10-letter words containing s, e, c, o
- coquettish — If you describe a woman as coquettish, you mean she acts in a playful way that is intended to make men find her attractive.
- coralbells — a perennial herb of the western US, Heuchera sanguinea, with red flowers that are shaped like bells
- corallines — Plural form of coralline.
- corbiestep — one of a series of steps at the upper end wall of some gables
- cordeliers — a Franciscan friar: so called from the knotted cord worn as a girdle.
- core store — an obsolete type of computer memory made up of a matrix of cores
- coresident — one of two or more computer programs stored in a computer memory simultaneously
- coriaceous — of or resembling leather
- corkscrews — Plural form of corkscrew.
- corkscrewy — Resembling the worm of a corkscrew in shape.
- corn snake — a large, harmless rat snake, Elaphe guttata guttata, of the southeastern U.S., having yellow, tan, or gray scales with dark-red blotches: once common in cornfields but now an endangered species.
- cornaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cornaceae, a family of temperate plants, mostly trees and shrubs, including dogwood, cornel, and spotted laurel
- corncrakes — Plural form of corncrake.
- cornerwise — with a corner in front; diagonally
- cornetfish — any of several slender fishes of the family Fistulariidae, of tropical seas, having an elongated snout and bony plates instead of scales.
- cornetists — Plural form of cornetist.
- cornettist — A musician who plays the cornett.
- cornfields — Plural form of cornfield.
- cornflakes — a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc
- cornhusker — a person or machine that strips cornhusks from ears of maize
- coronaries — Plural form of coronary.
- coroutines — Plural form of coroutine.
- corporates — Plural form of corporate.
- corpselike — Resembling a corpse.
- corpuscles — Plural form of corpuscle.
- corpuscule — Biology. an unattached cell, especially of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell.
- correlates — Plural form of correlate.
- correspond — If one thing corresponds to another, there is a close similarity or connection between them. You can also say that two things correspond.
- corrientes — a port in NE Argentina, on the Paraná River. Pop: 340 000 (2005 est)
- corrosible — corrodible
- corrosives — Plural form of corrosive.
- corrugates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrugate.
- corruscate — Dated form of coruscate.
- corselette — Alternative form of corselet (undergarment).
- corsetiere — a woman who makes and fits corsets
- coruscated — Simple past tense and past participle of coruscate.
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- cosentient — perceiving simultaneously or together
- cosherings — (in Ireland) visits to tenants' houses by a chief and his followers, where they would expect to be fed and accommodated
- cosmetical — relating to cosmetics
- cosmetized — to cosmeticize.
- cosmic web — a network of filaments of dark matter, believed by many astronomers to form the basis of the universe
- cosmodrome — a site, esp one in the former Soviet Union, from which spacecraft are launched
- cosmogenic — (of an isotope) produced by cosmic rays
- cospectral — (mathematics) isospectral.
- cost money — If you say that something costs money, you mean that it has to be paid for, and perhaps cannot be afforded.
- cost price — If something is sold at cost price, it is sold for the same price as it cost the seller to buy it.
- cost-share — to share the cost of: to cost-share a joint venture.
- costa mesa — city in SW Calif., near Long Beach: pop. 109,000
- costeaning — the activity of mining for lodes