10-letter words containing o, c, a, n
- cognominal — Of or relating to a cognomen.
- cohabitant — a person living together with another or others
- cohabiting — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohobating — Present participle of cohobate.
- cohobation — (dated, chemistry) The boiling of a material in a liquid with the repeated return of the distillate.
- colcannons — Plural form of colcannon.
- cold-drawn — (of metal wire, bars, etc) having been drawn unheated through a die to reduce dimensions, toughen, and improve surface finish
- 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
- collapsing — Present participle of collapse.
- collapsion — (archaic) collapse.
- collarbone — Your collarbones are the two long bones which run from throat to your shoulders.
- collations — Plural form of collation.
- collegians — Plural form of collegian.
- colliquant — capable of liquefaction or dissolution
- collonades — Plural form of collonade.
- collophane — a massive, cryptocrystalline variety of apatite that is the principal component of phosphate rock and fossil bone.
- colocating — Present participle of colocate.
- colocation — Alternative spelling of collocation.
- colonially — In a colonial manner.
- colonnaded — A colonnaded building has evenly-spaced columns.
- colonnades — Plural form of colonnade.
- coloradoan — a state in the W United States. 104,247 sq. mi. (270,000 sq. km). Capital: Denver. Abbreviation: CO (for use with zip code), Col., Colo.
- coloration — The coloration of an animal or a plant is the colours and patterns on it.
- colossians — a book of the New Testament (in full The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians)
- 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.
- colwyn bay — a town and resort in N Wales, in Conwy county borough. Pop: 30 269 (2001)
- comanchean — of or relating to the early part of the Cretaceous system and period
- comanchero — (in 19th-century New Mexico) a trader who traded with the Native American nomadic tribes such as the Comanche, Navajo, and Apache
- comandante — commandant.
- combatants — a nation engaged in active fighting with enemy forces.
- combatting — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combinable — capable of combining or being combined.
- combinator — (computer science) A lambda expression which has no free variables in it.
- come again — Some people say 'Come again?' when they want you to repeat what you have just said.
- come along — You tell someone to come along to encourage them in a friendly way to do something, especially to attend something.
- come clean — to make a revelation or confession
- comeupance — Alternative form of comeuppance.
- commandant — A commandant is an army officer in charge of a particular place or group of people.
- 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
- commandeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of command.
- commanding — If you are in a commanding position or situation, you are in a strong or powerful position or situation.
- commandoes — Plural form of commando.
- commensals — Plural form of commensal.
- commentary — A commentary is a description of an event that is broadcast on radio or television while the event is taking place.
- commentate — To commentate means to give a radio or television commentary on an event.
- common era — Christian Era
- common law — the body of law based on judicial decisions and custom, as distinct from statute law
- common-law — of, relating to, or established by common law: a common-law spouse.