10-letter words containing m, o, r
- coldstream — a town in SE Scotland, in Scottish Borders on the English border: the Coldstream Guards were formed here (1660). Pop: 1813 (2001)
- collimator — a small telescope attached to a larger optical instrument as an aid in fixing its line of sight
- columbaria — Irregular plural form of columbarium.
- columellar — (biology, anatomy) Of or pertaining to a columella.
- comanchero — (in 19th-century New Mexico) a trader who traded with the Native American nomadic tribes such as the Comanche, Navajo, and Apache
- combat car — a small armoured car
- combinator — (computer science) A lambda expression which has no free variables in it.
- comburgess — (formerly) a fellow citizen or freeman of a borough
- combustors — Plural form of combustor.
- 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 round — to be restored to life or consciousness
- come under — If you come under attack or pressure, for example, people attack you or put pressure on you.
- come-outer — an outspoken or very active supporter of a cause, especially a reformer or a social activist.
- comebacker — (baseball) A pop fly that falls behind home plate, typically caught by the catcher for an out.
- comforters — Plural form of comforter.
- comforting — If you say that something is comforting, you mean it makes you feel less worried or unhappy.
- comiserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- commandeer — If the armed forces commandeer a vehicle or building owned by someone else, they officially take charge of it so that they can use it.
- commanders — Plural form of commander.
- commandery — a manor under the charge of a commander of a religious military order of knights
- commeasure — to coincide with in degree, extent, quality, etc
- commentary — A commentary is a description of an event that is broadcast on radio or television while the event is taking place.
- commercial — Commercial means involving or relating to the buying and selling of goods.
- comminutor — a machine that pulverizes solids, as in waste treatment.
- commissars — Plural form of commissar.
- commissary — A commissary is a shop that provides food and equipment in a place such as a military camp or a prison.
- commissure — a band of tissue linking two parts or organs, such as the nervous tissue connecting the right and left sides of the brain in vertebrates
- commixture — a mixture
- commodores — Plural form of commodore.
- common era — Christian Era
- commorancy — a dwelling in a place; usual or temporary residence in a place.
- commorient — Dying together or at the same time.
- communards — Plural form of communard.
- commutator — a device used to reverse the direction of flow of an electric current
- compactors — Plural form of compactor.
- compacture — an act of joining or bringing into proximity
- comparable — Something that is comparable to something else is roughly similar, for example in amount or importance.
- comparably — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- comparator — any instrument used to measure a property of a system by comparing it with a standard system
- comparison — When you make a comparison, you consider two or more things and discover the differences between them.
- compatriot — Your compatriots are people from your own country.
- compearant — a person who appears in court
- compersion — The feeling of joy one has experiencing another's joy, such as in witnessing a toddler's joy and feeling joy in response.
- competitor — A company's competitors are companies who are trying to sell similar goods or services to the same people.
- compilator — a compiler
- complainer — A complainer is someone who complains a lot about their problems or about things they do not like.
- completers — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- completory — serving the purpose of completing
- complotter — One who complots; a conspirator.
- compositor — A compositor is a person who arranges the text and pictures of a book, magazine, or newspaper before it is printed.