12-letter words containing o, c, t, m
- come through — To come through a dangerous or difficult situation means to survive it and recover from it.
- come to hand — to become available; be received
- come to life — If something or someone comes to life, they become active.
- come to mind — be recalled
- come to pass — to take place
- come to rest — When an object that has been moving comes to rest, it finally stops.
- come unstuck — If something comes unstuck, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
- come up with — If you come up with a plan or idea, you think of it and suggest it.
- cometography — the scientific description and recording of comets
- comfort food — If you call something comfort food, you mean it is enjoyable to eat and makes you feel happier, although it may not be very good for your health.
- comfort stop — a short break on a journey to allow travellers to go to the toilet
- comfort zone — a situation or position in which a person feels secure, comfortable, or in control
- comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
- comfortingly — In a comforting manner.
- command post — A command post is a place from which a commander in the army controls and organizes his forces.
- commandments — a command or mandate.
- commemorated — Simple past tense and past participle of commemorate.
- commemorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commemorate.
- commemorator — A person who commemorates something.
- commencement — The commencement of something is its beginning.
- commendation — the act or an instance of commending; praise
- commendatory — serving to commend; expressing praise or approval
- commensality — eating together at the same table.
- commensurate — If the level of one thing is commensurate with another, the first level is in proportion to the second.
- commentarial — a series of comments, explanations, or annotations: a commentary on the Bible; news followed by a commentary.
- commentariat — the journalists and broadcasters who analyse and comment on current affairs
- commentaries — Plural form of commentary.
- commentating — Present participle of commentate.
- commentation — the act of making comments
- commentative — of or relating to comment or commentary.
- commentators — Plural form of commentator.
- comminations — Plural form of commination.
- commiserated — Simple past tense and past participle of commiserate.
- commiserates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commiserate.
- commiserator — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- commissariat — A commissariat is a military department that is in charge of food supplies.
- committeeman — a member of one or more committees
- committeemen — Plural form of committeeman.
- commoditised — Simple past tense and past participle of commoditise.
- commoditized — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- common metre — a stanza form, used esp for hymns, consisting of four lines, two of eight syllables alternating with two of six
- common ratio — geometric ratio.
- common stock — Common stock refers to the shares in a company that are owned by people who have a right to vote at the company's meetings and to receive part of the company's profits after the holders of preferred stock have been paid.
- common swift — Apus apus, a bird with long narrow wings which spends most of the time on the wing
- common topaz — topaz (def 2).
- common touch — the ability to communicate with, appeal to, or inspire ordinary people.
- commonalties — Plural form of commonalty.
- commonwealth — The Commonwealth is an organization consisting of the United Kingdom and most of the countries that were previously under its rule.
- commorientes — people whose deaths are so close to each other (being caused by the same calamity) that it is not possible to determine who died first. It is assumed that the elder person died first
- communicants — Plural form of communicant.