11-letter words containing c, o, e, l, i
- cloisonnage — cloisonné work
- cloistering — Present participle of cloister.
- clopidogrel — An oral antiplatelet agent used to inhibit blood clots in coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease, having the chemical formula C16H16ClNO2S.
- closefisted — stingy
- clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
- clothesline — A clothesline is a thin rope on which you hang washing so that it can dry.
- clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
- clove hitch — a knot or hitch used for securing a rope to a spar, post, or larger rope
- clown white — white facial makeup used by performers, as clowns.
- co-relation — correlation
- coagulative — Obsolete. coagulated.
- coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
- coalignment — Alignment together.
- coatesville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- cocultivate — to cultivate jointly
- code police — (humour) (By analogy with George Orwell's "Thought Police" in "1984") A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that enforce programming style rules. Used ironically, to suggest that the practice under discussion is condemned mainly by anal-retentive weenies. "Dike out that goto or the code police will get you!" The ironic usage is perhaps more common.
- coelioscopy — a medical procedure for examining the abdomen
- coessential — being one in essence or nature: a term applied to the three persons of the Trinity
- coevolution — the evolution of complementary adaptations in two or more species of organisms because of a special relationship that exists between them, as in insect-pollinated plants and their insect pollinators
- coffee mill — a machine for grinding roasted coffee beans
- coffeyville — a city in SE Kansas.
- cognitively — in a cognitive manner
- cognoscible — able to be known or recognized
- coin silver — silver having the standard fineness for coinage purposes.
- colatitudes — Plural form of colatitude.
- cold chisel — a toughened steel chisel
- cold-chisel — to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.
- colectomies — Plural form of colectomy.
- coleoptiles — Plural form of coleoptile.
- coleorhizae — Plural form of coleorhiza.
- colicinogen — any bacterium that produces a colicin.
- colinearity — the state of being arranged in the same linear sequence
- collapsible — A collapsible object is designed to be folded flat when it is not being used.
- collectible — that can be collected
- collections — Plural form of collection.
- collectives — Plural form of collective.
- collegially — collegiate.
- collegiates — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- colleterial — relating to a glandular organ (colleterium) in some insects
- colligative — (of a physical property of a substance) depending on the concentrations of atoms, ions, and molecules that are present rather than on their nature
- collinearly — lying in the same straight line.
- colliquable — capable of dissolving
- collocative — the act of collocating.
- collusively — in a collusive manner
- colonelcies — an officer in the U.S. Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps ranking between lieutenant colonel and brigadier general: corresponding to a captain in the U.S. Navy.
- colonelling — the act of behaving like a colonel
- colonialize — to make colonial
- colonizable — Capable of being colonized.
- colophonies — Plural form of colophony.