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15-letter words containing co

  • chamber concert — a concert of chamber music
  • chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
  • charcoal burner — (formerly) a person whose work was making charcoal by burning
  • charcoal-burner — a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.
  • charles coulomb — Charles Augustin de [sharl oh-gy-stan duh] /ʃarl oʊ güˈstɛ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1736–1806, French physicist and inventor.
  • chewing tobacco — tobacco, in the form of a plug, usually flavored, for chewing rather than smoking.
  • chicken colonel — an officer with the rank of full colonel
  • chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
  • chile con carne — chili con carne
  • chili con carne — Chili con carne is a dish made from meat, with a thick sauce of tomatoes, and powdered or fresh chilies.
  • chloramphenicol — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used esp in treating typhoid fever and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or synthesized. Formula: C11H12N2O5Cl2
  • chocolate brown — a dark brown
  • chondrosarcomas — Plural form of chondrosarcoma.
  • cinder concrete — concrete having small coal clinkers as an aggregate.
  • city councilman — a member of a city council
  • class-conscious — Someone who is class-conscious is very aware of the differences between the various classes of people in society, and often has a strong feeling of belonging to a particular class.
  • clerical collar — a stiff white collar with no opening at the front that buttons at the back of the neck; the distinctive mark of the clergy in certain Churches
  • climate control — air conditioning in a building or vehicle
  • close communion — a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
  • cloud computing — Cloud computing is a model of computer use in which services that are available on the Internet are provided to users on a temporary basis.
  • cluster college — a small residential college affiliated with a university but semi-independent and specializing in one field of study.
  • cmu common lisp — (language)   (CMU CL) A public domain "industrial strength" Common Lisp programming environment. Many of the X3J13 changes have been incorporated into CMU CL. Wherever possible, this has been done so as to transparently allow use of either CLtL1 or proposed ANSI CL. Probably the new features most interesting to users are SETF functions, LOOP and the WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT macro. The new CMU CL compiler is called Python. Version 17c includes an incremental compiler, profiler, run-time support, documentation, an editor and a debugger. It runs under Mach on SPARC, MIPS and IBM PC RT and under SunOS on SPARC. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • coachwhip snake — a slender nonvenomous snake, Masticophis flagellum, of the US
  • coaling station — a port at which vessels can take on coal
  • coast artillery — artillery used for defending coastal areas.
  • coast mountains — a mountain range in Canada, on the Pacific coast of British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Waddington, 4043 m (13 266 ft)
  • cobble together — If you say that someone has cobbled something together, you mean that they have made or produced it roughly or quickly.
  • cockfight chair — a chair designed to be sat on backward, having a bell seat and a crest rail that serves as an armrest.
  • cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
  • cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
  • coconsciousness — the state or position of being coconscious
  • coconut matting — a form of coarse matting made from the fibrous husk of the coconut
  • code management — source code management
  • code of conduct — The code of conduct for a group or organization is an agreement on rules of behaviour for the members of that group or organization.
  • codetermination — joint participation of management and employees or employees' trade union representatives in some decisions
  • coeliac disease — a chronic intestinal disorder caused by sensitivity to the protein gliadin contained in the gluten of cereals, characterized by distention of the abdomen and frothy and pale foul-smelling stools
  • coenzymatically — from a coenzymatic point of view
  • coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
  • coffee whitener — a milk substitute to put in coffee
  • coffee-coloured — having the colour of coffee; dark brown; light brown
  • cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
  • coinstantaneity — the act of taking place at exactly the same moment
  • coinstantaneous — taking place at exactly the same moment
  • cold-water flat — (formerly) an apartment provided with only cold running water, often in a building with no central heating.
  • coldwater-river — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
  • coleman lantern — a gasoline lantern that gives a bright light, used by campers
  • collaboratively — in the manner of working with others on a joint project
  • collared lizard — any of several species of long-tailed iguanid lizards of the genus Crotaphytus, of central and western U.S. and northern Mexico, usually having a collar of two black bands.
  • collected works — the works of a particular writer brought together into one volume or a set of volumes
  • collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
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