10-letter words containing e, c, l, o
- 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-spell — a sudden onset of a relatively brief period of cold weather.
- 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
- coldcocked — to knock (someone) unconscious, as with the fist.
- 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
- coleorhiza — a protective sheath around the radicle 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
- collarbone — Your collarbones are the two long bones which run from throat to your shoulders.
- collarette — a woman's fur or lace collar
- collarless — A collarless shirt or jacket has no collar.
- collatable — able to be collated
- collateral — Collateral is money or property which is used as a guarantee that someone will repay a loan.
- colleagues — an associate.
- 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.
- collegians — Plural form of collegian.
- collegiate — Collegiate means belonging or relating to a college or to college students.
- collembola — Any of many minute wingless arthropods of subclass Collembola; a springtail.
- collieries — Plural form of colliery.
- 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.
- collonades — Plural form of collonade.
- collophane — a massive, cryptocrystalline variety of apatite that is the principal component of phosphate rock and fossil bone.
- collophore — a ventral tubelike structure on the abdomen of a springtail.
- colloquies — a conversational exchange; dialogue.
- colloquize — to engage in colloquy
- collotypes — Plural form of collotype.
- colonisers — Plural form of coloniser.
- colonizers — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- colonnaded — A colonnaded building has evenly-spaced columns.
- colonnades — Plural form of colonnade.
- colonnette — a small or thin column or shaft.
- color line — A color line is the set of social, economic or political barriers that exist between different racial groups.
- color-code — to use specific colors, according to a code, for wires, switches, cards, files, etc.
- 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.
- colorbreed — to breed plants or animals selectively for the production of new varieties having a specific color or shade.
- colorectal — of or relating to the colon and rectum