6-letter words containing oc
- lockup — a jail, especially a local one for temporary detention.
- locoed — (of livestock) intoxicated by eating locoweed.
- locoum — Turkish delight.
- locris — either of two districts in the central part of ancient Greece.
- locule — a small compartment or chamber, as the pollen-containing cavity within an anther.
- loculi — Biology. locule.
- locums — Plural form of locum.
- locust — Also called acridid, short-horned grasshopper. any of several grasshoppers of the family Acrididae, having short antennae and commonly migrating in swarms that strip the vegetation from large areas.
- lompoc — a city in SW California.
- malloc — C's standard library routine for storage allocation. It takes the number of bytes required and returns a pointer to a block of that size. Storage is allocated from a heap which lies after the end of the program and data areas. Memory allocated with malloc must be freed explicitly using the "free" routine before it can be re-used.
- maloca — An ancestral longhouse used by the natives of the Amazon, notably in Colombia and Brazil.
- manioc — cassava.
- mochis — a city in Sinaloa state, NW Mexico.
- mocked — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- mocker — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- mockup — a contemptuous or derisive imitative action or speech; mockery or derision.
- mocock — a Native American birch bark vessel or repository
- mohock — one of a group of aristocratic ruffians who attacked people at night on the streets of London in the early part of the 18th century.
- moloch — a deity whose worship was marked by the propitiatory sacrifice of children by their own parents. II Kings 23:10; Jer. 32:35.
- neocon — a neoconservative.
- nocake — Indian maize that is dried and powered into meal
- nocebo — an inactive substance or a real medication that produces unpleasant or worsening symptoms in a patient or research participant because the person expects negative effects.
- nocent — harmful; injurious.
- nocked — a metal or plastic piece at the end of an arrow, having a notch for the bowstring.
- nocti- — night
- noctis — (in prescriptions) of the night.
- nostoc — any freshwater, blue-green alga of the genus Nostoc, often occurring in jellylike colonies in moist places.
- occamy — a metallic alloy that simulates the precious metals silver and gold
- occult — of or relating to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.
- occupy — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- occurs — to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
- oceans — Plural form of ocean.
- ocelli — a type of simple eye common to invertebrates, consisting of retinal cells, pigments, and nerve fibers.
- ocelot — a spotted leopardlike cat, Felis pardalis, ranging from Texas through South America: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in the U.S.
- ochone — an expression of sorrow or regret
- ochrea — ocrea.
- ochred — to color or mark with ocher.
- ocicat — a breed of large short-haired cat with a spotted coat
- ockham — William of, died 1349? English scholastic philosopher.
- ocreae — a sheathing part, as a pair of stipules united about a stem.
- octads — Plural form of octad.
- octane — any of 18 isomeric saturated hydrocarbons having the formula C 8 H 1 8 , some of which are obtained in the distillation and cracking of petroleum.
- octans — (of a fever) occurring every eighth day.
- octant — the eighth part of a circle.
- octave — Music. a tone on the eighth degree from a given tone. the interval encompassed by such tones. the harmonic combination of such tones. a series of tones, or of keys of an instrument, extending through this interval.
- octavo — a book size of about 6 × 9 inches (16 × 23 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 8 leaves or 16 pages. Symbol: 8vo, 8°.
- octets — Plural form of octet.
- octile — (statistics) Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into eight equally numerous subsets.
- octopi — any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea.
- octroi — (formerly especially in France and Italy) a local tax levied on certain articles, such as foodstuffs, on their entry into a city.