13-letter words starting with co
- colligational — Relating to colligation.
- collisionally — in the manner of a collision or collisions
- collocational — of or relating to a collocation or collocations
- collodionized — Simple past tense and past participle of collodionize.
- colloquialism — A colloquialism is a colloquial word or phrase.
- colloquialist — a skilled speaker
- colloquiality — a colloquial style
- cologne brown — Vandyke brown.
- colomb-bechar — former name of Béchar.
- colonel blimp — an elderly, pompous British reactionary, especially an army officer or government official.
- colonialistic — of or relating to colonialism
- colonoscopies — Plural form of colonoscopy.
- colorado ruby — a fire-red form of garnet found in Colorado and other parts of North America
- colored stone — any gemstone, colored or colorless, other than a diamond.
- colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
- coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
- colorlessness — The state of being colorless.
- colostomy bag — a bag that is attached to the surgical opening from the colon onto the surface of the body and into which faecal matter passes
- colour camera — a camera that takes colour photographs
- colour filter — a thin layer of coloured gelatine, glass, etc, that transmits light of certain colours or wavelengths but considerably reduces the transmission of others
- colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.
- colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
- colposcopical — of or relating to the colposcope
- columelliform — like a columella.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- column vector — a collection of numbers, as the components of a vector, written vertically.
- combat jacket — a military-style jacket, usually khaki, olive green, or with camouflage colours
- combat troops — troops who are engaged in fighting
- combativeness — The state of being combative.
- combinability — capable of combining or being combined.
- combinational — Of or pertaining to (a) combination.
- combinatorial — of or involving combination, esp. mathematical combination
- combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
- come a stumer — to crash financially
- come in handy — If something comes in handy, it is useful in a particular situation.
- come out with — If you come out with a remark, especially a surprising one, you make it.
- come to blows — to fight
- come to grief — If something comes to grief, it fails. If someone comes to grief, they fail in something they are doing, and may be hurt.
- come to grips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
- come to light — to be revealed
- come to terms — to reach acceptance or agreement
- come up roses — If you say that everything is coming up roses for someone, you mean that everything is going well for them.
- come up short — disappoint
- come what may — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- comfort woman — a girl or woman forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- coming of age — When something reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people, you can refer to this as its coming of age.
- command paper — (in Britain) a government document that is presented to Parliament, in theory by royal command
- commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
- commandership — a person who commands.