10-letter words containing o, s, t, e
- close shot — closeup (def 2).
- close with — to engage in battle with an enemy
- close-knit — A close-knit group of people are closely linked, do things together, and take an interest in each other.
- closed set — a set that includes all the values obtained by application of a given operation to its members
- closestool — Alternative form of close-stool.
- cloth ears — a deaf person
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- clottiness — the condition of being clotty
- cloze test — test of the ability to understand text
- coagulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coagulate.
- coalescent — to grow together or into one body: The two lakes coalesced into one.
- coalmaster — the owner of a colliery
- coasterize — to ruin (a CD), esp while attempting to burn music, etc on to it, thus rendering it useful only as a drinks coaster
- coastlines — Plural form of coastline.
- coat dress — a lightweight button-through garment that can be worn either as a dress or as a coat
- cobwebsite — (jargon, web) A website that hasn't been updated for a long time. A dead web page.
- cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
- cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
- codeswitch — Alternative form of code-switch.
- coenocytes — Plural form of coenocyte.
- coenosteum — the calcareous skeleton of a hydrocoral or a coral colony
- coetaneous — of the same age or period
- coexistent — Existing at the same time as something else.
- coexisting — to exist together or at the same time.
- coffeepots — Plural form of coffeepot.
- coinvestor — a fellow investor
- colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
- cold steel — the use of bayonets, knives, etc, in combat
- cold store — A cold store is a building or room which is artificially cooled so that food can be preserved in it.
- cold sweat — If you are in a cold sweat, you are sweating and feel cold, usually because you are very afraid or nervous.
- cold-store — to store in cold storage.
- coldstream — a town in SE Scotland, in Scottish Borders on the English border: the Coldstream Guards were formed here (1660). Pop: 1813 (2001)
- colestipol — a drug that reduces the concentration of cholesterol in the blood: used, together with dietary restriction of cholesterol, to treat selected patients with hypercholesterolaemia and so prevent atherosclerosis
- collecters — Plural form of collecter.
- collectors — Plural form of collector.
- collimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collimate.
- collocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collocate.
- collotypes — Plural form of collotype.
- combustive — the act or process of burning.
- 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.
- comestible — food
- comforters — Plural form of comforter.
- comiserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- committees — Plural form of committee.
- compensate — To compensate someone for money or things that they have lost means to pay them money or give them something to replace that money or those things.
- completers — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- completest — Superlative form of complete.
- completist — a person with an obsessive interest in a subject
- components — A part or element of a larger whole, esp. a part of a machine or vehicle.
- composited — Simple past tense and past participle of composite.