Synthetic background noise used in radio and wireless communications to fill the artificial silence in a transmission resulting from voice activity detection or from the audio clarity of modern digital lines.

plural of comfort stop

A pause in a long road journey so that travellers can go to the toilet

Reproof instead of consolation.

plural of letter of comfort

Alternative form of comfortable in one's own skin

(simile) Comfortably familiar.

Near enough to cause discomfort. / Near enough to be dangerous. / So similar or applicable to one's situation that it causes distress. / Frightening because of almost resulting in injury or disaster.

A criterion used by urban planners and architects to assess how comfortable the wind around buildings is for pedestrians (a wind comfort assessment). Commonly used in urban planning in the United Kingdom.

A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.