8-letter words containing r, o, c, k
- oxpecker — either of two African starlings of the genus Buphagus, characterized by their habit of riding on large, wild animals and domestic cattle to feed on ticks.
- pickford — Mary (Gladys Marie Smith) 1893–1979, U.S. motion-picture actress, born in Canada.
- pocketer — a person who pockets something
- pockmark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- porkchop — a chop of pork.
- rack off — to go away; depart
- rack out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
- rackwork — a mechanism utilizing a rack, as a rack and pinion.
- reckoned — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- reckoner — a person who reckons.
- rickover — Hyman George, 1900–86, U.S. naval officer, born in Poland: helped to develop the nuclear submarine.
- rim lock — a lock nailed or screwed to one face of a door, gate, etc., as opposed to one built into its edge.
- rock art — painting or engraving on rock
- rock cod — rockfish (defs 1–3).
- rock elm — an elm, Ulmus thomasii, of eastern North America, having deeply furrowed, grayish-brown bark.
- rock oil — petroleum.
- rock out — listen enthusiastically to pop music
- rock-eel — rock blenny.
- rockable — (of a chair, crib, etc) able to be rocked
- rockabye — used in lullabies or nursery rhymes to encourage a baby to sleep
- rockaway — a light, four-wheeled carriage having two or three seats and a fixed top.
- rocketed — any of various simple or complex tubelike devices containing combustibles that on being ignited liberate gases whose action propels the tube through the air: used for pyrotechnic effect, signaling, carrying a lifeline, hurling explosives at an enemy, putting a space vehicle into orbit, etc.
- rocketer — a game bird such as a pheasant that launches itself into the air like a rocket after it is forced to take flight, for example by a dog
- rocketry — the science of rocket design, development, and flight.
- rockface — an exposure of rock in a steep slope or cliff.
- rockfall — an act or instance of the falling of rock, as in a cave-in or an avalanche.
- rockfish — any of various fishes found about rocks.
- rockford — a city in N Illinois.
- rockland — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- rockless — lacking rocks
- rocklike — Something that is rocklike is very strong or firm, and is unlikely to change.
- rockling — any of several small cods of the genera Enchalyopus and Gaidropsarus, found in the North Atlantic.
- rockrose — any plant of the genus Cistus or some allied genus, as Helianthemum.
- rockweed — a fucoid seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide.
- rockwell — Norman, 1894–1978, U.S. illustrator.
- rockwork — stonework.
- roderick — a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “glory” and “ruler.”.
- rollback — an act or instance of rolling back.
- rollicky — rollicking or merry
- rollneck — (of a garment) having a high neck that may be rolled over
- rollocks — rowlock.
- roorback — a false and more or less damaging report circulated for political effect, usually about a candidate seeking an office.
- row back — If you row back on something you have said or written, you express a different or contrary opinion about it.
- scutwork — menial, routine work, as that done by an underling: the scutwork of scrubbing pots and pans.
- shamrock — any of several trifoliate plants, as the wood sorrel, Oxalis acetosella, or a small, pink-flowered clover, Trifolium repens minus, but especially Trifolium procumbens, a small, yellow-flowered clover: the national emblem of Ireland.
- sherlock — a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “fair-haired.”.
- sickroom — a room in which a sick person is confined.
- sockeroo — a notable success: Her performance was a sockeroo.
- sprocket — Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel.
- thurrock — unitary authority in Essex, SE England, on the N of the Thames River. 71 sq. mi. (184 sq. km).