COLSON
First name COLSON's origin is English. COLSON means "variant of nicholas people's victory". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with COLSON below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of colson.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with COLSON and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming COLSON
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES COLSON AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH COLSON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (olson) - Names That Ends with olson:
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (lson) - Names That Ends with lson:
adalson alson carlson elson eorlson esrlson nelson paulson wilson earlsonRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (son) - Names That Ends with son:
harrison pierson rawson aeson iason jason hanson son addyson ailison alyson crimson ellison emerson maddison madison mattison raison addison aliceson alison anderson anson atkinson benson branson brantson brookson bryson carson charleson chayson clayson davidson davison dawson dayson demason dennison dickson eallison eason eddison edson edwardson farquharson ferguson fergusson garrson garson grayson gregson greyson henderson henson jackson jakson jameson jamieson jamison jayson johnson judson kadison kaison larson macpherson mason masson matheson matson morrison neason nickson nicson nikson ourson parkinson pearson perkinson peterson pherson randson robertson rowson ruadson sampson sanderson saunderson simsonNAMES RHYMING WITH COLSON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (colso) - Names That Begins with colso:
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (cols) - Names That Begins with cols:
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (col) - Names That Begins with col:
colan colbert colbey colbi colby cole coleen coleman colemann colene colesha coleta coletta colette coletun coley colfre colier colin colina colis colla colle colleem colleen collena collene colletta collette collier collin collins collis collyer collyn colm colman colmcilla colmcille colquhoun colt colten colter coltere colton coltrane colum columbanus columbine columbo colver colvert colvyr colwyn colyer colyn colysRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (co) - Names That Begins with co:
coatl coaxoch cobhan coburn coby cochava cocheta cochise cochlain cocidius coco cocytus codee codell codey codi codie codier codrin codruta cody codyr coeus cofahealh coghlan cohen coigleach coilin coillcumhann coilleach coinleain coinneach coira coire coireail coman comfort comforte comhghan comyn comyna con conaireNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH COLSON:
First Names which starts with 'co' and ends with 'on':
concepcion condon consolacion corazon corydonFirst Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'n':
cadan caden cadman cadmon cadwallon caedmon caedon caelan caerleon caerlion cailean cailen cailin caillen cailyn cain caitilin caitlan caitlin caitlinn caitlyn caitlynn caitrin calan calhoun caliburn calidan calin callaghan callahan camarin camaron camdan camden camdin camdyn camelon cameron cameryn camlann camren camron camryn camshron caoilfhinnn caoilfhionn caoimhghin caolabhuinn caolan caomhan caralyn carelton carilyn carlatun carleen carleton carlin carlton carman carmen carmon carnation carolan carolann carolin carolyn carolynn carrington carsten caryn carynn casen cassian caswallan catalin catelyn catheryn cathleen cathlin cathryn catlin catlyn cavalon cavan cayden caylan ceallachan ceannfhionn ceapmann ceastun ceawlin ceileachan cein celdtun celidonEnglish Words Rhyming COLSON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES COLSON AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH COLSON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (olson) - English Words That Ends with olson:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (lson) - English Words That Ends with lson:
keelson | noun (n.) A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a structure of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship. |
kelson | noun (n.) See Keelson. |
telson | noun (n.) The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See Thoracostraca. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (son) - English Words That Ends with son:
advowson | noun (n.) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.] |
antimason | noun (n.) One opposed to Freemasonry. |
arson | noun (n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship. |
bason | noun (n.) A basin. |
bawson | noun (n.) A badger. |
noun (n.) A large, unwieldy person. |
benison | noun (n.) Blessing; beatitude; benediction. |
bison | noun (n.) The aurochs or European bison. |
noun (n.) The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers. |
bisson | adjective (a.) Purblind; blinding. |
boson | noun (n.) See Boatswain. |
caisson | noun (n.) A chest to hold ammunition. |
noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber. | |
noun (n.) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach. | |
noun (n.) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level. | |
noun (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins. | |
noun (n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it. | |
noun (n.) A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits. |
caparison | noun (n.) An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. |
noun (n.) Gay or rich clothing. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse. | |
verb (v. t.) To aborn with rich dress; to dress. |
cargason | noun (n.) A cargo. |
cavesson | noun (n.) Alt. of Cavezon |
chanson | noun (n.) A song. |
comparison | noun (n.) The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate. |
noun (n.) The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them. | |
noun (n.) That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude. | |
noun (n.) The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison. | |
noun (n.) A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel. | |
noun (n.) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts. | |
verb (v. t.) To compare. |
crimson | noun (n.) A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general. |
adjective (a.) Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red. | |
verb (v. t.) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden. | |
(b. t.) To become crimson; to blush. |
damson | noun (n.) A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum. |
diapason | noun (n.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale. |
noun (n.) Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony. | |
noun (n.) The entire compass of tones. | |
noun (n.) A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason. | |
noun (n.) One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like. |
disdiapason | noun (n.) An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason. |
disherison | noun (n.) The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion. |
disputison | noun (n.) Dispute; discussion. |
dobson | noun (n.) The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite. |
dorsimeson | noun (n.) (Anat.) See Meson. |
elison | noun (n.) Division; separation. |
noun (n.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together. |
empoison | noun (n.) Poison. |
verb (v. t.) To poison; to impoison. |
encheson | noun (n.) Alt. of Encheason |
encheason | noun (n.) Occasion, cause, or reason. |
flotson | noun (n.) Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson. |
foison | noun (n.) Rich harvest; plenty; abundance. |
foyson | noun (n.) See Foison. |
freemason | noun (n.) One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance. |
gambeson | noun (n.) Same as Gambison. |
gambison | noun (n.) A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted. |
garrison | noun (n.) A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town. |
noun (n.) A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security. | |
verb (v. t.) To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town. | |
verb (v. t.) To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory. |
geason | adjective (a.) Rare; wonderful. |
godson | noun (n.) A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather. |
grandson | noun (n.) A son's or daughter's son. |
grison | noun (n.) A South American animal of the family Mustelidae (Galictis vittata). It is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail. Its under parts are black. Also called South American glutton. |
noun (n.) A South American monkey (Lagothrix infumatus), said to be gluttonous. |
herisson | noun (n.) A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage. |
hyson | noun (n.) A fragrant kind of green tea. |
intercomparison | noun (n.) Mutual comparison of corresponding parts. |
jetson | noun (n.) Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy. |
noun (n.) Jettison. See Jettison, 1. |
jettison | noun (n.) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck. |
noun (n.) See Jetsam, 1. |
lesson | noun (n.) Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time. |
noun (n.) That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing. | |
noun (n.) A portion of Scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson. | |
noun (n.) A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning. | |
noun (n.) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study. | |
verb (v. t.) To teach; to instruct. |
lewisson | noun (n.) An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc. |
noun (n.) A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth. |
liaison | noun (n.) A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman. |
livraison | noun (n.) A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part. |
malison | noun (n.) Malediction; curse; execration. |
mason | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes. |
noun (n.) A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason. | |
verb (v. t.) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler. |
meson | noun (n.) The mesial plane dividing the body of an animal into similar right and left halves. The line in which it meets the dorsal surface has been called the dorsimeson, and the corresponding ventral edge the ventrimeson. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH COLSON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (colso) - Words That Begins with colso:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (cols) - Words That Begins with cols:
colstaff | noun (n.) A staff by means of which a burden is borne by two persons on their shoulders. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (col) - Words That Begins with col:
col | noun (n.) A short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge. |
colaborer | noun (n.) One who labors with another; an associate in labor. |
colander | noun (n.) A utensil with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perforated metal, or the like. |
colation | noun (n.) The act or process of straining or filtering. |
colatitude | noun (n.) The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees. |
colature | noun (n.) The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer. |
colbertine | noun (n.) A kind of lace. |
colchicine | noun (n.) A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; -- called also colchicia. |
colchicum | noun (n.) A genus of bulbous-rooted plants found in many parts of Europe, including the meadow saffron. |
colcothar | noun (n.) Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis. |
cold | noun (n.) Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. |
noun (n.) Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold. | |
noun (n.) Not pungent or acrid. | |
noun (n.) Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved. | |
noun (n.) Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. | |
noun (n.) Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting. | |
noun (n.) Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent. | |
noun (n.) Not sensitive; not acute. | |
noun (n.) Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. | |
noun (n.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8. | |
noun (n.) The relative absence of heat or warmth. | |
noun (n.) The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness. | |
noun (n.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh. | |
verb (v. i.) To become cold. |
coldfinch | noun (n.) A British wagtail. |
coldish | adjective (a.) Somewhat cold; cool; chilly. |
coldness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being cold. |
cole | noun (n.) A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of B. oleracea called rape and coleseed. |
colegoose | noun (n.) See Coalgoose. |
colemanite | noun (n.) A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California. |
colemouse | noun (n.) See Coletit. |
coleopter | noun (n.) One of the Coleoptera. |
coleoptera | noun (n. pl.) An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillae) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils. |
coleopteral | adjective (a.) Alt. of Coleopterous |
coleopterous | adjective (a.) Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera. |
coleopteran | noun (n.) One of the order of Coleoptera. |
coleopterist | noun (n.) One versed in the study of the Coleoptera. |
coleorhiza | noun (n.) A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle. |
coleperch | noun (n.) A kind of small black perch. |
colera | noun (n.) Bile; choler. |
coleridgian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or to his poetry or metaphysics. |
coleseed | noun (n.) The common rape or cole. |
coleslaw | noun (n.) A salad made of sliced cabbage. |
colestaff | noun (n.) See Colstaff. |
coletit | noun (n.) Alt. of Coaltit |
coleus | noun (n.) A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves. |
colewort | noun (n.) A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head. |
noun (n.) Any white cabbage before the head has become firm. |
colfox | noun (n.) A crafty fox. |
colic | noun (n.) A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries. |
colical | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, colic. |
colicky | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder. |
colicroot | noun (n.) A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root. |
colin | noun (n.) The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite. |
coliseum | noun (n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world. |
colitis | noun (n.) An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis. |
collaborateur | noun (n.) See Collaborator. |
collaboration | noun (n.) The act of working together; united labor. |
collaborator | noun (n.) An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor. |
collagen | noun (n.) The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue. |
collagenous | adjective (a.) Containing or resembling collagen. |
collapsing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collapse |
collapse | noun (n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel. |
noun (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown. | |
noun (n.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance. | |
verb (v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses. | |
verb (v. i.) To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance. |
collapsion | noun (n.) Collapse. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH COLSON:
English Words which starts with 'co' and ends with 'on':
coacervation | noun (n.) A heaping together. |
coaction | noun (n.) Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling. |
coadaptation | noun (n.) Mutual adaption. |
coadunation | noun (n.) Union, as in one body or mass; unity. |
coadunition | noun (n.) Coadunation. |
coagmentation | noun (n.) The act of joining, or the state of being joined, together; union. |
coagulation | noun (n.) The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification. |
noun (n.) The substance or body formed by coagulation. |
coalition | noun (n.) The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms. |
noun (n.) A combination, for temporary purposes, of persons, parties, or states, having different interests. |
coaptation | noun (n.) The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint. |
coarctation | noun (n.) Confinement to a narrow space. |
noun (n.) Pressure; that which presses. | |
noun (n.) A stricture or narrowing, as of a canal, cavity, or orifice. |
coarticulation | noun (n.) The union or articulation of bones to form a joint. |
coaxation | noun (n.) The act of croaking. |
cobiron | noun (n.) An andiron with a knob at the top. |
cocoon | noun (n.) An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared. |
noun (n.) The case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa. | |
noun (n.) The case of silk made by spiders to protect their eggs. | |
noun (n.) The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms. |
coction | noun (n.) Act of boiling. |
noun (n.) Digestion. | |
noun (n.) The change which the humorists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination. |
codification | noun (n.) The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code. |
coeducation | noun (n.) An educating together, as of persons of different sexes or races. |
coemption | noun (n.) The act of buying the whole quantity of any commodity. |
coercion | noun (n.) The act or process of coercing. |
noun (n.) The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion. |
coextension | noun (n.) The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended. |
cogitation | noun (n.) The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation. |
cognation | noun (n.) Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred. |
noun (n.) Participation of the same nature. | |
noun (n.) That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation. |
cognomination | noun (n.) A cognomen or surname. |
cohabitation | noun (n.) The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another. |
noun (n.) The living together of a man and woman in supposed sexual relationship. |
cohesion | noun (n.) The act or state of sticking together; close union. |
noun (n.) That from of attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces. | |
noun (n.) Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas. |
cohibition | noun (n.) Hindrance; restraint. |
cohobation | noun (n.) The process of cohobating. |
coilon | noun (n.) A testicle. |
coindication | noun (n.) One of several signs or symptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease. |
coinquination | noun (n.) Defilement. |
cointension | noun (n.) The condition of being of equal in intensity; -- applied to relations; as, 3:6 and 6:12 are relations of cointension. |
coition | noun (n.) A coming together; sexual intercourse; copulation. |
collection | noun (n.) The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. |
noun (n.) That which is collected | |
noun (n.) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. | |
noun (n.) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings. | |
noun (n.) That which is obtained in payment of demands. | |
noun (n.) An accumulation of any substance. | |
noun (n.) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. | |
noun (n.) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. |
colligation | noun (n.) A binding together. |
noun (n.) That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. |
collimation | noun (n.) The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument. |
collineation | noun (n.) The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. |
colliquation | noun (n.) A melting together; the act of melting; fusion. |
noun (n.) A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages. |
colliquefaction | noun (n.) A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. |
collision | noun (n.) The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing. |
noun (n.) A state of opposition; antagonism; interference. |
collocation | noun (n.) The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. |
collocution | noun (n.) A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse. |
collodion | noun (n.) A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a coating for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography. |
colluctation | noun (n.) A struggling; a contention. |
collusion | noun (n.) A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning. |
noun (n.) An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law. |
colon | noun (n.) That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion.] |
noun (n.) A point or character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction. |
colonization | noun (n.) The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. |
colophon | noun (n.) An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book. |
coloration | noun (n.) The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored. |
columniation | noun (n.) The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure. |
combination | noun (n.) The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. |
noun (n.) The result of combining or uniting; union of persons or things; esp. a union or alliance of persons or states to effect some purpose; -- usually in a bad sense. | |
noun (n.) The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. | |
noun (n.) The different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups. |
combustion | noun (n.) The state of burning. |
noun (n.) The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat. | |
noun (n.) Violent agitation; confusion; tumult. |
comessation | noun (n.) A reveling; a rioting. |
commemoration | noun (n.) The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration designed to honor the memory of some person or event. |
noun (n.) Whatever serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial. |
commendation | noun (n.) The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation. |
noun (n.) That which is the ground of approbation or praise. | |
noun (n.) A message of affection or respect; compliments; greeting. |
commensation | noun (n.) Commensality. |
commensuration | noun (n.) The act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate. |
commentation | noun (n.) The act or process of commenting or criticising; exposition. |
noun (n.) The result of the labors of a commentator. |
commigration | noun (n.) Migration together. |
commination | noun (n.) A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance. |
noun (n.) An office in the liturgy of the Church of England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's anger and judgments against sinners. |
comminution | noun (n.) The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted. |
noun (n.) Fracture (of a bone) into a number of pieces. | |
noun (n.) Gradual diminution by the removal of small particles at a time; a lessening; a wearing away. |
commiseration | noun (n.) The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. |
commission | noun (n.) The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating. |
noun (n.) The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed. | |
noun (n.) The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge. | |
noun (n.) A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties. | |
noun (n.) A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission. | |
noun (n.) A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission. | |
noun (n.) The acting under authority of, or on account of, another. | |
noun (n.) The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city. | |
noun (n.) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere. | |
verb (v. t.) To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer. | |
verb (v. t.) To send out with a charge or commission. |
commixion | noun (n.) Commixture. |
commixtion | noun (n.) Commixture; mingling. |
common | noun (n.) The people; the community. |
noun (n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons. | |
noun (n.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right. | |
verb (v.) Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. | |
verb (v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. | |
verb (v.) Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. | |
verb (v.) Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. | |
verb (v.) Profane; polluted. | |
verb (v.) Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. | |
verb (v. i.) To converse together; to discourse; to confer. | |
verb (v. i.) To participate. | |
verb (v. i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground. | |
verb (v. i.) To board together; to eat at a table in common. |
commonition | noun (n.) Advice; warning; instruction. |
commoration | noun (n.) The act of staying or residing in a place. |
commotion | noun (n.) Disturbed or violent motion; agitation. |
noun (n.) A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot. | |
noun (n.) Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement. |
communication | noun (n.) The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret. |
noun (n.) Intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence. | |
noun (n.) Association; company. | |
noun (n.) Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection. | |
noun (n.) That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message. | |
noun (n.) Participation in the Lord's supper. | |
noun (n.) A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. |
communion | noun (n.) The act of sharing; community; participation. |
noun (n.) Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes, etc.; agreement; fellowship; as, the communion of saints. | |
noun (n.) A body of Christians having one common faith and discipline; as, the Presbyterian communion. | |
noun (n.) The sacrament of the eucharist; the celebration of the Lord's supper; the act of partaking of the sacrament; as, to go to communion; to partake of the communion. |
commutation | noun (n.) A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation. |
noun (n.) The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange. | |
noun (n.) The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment. | |
noun (n.) A substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a substitution of one form of payment for another, or one payment for many, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright; commutation of rations. |
compaction | noun (n.) The act of making compact, or the state of being compact. |
compagination | noun (n.) Union of parts; structure. |
companion | noun (n.) One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate; a comrade; a consort; a partner. |
noun (n.) A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath. | |
noun (n.) A fellow; -- in contempt. | |
noun (n.) A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck. | |
noun (n.) A wooden hood or penthouse covering the companion way; a companion hatch. | |
verb (v. t.) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany. | |
verb (v. t.) To qualify as a companion; to make equal. |
comparation | noun (n.) A making ready; provision. |
compartition | noun (n.) The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment. |
compassion | noun (n.) Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration. |
verb (v. t.) To pity. |
compellation | noun (n.) Style of address or salutation; an appellation. |
compensation | noun (n.) The act or principle of compensating. |
noun (n.) That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense. | |
noun (n.) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off. | |
noun (n.) A recompense or reward for some loss or service. | |
noun (n.) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation. |
competition | noun (n.) The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with. |
compilation | noun (n.) The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources. |
noun (n.) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents. |
completion | noun (n.) The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service. |
noun (n.) State of being complete; fulfillment; accomplishment; realization. |
complexion | noun (n.) The state of being complex; complexity. |
noun (n.) A combination; a complex. | |
noun (n.) The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature. | |
noun (n.) The color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face. | |
noun (n.) The general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news. |
complication | noun (n.) The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity. |
noun (n.) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it. |
comportation | noun (n.) A bringing together. |
composition | noun (n.) The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients. |
noun (n.) The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music. | |
noun (n.) The art or practice of so combining the different parts of a work of art as to produce a harmonious whole; also, a work of art considered as such. See 4, below. | |
noun (n.) The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc. | |
noun (n.) The setting up of type and arranging it for printing. | |
noun (n.) The state of being put together or composed; conjunction; combination; adjustment. | |
noun (n.) A mass or body formed by combining two or more substances; as, a chemical composition. | |
noun (n.) A literary, musical, or artistic production, especially one showing study and care in arrangement; -- often used of an elementary essay or translation done as an educational exercise. | |
noun (n.) Consistency; accord; congruity. | |
noun (n.) Mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement; agreement. | |
noun (n.) The adjustment of a debt, or avoidance of an obligation, by some form of compensation agreed on between the parties; also, the sum or amount of compensation agreed upon in the adjustment. | |
noun (n.) Synthesis as opposed to analysis. |
compotation | noun (n.) The act of drinking or tippling together. |
comprecation | noun (n.) A praying together. |
comprehension | noun (n.) The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion. |
noun (n.) That which is comprehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome. | |
noun (n.) The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles. | |
noun (n.) The complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term. | |
noun (n.) A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite. |
compression | noun (n.) The act of compressing, or state of being compressed. |
comprobation | noun (n.) Joint attestation; proof. |
noun (n.) Approbation. |
compulsion | noun (n.) The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force. |
compunction | noun (n.) A pricking; stimulation. |
noun (n.) A picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience. |
computation | noun (n.) The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. |
noun (n.) The result of computation; the amount computed. |
conation | noun (n.) The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical. |
concameration | noun (n.) An arch or vault. |
noun (n.) A chamber of a multilocular shell. |
concatenation | noun (n.) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession. |
concavation | noun (n.) The act of making concave. |
concentration | noun (n.) The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration. |
noun (n.) The act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation. | |
noun (n.) The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water. |
conception | noun (n.) The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life. |
noun (n.) The state of being conceived; beginning. | |
noun (n.) The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception. | |
noun (n.) The formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion, apprehension. | |
noun (n.) The image, idea, or notion of any action or thing which is formed in the mind; a concept; a notion; a universal; the product of a rational belief or judgment. See Concept. | |
noun (n.) Idea; purpose; design. | |
noun (n.) Conceit; affected sentiment or thought. |