12-letter words containing t, o, c, m, e
- coccygectomy — (surgery) Surgical removal of the coccyx.
- code segment — (memory) (Intel 8086 CS) The area of memory containing the machine code instructions of a program. The code segment of a program may be shared between multiple processes running that code so long as none of them tries to modify it. Initialised data is located in the data segment.
- 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.
- 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.
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- combat-ready — ready for combat
- 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 to — If a problem, decision, or question comes down to a particular thing, that thing is the most important factor involved.
- 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 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 zone — a situation or position in which a person feels secure, comfortable, or in control
- comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- commonalties — Plural form of commonalty.