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  • English Word Ochry Definition See Ochery.
  • English Word Ochymy Definition See Occamy.
  • English Word Ocra Definition See Okra.
  • English Word Ocrea Definition See Ochrea.
  • English Word Ocreate Definition Alt. of Ocreated
  • English Word Ocreated Definition Same as Ochreate, Ochreated.
  • English Word Octa- Definition A prefix meaning eight. See Octo-.
  • English Word Octa- Definition A combining form meaning eight; as in octodecimal, octodecimal, octolocular.
  • English Word Octachord Definition An instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones.
  • English Word Octad Definition An atom or radical which has a valence of eight, or is octavalent.
  • English Word Octaedral Definition See Octahedral.
  • English Word Octaemeron Definition A fast of eight days before a great festival.
  • English Word Octagon Definition A plane figure of eight sides and eight angles.
  • English Word Octagon Definition Any structure (as a fortification) or place with eight sides or angles.
  • English Word Octagonal Definition Having eight sides and eight angles.
  • English Word Octagynous Definition Having eight pistils or styles; octogynous.
  • English Word Octahedral Definition Having eight faces or sides; of, pertaining to, or formed in, octahedrons; as, octahedral cleavage.
  • English Word Octahedrite Definition Titanium dioxide occurring in acute octahedral crystals.
  • English Word Octahedron Definition A solid bounded by eight faces. The regular octahedron is contained by eight equal equilateral triangles.
  • English Word Octamerous Definition Having the parts in eights; as, an octamerous flower; octamerous mesenteries in polyps.
  • English Word Octameter Definition A verse containing eight feet; as, --//Deep# in|to# the | dark#ness | peer#ing, | long# I | stood# there | wond'#ring, | fear#ing.
  • English Word Octander Definition One of the Octandria.
  • English Word Octandria Definition A Linnaean class of plants, in which the flowers have eight stamens not united to one another or to the pistil.
  • English Word Octandrian Definition Alt. of Octandrous
  • English Word Octandrous Definition Of or pertaining to the Octandria; having eight distinct stamens.
  • English Word Octane Definition Any one of a group of metametric hydrocarcons (C8H18) of the methane series. The most important is a colorless, volatile, inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of benzene or ligroin.
  • English Word Octangular Definition Having eight angles; eight-angled.
  • English Word Octant Definition The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
  • English Word Octant Definition The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees.
  • English Word Octant Definition An instrument for measuring angles (generally called a quadrant), having an arc which measures up to 9O¡, but being itself the eighth part of a circle. Cf. Sextant.