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9-letter words containing ock

  • livestock — the horses, cattle, sheep, and other useful animals kept or raised on a farm or ranch.
  • 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a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.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a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.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.
  • lovelocks — Plural form of lovelock.
  • matchlock — an old form of gunlock in which the priming was ignited by a slow match.
  • mock epic — a long, humorous poem written in mock-heroic style.
  • mock lisp — The Lisp used by the Gosling Emacs editor.
  • mock mold — bed (def 23).
  • mock moon — paraselene.
  • mockeries — Plural form of mockery.
  • mockernut — a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.
  • mockingly — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
  • mocktails — Plural form of mocktail.
  • monadnock — Physical Geography. a residual hill or mountain standing well above the surface of a surrounding peneplain.
  • monoblock — Alternative spelling of monobloc.
  • moon rock — a rock from the surface of the moon
  • ollycrock — (South Africa) giant periwinkle.
  • opa-locka — a town in S Florida.
  • outjockey — to outmaneuver: We outjockeyed the competition and got our bid in first.
  • overclock — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
  • overstock — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
  • pillicock — a penis
  • pinchcock — a clamp for compressing a flexible pipe, as a rubber tube, in order to regulate or stop the flow of a fluid.
  • pock-mark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
  • pocketful — the amount that a pocket will hold.
  • pocketing — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
  • poppycock — nonsense; bosh.
  • post-rock — a type of music that often varies from traditional rock in terms of form and instrumentation
  • prog rock — a style of rock music originating in the 1970s and characterized by large-scale compositions, often on epic themes, in which musicians display instrumental virtuosity
  • punk rock — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
  • roadblock — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
  • rock band — heavy pop music group
  • rock bass — a game fish, Ambloplites rupestris, of the sunfish family, inhabiting freshwater streams of the eastern U.S.
  • rock bolt — a steel or fiberglass bolt inserted and anchored in a hole drilled in rock to prevent caving of the roof of a tunnel or subterranean chamber.
  • rock boot — a tight-fitting rock-climbing boot with a canvas or suede upper and smooth rubber sole, designed to give good grip on small holds
  • rock cake — a small cake containing dried fruit and spice, with a rough surface supposed to resemble a rock
  • rock crab — any of several crabs that live along rocky beaches, especially those of the genus Cancer, as C. irroratus, of the eastern coast of North America, having the rear legs modified for running.
  • rock dove — a European pigeon, Columba livia, from which most domestic pigeons have been developed.
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