6-letter words containing c, o, a
- incavo — the incised or hollowed out part of an intaglio carving
- ionarc — Indian Ocean National Association for Regional Cooperation
- isotac — a line drawn on a map connecting all points where ice starts to melt at approximately the same period in spring.
- izalco — an active volcano in W El Salvador. 6070 feet (1850 meters).
- jacobi — Abraham, 1830–1919, U.S. pediatrician, born in Germany.
- jacobs — the second son of Isaac, the twin brother of Esau, and father of the 12 patriarchs. Gen. 25:24–34.
- kaonic — of or relating to a kaon
- kochia — any plant of the widely distributed annual genus Kochia, esp K. Scoparia trichophila, grown for its foliage, which turns dark red in the late summer: family Chenopodiaceae
- laclos — Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de [pyer ahn-brwaz frahn-swa shaw der-loh duh] /pyɛr ɑ̃ˈbrwaz frɑ̃ˈswa ʃɔ dɛrˈloʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1741–1803, French general and writer.
- lacto- — indicating milk
- lo-cal — low-cal.
- locale — a place or locality, especially with reference to events or circumstances connected with it: to move to a warmer locale.
- locals — Plural form of local.
- locant — (organic chemistry) That part of the name of a compound (often a letter or number) that describes the position of an atom, residue or functional group e.g. the 2 in hexan-2-one.
- locate — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- lochan — (Scotland) A small loch.
- lochia — the liquid discharge from the uterus after childbirth.
- lolcat — (on the Internet) an image of a cat accompanied by misspelled or grammatically incorrect text that humorously represents the cat's imagined thoughts or comments on what the image is depicting.
- lorcha — a fast sailing boat, built in China, consisting of a junk-rigged vessel with a European-style hull
- lorica — Zoology. a hard protective case or sheath, as the protective coverings secreted by certain protists.
- lycaon — a king of Arcadia said to have offered Zeus a plate of human flesh to learn whether the god was omniscient
- mac os — Macintosh Operating System
- macaco — any of several lemurs, as Lemur macaco.
- maceio — a state in NE Brazil. 10,674 sq. mi. (27,650 sq. km). Capital: Maceió.
- machos — Machismo.
- macoma — any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Macoma, having a glossy, thin, usually white shell.
- macomb — a city in NW Illinois.
- macoun — a juicy, late-ripening variety of apple that originated in Canada.
- macro- — Prefix large. Opposite of micro-. In the mainstream and among other technical cultures (for example, medical people) this competes with the prefix mega-, but hackers tend to restrict the latter to quantification.
- macron — a horizontal line used as a diacritic over a vowel to indicate that it has a long sound or other specified pronunciation, as (ā) in fate (fāt).
- macros — Plural form of macro.
- malloc — C's standard library routine for storage allocation. It takes the number of bytes required and returns a pointer to a block of that size. Storage is allocated from a heap which lies after the end of the program and data areas. Memory allocated with malloc must be freed explicitly using the "free" routine before it can be re-used.
- maloca — An ancestral longhouse used by the natives of the Amazon, notably in Colombia and Brazil.
- manioc — cassava.
- marcos — Ferdinand E(dralin) [ed-ruh-lin] /ˈɛd rə lɪn/ (Show IPA), 1917–1989, Philippine political leader: president 1965–86.
- marcot — (botany) A branch formed by marcottage.
- mascon — a massive concentration of high-density material beneath the surface of the moon.
- mascot — an animal, person, or thing adopted by a group as its representative symbol and supposed to bring good luck: The U.S. Navy mascot is a goat.
- matico — a Peruvian shrub, Piper angustifolium, the leaves of which have medicinal properties
- mcadoo — William Gibbs, 1863–1941, U.S. lawyer and statesman: Secretary of the Treasury 1913–18.
- meacon — to give false signals to (electronic navigational equipment), as by means of a radio transmitter.
- mobcap — a soft cloth cap with a full crown, fitting down over the ears and frequently tying beneath the chin, formerly worn indoors by women.
- modcal — A version of HP-PASCAL enhanced with system programming constructs, used internally by HP.
- modica — Plural form of modicum.
- mohacs — a city in S Hungary, on the Danube River: site of battles with Turkish forces, 1526 and 1687.
- monaco — a principality on the Mediterranean coast, bordering SE France. ½ sq. mi. (1.3 sq. km).
- monact — the spicule of a sponge that has a single-spiked structure
- monica — a female given name.
- morcha — (in India) a hostile demonstration against the government
- mosaic — a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.