English dictionary: words starting with och

exclamation

Used to express a range of emotions, typically surprise, regret, or disbelief.

Usage examples:

Och, you're kidding

noun

An earthy pigment containing ferric oxide, typically with clay, varying from light yellow to brown or red.

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Yellow ochre

noun

The colouring, marking, or rubbing of something with ochre.

noun

Government by the populace; mob rule.

Usage examples:

Sometimes ochlocracy and democracy, perhaps, denote and connote the same thing.

noun

Extreme or irrational fear or dislike of crowds.

exclamation

Used to express regret or sorrow.

adjective

Of the nature of or containing ochre; ochreous.

noun

Any of a series of mycotoxins which are produced by various moulds of the genera aspergillus and penicillium and are derivatives of l -phenylalanine and a compound related to coumarin; especially "ochratoxin a", produced chiefly by a. ochraceus and having the empirical formula c₂₀ h₁₈ clno₆.

noun

An earthy pigment containing ferric oxide, typically with clay, varying from light yellow to brown or red.

Usage examples:

Yellow ochre

noun

A dry sheath round a stem formed by the cohesion of two or more stipules, characteristic of the dock family.

Usage examples:

The plant has the characteristic ochrea of the buckwheat family at the junction of the petiole and …

noun

A dry sheath round a stem formed by the cohesion of two or more stipules, characteristic of the dock family.

Usage examples:

The plant has the characteristic ochrea of the buckwheat family at the junction of the petiole and …

adjective

Having the stipules united by cohesion into an ocrea or sheath surrounding the stem.

adjective

Coloured, marked, or rubbed with ochre.

adjective

Pale yellowish.

adjective

Yellowish-white.

noun

A yellow oxychloride of lead and antimony, now regarded as identical with nadorite.

noun

Abnormal brown pigmentation of tissue (especially cartilage and ligaments), specifically that resulting from the accumulation of a melanin-like pigment derived from homogentisic acid in the metabolic disorder alkaptonuria.