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11-letter words containing co

  • bid welcome — to receive with cordial greetings
  • binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
  • biocoenosis — a diverse community inhabiting a single biotope
  • blastocoele — the segmentation cavity of a developing ovum or of the blastula
  • blood count — Your blood count is the number of red and white cells in your blood. A blood count can also refer to a medical examination which determines the number of red and white cells in your blood.
  • blue cohosh — either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
  • blue collar — of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.
  • blue-collar — Blue-collar workers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.
  • body colour — a painting technique using opaque watercolour paint in which the pigments are bound with glue and the lighter tones contain white
  • body combat — a type of fitness programme in which individuals perform non-contact martial arts moves to music
  • bow compass — a compass for drawing, in which the legs are joined by a flexible metal bow-shaped spring rather than a hinge, the angle being adjusted by a screw
  • box cornice — a hollow cornice of boards and moldings nailed to rafters and lookouts.
  • brain coral — a stony coral of the genus Meandrina, in which the polyps lie in troughlike thecae resembling the convoluted surface of a human brain
  • break cover — (esp of game animals) to come out from a shelter or hiding place
  • breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
  • bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
  • bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
  • broken coal — anthracite in pieces ranging from 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.5 to 11 cm) in extreme dimension; the largest commercial size, larger than egg coal.
  • brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
  • bucolically — of or relating to shepherds; pastoral.
  • bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
  • bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
  • buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
  • cacodemonic — relating to cacodemons
  • cacoepistic — Of or relating to mispronounced words.
  • cacogastric — relating to an upset stomach
  • cacogenesis — (medicine) A morbid, monstrous, or pathological growth or product; an abnormality in structure; a monstrosity.
  • cacographic — Displaying the properties of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
  • cacomistles — Plural form of cacomistle.
  • cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
  • cacophonous — If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant.
  • cadet corps — a group of school pupils receiving elementary military training in a school corps
  • caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
  • caird coast — a region of Antarctica: a part of Coats Land on the SE coast of the Weddell Sea; now included in the British Antarctic Territory (claim suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959)
  • calico bass — crappie
  • calico bush — mountain laurel
  • calico clam — any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Macrocallista, especially M. nimbosa, having a smooth, thick, rounded shell marked with violet-brown or lilac spots or streaks.
  • calico crab — a brightly speckled swimming crab, Ovalipes ocellatus, of sandy beaches along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
  • camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
  • cannel coal — a dull coal having a high volatile content and burning with a smoky luminous flame
  • cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
  • cape collar — a soft, wide, circular collar that covers the shoulders and the upper arms like a cape.
  • cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
  • capricornia — the regions of Australia in the tropic of Capricorn
  • capricornus — a faint zodiacal constellation in the S hemisphere, lying between Sagittarius and Aquarius
  • carbon copy — If you say that one person or thing is a carbon copy of another, you mean that they look or behave exactly like them.
  • carbon-copy — a duplicate of anything written or typed, made by using a photocopier or, formerly, by using carbon paper. Abbreviation: cc. a copy of an email or other electronic document that is sent to one or more people in addition to the primary addressee. Abbreviation: cc.
  • cash income — income received in the form of cash during a specified period, esp that of rural and farming households
  • catercorner — diagonal.
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