Word origins

• cognoscentKnowledgeable; discerning.
• cognoscitivehaving the power of knowing
• cognovitAn instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just.
• cohibitTo restrain; to inhibit.
• cohibitionhindrance; restraint or obstacle
• coitus reservatusSexual intercourse in which the penetrative partner does not attempt to ejaculate but rather remain at the plateau phase of intercourse for as long as possible.
• colatureThe matter that is strained with a strainer
• collaboratrixFemale collaborator.
• collapsioncollapse
• collatitiousCharacterised by the contributions of many people.
• collativeHaving the power of conferring.
• collaudTo join in praising or worshiping.
• College of CardinalsThe body of all cardinals of the Catholic Church.
• colligationA binding together.
• collimateTo focus into a narrow beam or column; to adjust a focusing device so that it produces a narrow beam.
• collineationThe act of collineating; collimation.
• colliquefactionA melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.
• colluctationstruggling, conflict, strife
• collusorycollusive
• collutoryA mouthwash.
• colluvieseffluvium
• collyriumA lotion or liquid wash used as a cleanser for the eyes; an eye-salve.
• colocynthA viny plant, of species Citrullus colocynthis, native to the Mediterranean Basin and Asia. It produces a lemon-sized, yellowish, green-mottled, spongy, and extremely bitter fruit.
• colombophiliaPigeon fancying.
• colonicalOf or relating to farmers or farming; agricultural.
• ColophonianOf or relating to the Lydian city of Colophon.
• colophonyRosin; the residue left after the distillation of oil of turpentine from liquid resin, used in pharmaceutical preparations, soldering fluxes, and by violinists.
• colorateTo apply color to something; to make colorful.
• -colousHaving a specified habitat.
• colubriformHaving the form of a snake
• colubrineSnakelike.
• columbaryA pigeon house, pigeon loft, or dovecot.
• columella nasiSynonym of nasal septum.
• columnellaA small column
• colureEither of two great circles (meridians) that intersect at the poles and either the equinoxes or solstices.
• com-The form of con- used before b, m, and p
• Coma BerenicesA small dim summer constellation of the northern sky, said to represent an offering of hair from Queen Berenice II of Egypt. Originally considered to represent the tuft of hair on the end of Leo's tail.
• comatecomose (having a coma, or bushy, hairy appearance).
• combinateThe result of a combining of two or more components.
• combureTo burn up, to burn away, to consume with fire.
• comburentPromoting combustion (for example, by reacting with fuel and promoting a redox reaction). (Contrast combustible.)
• combustiveOf, pertaining to, caused by, or partaking in combustion.
• comedoA clogged hair follicle in the skin, formed when keratin combines with oil to block the follicle.
• comfitA confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar.
• comitalOf or pertaining to a count or earl.
• comitativeOf, or relating to the grammatical case that is used in some languages to indicate accompaniment.
• comitialOf or pertaining to a comitia.
• CommageneAn ancient Greco-Iranian kingdom in northeastern Anatolia, modern Turkey, with a capital at Samosata.
• Comma JohanneumThe Johannine Comma; a phrase included in some manuscripts of 1 John 5:7–8.
• commemorabiliaItems that are created especially to honour or memorialize something, particularly an event, person, or institution.
• commemorableWorthy of being, or able to be, commemorated.
• commemoratorA person who commemorates something
• commendamA vacant benefice commended to a cleric until an incumbent was provided.
• commendatorA cleric who held a commendam.
• commentitiousfictitious, imaginary.
• commigrateTo migrate together.
• commigrationMigration together.
• comminationA formal denunciation; especially one threatening divine punishment.
• comminuibleThat can be comminuted or pulverized.
• comminuteTo break into smaller portions.
• commiserablepitiable
• commission de bene esseA commission appointed to take evidence by deposition where the deponent is unwilling or unable to come to court and the court cannot compel the witness/deponent.
• commodateA gratuitous loan.
• commodatumA gratuitous loan for the temporary use of a thing to be returned after a fixed or determinable time.
• commolitionThe act of grinding together.
• commonitionadvice, warning, or instruction.
• commonitorycalling to mind; giving admonition
• commorancyA house for a place of residence, usually a temporary one.
• commorantOrdinarily residing; inhabiting.
• commoratioThe use of several synonyms to emphasize something.
• commorationresidence (the act of staying or residing somewhere).
• commorientDying together or at the same time.
• commotio cordisAn often lethal disruption of heart rhythm as a result of a blow to the area directly over the heart at a critical time during the cycle of a heartbeat.
• communicatrixA female communicator.
• communis opinioThe prevailing doctrine or generally accepted view; consensus.
• communitasAn unstructured community of common experience.
• comoseBearing a tuft of soft hairs or down.
• co-motherThe relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child.
• compactureThe fact of being closely put together; compact nature or structure.
• compaginationThe union of parts; the putting together.
• comparandA thing to which something is compared.
• comparandumSomething that is compared; the subject of a comparison.
• comparateOne of two things being compared.
• comparationA comparison.
• compartitionThe act of dividing into parts or compartments.
• compaternityThe relationship of a godparent to their godchild.
• compatientSuffering or enduring together.
• compellationAn act of addressing a person by a certain name or title.
• compesceTo keep in check; to restrain or hold down
• competitrixA female competitor.
• compingeTo compress; to shut up (confine).
• compitalOf the vein of a leaf, intersecting at a wide angle.
• complanateFlattened, level.
• complectTo join by weaving.
• completiveMaking complete.
• completoryA compline.
• complexusA complex, an aggregate of parts
• compluviumA space left unroofed over the court of a dwelling in Ancient Rome, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.
• comportationThe act of bringing together.
• compositiveHaving the quality of entering into composition; compounded.