8-letter words containing lock
- air lock — an airtight compartment, with adjustable air pressure, between places that do not have the same air pressure, as between the working compartment of a caisson and the outside
- air-lock — to place in or confine to an air lock: to air-lock divers before they descend.
- airlocks — Plural form of airlock.
- alcolock — a breath-alcohol ignition-interlock device fitted to the ignition in certain motor vehicles. The driver must blow into a tube and, if his or her breath contains too much alcohol, a lock is activated to prevent the vehicle starting
- antilock — designed to prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
- armlocks — Plural form of armlock.
- ballocks — (nonce, used only by James Joyce) Alternative form of bollocks.
- block in — If you are blocked in, someone has parked their car in such a way that you cannot drive yours away.
- block up — If you block something up or if it blocks up, it is blocked completely so that nothing can get through it.
- blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
- blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
- blocking — the interruption of anode current in a valve because of the application of a high negative voltage to the grid
- blockish — lacking vivacity or imagination; stupid
- bollocks — Bollocks is used by some people to express disagreement, dislike, or annoyance.
- bullocky — the driver of a team of bullocks
- chadlock — Alternative form of charlock.
- charlock — a weedy Eurasian plant, Sinapis arvensis (or Brassica kaber), with hairy stems and foliage and yellow flowers: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- clock in — When you clock in at work, you arrive there or put a special card into a device to show what time you arrived.
- clock on — When workers clock on at a factory or office, they put a special card into a device to show what time they arrived.
- clock up — If you clock up a large number or total of things, you reach that number or total.
- clockers — Plural form of clocker.
- clocking — Present participle of clock.
- deadlock — If a dispute or series of negotiations reaches deadlock, neither side is willing to give in at all and no agreement can be made.
- droplock — a variable-rate bank loan used on international markets that is automatically replaced by a fixed-rate long-term bond if the long-term interest rates fall to a specified level; it thus combines the advantages of a bank loan with those of a bond
- elflocks — A tangled mass of hair.
- fetlocks — Plural form of fetlock.
- firelock — a gun having a lock in which the priming is ignited by sparks struck from flint and steel, as the flintlock musket.
- flockbed — a bed with a mattress stuffed with wool refuse, shearings of cloth, or the like.
- flocking — a lock or tuft of wool, hair, cotton, etc.
- forelock — a pin or flat wedge passed through a hole near the end of a threadless bolt to fasten parts together.
- gavelock — a spear or javelin
- gridlock — the stoppage of free vehicular movement in an urban area because key intersections are blocked by traffic.
- gunlocks — Plural form of gunlock.
- havelock — a town in SE North Carolina.
- headlock — a hold in which a wrestler locks an arm around the opponent's head.
- hemlocks — Plural form of hemlock.
- herblock — Herbert Lawrence (Herblock) 1909–2001, U.S. cartoonist.
- hillocks — Plural form of hillock.
- hillocky — Resembling a hillock.
- iceblock — An ice block, a block of ice.
- landlock — (transitive) To enclose or nearly enclose (a harbour, vessel, etc.) with land.
- lip lock — Slang. a long and passionate kiss.
- lip-lock — Slang. a long and passionate kiss.
- livelock — (computing) A condition resembling deadlock in which various computational processes are constantly changing but never reach a point where any of them can proceed.
- lock bay — a broadened section of a canal before the gates of a lock.
- lock nut — a nut specially constructed to prevent its coming loose, usually having a means of providing extra friction between itself and the screw.
- lock out — 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-jaw — tetanus in which the jaws become firmly locked together; trismus.
- lockable — capable of being locked; fitted with a lock: The car has a lockable glove compartment.
- lockaway — an investment intended to be held for a relatively long time
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