Phrase Hound found 43 phrases and 16 compound words that contain colours. The most common are listed below. Open colours in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 43
- pair of coloursThe commission of an ensign in the infantry or a cornet in the cavalry; an ensigncy or cornetcy.
- pairs of coloursplural of pair of colours: The commission of an ensign in the infantry or a cornet in the cavalry; an ensigncy or cornetcy.
- flying coloursGreat success.
- true coloursThe real character, belief or intent of a person or group who present a dishonest picture of their nature to the world.
- prismatic coloursColours visible when white light is split in a prisma.
- costly coloursAn English card game for two players, similar to cribbage and particularly popular in Shropshire.
- eye coloursplural of eye colour: The color or pigment of the iris of the eye.
- false coloursplural of false colour: Having colours that are different from those of reality, especially such that the colours used correspond to some physical or spectral significance (e.g. representing temperature, wavelength, species of microbe, or …
- primary coloursplural of primary colour: Any of three colours which, when added to or subtracted from others in different amounts, can generate all other colours.
- secondary coloursplural of secondary colour: Any of three colours derived from mixing two primary colours.
- complementary coloursplural of complementary colour: Either of two colours which, when mixed, produce a white or grey.
- served with the colourssimple past and past participle of serve with the colours
- tertiary coloursplural of tertiary colour: Any colour that results from the mixing of two secondary colours, or of a primary colour and an adjacent secondary colour.
- with flying coloursAlternative spelling of with flying colors: Extremely well; in an exceptional, noteworthy, or extraordinary manner.
- trooping the colourspresent participle and gerund of troop the colours
- high coloursplural of high colour: graphics with two bytes of storage per pixel, allowing for up to 65536 different colors
- serve with the coloursTo serve in the army.
- serving with the colourspresent participle and gerund of serve with the colours
- colours upthird-person singular simple present indicative of colour up: To blush (to go red).
- deep coloursplural of deep colour: Graphics with 30 or more bits of storage per pixel, allowing for billions of distinct colors.
- field coloursSmall flags used to mark the position for companies and regiments.
- process coloursplural of process colour: A printing process which uses four specific colored inks: cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK), and halftone printing plates, to reproduce a range of colors.
- self coloursplural of self colour: A colour that is not mixed or variegated, as in an animal's fur.
- skin coloursplural of skin colour: The color of human skin.
- spot coloursplural of spot colour: In offset printing, any color generated by an ink, pure or mixed, that is printed using a single run.
Compound words 16
- multicoloursMultiple colours.
- watercoloursplural of watercolour: A water-soluble pigment or paint.
- anticoloursplural of anticolour: The property of antiquarks equivalent to that of colour in quarks.
- coloursomeAlternative form of colorsome: Characterised or marked by color; colorful; (by extension) vibrant; cheerful
- discoloursthird-person singular simple present indicative of discolour: British and Canadian standard spelling of discolor.
- forecoloursplural of forecolour: Any colour which stands out among others.
- miscoloursthird-person singular simple present indicative of miscolour: To give a wrong colour to.
- noncoloursplural of noncolour: That which is not a color.
- overcoloursthird-person singular simple present indicative of overcolour: To exaggerate.
- particoloursplural of particolour: Made up of sections having different, often bright, colours.