11-letter words containing colo
- corticolous — living or growing on the surface of bark
- culmicolous — (of a fungus) growing on grass culms.
- decolonised — Simple past tense and past participle of decolonise.
- decolonized — Simple past tense and past participle of decolonize.
- decolonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decolonize.
- decolorants — Plural form of decolorant.
- decolorized — Simple past tense and past participle of decolorize.
- decolorizer — a substance that removes colour
- discolorate — (transitive, dated) To discolor.
- discoloring — Present participle of discolor.
- discolorous — (botany, of leaves) Having upper and lower surfaces of different colours.
- discoloured — (British) alternative spelling of discolored.
- earth-color — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- false color — photography using infrared-sensitive film that produces images in which heat-emitting areas or objects appear red.
- film colour — a misty appearance produced when no lines or edges are present in the visual field
- flame color — bright reddish-orange.
- flesh color — (no longer in common use; now considered offensive) a yellowish pink or pinkish cream color (approximating the skin color of a white person).
- foliicolous — growing on leaves, as certain liverworts.
- four-colour — (of a print or photographic process) using the principle in which four colours (magenta, cyan, yellow, and black) are used in combination to produce almost any other colour
- gynaecology — Alternative form of gynecology.
- gynecologic — the branch of medical science that deals with the health maintenance and diseases of women, especially of the reproductive organs. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.
- hair colour — the colour or shade of someone's hair
- high colour — (hardware) A colour depth of 16 (or 15) bits per pixel. Compare true colour.
- hypercolour — a dye that causes a fabric to change colour with a change of temperature
- lignicolous — growing or living on or in wood
- local color — distinctive, sometimes picturesque characteristics or peculiarities of a place or period as represented in literature or drama, or as observed in reality.
- lost colony — a settlement of British colonists whom Walter Raleigh sent to Roanoke Island (now part of North Carolina) in 1587 and of whom no trace was found after 1591.
- microcolony — A microscopic colony of cells (especially of bacteria).
- monticolous — existing or having a habitat in or on mountains
- multicolour — (chiefly, British, and, Canada) alternative spelling of multicolor.
- mycological — Of or pertaining to mycology.
- mycologists — Plural form of mycologist.
- myrmecology — the branch of entomology dealing with ants.
- neocolonial — the policy of a strong nation in seeking political and economic hegemony over an independent nation or extended geographical area without necessarily reducing the subordinate nation or area to the legal status of a colony.
- noncoloured — not coloured
- oncological — (oncology) Of or pertaining to oncology.
- oncologists — Plural form of oncologist.
- phycologist — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- piscicolous — (of an organism) living on or in fishes
- precolonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
- scolopendra — a member of a genus of centipedes belonging to the Scolopendridae family
- silvicolous — living or growing in woodlands.
- skin colour — the colour of a person's skin, ie Black, White, etc
- straw color — a pale yellow similar to the color of straw.
- synoecology — the science of relationships between species
- technicolor — (often lowercase) flamboyant or lurid, as in color, meaning, or detail.
- terricolous — living on or in the ground.
- three-color — having or characterized by the use of three colors.
- tone colour — the quality of a musical sound that is conditioned or distinguished by the upper partials or overtones present in it
- tricoloured — having three colours