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14-letter words starting with co

  • common footman — an arctiid moth, ( Eilema lurideola), related to the tiger moth, with yellowish hind wings and brown forewings with a yellow front stripe; they produce woolly bear larvae
  • common grackle — a large songbird, Quiscalus quiscula, of the family Icteridae, of central and eastern North America, having iridescent black plumage varying in color.
  • common measure — the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b
  • common objects — (language)   An object-oriented Lisp from Hewlett-Packard.
  • common ragweed — a plant, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, of a chiefly North American genus: family Asteraceae (composites). Its green tassel-like flowers produce large amounts of pollen, which causes hay fever
  • common soldier — a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
  • common swallow — Hirundo rustica, a passerine songbird of the family Hirundinidae, having long pointed wings, a forked tail, short legs, and a rapid flight
  • commonsensical — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
  • communications — the ways in which human beings communicate
  • communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
  • communion wine — the wine used in the communion service
  • communism peak — a peak of the Pamir mountains, in NE Tajikistan. 24,590 feet (7495 meters).
  • communitarians — Plural form of communitarian.
  • community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt
  • community care — help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions
  • community home — a home provided by a local authority for children who cannot remain with parents or relatives, or be placed with foster parents
  • community life — the life and activities of a community
  • compact camera — a simple 35 mm snapshot camera not having interchangeable lenses or through-the-lens focusing but sometimes having automatic focusing, exposure, and winding
  • compactibility — capable of being compacted: compactible rubbish.
  • companion cell — any of a number of specialized parenchymal cells adjacent to a sieve tube in the phloem of flowering plants, believed to regulate the flow of nutrients through the tube.
  • companion star — companion1 (def 6).
  • companionships — Plural form of companionship.
  • company doctor — a businessperson or accountant who specializes in turning ailing companies into profitable enterprises
  • comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
  • compass course — the direction of a ship's course based on its compass
  • compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
  • compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
  • compassionable — exciting or deserving pity
  • compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
  • compassionless — having no compassion
  • compatibilists — Plural form of compatibilist.
  • compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
  • compensability — eligibility for compensation
  • compensational — the act or state of compensating, as by rewarding someone for service or by making up for someone's loss, damage, or injury by giving the injured party an appropriate benefit.
  • complementizer — a word or morpheme that serves to introduce a complement clause or a reduced form of such a clause, as that in I wish that he would leave
  • complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
  • complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
  • complexionless — (of a person's face) pale
  • complexometric — as in complexometric indicator, an ionochromic dye that undergoes a definite colour change in presence of specific metal ions
  • complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
  • composing room — the room in a printing establishment in which type is set
  • composite shot — split screen.
  • composite vote — a voting result arrived at through averaging or combining other votes
  • composite-shot — Also called composite shot. Movies, Television. a type of process photography in which two or more shots are juxtaposed and projected simultaneously on the screen.
  • compossibility — the possibility of coexisting
  • compostability — The quality of being compostable.
  • compound fault — a series of closely spaced faults
  • compound meter — any time signature in which the upper figure is a multiple of 3, as 6/8, 9/8, 12/8, etc.
  • compound ovary — an ovary composed of more than one carpel.
  • compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
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