13-letter words containing loc
- local maximum — maximum (def 4a).
- local minimum — minimum (def 5a).
- local-content — of or relating to the number or percentage of the components of a product, as an automobile, that are manufactured in a specific country: Local-content laws say 90 percent of the components of the car must be made in the U.S. or import restrictions will apply.
- local-maximum — maximum (def 4a).
- localisations — Plural form of localisation.
- locked bowels — constipation.
- locking piece — (in a striking train) a hooked part, rising and falling on a locking plate and arresting the rotation of the plate after the proper number of strokes.
- locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
- lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
- locus sigilli — See L.S (def 3).
- megalocephaly — Cephalometry, Craniometry. macrocephalic.
- misallocating — Present participle of misallocate.
- misallocation — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
- multilocation — the state or power of being in more than two places at the same time.
- ochlocratical — Pertaining to ochlocracy.
- opossum block — (in New Zealand) a block of bush allocated to a licensed opossum trapper
- overallocated — Allocated in excess.
- phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phyllocladous — having phylloclades.
- postholocaust — following a holocaust
- quadrilocular — having four compartments
- radiolocation — the method or process of determining the position and velocity of an object by radar.
- re-allocation — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- suballocation — an allocation made from a previous allocation
- the holocaust — the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
- translocation — a change of location.
- type locality — Biology. the locality in which a type specimen was collected.
- velocity head — the velocity of a fluid expressed in terms of the head or static pressure required to produce that velocity. It equals ρν/2 where ρ is the density of the fluid and ν is the velocity. In hydrology the density of water can be written 1/G where G is the gravitational constant
- water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
- windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
- yellow locust — black locust.