pressure, for example, people attack you or put pressure on you.
- commandeer — If the armed forces commandeer a vehicle or building owned by someone else, they officially take charge of it so that they can use it.
- commanders — Plural form of commander.
- commandery — a manor under the charge of a commander of a religious military order of knights
- commodores — Plural form of commodore.
- compounder — A person who mixes or combines ingredients in order to produce an animal feed, medicine, or other substance.
- comprehend — If you cannot comprehend something, you cannot understand it.
- compressed — Compressed air or gas is squeezed into a small space or container and is therefore at a higher pressure than normal. It is used especially as a source of power for machines.
- con dolore — (to be performed) in a sad manner
- condemners — to express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on; indicate strong disapproval of; censure.
- condensers — Plural form of condenser.
- condensery — a factory where condensed milk is produced
- confederal — being or of a confederation of independent nations or states
- configured — Simple past tense and past participle of configure.
- confounder — to perplex or amaze, especially by a sudden disturbance or surprise; bewilder; confuse: The complicated directions confounded him.
- confronted — Simple past tense and past participle of confront.
- congressed — (initial capital letter) the national legislative body of the U.S., consisting of the Senate, or upper house, and the House of Representatives, or lower house, as a continuous institution. this body as it exists for a period of two years during which it has the same membership: the Ninety-Seventh Congress. a session of this body: to speak in Congress.
- conscribed — Simple past tense and past participle of conscribe.
- considered — A considered opinion or act is the result of careful thought.
- considerer — One who considers.
- contenders — Plural form of contender.
- contracted — under contract; governed or arranged by special contract: a contract carrier.
- contrasted — to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of: Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks.
- controlled — held in check; curbed: poorly controlled anger.
- convertend — the proposition to be subjected to conversion
- cooperated — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- coordinate — If you coordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
- copperhead — a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- coproduced — to produce (a motion picture, play, etc.) in collaboration with others.
- coproducer — a joint producer
- copyeditor — a person who edits a manuscript, text, etc., for publication, especially to find and correct errors in style, punctuation, and grammar.
- copyholder — one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
- copyreader — a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor
- coradicate — (of multiple words) derived from the same root
- cordectomy — the removal of a cord, esp a vocal cord
- cordeliers — a Franciscan friar: so called from the knotted cord worn as a girdle.
- cordialize — to become warm and friendly
- cordierite — a grey or violet-blue dichroic mineral that consists of magnesium aluminium iron silicate in orthorhombic crystalline form and is found in metamorphic rocks. Formula: (Mg,Fe)2AL4Si5O18.nH2O
- cordillera — a series of parallel ranges of mountains, esp in the northwestern US
- cordonbleu — any of several small African finches of the genus Uraeginthus, having pale blue and buff plumage and commonly kept as cage birds.
- cordwainer — a shoemaker or worker in cordovan leather
- coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
- coresident — one of two or more computer programs stored in a computer memory simultaneously