13-letter words starting with co
- computer file — file
- computer game — A computer game is a game that you play on a computer or on a small portable piece of electronic equipment.
- computer geek — (jargon) (Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfils all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. The term cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black usage of "nigger". A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. See also Alpha Geek, propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie.
- computer nerd — someone who is inordinately preoccupied with using computers, at the expense of ordinary social skills
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
- computerphobe — a person with a strong fear or dislike of computers
- comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
- comstock lode — an extensive gold and silver vein in W Nevada, near Virginia City
- concatenating — Present participle of concatenate.
- concatenation — A concatenation of things or events is their occurrence one after another, because they are linked.
- concatenative — Linked in a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; successive.
- conceitedness — having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.
- concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
- concentrating — Present participle of concentrate.
- concentration — Concentration on something involves giving all your attention to it.
- concentrative — tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration
- concentrators — Plural form of concentrator.
- concentricity — having a common center, as circles or spheres.
- concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
- conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
- conceptuality — a conceptualization
- conceptualize — If you conceptualize something, you form an idea of it in your mind.
- concert grand — a full-size grand piano, usually around 7 feet in length
- concert party — a musical entertainment popular in the early 20th century, esp one at a British seaside resort
- concert pitch — the frequency of 440 hertz assigned to the A above middle C
- concertedness — the state of being concerted
- concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
- concertinaing — Present participle of concertina.
- concertmaster — The concertmaster of an orchestra is the most senior violin player, who acts as a deputy to the conductor.
- concessionary — A concessionary price is a special price which is lower than the normal one and which is often given to old people, students, and the unemployed.
- concessioners — Plural form of concessioner.
- concessionist — a person who supports or recommends concession
- conchological — Of or pertaining to conchology.
- conchylaceous — Of or relating to shells; resembling a shell.
- conclusionary — conclusory
- concomitances — Plural form of concomitance.
- concomitantly — existing or occurring with something else, often in a lesser way; accompanying; concurrent: an event and its concomitant circumstances.
- concord coach — a 19th-cent. type of stagecoach used by early settlers of the western U.S.
- concord grape — a variety of grape with purple-black fruit covered with a bluish bloom
- concrescences — Plural form of concrescence.
- concrete noun — a noun that refers to a material object, as for example horse
- concrete poet — a writer of concrete poetry.
- concretionary — formed by concretion; consisting of concreted matter or masses.
- concupiscence — strong desire, esp sexual desire
- concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
- concurrencies — Plural form of concurrency.
- concurrent ml — (language) (CML) A concurrent extension of SML/NJ written by J. Reppy at Cornell University in 1990. CML supports dynamic thread creation and synchronous message passing on typed channels. Threads are implemented using first-class continuations. First-class synchronous operations allow users to tailor their synchronisation abstractions for their application. CML also supports both stream I/O and low-level I/O in an integrated fashion. E-mail: <[email protected]> (bugs).