12-letter words containing o, m, e
- collectivism — Collectivism is the political belief that a country's industries and services should be owned and controlled by the state or by all the people in a country. Socialism and communism are both forms of collectivism.
- collegialism — the theory that the church's highest authority is its collective membership
- collembolans — Plural form of collembolan.
- collembolous — of or relating to colembolans
- color scheme — In a room or house, the color scheme is the way in which colors have been used to decorate it.
- colorimeters — Plural form of colorimeter.
- colorimetric — a device that analyzes color by measuring a given color in terms of a standard color, a scale of colors, or certain primary colors.
- colour model — (graphics) Any system for representing colours as ordered sets of numbers. The most common colour models are RGB, CMYK, and HSB. There are several others, e.g. CMY, and the "Lab" system(?). See also: Pantone.
- column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- combat-ready — ready for combat
- comber board — (in weaving) a wooden frame pierced with a series of small holes through which the harness cords are threaded, used to regulate the cords and determine the texture and width of a repeat in a fabric.
- combustibles — Plural form of combustible.
- come back to — If you come back to a topic or point, you talk about it again later.
- come between — If someone or something comes between two people, or comes between a person and a thing, they make the relationship or connection between them less close or happy.
- come down on — If you come down on one side of an argument, you declare that you support that side.
- come down to — If a problem, decision, or question comes down to a particular thing, that thing is the most important factor involved.
- come forward — If someone comes forward, they offer to do something or to give some information in response to a request for help.
- come home to — to become absolutely clear to
- come off it! — stop trying to fool me!
- come out for — to announce one's approval of; endorse
- come running — hurry, rush
- 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 unglued — If something comes unglued, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
- 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.
- come-all-you — a street ballad, especially in England.
- comes around — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- cometography — the scientific description and recording of comets
- comeuppances — Plural form of comeuppance.
- comfort zone — a situation or position in which a person feels secure, comfortable, or in control
- comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
- comic relief — a comic interlude, or comic element, in a tragedy
- comma splice — comma fault.
- command line — typed instructions that access a computer system
- commandeered — Simple past tense and past participle of commandeer.
- commanderies — the office or rank of a commander.
- commandments — a command or mandate.
- commemorable — worthy of being commemorated
- 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