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13-letter words containing ock

  • rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
  • rocket attack — a missile attack
  • rocket engine — a reaction engine that produces a thrust due to an exhaust consisting entirely of material, as oxidizer, fuel, and inert matter, that has been carried with the engine in the vehicle it propels, none of the propellant being derived from the medium through which the vehicle moves.
  • rocking chair — a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.
  • rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • rocking stone — any fairly large rock so situated on its base that slight forces can cause it to move or sway.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • roller hockey — a game similar to ice hockey played on roller skates.
  • rolling stock — the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
  • sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
  • shell-shocked — battle fatigue.
  • shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
  • shock tactics — shock tactics are a way of trying to influence people's attitudes to a particular matter by shocking them
  • shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
  • shocking pink — a vivid or intensely bright pink.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
  • silk stocking — a lady's stocking made from a very fine material such as silk or nylon
  • silk-stocking — rich or luxurious in dress.
  • socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
  • sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
  • stock buyback — buyback (def 3).
  • stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
  • stock control — Stock control is the activity of making sure that a company always has exactly the right amount of goods available to sell.
  • stock footage — film containing stock shots.
  • stock options — an option giving the holder, usually an officer or employee, the right to buy stock of the issuing corporation at a specific price within a stated period.
  • stock raising — the breeding and raising of livestock.
  • stock warrant — A stock warrant is the right to buy stock at a particular price on a particular date directly from the issuing company.
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • stocking loom — a type of knitting machine
  • stocking mask — a nylon stocking used, especially by a criminal, to disguise the face.
  • stocking unit — A stocking unit is a measurement or number by which items are kept in inventory, for example by dozens, kilograms, or cases.
  • street hockey — road hockey.
  • take stock in — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
  • tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • tussock grass — any of various grasses that grow in tuftlike clumps.
  • ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
  • undated stock — stock that has no definitive repayment commitment
  • understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
  • volcanic rock — rock solidified on Earth's surface
  • water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
  • weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
  • windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
  • yellow rocket — any of several yellow-flowered plants of the related genus Barbarea, esp B. vulgaris
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