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11-letter words containing c, o, n, e

  • collarbones — Plural form of collarbone.
  • collectanea — a collection of excerpts from one or more authors; miscellany; anthology
  • collections — Plural form of collection.
  • collembolan — any small primitive wingless insect of the order Collembola, which comprises the springtails
  • collenchyma — a strengthening and supporting tissue in plants, consisting of elongated living cells whose walls are thickened with cellulose and pectins
  • collenchyme — Botany. a gelatinous, thickened, and usually elongated cell that is part of a layer of modified tissue in some plants.
  • collinearly — lying in the same straight line.
  • 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.
  • colonoscope — an instrument for examining the colon, consisting of a flexible lighted tube that is inserted in the colon to look for abnormalities and to remove them or take tissue samples
  • colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
  • color index — the difference between the apparent photographic magnitude and the apparent visual magnitude of a star.
  • colour line — the social separation of racial groups within a community (esp in the phrase to cross the colour line)
  • coltishness — The state or condition of being coltish.
  • columniated — having columns or arranged in columns
  • combat zone — (in warfare) an area where fighting is taking place
  • combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
  • combinative — resulting from being, tending to be, or able to be joined or mixed together
  • come and go — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
  • come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
  • come in for — If someone or something comes in for criticism or blame, they receive it.
  • come out in — If you come out in spots, you become covered with them.
  • comediennes — Plural form of comedienne.
  • comedogenic — producing or causing blackheads or acne
  • comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
  • comicalness — The state or quality of being comical.
  • command key — (on a computer keyboard) a key used when executing commands
  • commandable — able to be commanded
  • commandeers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commandeer.
  • commandment — The Ten Commandments are the ten rules of behaviour which, according to the Old Testament of the Bible, people should obey.
  • commendable — If you describe someone's behaviour as commendable, you approve of it or are praising it.
  • commendably — worthy of praise: She did a commendable job of informing all the interested parties.
  • commendator — a person who holds a commendam
  • commensally — In a commensal manner.
  • comment out — (programming)   To surround a section of code with comment delimiters or to prefix every line in the section with a comment marker. This prevents it from being compiled or interpreted. It is often done to temporarily disable the code, e.g. during debugging or when the code is redundant or obsolete, but is being left in the source to make the intent of the active code clearer. The word "comment" is sometimes replaced with whatever syntax is used to mark comments in the language in question, e.g. "hash out" (shell script, Perl), "REM out" (BASIC), etc. Compare condition out.
  • commentable — a remark, observation, or criticism: a comment about the weather.
  • commentated — Simple past tense and past participle of commentate.
  • commentator — A commentator is a broadcaster who gives a radio or television commentary on an event.
  • comminative — comminatory
  • commitments — the act of committing.
  • common core — the most important subjects of the curriculum
  • common name — a noun that may be preceded by an article or other limiting modifier and that denotes any or all of a class of entities and not an individual, as man, city, horse, music.
  • common seal — the official seal of a corporate body
  • common teal — a small Eurasian duck, Anas crecca, that is related to the mallard and frequents ponds, lakes, and marshes
  • common tern — any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
  • common time — a time signature indicating four crotchet beats to the bar; four-four time
  • common year — an ordinary year of 365 days; a year having no intercalary period.
  • commonplace — If something is commonplace, it happens often or is often found, and is therefore not surprising.
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