Phrase Hound found 46 phrases and 11 compound words that contain coffin. The most common are listed below. Open coffin in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 46
- coffin cornerThe position in a formation of ships or bombers that is most exposed to enemy fire.
- Coffin TextsA corpus of ancient Egyptian funerary texts of the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead into the afterlife, written on coffins and developed from the earlier Pyramid Texts.
- hanging coffinA coffin suspended on a cliff as part of an ancient funeral custom practised in countries such as China, Indonesia and the Philippines.
- coffin boneThe bottommost bone in the equine leg, encased by the hoof capsule, and corresponding to the third phalanx of the middle finger, or toe, of most mammals.
- coffin nailA cigarette.
- Job's CoffinA small, diamond-shaped asterism located in the constellation Delphinus, containing the constellation's four brightest stars.
- flying coffinAn aircraft with an unacceptably high accident rate.
- final nail in the coffinSomething that is ultimately responsible for a previously prospective demise or failure.
- coffin dodgerAn elderly person, a person near death, or adept at avoiding death.
- coffin birthPostmortem fetal extrusion: the expulsion of a nonviable fetus through the vaginal opening of a deceased pregnant woman as a result of gaseous pressure through decomposition.
- coffin fliesplural of coffin fly: scuttle fly
- coffin flyscuttle fly
- coffin nailsplural of coffin nail: A cigarette.
- coffin shipA ship that carried Irish emigrants escaping the potato famine, usually with an extremely high death rate onboard.
- coffin shipsplural of coffin ship: A ship that carried Irish emigrants escaping the potato famine, usually with an extremely high death rate onboard.
- fantasy coffinA custom-made, elaborately carved and painted casket shaped like an object, animal, or symbol associated with the deceased's life; most often associated with the culture of the Ga people of Ghana.
- safety coffinAny coffin specially designed for the occupant to leave it in case of premature burial, such as by warning other people to help him.
- Coffin-Lowry syndromeA genetic disorder that causes severe mental problems sometimes associated with growth abnormalities, cardiac abnormalities, kyphoscoliosis, and auditory and visual abnormalities.
- another nail in someone's coffinAn event that increases the likelihood of or causes further failure.
- another nail in the coffinAlternative form of another nail in someone's coffin: An event that increases the likelihood of or causes further failure.
- Coffin-Siris syndromeA rare genetic disorder that causes developmental delays and absent fifth finger and toe nails.
- treetrunk coffinA coffin hollowed out of a single massive log.
- coffin windowSynonym of witch window: A window placed diagonally, with its long edge parallel to the roof, in the gable-end wall of a house (chiefly in Vermont in the United States), where a window oriented vertically or horizontally would not fit.
- coffin riderA person who enriches himself through the exploitation of the misery, suffering, or deaths of others.
- Y-shaped coffinAn imaginary coffin in the shape of a capital letter Y, supposedly used for burying a sexually promiscuous woman.
Compound words 11
- coffinfulThe contents of a coffin.
- coffinlessWithout a coffin.
- encoffinedEnclosed in a coffin.
- coffiniteA brown or black uranium-bearing silicate mineral.
- coffinlikeResembling a coffin.
- coffinmakerA manufacturer of coffins.
- coffinmakingThe manufacture of coffins.
- recoffinTo place in a coffin again.
- uncoffinTo remove from a coffin; to exhume.
- coffinitesplural of coffinite: A brown or black uranium-bearing silicate mineral.