11-letter words containing c, o, r, i
- color-field — designating or of a style of abstract painting in which colors are applied to a canvas, often in large patches, with little variation in tone and little emphasis on form
- color-slide — a color transparency, mounted usually between cardboard or plastic masks or glass plates, for projection onto a screen.
- coloradoite — a mineral, mercury telluride, HgTe, occurring in the form of grayish-black masses.
- colorimeter — an apparatus for determining the concentration of a solution of a coloured substance by comparing the intensity of its colour with that of a standard solution or with standard colour slides
- colorimetry — the analysis or measurement of color by means of a colorimeter
- colour film — a film for use in cameras that produces coloured pictures
- colour line — the social separation of racial groups within a community (esp in the phrase to cross the colour line)
- colouration — (British spelling) alternative spelling of coloration.
- colourblind — Alternative form of colour blind.
- colourpoint — a breed of domestic cat
- colubriform — shaped like or resembling a member of the Colubridae family of snakes
- columbarium — a vault having niches for funeral urns
- columbiform — Having the form of a dove or pigeon.
- columnarity — the fact or quality of being columnar
- columniform — Having the form of a column.
- combinators — Plural form of combinator.
- combinatory — combinative
- come in for — If someone or something comes in for criticism or blame, they receive it.
- come-hither — alluring; seductive
- comic opera — a play largely set to music, employing comic effects or situations
- comic strip — A comic strip is a series of drawings that tell a story, especially in a newspaper or magazine.
- comic verse — amusing verse
- comic-opera — comically vainglorious; having farcically self-important aspects: a comic-opera army, proud in its ceremonial splendor but inept on the battlefield.
- comisserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- commercials — Plural form of commercial.
- comminatory — Threatening, punitive, or vengeful.
- commiserate — If you commiserate with someone, you show them pity or sympathy when something unpleasant has happened to them.
- commissaire — (in professional cycle racing) a referee who travels in an open-topped car with the riders to witness any infringement of the rules
- commissural — Of or pertaining to a commissure.
- commissures — Plural form of commissure.
- comorbidity — the occurrence of more than one illness or condition at the same time
- comparatist — a person who carries out comparative studies, esp a student of comparative literature or comparative linguistics
- comparative — You use comparative to show that you are judging something against a previous or different situation. For example, comparative calm is a situation which is calmer than before or calmer than the situation in other places.
- comparisons — Plural form of comparison.
- compatriate — Misspelling of compatriot.
- compatriots — Plural form of compatriot.
- competitors — a person, team, company, etc., that competes; rival.
- competitory — competitive.
- compilatory — of or relating to a compilation or compiler
- complainers — Plural form of complainer.
- compositors — Plural form of compositor.
- compressing — Present participle of compress.
- compression — the act of compressing or the condition of being compressed
- compressive — compressing or having the power or capacity to compress
- comprimario — a secondary role in opera or ballet
- comprisable — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- compromised — unable to function optimally, especially with regard to immune response, owing to underlying disease, harmful environmental exposure, or the side effects of a course of treatment.
- compromiser — a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.
- compromises — Plural form of compromise.
- compulsitor — a thing, such as a mandate, that compels