Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A marine mammal; some cetacean, perhaps a grampus or killer, or the narwhal. See Orca.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) Any of several cetaceans, especialy the
grampus (Grampus griseus) of the dolphin family. - n. (Mythology) A mythical monster of varying descriptions; an ogre.
- n. The orca.
Etymologies
- Probably from Italian orco ("man-eating giant"); later revived by J. R. R. Tolkien, partly after Old English orc ("demon"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The term orc or its variant ork has been used to describe a large fish, whale or sea-monster.”
Hard at work on Orcas Island | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
“In Tolkien's world, the only good orc is a dead orc.”
“The publisher says that they believe this beheaded orc is the objectionable content in question," Doctorow wrote on BoingBoing.”
“But regardless, the life of the average orc is going to be nasty, brutish and short.”
“The word orc originally described grampi, a class of carnivorous cetaceans that includes the killer whale orca.”
““Thoe orc is carrying 6 gold bricks, but each one is like 25 lbs, you can’t carry them all … “But then how was * he* carrying it?!?””
“There’s a bigger language barrier to consider if an orc is talking to a human.”
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“Hate to see her fighting for someone like Rehgar Earthfury or worse, Varian concluded, referring to the orc shaman for whom they had battled as gladiators and slaves of the Crimson Ring.”
“Thick and muscular of limb and torso, the orc was a skilled fighter despite barely being of adult years.”
“It was entirely like Cairne to have challenged Garrosh if he felt that the orc was a true danger to the well-being of the Horde.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘orc’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Dungeons and Dragons
Would you like to join our party? We just started a new campaign.
For more general lists about role-playing games, see brandelion's RPG and lampbane's Tales of the Dread Gazebo.dungeons and dragons, d&d, elf, orc, halfling, drow, giant, troll, kobold, rpg, d20, human and 100 more...
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Mythical Beings
mermaid, manticore, fairy, brownie, dwarf, elf, leprechaun, selkie, gremlin, puck, pixie, genie and 97 more...
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whales,dolphins,porpoises
amazing water creatures
cetacean, balleen whale, northern right whale, bowhead whale, gray whale, fin whale, sei whale, minke whale, humpback whale, blue whale, pygmy Bryde's whale, toothed whales and 111 more...
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Ends with C but not with "-ic"
bloc, roc, arc, orc, disc, sac, xebec, havoc, bivouac, sumac, maniac, insomniac and 418 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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A List of Mythical Proportions
All of these things exist, I swear!
unicorn, pegasus, cyclops, yeti, abominable snowman, bigfoot, phoenix, thunderbird, sea serpent, ogre, grue, troll and 138 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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#1
Words I Like
abide, sashay, microbial, scented, nature, amorphous, unknown, imagine, photogenic, soft, silken, history and 188 more...
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Fictional beasties
elf, gnome, dwarf, sprite, troll, fairy, nymph, imp, brownie, sasquatch, yeti, wookiee and 574 more...
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Scriptie: The Fellowship of the Ring
the world is changed, much that once wa..., great rings, immortal, dwarf lords, miners, craftsmen, three, seven, nine, deceived, dark lord and 216 more...
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To Find Them All
arwen, eowyn, minas tirith, minas morgul, shelob, aragorn, ent, orc, dwalin, balin, ori, nori and 89 more...
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figments
denizens of the imagination (non-human, mostly).
an offshoot of animaliabandersnatch, gnome, fairy, elf, troll, ent, hobbit, dwarf, orc, ogre, gollum, basilisk and 78 more...
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cryptozoo
dragon, unicorn, golem, grendel, kobold, phoenix, thunderbird, elemental, heffalump, chupacabra, minotaur, hobgoblin and 48 more...
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ever onward...
being words, terms, names of people and places, and other items from Lord of the Rings, not limited to those which are unique to Middle-Earth, and in no particular order.
hobbit, elf, man, ent, wizard, oliphaunt, nazgul, wraith, dwarf, ithildin, mithril, sindarin and 77 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for orc.
bilby "For the act, the monkeys do tricks, or dress up in outfits and act out hit movies — The Matrix is very popular, as is anything where the monkeys dress up like little orcs."
- Kij Johnson, 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss. Aug 21, 2009
dingyaner origin receive charges Jan 23, 2009