12-letter words containing co
- black comedy — a comedy dealing with an unpleasant situation in a pessimistic or macabre manner
- black copper — a regulus of 95-percent-pure copper, produced in a blast furnace by smelting oxidized copper ores.
- black cosmos — a garden plant, Cosmos diversifolius, of Mexico, having small, dahlialike tubers and solitary flower heads with red disk flowers and velvety, dark-red or purplish ray flowers.
- black scoter — a scoter of Eurasia and North America, Melanitta nigra, the adult male of which is black.
- black-coated — (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial
- blastocoelic — of or relating to the blastocoel
- blind corner — a corner where the view of the road ahead is completely obscured or very restricted
- blue succory — a composite garden plant, Catananche caerulea, of southern Europe, having very hairy leaves and blue flower heads, used by the ancients as a love potion.
- boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
- brass-collar — unwaveringly faithful to a political party; voting the straight ticket: a brass-collar Democrat.
- bronchoscope — an instrument for examining and providing access to the interior of the bronchial tubes
- bronchoscopy — an examination by means of a bronchoscope.
- broncobuster — (in the western US and Canada) a cowboy who breaks in broncos or wild horses
- buccolingual — of or relating to the cheek and tongue.
- bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
- butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
- by the score — If things happen or exist by the score, they happen or exist in large numbers.
- cacodaemonic — Daemonic.
- cacophonical — cacophonous
- cacophonious — cacophonous
- call collect — If you call collect when you make a telephone call, the person who you are phoning pays the cost of the call and not you.
- calycoideous — calycoid
- canine corps — a military or law enforcement body which uses dogs for the detection of explosives or drugs or for security, tracking, etc
- cape cod bay — a part of Massachusetts Bay, enclosed by the Cape Cod peninsula.
- cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
- cape comorin — a headland at the southernmost point of India, in Tamil Nadu state
- capital cost — a cost incurred on the purchase of land, buildings, construction and equipment to be used in the production of goods or the rendering of services
- capricornean — born under or characteristic of Capricorn
- capricornian — a person born under the sign of Capricorn, usually between December 22nd and January 19th.
- card counter — a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.
- cash account — an account with a brokerage which stipulates that the client pays in full for any transactions, rather than being extended credit
- cash economy — an economic system, or part of one, in which financial transactions are carried out in cash rather than via direct debit, standing order, bank transfer, or credit card
- catacoustics — the branch of acoustics dealing with echoes and reflected sounds
- catalog code — the principles, rules, and regulations for entering and describing books or other library material in a catalog.
- catch a cold — to make a loss; lose one's investment
- cater-cousin — a close friend
- catty-corner — Something that is catty-corner or kitty-corner from another thing is placed or arranged diagonally from it.
- cavaco silva — Aníbal (aˈnibal). born 1939, Portuguese statesman; prime minister (1985–95); president (2006–16)
- centre court — the main court of a tennis complex, esp at Wimbledon
- chalcogenide — a binary compound consisting of a chalcogen and at least one other electropositive element
- chalcography — the art of engraving on copper or brass
- chalcolithic — of or relating to a period characterized by the use of both stone and bronze implements
- chalcopyrite — a widely distributed yellow mineral consisting of a sulphide of copper and iron in tetragonal crystalline form: the principal ore of copper. Formula: CuFeS2
- chalicothere — any of various very large extinct Tertiary horselike perissodactyl mammals that had clawed feet but otherwise resembled titanotheres
- change color — to become pale
- charcoal rot — a disease of plants, especially sorghum, corn, etc., characterized by basal stem lesions and a black discoloration and dry rot of the internal tissues at the base of the stem and upper roots, caused by a fungus, Macrophomina phaseoli.
- chicken coop — a coop for chickens.
- child record — (database) A record lower in the hierarchical tree than a parent record; it is also directly liked to the parent and hierarchical databases.
- chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
- chinese copy — an exact copy of an original