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11-letter words containing co

  • coast guard — The coast guard is a part of a country's military forces and is responsible for protecting the coast, carrying out rescues, and doing police work along the coast.
  • coast pilot — Also called pilot. a manual published by a government for mariners, containing descriptions of coastal waters, harbor facilities, etc., for a specific area.
  • coast range — a series of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America, extending from Baja California to SE Alaska.
  • coasteering — the sport of following a coastline by swimming, climbing, diving, and walking while wearing a wetsuit, a life jacket, and a helmet
  • coat armour — a coat of arms
  • coat flower — a plant, Petrorhagia saxifraga, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having pink or white flowers in terminal branching clusters.
  • coat hanger — A coat hanger is a curved piece of wood, metal, or plastic that you hang a piece of clothing on.
  • coatdresses — Plural form of coatdress.
  • coatesville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
  • coati-mundi — coati
  • coauthoring — Present participle of coauthor.
  • cobalt blue — any greenish-blue pigment containing cobalt aluminate, usually made by heating cobaltous sulphate, aluminium oxide, and phosphoric acid together
  • cobalt bomb — a cobalt-60 device used in radiotherapy
  • cobblestone — Cobblestones are stones with a rounded upper surface which used to be used for making streets.
  • cocainizing — Present participle of cocainize.
  • coccidiosis — any disease of domestic and other animals caused by introcellular parasitic protozoa of the order Coccidia. One species, Isospora hominis, can infect humans
  • cocciferous — (of a plant) bearing berries
  • cocelebrant — One of two or more celebrants involved with the same occasion.
  • cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
  • cock's-foot — a weedy grass, Dactylis glomerata, often grown for pastures.
  • cock-a-hoop — If you are cock-a-hoop, you are extremely pleased about something that you have done.
  • cock-teaser — a woman who acts flirtatiously and appears to be sexually available, but does not engage in sexual activity
  • cockatrices — Plural form of cockatrice.
  • cockblocker — Agent noun of cockblock: one who cockblocks.
  • cockchafers — Plural form of cockchafer.
  • cockcrowing — The crowing sound of a cock.
  • cockeye bob — a sudden storm or cyclone
  • cockfighter — One who engages in a cockfight.
  • cockleboats — Plural form of cockleboat.
  • cockleshell — the shell of the cockle
  • cockroaches — Plural form of cockroach.
  • cocksuckers — (vulgar) Plural form of cocksucker.
  • cocktailing — any of various short mixed drinks, consisting typically of gin, whiskey, rum, vodka, or brandy, with different admixtures, as vermouth, fruit juices, or flavorings, usually chilled and frequently sweetened.
  • cocky's joy — golden syrup
  • coco de mer — a palm tree, Lodoicea maldivica, of the Seychelles, producing a large fruit containing a two-lobed edible nut
  • coco-de-mer — double coconut.
  • cocoa beach — a town in E central Florida.
  • coconscious — a division within the subconscious
  • coconstruct — To construct together.
  • coconut ice — a sweetmeat made from desiccated coconut and sugar
  • coconut oil — the fatty oil obtained from the meat of the coconut and used for making soap, cosmetics, etc
  • coconut shy — a fairground stall in which balls are thrown to knock coconuts off stands
  • cocos plate — a tectonic division of the earth's crust, coincident with the oceanic Guatemala Basin, and bounded on the north and east by the Central American Trench, on the west by the East Pacific Rise, and on the south by the Nazca Plate.
  • cocultivate — to cultivate jointly
  • code dating — the system of marking products with the date when they were packed
  • code letter — a letter which is part of a code
  • code monkey — a computer programmer who is able to perform only routine tasks
  • code number — a number used to identify something
  • code police — (humour)   (By analogy with George Orwell's "Thought Police" in "1984") A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that enforce programming style rules. Used ironically, to suggest that the practice under discussion is condemned mainly by anal-retentive weenies. "Dike out that goto or the code police will get you!" The ironic usage is perhaps more common.
  • codebreaker — A person who solves a code or codes.
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