14-letter words containing oc
- company doctor — a businessperson or accountant who specializes in turning ailing companies into profitable enterprises
- consociational — relating to consociation
- console jockey — terminal junkie
- container dock — a dock designed for cargo containers
- control rocket — a small rocket engine used to make corrections in the flight path of spacecraft or missiles.
- convocationist — a person who supports either of the synods of the provinces of Canterbury or York
- corporatocracy — Rule by corporations.
- cosmochemistry — the study of the chemical composition of the celestial bodies
- craniocerebral — relating to both the cranium and the cerebrum
- crepe marocain — a crepe fabric made of silk, wool, or rayon, or a combination of these fibers, and distinguished by a strong rib effect, used in the manufacture of dresses and women's suits; a heavy Canton crepe.
- crocodile bird — an African courser, Pluvianus aegyptius, that lives close to rivers and is thought to feed on insects parasitic on crocodiles
- crocodile clip — a clasp with serrated interlocking edges used for making electrical connections
- crossbolt lock — a lock controlling two bolts moving in opposite directions, as to the top and bottom of a doorframe.
- crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
- cryptococcosis — a disease affecting both animals and humans caused by the Cryptococcus neoformans fungus
- cryptocurrency — a decentralized digital medium of exchange which is created, regulated, and exchanged using cryptography and (usually) open source software
- cyanocobalamin — a complex red crystalline compound, containing cyanide and cobalt and occurring in liver: lack of it in the tissues leads to pernicious anaemia. Formula: C63H88O14N14PCo
- cyberdemocracy — Democracy as facilitated by the Internet or cyberspace.
- cylinder block — the metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling channels or fins of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
- dark chocolate — Dark chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate.
- data processor — a computer that is capable of performing operations on data in order to extract information, reorder files, etc
- deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
- delocalization — to remove from the proper or usual locality.
- demeclocycline — a broad-spectrum antibiotic, C 21 H 21 ClN 2 O 8 , derived from a mutant strain of the bacterium Streptomyces aureofaciens: used against a wide range of susceptible microorganisms.
- democratically — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- deparochialize — to make parochial.
- depth of focus — the amount by which the distance between the camera lens and the film can be altered without the resulting image appearing blurred
- dihydrocodeine — a synthetic drug similar to codeine, used as an analgesic, an antidiarrhoeal, and to relieve coughing, or used recreationally
- dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
- disassociating — to dissociate.
- disassociation — to dissociate.
- disassociative — That disassociates; that causes disassociation.
- dissociability — Lack of sociability; unsociableness.
- do one's block — to become angry
- docking bridge — a raised platform running from one side to the other of a ship toward the stern, used by officers for supervising docking operations.
- doctor faustus — (The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus) a play (c1588) by Christopher Marlowe, based on the medieval legend of Faust.
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
- dolichocephaly — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
- doomsday clock — an image of a clockface representing the time remaining before the onset of a global catastrophe in terms of a number of minutes before midnight
- dorcas society — a society of women of a church whose work it is to provide clothing for the poor.
- double coconut — a tall, stout, fan palm, Lodoicea maldivica, of the Seychelles Islands, having nuts that are the largest seeds of any plant, often weighing 50 pounds (22.6 kg): populations are declining.
- downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
- drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
- duck on a rock — a children's game in which one player stands guard over a stone on a rock while the other players attempt to knock it off by throwing another stone in turn: if the thrower is tagged by the guard while trying to recover the stone, the two players then change positions.
- duplex process — any of several methods for making steel in which the process is begun in one furnace and finished in another.
- echinococcosis — a parasitic disease caused by tapeworms of the genus Echinococcosis
- echocardiogram — a graphic record produced by an echocardiograph.
- ecocatastrophe — a disaster caused by changes in the environment.