English words starting with colou

Meanings of Colour:

noun

The property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light.

Usage examples:

The lights flickered and changed colour

verb

Pigmentation of the skin, especially as an indication of someone's race.

Usage examples:

Discrimination on the basis of colour

Meanings of Colour-in:

phrasal verb

To fill an area with colour using paint, coloured pencils, etc.

Usage examples:

Rosie drew an elephant and coloured it in.

Meanings of Colour-s:

phrase

To cause someone who has been ill to look more healthy, especially by doing exercise

Usage examples:

That walk has put some colour in your cheeks., a bit of fresh air won't just put some color in your…

Meanings of Colour-scheme:

noun

A combination of colours that has been chosen for a particular room

Meanings of Colour-supplement:

noun

A magazine printed in colour, which is given free with a newspaper, especially a weekend newspaper

Usage examples:

The business has grown a lot in recent years, largely as a result of advertising in the sunday colo…

Meanings of Colourability:

noun

The ability to be coloured or to take on colour.

Meanings of Colourable:

adjective

Capable of being coloured.

Usage examples:

Colourable illustrations

Meanings of Colourant:

noun

A substance that is used to add colour or change the colour of something

Usage examples:

Colourants that are commonly added to food, hair colourant

Meanings of Colouration:

noun

The appearance of something with regard to colour.

Usage examples:

Some bacterial structures take on a purple coloration

Meanings of Colourative:

adjective

That imparts colour; that changes the colour of something.

Meanings of Coloured:

adjective

Having a colour or colours, especially as opposed to being black, white, or neutral.

Usage examples:

Strings of coloured lights

noun

Used as an ethnic label for people of mixed ethnic origin, including khoisan, african, malay, chinese, and white.

Usage examples:

There was a drive to recruit coloured, black, and indian members

verb

Change the colour of (something) by painting, dyeing, or shading it.

Usage examples:

He coloured her hair with a selection of blonde and brown shades

Meanings of Colourer:

noun

A person who applies paint or colour to something; a commercial painter, especially a person who colours maps, prints, etc. now chiefly historical.

Meanings of Colourers:

noun

A person who applies paint or colour to something; a commercial painter, especially a person who colours maps, prints, etc. now chiefly historical.

Meanings of Colourfast:

adjective

Dyed in colours that will not fade or be washed out.

Meanings of Colourful:

adjective

Having much or varied colour; bright.

Usage examples:

A colourful array of fruit

Meanings of Colourfully:

adverb

In a way that has bright colours or a lot of different colours

Usage examples:

The en suite bedrooms are colourfully decorated in elegant eighteenth-century style., the people ar…

Meanings of Colourific:

adjective

Having much colour.

Usage examples:

The colorific radiance of costume

Meanings of Colourifics:

adjective

Having much colour.

Usage examples:

The colorific radiance of costume

Meanings of Colouring:

noun

The process of changing the colour of something by painting, dyeing, or shading it.

Usage examples:

The salon concentrates purely on colouring

verb

Change the colour of (something) by painting, dyeing, or shading it.

Usage examples:

He coloured her hair with a selection of blonde and brown shades

Meanings of Colourist:

noun

An artist or designer who uses colour in a special or skilful way.

Usage examples:

I showed them examples of artists known as colorists, paul gauguin and franz marc, so they could se…

Meanings of Colouristic:

adjective

Showing special use of colour.

Usage examples:

His great colouristic wallpapers

Meanings of Colourize:

verb

Add colour to (a black and white film).

Usage examples:

A number of the old classics have been colourized

Meanings of Colourless:

adjective

(especially of a gas or liquid) without colour.

Usage examples:

A colourless liquid

Meanings of Colourman:

noun

A person who sells and (formerly) prepares artist's paints.

Meanings of Colours:

noun

The property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light.

Usage examples:

The lights flickered and changed colour

verb

Pigmentation of the skin, especially as an indication of someone's race.

Usage examples:

Discrimination on the basis of colour