8-letter words starting with col
- 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
- colonise — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- colonist — Colonists are the people who start a colony or the people who are among the first to live in a particular colony.
- colonize — If people colonize a foreign country, they go to live there and take control of it.
- colonsay — an island in W Scotland, in the Inner Hebrides. Area: about 41 sq km (16 sq miles)
- colophon — a publisher's emblem on a book
- color in — If you color in a drawing, you give it different colors using crayons or paints.
- colorado — a state of the central US: consists of the Great Plains in the east and the Rockies in the west; drained chiefly by the Colorado, Arkansas, South Platte, and Rio Grande Rivers. Capital: Denver. Pop: 4 550 688 (2003 est). Area: 269 998 sq km (104 247 sq miles)
- colorant — A colorant is a substance that is used to give something a particular color.
- colorate — To apply color to something, make colourful.
- coloreds — Plural form of colored.
- colorful — Something that is colorful has bright colors or a lot of different colors.
- coloring — The coloring of something is the color or colors that it is.
- colorism — Prejudice or bias against persons on the basis of their skin color or complexion, often among persons of the same racial identification.
- colorist — A colorist is someone such as an artist or a fashion designer who uses colors in an interesting and original way.
- colorize — to prepare a video version of (a black-and-white film) in which color tones have been added by means of a computer program
- colorway — (arts) The scheme of two or more colors in which a design is available. It is often used to describe variegated or ombre (shades of one color) print yarns, fabric, or thread. It can also be applied to apparel, to wallpaper and other interior design motifs, and to specifications for printed materials such as magazines or newspapers.
- colossae — an ancient city in SW Phrygia in Asia Minor: seat of an early Christian Church
- colossal — If you describe something as colossal, you are emphasizing that it is very large.
- colossus — If you describe someone or something as a colossus, you think that they are extremely important and great in ability or size.
- colotomy — a colonic incision
- coloured — Something that is coloured a particular colour is that colour.
- colourer — a person or thing that colours
- colpitis — inflammation of the vagina; vaginitis
- coltrane — John (William). 1926–67, US jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist and composer
- coltwood — a plant mentioned in Spenser's Faerie Queene, perhaps having a hairy stalk
- colubrid — any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types
- columbia — a river in NW North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing through British Columbia, then west to the Pacific. Length: about 1930 km (1200 miles)
- columbic — niobic.
- columbus — a city in central Ohio: the state capital. Pop: 728 432 (2003 est)
- columnal — of, like, or relating to a column
- columnar — shaped like a column.
- columnea — any plant belonging to the genus Columnea, a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae, with bright red, yellow, or orange tubular flowers and glossy leaves
- columned — Having columns.