12-letter words containing colo
- hepaticology — the scientific study of bryophyte plants known as hepatics or liverworts
- high-colored — deep in color; vivid.
- hydroecology — The study of support systems in wetlands such as the interactions between water and wildlife habitats.
- king's color — a white ceremonial ensign with a royal cipher, flown on special occasions by the British Royal Navy.
- lapidicolous — living under stones
- leper colony — a place where people who have leprosy live in quarantine
- lexicologist — the study of the formation, meaning, and use of words and of idiomatic combinations of words.
- limacologist — a person who specialises in the study of slugs
- local colour — Local colour is used to refer to customs, traditions, dress, and other things which give a place or period of history its own particular character.
- malacologist — A person who studies molluscs, who specializes in malacology.
- microecology — the ecology of a microhabitat.
- muffle color — Ceramics. a color fired onto an object in a muffle kiln.
- multicolored — of several or many colors.
- musicologist — the scholarly or scientific study of music, as in historical research, musical theory, or the physical nature of sound.
- narcological — Relating to narcology.
- non-colonial — of, concerning, or pertaining to a colony or colonies: the colonial policies of France.
- overcoloured — excessively coloured
- paleoecology — the branch of ecology dealing with the relations and interactions between ancient life forms and their environment.
- paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
- particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- penal colony — remote prison
- pharmacology — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
- phycologists — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- postcolonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
- poster color — poster paint.
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- pre-colonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
- pro-colonial — of, concerning, or pertaining to a colony or colonies: the colonial policies of France.
- radicicolous — living on the roots of plants
- radioecology — the branch of ecology concerned with the effects of radioactivity on the environment
- rose-colored — of rose color; rosy.
- royal colony — a colony ruled or administered by officials appointed by and responsible to the reigning sovereign of the parent state.
- rust-colored — of the color rust.
- sanguicolous — living in the blood, as a parasite.
- scolopaceous — (of birds or other animals) like a snipe, a shore bird with a straight beak
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- self-colored — of one color.
- semicolonial — partly colonial
- silicicolous — thriving in siliceous soil
- spongicolous — relating to the skeleton of some marine animals
- synecologist — a student of, or expert in, synecology
- technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
- temper color — any of the colors appearing on the surface of clean, unoxidized steel heated in air, from pale yellow at the coolest to dark blue at the hottest: used as an approximate indication of temperature.
- three-colour — of, relating to, or comprising a colour print or a photomechanical process in which a picture is reproduced by superimposing three prints from half-tone plates in inks corresponding to the three primary colours
- tow-coloured — pale yellow; flaxen
- true colours — If you see someone in their true colours or if they show their true colours, you realize what they are really like.
- unecological — the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.
- vaginicolous — living in a sheath
- varicoloured — having many colours; variegated; motley
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.