12-letter words containing oc
- letter stock — unregistered stock sold privately by a company so as not to have a negative effect on the price of its publicly traded stock.
- leucocytosis — an increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- leukocytosis — an increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- local colour — Local colour is used to refer to customs, traditions, dress, and other things which give a place or period of history its own particular character.
- local option — a right of choice exercised by a minor political division, as a county, especially as to allowing the sale of liquor.
- localisation — Alternative spelling of localization.
- localization — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- locarno pact — a series of treaties, concluded in Locarno, Switzerland in 1925, between Germany, France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. The principal treaty, between Germany, France, and Belgium, concerned the maintenance of their existing frontiers, settlement of disputes by arbitration without resort to force, and the demilitarization of the Rhineland. This treaty was guaranteed by the United Kingdom and Italy but was violated when Germany occupied the Rhineland in 1936
- locationally — a place of settlement, activity, or residence: This town is a good location for a young doctor.
- lock forward — either of two players who make up the second line of the scrum and apply weight to the forwards in the front line
- locker plant — an establishment for storing food under refrigeration, containing lockers for renting to individual users.
- locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
- loco disease — locoism.
- locomobility — the ability to move from one place to another
- locomotivity — the capability of moving from one place to another
- locoregional — Restricted to a localized region of the body.
- locum tenens — a temporary substitute, especially for a doctor or member of the clergy.
- locus in quo — the place in which; the very place; the scene of the event.
- locus standi — the right of a party to appear and be heard before a court
- logocentrism — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
- macrocarpous — having large fruit.
- macrocephaly — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
- macroclimate — the general climate of a large area, as of a continent or country.
- macroculture — The dominant culture in a society, its overculture.
- macrocytosis — The presence of macrocytes in the blood.
- malocclusion — faulty occlusion; irregular contact of opposing teeth in the upper and lower jaws.
- mass society — a society whose members are characterized by having segmentalized, impersonal relations, a high degree of physical and social mobility, a spectator relation to events, and a pronounced tendency to conform to external popular norms.
- mastocytosis — an overproduction of mast cells in body tissues.
- matroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
- mediocrities — the state or quality of being mediocre.
- megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
- melanochroic — Melanochroid
- meningococci — Plural form of meningococcus.
- mental block — inability to recall
- meritocratic — an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth.
- mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
- mesocortical — Of or pertaining to the mesocortex.
- mesocyclones — Plural form of mesocyclone.
- microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
- microcarrier — (biology) Small, beadlike material used to immobilize biocatalysts, or to anchor growing cells.
- microcentury — One CS professor used to characterise the standard length of his lectures as a microcentury - that is, about 52.6 minutes (see also attoparsec, nanoacre, and especially microfortnight).
- microcephaly — having a head with a small braincase.
- microchipped — Simple past tense and past participle of microchip.
- microcircuit — Electronics. integrated circuit.
- microclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
- microcopying — the act of copying onto microfilm
- microcrystal — a microscopic crystal.
- microculture — subculture (def 3b).
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- misallocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misallocate.