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10-letter words containing e, c, l, o

  • octavalent — having a valence of eight.
  • oenophilic — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
  • offenceful — giving offence; offensive
  • officerial — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
  • oil change — the replacement of dirty engine oil with clean engine oil
  • oil-cooled — (of an engine, apparatus, etc) having its heat removed by the circulation of oil
  • old comedy — Greek comedy of the 5th century b.c., which derived from fertility rites in honor of Dionysus and combined robust humor with biting personal and political satire.
  • old french — the French language of the 9th through the 13th centuries. Abbreviation: OF.
  • old permic — a subfamily of Finnic, comprising the modern languages Udmurt and Komi, spoken in northeastern European Russia, and fragmentary attestations of an earlier language (Old Permic) dating from the 15th century.
  • olecranons — Plural form of olecranon.
  • oleic acid — a colorless, odorless, liquid, water-insoluble, unsaturated acid, C 1 8 H 3 4 O 2 , obtained from animal tallow and natural vegetable oils, in which it occurs as the glycerol ester: used chiefly in the manufacture of soap, commercial oleates, and cosmetics.
  • oleophilic — of or relating to a substance that has an affinity for oils and not for water. Compare hydrophobic (def 2).
  • oleraceous — having the qualities or nature of a pot-herb for cookery
  • olfactible — Having an odor; capable of being smelled.
  • oligoclase — a kind of plagioclase feldspar occurring commonly in white crystals, sometimes shaded with gray, green, or red.
  • oligomeric — a polymer molecule consisting of a small number of monomers.
  • olivaceous — of a deep shade of green; olive.
  • on balance — a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.
  • opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
  • opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
  • operculate — having an operculum.
  • ophicleide — a musical wind instrument, a development of the old wooden serpent, consisting of a conical metal tube bent double.
  • oracle rdb — (database)   A set of relational database products originally known as Rdb from Digital Equipment Corporation, but purchased by Oracle Corporation in 1994. The current (October 1996) versions are Oracle Rdb V7.0 for OpenVMS VAX, Oracle Rdb V7.0 for OpenVMS Alpha, and Oracle Rdb V7.0 for Digital UNIX. This release of Oracle Rdb includes advances in non-stop computing for business critical applications, improvements to OLTP performance, and easy client/server application development. It also includes an ODBC Driver.
  • orbiculate — orbicular; rounded.
  • orchestral — of, relating to, or resembling an orchestra.
  • orchidlike — Resembling an orchid or some aspect of one.
  • orthoclase — a common white or pink mineral of the feldspar group, KAlSi 3 O 8 , having two good cleavages at right angles, and found in silica-rich igneous rocks: used in the manufacture of porcelain.
  • oscillated — Simple past tense and past participle of oscillate.
  • oscillates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of oscillate.
  • osteoclast — Cell Biology. one of the large multinuclear cells in growing bone concerned with the absorption of osseous tissue, as in the formation of canals.
  • osteocolla — a limey deposit which can form an incrustation on the roots and stems of some plants
  • otto cycle — an idealization of the thermodynamic cycle of the internal combustion engine with air as the working substance: intake of air at atmospheric pressure, then adiabatic compression, then ignition with an increase of pressure and temperature at constant volume, then adiabatic expansion and performance of work, then a drop to atmospheric pressure at constant volume and a rejection of heat to the environment, then the exhaust of air at constant pressure.
  • outbalance — to outweigh.
  • outclassed — to surpass in excellence or quality, especially by a wide margin; be superior: He far outclasses the other runners in the race.
  • outclasses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outclass.
  • outspeckle — a spectacle
  • overbleach — (transitive) To bleach too much.
  • overcalled — (poker) Simple past tense and past participle of overcall.
  • overclouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcloud.
  • overcolour — (transitive) To exaggerate.
  • overcostly — Too costly. (from 16th c.).
  • overfacile — excessively facile
  • overglance — to glance over
  • overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks
  • overlocker — a person who overlocks seams, hems, etc
  • overnicely — in an overnice manner
  • overplaced — placed above
  • overscaled — on an excessive scale
  • oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
  • palaeocene — of, denoting, or formed in the first epoch of the Tertiary period, which lasted for 10 million years
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