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10-letter words containing oc

  • boot block — (operating system)   A program on a hard disk, floppy disk or other media, which is loaded when the computer is turned on or rebooted and which controls the next phase of loading the actual operating system. The loading and execution of the boot block is usually controlled by firmware in ROM or PROM. It may be at some fixed location possibly or may be pointed to by the master boot record.
  • boss cocky — a boss or person in power
  • box social — a fund-raising event at which donated box meals are auctioned
  • brocatelle — a heavy brocade with the design in deep relief, used chiefly in upholstery
  • broccolini — a cultivated variety of cabbage, Brassica B. oleracea, which resembles broccoli and is eaten as a green vegetable
  • brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
  • brockville — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • bubonocele — an incomplete hernia in the groin; partial inguinal hernia
  • bull block — a machine for drawing wire in which the wire is pulled through the dies by a power-operated drum.
  • cappadocia — an ancient region of E Asia Minor famous for its horses
  • cellblocks — Plural form of cellblock.
  • chalcocite — a lead-grey or black mineral, found as a copper ore or in veins. It is a source of copper. Composition: copper sulphide. Formula: Cu2S. Crystal structure: orthorhombic
  • child lock — a lock, such as one on a door or window, designed to keep children safe
  • choanocyte — any of the flagellated cells in sponges that maintain a flow of water through the body. A collar of protoplasm surrounds the base of the flagellum
  • chocaholic — Alternative spelling of chocoholic.
  • chock-full — Something that is chock-full is completely full.
  • chockstone — a stone securely jammed in a crack. It may vary in size from a pebble to a large boulder
  • chocoholic — A chocoholic is someone who eats a great deal of chocolate and finds it hard to stop themselves eating it.
  • chocolates — Plural form of chocolate.
  • chocolatey — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
  • chop block — butcher-block.
  • chrysocale — a copper alloy containing zinc and lead.
  • chubb lock — a type of lock with a device that sets the bolt immovably if the lock is picked
  • cladoceran — any minute freshwater crustacean of the order Cladocera, which includes the water fleas
  • clistocarp — cleistothecium.
  • clock card — a card used by employees to register their time of arrival at, and time of departure from, their workplace
  • clock face — the dial of an analogue clock, marked with divisions representing units of time
  • clock golf — a putting game played on a circular area on a lawn
  • clock jack — jack1 (def 19).
  • clock rate — (processor, benchmark)   The fundamental rate in cycles per second at which a computer performs its most basic operations such as adding two numbers or transfering a value from one register to another. The clock rate of a computer is normally determined by the frequency of a crystal. The original IBM PC, circa 1981, had a clock rate of 4.77 MHz (almost five million cycles/second). As of 1995, Intel's Pentium chip runs at 100 MHz (100 million cycles/second). The clock rate of a computer is only useful for providing comparisons between computer chips in the same processor family. An IBM PC with an Intel 486 CPU running at 50 MHz will be about twice as fast as one with the same CPU, memory and display running at 25 MHz. However, there are many other factors to consider when comparing different computers. Clock rate should not be used when comparing different computers or different processor families. Rather, some benchmark should be used. Clock rate can be very misleading, since the amount of work different computer chips can do in one cycle varies. For example, RISC CPUs tend to have simpler instructions than CISC CPUs (but higher clock rates) and pipelined processors execute more than one instruction per cycle.
  • clock-hour — a full 60-minute period, as of class instruction or therapeutic consultation. Compare hour (def 11).
  • clockmaker — a person who makes or mends clocks, watches, etc
  • cnidocysts — a nematocyst.
  • cocatalyst — a substance that acts in tandem with another as a catalyst
  • coccineous — bright red
  • coccoliths — Plural form of coccolith.
  • cochabamba — a city in central Bolivia. Pop: 561 000 (2005 est)
  • cochairman — a person who cochairs an organization
  • cochampion — a joint champion
  • cochlearia — Plural form of cochlearium.
  • cockabully — any of several small freshwater fish of New Zealand
  • cockalorum — a self-important little man
  • cockamamie — If you describe something as cockamamie, you mean that it is ridiculous or silly.
  • cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
  • cockatrice — a legendary monster, part snake and part cock, that could kill with a glance
  • cockblocks — Plural form of cockblock.
  • cockchafer — any of various Old World scarabaeid beetles, esp Melolontha melolontha of Europe, whose larvae feed on crops and grasses
  • cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
  • cockernony — a woman's hairstyle in which the hair is gathered up in a band
  • cockeyedly — in a cockeyed manner
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