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18-letter words containing oc

  • funeral procession — ceremonial cortège at a burial
  • giant peacock moth — the largest European moth, an emperor, Saturnia pyri, reaching 15 cm (6 in.) in wingspan. It is mottled brown with a prominent ocellus on each wing and being night-flying can be mistaken for a bat
  • go off half-cocked — (of a firearm) at the position of half cock.
  • hippocratic facies — the sallow facial expression, with listless staring eyes, often regarded as denoting approaching death
  • histocompatibility — the condition of having antigenic similarities such that cells or tissues transplanted from one (the donor) to another (the recipient) are not rejected.
  • hydrocinnamic acid — a white crystalline compound, C 9 H 10 O 2 , with a floral odor, used in perfumes and flavoring.
  • hydrofluorocarbons — Plural form of hydrofluorocarbon.
  • hypochromic anemia — an anemia characterized by an abnormally low concentration of hemoglobin in the red blood cells, often due to iron deficiency.
  • ignition interlock — interlock (def 10).
  • isothermal process — a process that takes place without change in temperature.
  • john birch society — an ultraconservative organization, founded in December 1958 by Robert Welch, Jr., chiefly to combat alleged Communist activities in the U.S.
  • lenticular process — a method for producing images with a three-dimensional effect by photographing on lenticulated film.
  • line one's pockets — to put into one's pocket: to pocket one's keys.
  • liqueur chocolates — chocolates containing liqueur
  • local area network — a system for linking private telecommunications equipment, as in a building or cluster of buildings.
  • local examinations — (in the UK) any of various examinations, such as the GCE, set by university boards and conducted in local centres, schools, etc
  • locally finite set — a collection of sets in a topological space in which each point of the space has a neighborhood that intersects a finite number of sets of the collection.
  • locked-in syndrome — a condition in which a person is conscious but unable to move any part of the body except the eyes: results from damage to the brainstem
  • macro preprocessor — preprocessor
  • magnetocrystalline — (physics) Describing the interaction between the magnetization and the crystal structure of a material.
  • microcrystallinity — The condition of being microcrystalline.
  • mineralocorticoids — Plural form of mineralocorticoid.
  • moccasin telegraph — the transmission of rumour or secret information; the grapevine
  • monochlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of three isomers of a chlorinated derivative of biphenyl containing one chlorine atom.
  • mutual aid society — A mutual aid society is an organization that provides benefits or other help to its members when they are affected by things such as death, sickness, disability, old age, or unemployment.
  • national socialism — the principles and practices of the Nazi party in Germany.
  • neuroendocrinology — the study of the anatomical and physiological interactions between the nervous and endocrine systems.
  • nocturnal emission — the release of semen during sleep, often during a sexual dream.
  • occasional licence — a licence granted to sell alcohol only at specified times
  • occupational group — An occupational group is a category used by insurance companies to classify jobs according to how hazardous they are.
  • octachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twelve isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing eight chlorine atoms.
  • october revolution — Russian Revolution (def 2).
  • oriental cockroach — a dark-brown cockroach, Blatta orientalis, thought to have originated in Asia but now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution.
  • paleoclimatologist — the branch of paleogeography dealing with the study of paleoclimates.
  • parallel processor — (parallel)   A computer with more than one central processing unit, used for parallel processing.
  • passive vocabulary — all the words, collectively, that a person can understand
  • people's democracy — (in Communist ideology) a country or form of government in transition from bourgeois democracy to socialism. In this stage there is more than one class, the largest being the proletariat, led by the Communist Party, which is therefore the dominant power
  • perlocutionary act — the action of affecting someone by uttering certain words
  • phanerocrystalline — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
  • photochemical smog — air pollution containing ozone and other reactive chemical compounds formed by the action of sunlight on nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons, especially those in automobile exhaust.
  • platinocyanic acid — the hypothetical acid containing platinum and the cyano group, H 2 Pt(CN) 4 .
  • process identifier — (operating system)   (PID) An integer used by the Unix kernel to uniquely identify a process. PIDs are returned by the fork system call and can be passed to wait() or kill() to perform actions on the given process.
  • process scheduling — multitasking
  • processionary moth — a moth of the family Thaumetopoeidae, esp the oak processionary moth (Thaumetopoea processionea), the larvae of which leave the communal shelter nightly for food in a V-shaped procession
  • procrustean string — (programming)   A fixed-length string. If a string value is too long for the allocated space, it is truncated to fit; and if it is shorter, the empty space is padded, usually with space characters. This is an allusion to Procrustes, a legendary robber of ancient Attica. He bound his victims to a bed, and if they were shorter than the bed, he stretched their limbs until they would fit; if their limbs were longer, he lopped them off.
  • protocol converter — (networking)   A device or program to translate between different protocols which serve similar functions (e.g. TCP and TP4). Some call this a "gateway", though others use that term for other kinds of internetworking device.
  • protocol data unit — (PDU) A packet of data passed across a network. The term implies a specific layer of the OSI seven layer model and a specific protocol.
  • pseudo-socialistic — of or relating to socialists or socialism.
  • psychosociological — psychological and sociological
  • put the clock back — to regress
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