11-letter words starting with co
- collingwood — a city in SE Australia, near Melbourne.
- colliquable — capable of dissolving
- collisional — of or relating to a collision or collisions
- collocating — Present participle of collocate.
- collocation — In linguistics, collocation is the way that some words occur regularly whenever another word is used.
- collocative — the act of collocating.
- collocutory — of or relating to dialogue
- colloidally — in the manner of a colloid
- colloquiums — Plural form of colloquium.
- colluctancy — (obsolete, rare) A struggle to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature.
- collunarium — a solution for application in the nose; nose drops.
- collusively — in a collusive manner
- collutorium — collutory.
- colocynthis — Obsolete form of colocynth.
- cologarithm — the logarithm of the reciprocal of a number; the negative value of the logarithm
- colonelcies — an officer in the U.S. Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps ranking between lieutenant colonel and brigadier general: corresponding to a captain in the U.S. Navy.
- colonelling — the act of behaving like a colonel
- colonialism — Colonialism is the practice by which a powerful country directly controls less powerful countries and uses their resources to increase its own power and wealth.
- colonialist — Colonialist means relating to colonialism.
- coloniality — the state or condition of associating in colonies.
- colonialize — to make colonial
- colonizable — Capable of being colonized.
- colonoscope — an instrument for examining the colon, consisting of a flexible lighted tube that is inserted in the colon to look for abnormalities and to remove them or take tissue samples
- colonoscopy — visual inspection of the interior of the colon with a flexible, lighted tube inserted through the rectum.
- colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
- color force — Also called nuclear force. the short-range attractive force between baryons that holds together the nucleus of the atom.
- color guard — the persons carrying and escorting the colors (flag) in a parade, ceremony, etc.
- color index — the difference between the apparent photographic magnitude and the apparent visual magnitude of a star.
- color model — colour model
- color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
- color solid — a three-dimensional representation of colors according to the relationship between their hue, value, and saturation.
- color wheel — Art. one of a pair of primary or secondary colors opposed to the other member of the pair on a schematic chart or scale (color wheel) as green opposed to red, orange opposed to blue, or violet opposed to yellow. Compare analogous color. the relationship of these pairs of colors perceived as completing or enhancing each other.
- color-blind — Someone who is color-blind cannot see the difference between colors, especially between red and green.
- color-coded — Things that are color-coded use colors to represent different features or functions.
- color-field — designating or of a style of abstract painting in which colors are applied to a canvas, often in large patches, with little variation in tone and little emphasis on form
- color-slide — a color transparency, mounted usually between cardboard or plastic masks or glass plates, for projection onto a screen.
- coloradoite — a mineral, mercury telluride, HgTe, occurring in the form of grayish-black masses.
- coloraturas — Plural form of coloratura.
- colorbearer — a person who carries the colors or standard, especially of a military body. Compare guidon (def 2).
- colorcaster — an announcer, especially in sports, who provides supplementary information or comment.
- colorimeter — an apparatus for determining the concentration of a solution of a coloured substance by comparing the intensity of its colour with that of a standard solution or with standard colour slides
- colorimetry — the analysis or measurement of color by means of a colorimeter
- colorlessly — In a colorless manner.
- colostomies — Plural form of colostomy.
- colour code — a system of easily distinguishable colours, as for the identification of electrical wires or resistors
- colour film — a film for use in cameras that produces coloured pictures
- colour line — the social separation of racial groups within a community (esp in the phrase to cross the colour line)
- colouration — (British spelling) alternative spelling of coloration.
- colourblind — Alternative form of colour blind.