5-letter words containing c, n
- eniac — Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
- enoch — the eldest son of Cain after whom the first city was named (Genesis 4:17)
- escon — Enterprise Systems CONnectivity
- facon — a fashion; manner; style.
- fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- fence — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- fianc — short for fiancé or fiancée. Because this word exists predominantly in written form (esp. in text messages) it is not yet clear how it is pronounced.
- ficin — an enzyme derived from the latex of the fig tree
- finca — a ranch or large farm in a Spanish-speaking country, especially a plantation in tropical Spanish America.
- finch — any of numerous small passerine birds of the family Fringillidae, including the buntings, sparrows, crossbills, purple finches, and grosbeaks, most of which have a short, conical bill adapted for eating seeds.
- franc — an aluminum or nickel coin and monetary unit of France, Belgium, and Luxembourg until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimes. Abbreviation: F., f., Fr, fr.
- funic — (anatomy) funicular.
- ganca — a city in NW Azerbaijan.
- gance — Abel (abɛl). 1889–1981, French film director, whose works include J'accuse (1919, 1937) and Napoléon (1927), which introduced the split-screen technique
- ganch — the spiked or hooked apparatus used to impale a criminal
- genco — Power 'gen'eration 'co'mpany.
- genic — of, pertaining to, resembling, or arising from a gene or genes.
- gnu c — (language) The extension of C compiled by gcc.
- gunch — /guhnch/
(TMRC) To push, prod, or poke at a device that has almost (but not quite) produced the desired result. Implies a threat to mung. - hance — (transitive, obsolete) To raise, to elevate.
- hanch — Alternative form of hance.
- hence — as an inference from this fact; for this reason; therefore: The eggs were very fresh and hence satisfactory.
- hench — Philip Showalter [shoh-awl-ter] /ˈʃoʊ ɔl tər/ (Show IPA), 1896–1965, U.S. physician: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1950.
- hunch — to thrust out or up in a hump; arch: to hunch one's back.
- icann — (body, networking) (ICANN) The non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for IP address allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions now performed under U.S. Government contract by IANA and other entities.
- iceni — an ancient Celtic tribe of eastern England, whose queen, Boadicea, headed an insurrection against the Romans in a.d. 61.
- icing — the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- icon- — icono-
- icons — a picture, image, or other representation.
- incas — a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest.
- incel — (neologism) A person who is celibate against their wishes.
- incl. — In written advertisements, incl. is an abbreviation for including.
- incle — Alternative form of inkle.
- incog — Incognito.
- incur — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- incus — Anatomy. the middle one of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals. Compare malleus, stapes.
- incut — Set in by or as if by cutting.
- indic — of or relating to India; Indian.
- intuc — Indian National Trade Union Congress
- ionic — Architecture. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders that in ancient Greece consisted of a fluted column with a molded base and a capital composed of four volutes, usually parallel to the architrave with a pulvinus connecting a pair on each side of the column, and an entablature typically consisting of an architrave of three fascias, a richly ornamented frieze, and a cornice corbeled out on egg-and-dart and dentil moldings, with the frieze sometimes omitted. Roman and Renaissance examples are often more elaborate, and usually set the volutes of the capitals at 45° to the architrave. Compare composite (def 3), Corinthian (def 2), Doric (def 3), Tuscan (def 2).
- junc. — junction
- junco — any of several small North American finches of the genus Junco.
- kench — a deep bin in which animal skins and fish are salted.
- knack — a special skill, talent, or aptitude: He had a knack for saying the right thing.
- kneck — (UK, nautical) The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out.
- knick — Alternative spelling of nick.
- knock — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- knuck — Informal. knuckle.
- lacan — Jacques, 1901–81, French philosopher and psychoanalyst.
- lance — a male given name.