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9-letter words containing t, o, c

  • cosseting — to treat as a pet; pamper; coddle.
  • cossetted — Simple past tense and past participle of cosset.
  • cost card — a summary of costs involved in the production of a product.
  • cost rent — (in Britain) the rent of a dwelling calculated on the cost of providing and maintaining the property without allowing for a profit
  • cost unit — a quantity or unit of a product or service whose cost is computed, used as a standard for comparison with other costs.
  • cost-plus — A cost-plus basis for a contract about work to be done is one in which the buyer agrees to pay the seller or contractor all the cost plus a profit.
  • cost-push — of or relating to cost-push inflation: a proponent of the cost-push theory.
  • costalgia — Pain in the ribs, or the costal muscles.
  • costanoan — a family of eight languages, now extinct, spoken by American Indian peoples of coastal California: part of the Penutian stock.
  • costarred — Simple past tense and past participle of costar.
  • costings' — cost accounting.
  • costively — In a costive manner.
  • costliest — costing much; expensive; high in price: a costly emerald bracelet; costly medical care.
  • costotome — an instrument, as shears or a knife, for incising or dividing a rib, as in costotomy.
  • costotomy — surgical incision into a rib
  • costumers — a person who makes, sells, or rents costumes, as for theatrical productions.
  • costumery — multiple costumes considered collectively
  • costumier — A costumier is a person or company that makes or supplies costumes.
  • costuming — a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
  • cot death — Cot death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
  • cot-quean — Archaic. a man who busies himself with traditionally women's household duties.
  • cotangent — (of an angle) a trigonometric function that in a right-angled triangle is the ratio of the length of the adjacent side to that of the opposite side; the reciprocal of tangent
  • cote-d'or — a department of E central France, in NE Burgundy. Capital: Dijon. Pop: 510 334 (2003 est). Area: 8787 sq km (3427 sq miles)
  • cothamore — a frieze fabric, often used in the manufacture of overcoats.
  • cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy
  • cothurnus — the buskin worn in ancient Greek tragedy
  • coticular — of or relating to whetstones
  • cotillion — a French formation dance of the 18th century
  • cotrustee — a fellow trustee
  • cotswolds — a range of low hills in SW England, mainly in Gloucestershire: formerly a centre of the wool industry
  • cottagers — Plural form of cottager.
  • cottaging — Cottaging is homosexual activity between men in public toilets.
  • cottering — Present participle of cotter.
  • cotton on — If you cotton on to something, you understand it or realize it, especially without people telling you about it.
  • cotton to — If you cotton to someone or something, you start to like them.
  • cottonade — a coarse fabric of cotton or mixed fibres, used for work clothes, etc
  • cottoning — Present participle of cotton.
  • cotunnite — a soft, white to yellowish mineral, lead chloride, PbCl 2 , that forms as an alteration product of galena.
  • cotyledon — a simple embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, which, in some species, forms the first green leaf after germination
  • couchette — A couchette is a bed on a train or a boat which is folded against the wall or used as a seat during the day.
  • count for — to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.
  • count off — to separate into equal divisions by counting
  • count out — If you count out a sum of money, you count the notes or coins as you put them in a pile one by one.
  • countable — capable of being counted
  • countably — in a countable manner
  • countback — a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores
  • countdown — A countdown is the counting aloud of numbers in reverse order before something happens, especially before a spacecraft is launched.
  • countered — in the wrong way; contrary to the right course; in the reverse or opposite direction.
  • countless — Countless means very many.
  • countline — (in the confectionery trade) a chocolate-based bar
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