11-letter words containing e, c, l, o, s
- clothes-peg — a clothespin.
- clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
- clothesless — Without clothes.
- clothesline — A clothesline is a thin rope on which you hang washing so that it can dry.
- clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
- clothespole — a pole for supporting a clothesline
- cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
- cloudlessly — Without clouds.
- cloudscapes — Plural form of cloudscape.
- coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
- coalescence — to grow together or into one body: The two lakes coalesced into one.
- coatesville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- cobblestone — Cobblestones are stones with a rounded upper surface which used to be used for making streets.
- cockleboats — Plural form of cockleboat.
- cockleshell — the shell of the cockle
- cocos plate — a tectonic division of the earth's crust, coincident with the oceanic Guatemala Basin, and bounded on the north and east by the Central American Trench, on the west by the East Pacific Rise, and on the south by the Nazca Plate.
- coelacanths — Plural form of coelacanth.
- coelioscopy — a medical procedure for examining the abdomen
- coelurosaur — any of various small to very large bipedal carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs belonging to the suborder Theropoda, active in the Triassic and Cretaceous periods; Tyrannosaurus was a coelurosaur, and birds are thought to have evolved from small coelurosaurs
- coessential — being one in essence or nature: a term applied to the three persons of the Trinity
- cognoscible — able to be known or recognized
- coin silver — silver having the standard fineness for coinage purposes.
- colatitudes — Plural form of colatitude.
- cold chisel — a toughened steel chisel
- cold shower — shower: in cold water
- cold-chisel — to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.
- colectomies — Plural form of colectomy.
- coleoptiles — Plural form of coleoptile.
- collagenase — an enzyme that decomposes collagen
- collagenous — any of a class of extracellular proteins abundant in higher animals, especially in the skin, bone, cartilage, tendon, and teeth, forming strong insoluble fibers and serving as connective tissue between cells, yielding gelatin when denatured by boiling.
- collapsable — capable of collapsing or of being collapsed, as for carrying or storing.
- collapsible — A collapsible object is designed to be folded flat when it is not being used.
- collarbones — Plural form of collarbone.
- collaterals — security pledged for the payment of a loan: He gave the bank some stocks and bonds as collateral for the money he borrowed.
- collections — Plural form of collection.
- collectives — Plural form of collective.
- collegiates — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- collusively — in a collusive manner
- 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.
- 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 phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
- color-slide — a color transparency, mounted usually between cardboard or plastic masks or glass plates, for projection onto a screen.
- colorcaster — an announcer, especially in sports, who provides supplementary information or comment.
- colorlessly — In a colorless manner.
- colostomies — Plural form of colostomy.
- colporteurs — Plural form of colporteur.
- colposcopes — Plural form of colposcope.
- coltishness — The state or condition of being coltish.
- combustible — A combustible material or gas catches fire and burns easily.