8-letter words containing oc
- mammocks — Plural form of mammock.
- man lock — an air lock serving as a decompression chamber for workers.
- mandioca — cassava.
- 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.
- mashloch — (Scotland, obsolete) A type of low-quality bread made from flour and other grains.
- mattocks — Plural form of mattock.
- mediocer — Obsolete form of mediocre.
- mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- meiocyte — a cell that divides by meiosis to produce four haploid spores (meiospores)
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- microcap — (US, finance) The stock of a public company with a market capitalization of roughly $300 million or less.
- microcar — A very small car.
- midocean — The area in the middle of an ocean, far from shore.
- mindlock — (fantasy, scifi) A magic spell or technology that restricts a person's ability to think freely.
- misfocus — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- mobocrat — One who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
- mocassin — Alternative spelling of moccasin.
- moccasin — a heelless shoe made entirely of soft leather, as deerskin, with the sole brought up and attached to a piece of u -shaped leather on top of the foot, worn originally by the American Indians.
- mock sun — parhelion.
- mockable — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- mocktail — a nonalcoholic cocktail.
- monobloc — denoting or pertaining to the casting of a complex metal object as a single piece rather than in separate parts.
- monocarp — a plant that dies after having once borne fruit.
- monocled — an eyeglass for one eye.
- monocles — Plural form of monocle.
- monocopy — (genetics) Describing any gene that has a copy number of one.
- monocrat — a person favoring monocracy.
- monocule — (zoology) A small crustacean with one median eye.
- monocyte — a large, circulating white blood cell, formed in bone marrow and in the spleen, that ingests large foreign particles and cell debris.
- moochers — Plural form of moocher.
- mooching — Present participle of mooch.
- moonrock — a sample of lunar material.
- moorcock — A male red grouse.
- moroccan — French Maroc. Spanish Marruecos. a kingdom in NW Africa: formed from a sultanate that was divided into two protectorates (French Morocco and Spanish Morocco) and an international zone. 172,104 sq. mi. (445,749 sq. km). Capital: Rabat. Compare Tangier Zone.
- moroccos — Plural form of morocco.
- morrocoy — A red-footed tortoise, of the species Chelonoidis carbonaria, from the West Indies.
- myocytes — Plural form of myocyte.
- myxocyte — one of the stellate or polyhedral cells in mucous tissue
- neocracy — Government by the new or inexperienced.
- neolocal — living or located away from both the husband's and the wife's relatives: a neolocal family.
- no-knock — antiknock.
- nocardia — any of several filamentous or rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Nocardia, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other animals.
- nocently — in a nocent manner; harmfully
- noctilio — any bat of the S American genus Noctilio
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- noctuids — Plural form of noctuid.
- noctules — Plural form of noctule.
- noctuoid — a member of the family of moths Noctuidae
- nocturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- nocturne — a piece appropriate to the night or evening.