10-letter words containing c, o, n, a
- commonable — (of land) held in common
- commonalty — the ordinary people as distinct from those with authority, rank, or title, esp when considered as a political and social unit or estate of the realm
- commonweal — the good of the community
- commorancy — a dwelling in a place; usual or temporary residence in a place.
- communally — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
- communards — Plural form of communard.
- communital — a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.
- communitas — the sense of sharing and intimacy that develops among persons who experience liminality as a group.
- compacting — Present participle of compact.
- compaction — a compacting or being compacted; compression
- companding — a process in which the dynamic range of a signal is reduced for recording purposes and then expanded to its original value for reproduction or playback.
- companions — Plural form of companion.
- compansion — Companding.
- companying — Present participle of company.
- 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.
- compearant — a person who appears in court
- compendial — Related to a compendium that serves as a standard, such as the w British Pharmacopoeia, or the w US Pharmacopeia.
- compensate — To compensate someone for money or things that they have lost means to pay them money or give them something to replace that money or those things.
- complacent — A complacent person is very pleased with themselves or feels that they do not need to do anything about a situation, even though the situation may be uncertain or dangerous.
- complained — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- complainer — A complainer is someone who complains a lot about their problems or about things they do not like.
- complaints — A statement that a situation is unsatisfactory or unacceptable.
- complanate — having a flattened or compressed aspect
- compliance — a disposition to yield to or comply with others
- compliancy — compliance (defs 1, 2, 4).
- complicant — (of the elytra of a beetle) overlapping
- con artist — A con artist is someone who tricks other people into giving them their money or property.
- con maesta — majestically (used as a musical direction).
- conacreism — the Irish system of letting farming land for a season or for eleven months
- concealers — Plural form of concealer.
- concealing — Present participle of conceal.
- concentual — (rare) Harmonious, in harmony.
- conceptual — Conceptual means related to ideas and concepts formed in the mind.
- concertina — A concertina is a musical instrument consisting of two end pieces with stiff paper or cloth that folds up between them. You play the concertina by pressing the buttons on the end pieces while moving them together and apart.
- conchoidal — (of the fracture of minerals and rocks) having smooth shell-shaped convex and concave surfaces
- conciliary — conciliar
- conciliate — If you conciliate someone, you try to end a disagreement with them.
- concinnate — to arrange or blend together skillfully, as parts or elements; put together in a harmonious, precisely appropriate, or elegant manner.
- 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.
- concordant — being in agreement: harmonious
- concordats — Plural form of concordat.
- concordial — characterized by concord
- condensate — a substance formed by condensation, such as a liquid from a vapour
- condonable — to disregard or overlook (something illegal, objectionable, or the like): The government condoned the computer hacking among rival corporations.
- condonance — the act of condoning; the overlooking or implied forgiving of an offense.
- conductant — Able to conduct (e.g. conduct electrical current); conductive.
- condylarth — any of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Condylarthra, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a slender body, low-crowned teeth, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.