Phrase Hound found 30 phrases and 22 compound words that contain cows. The most common are listed below. Open cows in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 30
- dairy cowsplural of dairy cow: Any breed of cow bred for the ability to produce large quantities of milk, from which dairy products are made; an individual cattle beast of such a breed; especially, a female cow who has calved and lactated.
- cows' milkAlternative form of cow's milk: A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of a cow, and used as food by humans.
- cash cowsplural of cash cow: A product, service, or enterprise that generates ongoing, high net free cash flows.
- milk cowsplural of milk cow: Any breed of cow bred for the ability to produce large quantities of milk, from which dairy products are made; an individual cattle beast of such a breed; especially, a female cow who has calved and lactated.
- sacred cowsplural of sacred cow: Something which cannot be tampered with, or criticized, for fear of public outcry. A person, institution, belief system, etc. which, for no reason other than the demands of established social etiquette or popular …
- sea cowsplural of sea cow: A marine mammal of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong, characterized by large forelimbs with no hind limbs.
- spherical cowsplural of spherical cow: A highly simplified scientific model of a complex real-life phenomenon.
- bulls and cowsA codebreaking game in which each player attempts to deduce the other's secret number or word.
- cows and bullsA plant native to woodlands of northern Europe, Arum maculatum.
- until the cows come homeFor a very long period of time.
- ant cowsplural of ant cow: Any aphid from which ants obtain honeydew.
- bell cowsplural of bell cow: The lead cow in a herd.
- black cowsplural of black cow: A root beer float.
- brown cowsplural of brown cow: A root beer float.
- bush cowsplural of bush cow: Synonym of zamouse (“West African buffalo”).
- cat-cowsplural of cat-cow: A stretching motion that incorporates the cat and cow asanas, in which a person arches their back first in one direction, and then the other.
- mad cowsplural of mad cow: Mad cow disease; bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
- till the cows come homeAlternative form of until the cows come home: For a very long period of time.
- moo cowsplural of moo cow
- springing cowsplural of springing cow: A cow or heifer which is close to calving.
- technetium cowsplural of technetium cow: Synonym for moly cow
- moly cowsplural of moly cow: A device used to extract from a source of decaying molybdenum-99 the metastable isotope ⁹⁹ᵐTc of technetium, which is the most commonly used medical radioisotope.
- milch cowsplural of milch cow: A cow kept for milking; a dairy cow.
- all cows eat grassA mnemonic for the notes found on the spaces of the bass clef staff: A, C, E, G.
- until the cows comeAlternative form of until the cows come home: For a very long period of time.
Compound words 22
- cowslipA low-growing plant, Primula veris, with yellow flowers.
- Cowsersplural of Cowser: A surname from Old French.
- CowsertA surname.
- cowsharkAlternative form of cow shark: Any shark of the family Hexanchidae.
- cowshotAlternative form of cushat: A pigeon, wood pigeon or ring dove.
- cowshotsplural of cowshot: A pigeon, wood pigeon or ring dove.
- cowslipsplural of cowslip: A low-growing plant, Primula veris, with yellow flowers.
- cracowsplural of cracow: Alternative form of Krakow: A city on the Vistula River, the capital of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland and the former capital (until 1596) of Poland as a whole.
- dogcowsplural of dogcow: A creature resembling a dog and a cow, used as a placeholder image in early Macintosh operating systems.
- lolcowsplural of lolcow: A person whose eccentric or foolish behaviour can be exploited to amuse onlookers.