8-letter words starting with co
- colessor — a joint lessor
- coleuses — Plural form of coleus.
- colewort — cole
- colicine — an antibacterial protein
- coliform — relating to the bacilli that are present in the intestines of humans and invertebrate animals
- colinear — collinear.
- coliseum — a large building, such as a stadium or theatre, used for entertainments, sports, etc
- colistin — a polymyxin antibiotic
- collaged — a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
- collagen — Collagen is a protein that is found in the bodies of people and animals. It is often used as an ingredient in cosmetics or is injected into the face in cosmetic surgery, in order to make the skin look younger.
- collages — Plural form of collage.
- collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
- collards — A cabbage of a variety that does not develop a heart.
- collared — the part of a shirt, coat, dress, blouse, etc., that encompasses the neckline of the garment and is sewn permanently to it, often so as to fold or roll over.
- collaret — a small collar
- collated — to gather or arrange in their proper sequence (the pages of a report, the sheets of a book, the pages of several sets of copies, etc.).
- collates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collate.
- collator — a person or machine that collates texts or manuscripts
- collects — Plural form of collect.
- colledge — Obsolete form of college.
- colleens — Plural form of colleen.
- colleger — a member of a college
- colleges — Plural form of college.
- collegia — Ecclesiastical. college (def 11).
- collegue — Misspelling of colleague.
- colleted — a collar or enclosing band.
- colletid — (zoology) Any member of the Colletidae.
- collette — Toni, full name Antonia Collette. born 1972, Australian film actress. Her films include Muriel's Wedding (1994), The Sixth Sense (1999) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
- collided — to strike one another or one against the other with a forceful impact; come into violent contact; crash: The two cars collided with an ear-splitting crash.
- collider — a particle accelerator in which beams of particles are made to collide
- collides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collide.
- colliers — Plural form of collier.
- colliery — A colliery is a coal mine and all the buildings and equipment which are connected with it.
- collogue — to confer confidentially; intrigue or conspire
- colloids — Plural form of colloid.
- colloque — to collocate (objects or data)
- colloquy — a formal conversation or conference
- colluded — Simple past tense and past participle of collude.
- colluder — to act together through a secret understanding, especially with evil or harmful intent.
- colludes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collude.
- coloboma — a structural defect of the eye, esp in the choroid, retina, or iris
- colocate — to locate (two or more things) together
- cologned — Perfumed with cologne.
- colombes — an industrial and residential suburb of NW Paris. Pop: 83 220 (2006)
- colombia — a republic in NW South America: inhabited by Chibchas and other Indians before Spanish colonization in the 16th century; independence won by Bolívar in 1819; became the Republic of Colombia in 1886; violence and unrest have been endemic since the 1970s. It consists chiefly of a hot swampy coastal plain, separated by ranges of the Andes from the pampas and the equatorial forests of the Amazon basin in the east. Language: Spanish. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: peso. Capital: Bogotá. Pop: 45 745 783 (2013 est). Area: 1 138 908 sq km (439 735 sq miles)
- colonels — An army officer of high rank, in particular (in the US Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps) an officer above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general.
- colonial — Colonial means relating to countries that are colonies, or to colonialism.
- colonias — (in the southwestern U.S.) a city neighborhood or a rural settlement inhabited predominantly by Mexicans or Mexican Americans.
- colonics — of or relating to the colon.
- colonies — the subject territories formerly in the British Empire