11-letter words starting with co
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- cock's-foot — a weedy grass, Dactylis glomerata, often grown for pastures.
- cock-a-hoop — If you are cock-a-hoop, you are extremely pleased about something that you have done.
- cock-teaser — a woman who acts flirtatiously and appears to be sexually available, but does not engage in sexual activity
- cockatrices — Plural form of cockatrice.
- cockblocker — Agent noun of cockblock: one who cockblocks.
- cockchafers — Plural form of cockchafer.
- cockcrowing — The crowing sound of a cock.
- cockeye bob — a sudden storm or cyclone
- cockfighter — One who engages in a cockfight.
- cockleboats — Plural form of cockleboat.
- cockleshell — the shell of the cockle
- cockroaches — Plural form of cockroach.
- cocksuckers — (vulgar) Plural form of cocksucker.
- cocktailing — any of various short mixed drinks, consisting typically of gin, whiskey, rum, vodka, or brandy, with different admixtures, as vermouth, fruit juices, or flavorings, usually chilled and frequently sweetened.
- cocky's joy — golden syrup
- coco de mer — a palm tree, Lodoicea maldivica, of the Seychelles, producing a large fruit containing a two-lobed edible nut
- coco-de-mer — double coconut.
- cocoa beach — a town in E central Florida.
- coconscious — a division within the subconscious
- coconstruct — To construct together.
- coconut ice — a sweetmeat made from desiccated coconut and sugar
- coconut oil — the fatty oil obtained from the meat of the coconut and used for making soap, cosmetics, etc
- coconut shy — a fairground stall in which balls are thrown to knock coconuts off stands
- cocos plate — a tectonic division of the earth's crust, coincident with the oceanic Guatemala Basin, and bounded on the north and east by the Central American Trench, on the west by the East Pacific Rise, and on the south by the Nazca Plate.
- cocultivate — to cultivate jointly
- code dating — the system of marking products with the date when they were packed
- code letter — a letter which is part of a code
- code monkey — a computer programmer who is able to perform only routine tasks
- code number — a number used to identify something
- code police — (humour) (By analogy with George Orwell's "Thought Police" in "1984") A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that enforce programming style rules. Used ironically, to suggest that the practice under discussion is condemned mainly by anal-retentive weenies. "Dike out that goto or the code police will get you!" The ironic usage is perhaps more common.
- codebreaker — A person who solves a code or codes.
- codefendant — a fellow defendant
- codependent — A codependent person is in an unsatisfactory relationship with someone who is ill or an addict, but does not want the relationship to end.
- codeveloper — a fellow developer
- codicillary — of, relating to, or of the nature of a codicil.
- codirection — joint direction
- codirectors — Plural form of codirector.
- codominance — Ecology. being one of two or more species that are equally dominant in a biotic community: a forest in which oak and hickory are codominant.
- coeducation — instruction in schools, colleges, etc, attended by both sexes
- coefficient — A coefficient is a number that expresses a measurement of a particular quality of a substance or object under specified conditions.
- coelacanths — Plural form of coelacanth.
- coelenteron — the simple saclike body cavity of a coelenterate
- coelioscopy — a medical procedure for examining the abdomen
- coelurosaur — any of various small to very large bipedal carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs belonging to the suborder Theropoda, active in the Triassic and Cretaceous periods; Tyrannosaurus was a coelurosaur, and birds are thought to have evolved from small coelurosaurs
- coenenchyma — gelatinous material uniting the polyps of an anthozoan colony
- coenenchyme — the gelatinous framework between polyps of an anthozoan colony
- coenobitism — the practice of coenobites
- coenzymatic — of or relating to coenzymes
- coercimeter — an instrument used for measurement of coercive force