Orc (disambiguation)

Orc or ORC may refer to:

In fiction

Mythical races

• Orc, an overview of orcs in mythology and fiction
• Orc (Middle-earth), in the work of J.R.R. Tolkien
• Orc (Dungeons & Dragons)
• Orc (Warcraft)
• Orc (Warhammer)
• Orsimer, also called orcs, in the computer games The Elder Scrolls
• "l'Orco" the sea monster in the epic Orlando Furioso

Other fictional uses

• Orc (Blake), a character in the work of William Blake
• Orcs: First Blood, a series of books by Stan Nicholls
• Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, a spin-off the Resident Evil series of games.

In Popular Culture

• A Band of Orcs, a Heavy Metal band who claim to be a tribe of Orc warriors

Other meanings

• Odonata Records Committee
• Offender Rehabilitation Counselor
• Offshore Racing Congress, the organisation that sets handicap standards for maritime yacht racing
• Ohio Revised Code
• Opinion Research Corporation, a polling and market research company
• Orc Software
• Orc (programming language), a programming language for computation orchestration
• Oil Runtime Compiler - OIL stands for Optimized Inner Loops.
• Oregon City (Amtrak station), Oregon, United States; Amtrak station code ORC
• Organic Rankine cycle
• Organized retail crime
• Origin recognition complex, protein complex involved in eukaryotic DNA replication initiation
• Oriental Railway Company, an Ottoman railway
• IATA airport code ORC: Orocue Airport, in Orocue, Colombia
• Otago Regional Council, a local government authority in New Zealand
• Origin Receiving Charge, an international shipping term specifying Terminal Handling Charge levied at ports of loading
• ORCS = Old River Control Structure, a floodgate system in a branch of the Mississippi River in central Louisiana

Distinguish from

• Auk
• Ork (disambiguation)
• Orca