10-Letter Words That Start With: COLU

• A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France.

• A pigeonhole in such a dovecote.

• A building, a vault or a similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains.

• A niche in such a building for housing urns.

• a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains

• a black mineral that is an ore of niobium and tantalum

• a journalist who writes editorials

• Any of various small structures in plants or animals that are columnar in shape.

• The skin at the end of the septum which separates the nostrils.

• (comparative anatomy) In birds, reptiles, and amphibians, the small bone which carries vibration from the tympanum to the inner ear.

• In gastropods, the structure at the center of the whorls of the shell.

• The structure at the center of the calyx where the septa join together.

• The central sterile portion of the sporangium in various fungi.

• A rod-shaped reinforcing element of the sexine layer of a pollen grain.