10-letter words containing roc
- procurable — obtainable.
- procurance — the act of bringing about or getting something; agency; procurement.
- procurator — Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
- proproctor — a university proctor's substitute or assistant
- pyrochlore — a mineral, chiefly composed of niobates of the cerium metals, occurring in syenites in the form of brown crystals.
- reciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- retrochoir — that part of a church behind the choir or the main altar.
- rochambeau — Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur [zhahn ba-teest daw-na-syan duh vee-mœr] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ də viˈmœr/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.
- roche alum — an alumlike substance derived from alunite.
- rock borer — any of various sea creatures that bore into rock, such as some sea urchins, sponges, annelid worms, barnacles, isopods, and molluscs
- rock brake — any of various ferns of the genera Pellaea and Cryptogramma, which grow on rocky ground and have sori at the ends of the veins
- rock candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock chick — a girl or woman who likes rock music and dresses in a typical rock-and-roll style
- rock climb — an instance of rock climbing or the route followed
- rock cress — any of several low growing plants belonging to the genus Arabis, of the mustard family, having spikes or one-sided clusters of white, pink, or purple flowers, grown as an ornamental in rock gardens.
- rock cycle — Geology. a continuous process by which rocks are created, changed from one form to another, destroyed, and then formed again.
- rock falls — a city in NW Illinois.
- rock fence — a wall built of unmortared stones, as one bordering a field.
- rock fever — brucellosis.
- rock flour — glacial meal.
- rock hound — a geologist.
- rock hyrax — an African and Middle Eastern hyrax of the genus Procavia that lives in rocky places.
- rock maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- rock music — heavy form of pop music
- rock opera — an album that tells a story through the songs it contains
- rock pipit — a small passerine bird; Anthus petrosis
- rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
- rock snake — any large Australasian python of the genus Liasis
- rock spray — a low, evergreen, Himalayan shrub, Cotoneaster microphyllus, of the rose family, having shiny leaves with grayish, hairy undersides, white flowers, and scarlet berries.
- rock tripe — any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
- rock-bound — hemmed in, enclosed, or covered by rocks; rocky: the rock-bound coast of Maine.
- rock-candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock-faced — (of a person) having a stiff, expressionless face.
- rock-hound — a geologist.
- rock-solid — Something that is rock-solid is extremely hard.
- rockabilly — a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and hillbilly music.
- rocker arm — a rocking or oscillating arm or lever rotating with a moving shaft or pivoted on a stationary shaft.
- rocker cam — a cam with a rocking or reciprocating motion.
- rocket gun — any weapon that uses a rocket as a projectile, as a rocket launcher or bazooka.
- rockhopper — a small penguin, Eudyptes crestatus, of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and New Zealand, with a yellow crest on each side of its head
- rockingham — Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.
- rocky hill — a town in central Connecticut.
- round rock — a town in central Texas.
- sea rocket — any of several plants of the related genus Cakile, esp C. maritima, which grow along the seashores of Europe and North America and have mauve, pink, or white flowers
- securocrat — a military or police officer who has the power to influence government policy
- siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- spirochete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- subprocess — a process that is part of a larger process