11-letter words containing roc
- proctoscopy — examination by means of a proctoscope.
- procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
- procuratory — Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
- procurement — the act of procuring, or obtaining or getting by effort, care, or the use of special means: The organ procurement procedure is very complicated.
- procyclical — cyclic.
- punk rocker — 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.
- pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
- reciprocant — a differential invariant
- reciprocate — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- reciprocity — a reciprocal state or relation.
- reprocessed — (of wool) previously spun and woven but not used, as tailors' clippings.
- retrorocket — a small, auxiliary rocket engine, forming a part of a larger rocket vehicle and having its exhaust nozzle pointed toward the direction of flight, for decelerating the larger rocket, separating one stage from another, etc.
- roche limit — the minimum distance below which a moon orbiting a celestial body would be disrupted by tidal forces or below which a moon would not have formed.
- rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
- rock blenny — a prickleback, Xiphister mucosus, of the Pacific coast from southern California to Alaska.
- rock bottom — lowest possible price
- rock flower — any shrub of the genus Crossosoma, native to the arid regions of the southwestern U.S., having thick, narrow leaves and solitary flowers.
- rock garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
- rock gunnel — any small eellike blenny of the family Pholididae (Pholidae), especially Pholis gunnellus (rock gunnel) common in shallow waters of the North Atlantic.
- rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
- rock pigeon — rock dove.
- rock rabbit — rock hyrax.
- rock salmon — (formerly) any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish: now called rockfish or catfish
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- rock thrush — any of several Old World thrushes of the genus Monticola, usually having bluish plumage, especially M. saxatilis, of Europe.
- rock-bottom — at the lowest possible limit or level; extremely low: rock-bottom prices.
- rock-garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
- rock-ribbed — having ribs or ridges of rock: the rock-ribbed coast of Maine.
- rockefeller — John D(avison) [dey-vuh-suh n] /ˈdeɪ və sən/ (Show IPA), 1839–1937, and his son John D(avison), Jr. 1874–1960, U.S. oil magnates and philanthropists.
- rocket bomb — an aerial bomb equipped with a rocket for added velocity after being dropped from an aircraft.
- rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rocket sled — a sled propelled along a long track by rocket engines, for testing the effects of high rates of acceleration and deceleration.
- rocketsonde — a telemeter for gathering data on the atmosphere at very high altitudes, carried aloft by rocket and returned to earth by parachute.
- rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
- rocky mount — a city in NE North Carolina.
- rocky river — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- sacrocostal — relating to the sacrum and the ribs
- sclerocauly — the feature of having a hard, dry stem
- seroconvert — (of an individual) to produce antibodies specific to, and in response to the presence in the blood of, a particular antigen, such as a virus or vaccine
- skyrocketed — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- smock frock — a loose overgarment of linen or cotton, as that worn by European farm laborers. Compare blouse (def 3).
- spirochaete — 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.
- sporocystic — of or like a sporocyst
- step rocket — a multistage rocket that discards burned-out stages.
- superoctave — an organ stop two octaves above the standard pitch
- taurocholic — of or derived from taurocholic acid.
- trochophore — a ciliate, free-swimming larva common to several groups of invertebrates, as many mollusks and rotifers.
- unprocessed — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- unproctored — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.