4-letter words containing o, c
- oche — (darts) A line behind which a player's front foot must be placed when throwing a dart.
- ochs — Adolph Simon, 1858–1935, U.S. newspaper publisher.
- ocra — Alternative spelling of okra.
- ocso — Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists)
- oct- — octa-
- oct. — Oct. is a written abbreviation for October.
- octa — (meteorology) The fraction of the sky that is obscured by clouds, in eighths (one octa means that one eighth of the sky is obscured, two octas that one quarter is obscured, and so on).
- odbc — Open DataBase Connectivity
- odic — of an ode.
- oecd — international organization
- oecs — Organization of Eastern Caribbean States
- oeec — Organization for European Economic Cooperation; an organization of European nations set up in 1948 to allocate postwar US aid and to stimulate trade and cooperation. It was superseded by the OECD in 1961
- oeic — open-ended investment company
- ohac — own house and car: used in lonely hearts columns and personal advertisements
- once — at one time in the past; formerly: I was a farmer once; a once powerful nation.
- opac — Online Public Access Catalog
- opec — an organization founded in 1960 of nations that export large amounts of petroleum: formed to establish oil-exporting policies and set prices.
- orac — Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity: a measure of the ability of a substance, esp the blood, to absorb free radicals, used in determining the antioxidant effects of foods
- orca — the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- orch — orchestra
- orcs — Plural form of orc.
- osce — Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
- otec — a solar energy conversion system for producing electricity, using warm and cold ocean layers to vaporize and condense a fluid that drives a turbine
- otic — of or relating to the ear; auricular.
- ouch — a clasp, buckle, or brooch, especially one worn for ornament.
- paco — an alpaca
- pcos — polycystic ovary syndrome
- pcso — Police Community Support Officer
- pock — a pustule on the body in an eruptive disease, as smallpox.
- poco — somewhat; rather: poco presto.
- proc — (language) The job control language used in the Pick operating system.
- raoc — Royal Army Ordnance Corps
- rico — Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act: a U.S. law, enacted in 1970, allowing victims of organized crime to sue those responsible for punitive damages.
- roca — Cape, a cape in W Portugal, near Lisbon: the western extremity of continental Europe.
- rock — rock the boat, Informal. to disrupt the smooth functioning or routine of something: Don't rock the boat by demanding special treatment from management.
- rotc — a body of students at some colleges and universities who are given training toward becoming officers in the armed forces. Abbreviation: ROTC, R.O.T.C.
- saco — a city in SW Maine.
- scog — to shelter
- scop — an Old English bard or poet.
- scot — a native or inhabitant of Scotland.
- scow — any of various vessels having a flat-bottomed rectangular hull with sloping ends, built in various sizes with or without means of propulsion, as barges, punts, rowboats, or sailboats.
- seco — (of wine) dry
- soc. — Soc. is the written abbreviation for society.
- soca — a style of Caribbean dance music derived from calypso and American soul music and having a pounding beat.
- sock — a short stocking usually reaching to the calf or just above the ankle.
- taco — Mexican Cookery. an often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled, as with seasoned chopped meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.
- tcol — CMU. Tree-based intermediate representation produced by the PQCC compiler generator. "An Overview of the Production Quality Compiler- Compiler Projects", B.W. Leverett et al, IEEE Computer 13(8): 38-49 (Aug 1980). (See LG).
- teco — (editor, text) /tee'koh/ (Originally an acronym for "[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector"; later, "Text Editor and COrrector"]) A text editor developed at MIT and modified by just about everybody. With all the dialects included, TECO may have been the most prolific editor in use before Emacs, to which it was directly ancestral. The first Emacs editor was written in TECO. It was noted for its powerful programming-language-like features and its unspeakably hairy syntax (see write-only language). TECO programs are said to resemble line noise. Every string of characters is a valid TECO program (though probably not a useful one); one common game used to be predict what the TECO commands corresponding to human names did. As an example of TECO's obscurity, here is a TECO program that takes a list of names such as: Loser, J. Random Quux, The Great Dick, Moby sorts them alphabetically according to surname, and then puts the surname last, removing the comma, to produce the following: Moby Dick J. Random Loser The Great Quux The program is [1 J^P$L$$ J <.-Z; .,(S,$ -D .)FX1 @F^B $K :L I $ G1 L>$$ (where ^B means "Control-B" (ASCII 0000010) and $ is actually an alt or escape (ASCII 0011011) character). In fact, this very program was used to produce the second, sorted list from the first list. The first hack at it had a bug: GLS (the author) had accidentally omitted the "@" in front of "F^B", which as anyone can see is clearly the Wrong Thing. It worked fine the second time. There is no space to describe all the features of TECO, but "^P" means "sort" and "J<.-Z; ... L>" is an idiomatic series of commands for "do once for every line". By 1991, Emacs had replaced TECO in hacker's affections but descendants of an early (and somewhat lobotomised) version adopted by DEC can still be found lurking on VMS and a couple of crufty PDP-11 operating systems, and ports of the more advanced MIT versions remain the focus of some antiquarian interest. See also retrocomputing.
- tico — a native or inhabitant of Costa Rica.
- toch — Ernst [ernst] /ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1887–1964, Austrian composer.