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13-letter words containing e, o, c

  • coffin corner — any of the corners of a football field formed by a goal line and side line: punts are sometimes directed to a coffin corner so that the ball will go out of bounds near the opponent's goal line
  • coffin dodger — an old person
  • cogent prolog — (language)   A full Edinburgh standard Prolog with debugger, listener, DCG, many built-ins, text windows, support for modules, and support for both 16-bit and 32-bit protected mode. Contact: Dennis C. Merritt.
  • cognitive map — a mental map of one's environment
  • cohesive soil — sticky soil such as clay or clayey silt whose strength depends on the surface tension of capillary water
  • coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
  • coinheritance — joint inheritance
  • cointegration — (mathematics) The condition of two non-stationary time series whose linear combination is stationary.
  • cold shoulder — If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
  • cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
  • coldheartedly — Alternative spelling of cold-heartedly.
  • coleman stove — a portable kerosene camp stove
  • collaborative — A collaborative piece of work is done by two or more people or groups working together.
  • collared dove — a European dove, Streptopelia decaocto, having a brownish-grey plumage with a black band on the back of the neck
  • collate-rally — security pledged for the payment of a loan: He gave the bank some stocks and bonds as collateral for the money he borrowed.
  • collateralise — Alternative spelling of collateralize.
  • collaterality — the state of being collateral
  • collateralize — to treat (a security) as collateral
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • collectedness — The state or quality of being collected.
  • collectivised — Simple past tense and past participle of collectivise.
  • collectivized — (of agriculture, farms, factories, etc) organized according to the principles of collectivism
  • collectivizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collectivize.
  • collectorates — Plural form of collectorate.
  • collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
  • college radio — radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.
  • college-bound — intending to go to college
  • collieshangie — a quarrel
  • collodionized — Simple past tense and past participle of collodionize.
  • cologne brown — Vandyke brown.
  • colomb-bechar — former name of Béchar.
  • colonel blimp — an elderly, pompous British reactionary, especially an army officer or government official.
  • colonoscopies — Plural form of colonoscopy.
  • colored stone — any gemstone, colored or colorless, other than a diamond.
  • colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
  • colorlessness — The state of being colorless.
  • colour camera — a camera that takes colour photographs
  • colour filter — a thin layer of coloured gelatine, glass, etc, that transmits light of certain colours or wavelengths but considerably reduces the transmission of others
  • colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.
  • columelliform — like a columella.
  • column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
  • column vector — a collection of numbers, as the components of a vector, written vertically.
  • combat jacket — a military-style jacket, usually khaki, olive green, or with camouflage colours
  • combativeness — The state of being combative.
  • come a stumer — to crash financially
  • come in handy — If something comes in handy, it is useful in a particular situation.
  • come out with — If you come out with a remark, especially a surprising one, you make it.
  • come to blows — to fight
  • come to grief — If something comes to grief, it fails. If someone comes to grief, they fail in something they are doing, and may be hurt.
  • come to grips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
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