10-letter words containing c, o, t, e
- coimbatore — an industrial city in SW India, in W Tamil Nadu. Pop: 923 085 (2001)
- coincident — Coincident events happen at the same time.
- coinventor — a fellow inventor
- coinvestor — a fellow investor
- cokebottle — (character, humour) /kohk'bot-l/ Any unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard. MIT people used to complain about the "control-meta-cokebottle" commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained about the "altmode-altmode-cokebottle" commands at MIT. After the demise of the space-cadet keyboard, "cokebottle" was used less, but was often used to describe weird or non-intuitive keystrokes. The OSF/Motif window manager, "mwm" keystroke for switching to the default keybindings and behaviour is control-meta-bang. Since exclamation mark might be thought to look like a Coke bottle, Motif hackers referred to this keystroke as "cokebottle". See also quadruple bucky.
- colatitude — the complement of the celestial latitude
- colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
- cold steel — the use of bayonets, knives, etc, in combat
- cold store — A cold store is a building or room which is artificially cooled so that food can be preserved in it.
- cold sweat — If you are in a cold sweat, you are sweating and feel cold, usually because you are very afraid or nervous.
- cold-store — to store in cold storage.
- cold-water — designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom
- coldstream — a town in SE Scotland, in Scottish Borders on the English border: the Coldstream Guards were formed here (1660). Pop: 1813 (2001)
- colemanite — a colourless or white glassy mineral consisting of hydrated calcium borate in monoclinic crystalline form. It occurs with and is a source of borax. Formula: Ca2B6O11.5H2O
- coleoptera — the largest order in the animal kingdom; the beetles
- coleoptile — a protective sheath around the plumule in grasses
- colestipol — a drug that reduces the concentration of cholesterol in the blood: used, together with dietary restriction of cholesterol, to treat selected patients with hypercholesterolaemia and so prevent atherosclerosis
- collarette — a woman's fur or lace collar
- collatable — able to be collated
- collateral — Collateral is money or property which is used as a guarantee that someone will repay a loan.
- collect up — If you collect up things, you bring them all together, usually when you have finished using them.
- collecters — Plural form of collecter.
- collecting — A collecting tin or box is one that is used to collect money for charity.
- collection — A collection of things is a group of similar things that you have deliberately acquired, usually over a period of time.
- collective — Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people.
- collectors — Plural form of collector.
- collegiate — Collegiate means belonging or relating to a college or to college students.
- colligated — Simple past tense and past participle of colligate.
- collimated — Simple past tense and past participle of collimate.
- collimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collimate.
- colliquate — to melt or cause to melt
- collocated — to set or place together, especially side by side.
- collocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collocate.
- collotypes — Plural form of collotype.
- colonnette — a small or thin column or shaft.
- colorature — (music) An elaborate melody, particularly in vocal music and especially in operatic singing of the 18th and 19th centuries, with runs, trills, leaps, etc.
- colorectal — of or relating to the colon and rectum
- colportage — the work of a colporteur.
- colporteur — a hawker of books, esp bibles
- columnated — Architecture. a rigid, relatively slender, upright support, composed of relatively few pieces. a decorative pillar, most often composed of stone and typically having a cylindrical or polygonal shaft with a capital and usually a base.
- comandante — commandant.
- combatable — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combustive — the act or process of burning.
- come about — When you say how or when something came about, you say how or when it happened.
- come first — If you say that someone or something comes first for a particular person, you mean they treat or consider that person or thing as more important than anything else.
- come on to — When you come on to a particular topic, you start discussing it.
- come up to — To be coming up to a time or state means to be getting near to it.
- come-outer — an outspoken or very active supporter of a cause, especially a reformer or a social activist.
- comedietta — a short comic stage or musical production
- comestible — food