9-letter words containing oc
- loc. cit. — loco citato
- local bus — (hardware) A bus connecting a processor to memory, usually on the same circuit board as opposed to a backplane and therefore faster. Various proprietary local busses for personal computers are still in use. The most common are Vesa local bus (VLB or VL), and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). Some computers, e.g. notebook computers, use a local bus with no expansion slots. Previous non-local bus standards include ISA, EISA and MCA.
- localhost — (computing) The computer being used locally, contrasted with remote computers elsewhere on a network.
- localised — localisation
- localisms — Plural form of localism.
- localists — Plural form of localist.
- localized — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- localizer — (computing) A person who localizes.
- localizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of localize.
- localtalk — (networking) An Apple Computer network standard using Apple Computer's own networking hardware. Compare EtherTalk.
- locatable — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- locatelli — Pietro [pee-ey-troh;; Italian pye-traw] /piˈeɪ troʊ;; Italian ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1695–1764, Italian violinist and composer.
- locations — Plural form of location.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- locellate — split into secondary cells
- loch ness — a lake in NW Scotland, near Inverness. 23 miles (37 km) long.
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
- lock away — put in prison
- lock down — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- lock gate — one of the two gates of a lock
- lock rail — the rail of a door that meets the shutting stile at the level of the lock.
- lock seam — a joint between two pieces of sheet metal, made by folding up the overlapping edges against each other, then folding them over in the same direction a number of times.
- lock step — a way of marching in such close file that the corresponding legs of the marchers must keep step precisely
- lockboxes — Plural form of lockbox.
- lockdowns — Plural form of lockdown.
- locked in — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- locked up — Synonym for hung, wedged.
- lockerbie — a town in SW Scotland, in Dumfries and Galloway: scene (1988) of the UK's worst air disaster when a passenger jet (Pan Am flight 103) was brought down by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people, including eleven residents of the town. Pop: 4009 (2001)
- lockhouse — the house of a lock-keeper
- lockmaker — a person who makes locks
- locksmith — a person who makes or repairs locks and keys.
- locomoted — Simple past tense and past participle of locomote.
- locomotor — Also, locomotory. of, relating to, or affecting locomotion.
- locoweeds — Plural form of locoweed.
- loculated — Locular.
- locuplete — amply stocked
- locutions — Plural form of locution.
- lovelocks — Plural form of lovelock.
- lyocratic — noting a colloid owing its stability to the affinity of its particles for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lysocline — the depth of the ocean at which the solubility of calcium carbonate increases substantially.
- macrocode — a single code that contains a set of instructions.
- macrocopy — an enlargement of printed material for easier reading
- macrocosm — the great world or universe; the universe considered as a whole (opposed to microcosm).
- macrocyst — a large cyst or spore case, especially the encysted, resting plasmodium of a slime mold.
- macrocyte — an abnormally large red blood cell.
- manitowoc — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- masochism — Psychiatry. the condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering physical pain or humiliation.
- masochist — Psychiatry. a person who has masochism, the condition in which sexual or other gratification depends on one's suffering physical pain or humiliation.
- mastocyte — Mast cell.
- matchlock — an old form of gunlock in which the priming was ignited by a slow match.