10-letter words containing n, e, c, s
- prescience — knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.
- presidency — the office, function, or term of office of a president.
- princedoms — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
- princeship — a nonreigning male member of a royal family.
- princesses — a nonreigning female member of a royal family.
- princessly — resembling a princess
- principles — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
- processing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- procession — the act of moving along or proceeding in orderly succession or in a formal and ceremonious manner, as a line of people, animals, vehicles, etc.
- pronucleus — either of the gametic nuclei that unite in fertilization to form the nucleus of the zygote.
- proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
- proscience — a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
- prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- psittacine — of or relating to parrots.
- pubescence — arriving or arrived at puberty.
- publicness — the quality or state of being public or being owned by the public.
- pulsatance — the angular frequency of a periodic motion
- punctuates — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- putrescent — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- putrescine — a colourless crystalline amine produced by decaying animal matter; 1,4-diaminobutane. Formula: H2N(CH2)4NH2
- pycnostyle — having an intercolumniation of 1½ diameters.
- quenchless — not capable of being quenched; unquenchable.
- quiescence — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
- quiescency — Quiescence: the state of being quiescent, or at rest.
- quincunxes — Plural form of quincunx.
- quittances — Plural form of quittance.
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- raconteurs — Plural form of raconteur.
- raconteuse — a woman who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- raise cain — the first son of Adam and Eve, who murdered his brother Abel. Gen. 4.
- rank scale — (in systemic linguistics) a hierarchical ordering of grammatical units such that a unit of a given rank normally consists of units of the next lower rank, as, in English, the ordering sentence, clause, group or phrase, word, morpheme.
- ranshackle — to ransack
- re-consent — to permit, approve, or agree; comply or yield (often followed by to or an infinitive): He consented to the proposal. We asked her permission, and she consented.
- recentness — of late occurrence, appearance, or origin; lately happening, done, made, etc.: recent events; a recent trip.
- rechristen — to christen or baptize (someone) again
- recognised — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recognizes — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recompense — to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
- reconciles — to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
- recondense — to make more dense or compact; reduce the volume or extent of; concentrate.
- reconquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
- reconsider — to consider again, especially with a view to change of decision or action: to reconsider a refusal.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- redecision — the act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment: They must make a decision between these two contestants.
- rediscount — to discount again.
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- reichstein — Tadeus [tah-dey-oo s] /tɑˈdeɪ ʊs/ (Show IPA), 1897–1996, Swiss chemist, born in Poland: Nobel Prize in medicine 1950.
- reincrease — to increase again
- reinscribe — to address or dedicate (a book, photograph, etc.) informally to a person, especially by writing a brief personal note in or on it.
- reinstruct — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.