8-letter words containing co
- colledge — Obsolete form of college.
- colleens — Plural form of colleen.
- colleger — a member of a college
- colleges — Plural form of college.
- collegia — Ecclesiastical. college (def 11).
- collegue — Misspelling of colleague.
- colleted — a collar or enclosing band.
- colletid — (zoology) Any member of the Colletidae.
- collette — Toni, full name Antonia Collette. born 1972, Australian film actress. Her films include Muriel's Wedding (1994), The Sixth Sense (1999) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
- collided — to strike one another or one against the other with a forceful impact; come into violent contact; crash: The two cars collided with an ear-splitting crash.
- collider — a particle accelerator in which beams of particles are made to collide
- collides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collide.
- colliers — Plural form of collier.
- colliery — A colliery is a coal mine and all the buildings and equipment which are connected with it.
- collogue — to confer confidentially; intrigue or conspire
- colloids — Plural form of colloid.
- colloque — to collocate (objects or data)
- colloquy — a formal conversation or conference
- colluded — Simple past tense and past participle of collude.
- colluder — to act together through a secret understanding, especially with evil or harmful intent.
- colludes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collude.
- coloboma — a structural defect of the eye, esp in the choroid, retina, or iris
- colocate — to locate (two or more things) together
- cologned — Perfumed with cologne.
- colombes — an industrial and residential suburb of NW Paris. Pop: 83 220 (2006)
- colombia — a republic in NW South America: inhabited by Chibchas and other Indians before Spanish colonization in the 16th century; independence won by Bolívar in 1819; became the Republic of Colombia in 1886; violence and unrest have been endemic since the 1970s. It consists chiefly of a hot swampy coastal plain, separated by ranges of the Andes from the pampas and the equatorial forests of the Amazon basin in the east. Language: Spanish. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: peso. Capital: Bogotá. Pop: 45 745 783 (2013 est). Area: 1 138 908 sq km (439 735 sq miles)
- colonels — An army officer of high rank, in particular (in the US Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps) an officer above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general.
- colonial — Colonial means relating to countries that are colonies, or to colonialism.
- colonias — (in the southwestern U.S.) a city neighborhood or a rural settlement inhabited predominantly by Mexicans or Mexican Americans.
- colonics — of or relating to the colon.
- colonies — the subject territories formerly in the British Empire
- colonise — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- colonist — Colonists are the people who start a colony or the people who are among the first to live in a particular colony.
- colonize — If people colonize a foreign country, they go to live there and take control of it.
- colonsay — an island in W Scotland, in the Inner Hebrides. Area: about 41 sq km (16 sq miles)
- colophon — a publisher's emblem on a book
- color in — If you color in a drawing, you give it different colors using crayons or paints.
- colorado — a state of the central US: consists of the Great Plains in the east and the Rockies in the west; drained chiefly by the Colorado, Arkansas, South Platte, and Rio Grande Rivers. Capital: Denver. Pop: 4 550 688 (2003 est). Area: 269 998 sq km (104 247 sq miles)
- colorant — A colorant is a substance that is used to give something a particular color.
- colorate — To apply color to something, make colourful.
- coloreds — Plural form of colored.
- colorful — Something that is colorful has bright colors or a lot of different colors.
- coloring — The coloring of something is the color or colors that it is.
- colorism — Prejudice or bias against persons on the basis of their skin color or complexion, often among persons of the same racial identification.
- colorist — A colorist is someone such as an artist or a fashion designer who uses colors in an interesting and original way.
- colorize — to prepare a video version of (a black-and-white film) in which color tones have been added by means of a computer program
- colorway — (arts) The scheme of two or more colors in which a design is available. It is often used to describe variegated or ombre (shades of one color) print yarns, fabric, or thread. It can also be applied to apparel, to wallpaper and other interior design motifs, and to specifications for printed materials such as magazines or newspapers.
- colossae — an ancient city in SW Phrygia in Asia Minor: seat of an early Christian Church
- colossal — If you describe something as colossal, you are emphasizing that it is very large.
- colossus — If you describe someone or something as a colossus, you think that they are extremely important and great in ability or size.