10-letter words containing c, o, i, s
- comiserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- comitadjis — members of any guerrilla band in the Balkan countries or Macedonia
- commissars — Plural form of commissar.
- commissary — A commissary is a shop that provides food and equipment in a place such as a military camp or a prison.
- commission — If you commission something or commission someone to do something, you formally arrange for someone to do a piece of work for you.
- commissive — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- commissure — a band of tissue linking two parts or organs, such as the nervous tissue connecting the right and left sides of the brain in vertebrates
- committals — Plural form of committal.
- committees — Plural form of committee.
- commodious — A commodious room or house is large and has a lot of space.
- commotions — Plural form of commotion.
- communings — negotiations conducted prior to drawing up a contract
- communions — Plural form of communion.
- communists — (initial capital letter) a member of the Communist Party or movement.
- communitas — the sense of sharing and intimacy that develops among persons who experience liminality as a group.
- communizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of communize.
- companions — Plural form of companion.
- compansion — Companding.
- comparison — When you make a comparison, you consider two or more things and discover the differences between them.
- compassing — Present participle of compass.
- compassion — Compassion is a feeling of pity, sympathy, and understanding for someone who is suffering.
- compersion — The feeling of joy one has experiencing another's joy, such as in witnessing a toddler's joy and feeling joy in response.
- complaints — A statement that a situation is unsatisfactory or unacceptable.
- completist — a person with an obsessive interest in a subject
- composited — Simple past tense and past participle of composite.
- composites — Plural form of composite.
- compositor — A compositor is a person who arranges the text and pictures of a book, magazine, or newspaper before it is printed.
- composting — the activity or practice of converting garden and kitchen waste to compost
- comprising — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- compromise — A compromise is a situation in which people accept something slightly different from what they really want, because of circumstances or because they are considering the wishes of other people.
- compulsion — A compulsion is a strong desire to do something, which you find difficult to control.
- compulsive — You use compulsive to describe people or their behaviour when they cannot stop doing something wrong, harmful, or unnecessary.
- compursion — the act of contracting the mouth into a small rounded shape
- con artist — A con artist is someone who tricks other people into giving them their money or property.
- conacreism — the Irish system of letting farming land for a season or for eleven months
- concession — If you make a concession to someone, you agree to let them do or have something, especially in order to end an argument or conflict.
- concessive — implying or involving concession; tending to concede
- concettism — the use of concetti in writing
- concettist — a writer who uses concetti in his or her writing
- concierges — Plural form of concierge.
- concinnous — characterized by concinnity; elegant; harmonious; stylistically congruous.
- conclavism — a minority movement (and the beliefs of certain Traditionalist Catholics) that rejects the authority of the established pope and instead supports an alternative pope
- conclavist — either of two persons who attend upon a cardinal at a conclave, one usually being an ecclesiastical secretary and the other a personal servant.
- conclusion — When you come to a conclusion, you decide that something is true after you have thought about it carefully and have considered all the relevant facts.
- conclusive — Conclusive evidence shows that something is certainly true.
- concretise — to make concrete, real, or particular; give tangible or definite form to: to concretize abstractions.
- concretism — the practice of representing abstract concepts in concrete terms
- concretist — a person who represents abstract concepts in concrete terms
- concubines — Plural form of concubine.
- concussing — Present participle of concuss.