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11-letter words containing n, a, c

  • accountable — If you are accountable to someone for something that you do, you are responsible for it and must be prepared to justify your actions to that person.
  • accountably — subject to the obligation to report, explain, or justify something; responsible; answerable.
  • accountancy — Accountancy is the theory or practice of keeping financial accounts.
  • accountants — Plural form of accountant.
  • accountings — the theory and system of setting up, maintaining, and auditing the books of a firm; art of analyzing the financial position and operating results of a business house from a study of its sales, purchases, overhead, etc. (distinguished from bookkeeping).
  • accoutering — Present participle of accouter.
  • accrediting — Present participle of accredit.
  • accredition — The giving of credentials.
  • accrescence — continual increase
  • accusations — A charge or claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong.
  • accustoming — Present participle of accustom.
  • ace bandage — an elasticated bandage used to restrict blood flow to the site of an injury and so reduce inflammation
  • acetanilide — a white crystalline powder used in the manufacture of dyes and rubber, as an analgesic in medicine, and as a precursor in penicillin manufacture. Formula: C6H5NHCOCH3
  • acetylating — Present participle of acetylate.
  • acetylation — to introduce one or more acetyl groups into (a compound).
  • achaemenian — of or relating to the Achaemenids or their language, as recorded in cuneiform inscriptions.
  • acharnement — (archaic) Savage fierceness; ferocity.
  • achievement — An achievement is something which someone has succeeded in doing, especially after a lot of effort.
  • achondrites — Plural form of achondrite.
  • achondritic — (geology) Of or pertaining to achondrite, a type of stony meteorite.
  • acid number — a number indicating the amount of free acid present in a substance, equal to the number of milligrams of potassium hydroxide needed to neutralize the free fatty acids present in one gram of fat or oil
  • acid-loving — (of a plant) requiring a pH of 4.5 to 5.5 for optimal growth.
  • acidanthera — any plant of the African cormous genus Acidanthera, cultivated for its graceful tubular white and red or white and purple flowers, often scented: family Iridaceae
  • acidulating — Present participle of acidulate.
  • acidulation — to make somewhat acid.
  • acinaciform — (of leaves) shaped like a scimitar; curved
  • acknowledge — If you acknowledge a fact or a situation, you accept or admit that it is true or that it exists.
  • acorn chair — a Jacobean chair having a crossrail with acorn-shaped pendants.
  • acorn clock — a mantel clock of the first half of the 19th century, having the upper part of the case shaped with a double ogee curve to resemble an acorn.
  • acorn spoon — a spoon having an acornlike ornament at the end of its stem.
  • acorn sugar — quercitol.
  • acorn valve — a small electronic valve, approximately acorn-shaped with small closely-spaced electrodes, used in ultrahigh-frequency applications
  • acoustician — an expert in acoustics
  • acquaintant — (rare) An acquaintance.
  • acquainting — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
  • acquiescent — Someone who is acquiescent is ready to agree to do what someone wants, or to accept what they do.
  • acquiescing — to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan.
  • acquiesence — A state or instance of acquiescing or passively accepting something, without necessarily consenting to it.
  • acquirement — an acquiring or being acquired
  • acquisition — If a company or business person makes an acquisition, they buy another company or part of a company.
  • acquittance — a release from or settlement of a debt, etc
  • acriflavine — a brownish or orange-red powder used in medicine as an antiseptic and disinfectant. Formula: C14H14N3Cl
  • acrimonious — Acrimonious words or quarrels are bitter and angry.
  • acrocentric — (of a chromosome) having the centromere at one end
  • acrochordon — (medicine) A soft, pedunculated or pensile wart, consisting of myomatous or edematous fibrous tissue, often found on the neck or eyelids of elderly persons.
  • acrocinesia — (pathology) Excessive movement of the limbs.
  • acrocorinth — the citadel of ancient Corinth: strategic in the control of the Isthmus of Corinth; extensive ruins.
  • acrodynamic — Lb linguistics acrokinetic.
  • acrokinesia — (pathology) Alternative form of acrocinesia.
  • acronymania — a great enthusiasm for creating acronyms
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