9-letter words containing n, o, c, e
- ice apron — a structure built in a river upstream from a bridge pier or the like for protection against drifting ice.
- ice front — the forward section or seaward edge of an ice shelf.
- ice piton — a type of piton designed for being driven into ice
- ice point — the temperature at which a mixture of ice and air-saturated water at a pressure of one atmosphere is in equilibrium, represented by 0°C and 32°F.
- ice tongs — a small pair of tongs for serving ice cubes.
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- iconicode — 1990-1992. Visual dataflow language, token-based with hierarchical, recursive and iterative constructs. Version: IDF with extensions for image processing.
- ignorance — the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
- impotence — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- impotency — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- in clover — any of various plants of the genus Trifolium, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and dense flower heads, many species of which, as T. pratense, are cultivated as forage plants.
- in escrow — a contract, deed, bond, or other written agreement deposited with a third person, by whom it is to be delivered to the grantee or promisee on the fulfillment of some condition.
- in office — in power
- in pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- incensory — Thurible, censer.
- inception — beginning; start; commencement.
- incestous — Misspelling of incestuous.
- inclosers — Plural form of incloser.
- inclosure — enclosure.
- incommode — to inconvenience or discomfort; disturb; trouble.
- incomplex — Not complex; simple.
- incondite — ill-constructed; unpolished: incondite prose.
- incorrect — not correct as to fact; inaccurate; wrong: an incorrect statement.
- incoterms — Plural form of incoterm.
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- incretion — a substance, as a hormone, that is secreted internally.
- incrossed — Simple past tense and past participle of incross.
- incrosses — Plural form of incross.
- indecorum — indecorous behavior or character.
- indolence — the quality or state of being indolent.
- indolency — (obsolete) The lack of pain; absence of pain.
- infection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- infectors — Plural form of infector.
- ingveonic — of or relating to Old English, Old Frisian, and Old Saxon, taken collectively.
- injection — the act of injecting.
- injectors — Plural form of injector.
- innocence — the quality or state of being innocent; freedom from sin or moral wrong.
- innocency — innocence (defs 1–6).
- innocents — free from moral wrong; without sin; pure: innocent children.
- inoculate — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- insection — A cutting in; incision.
- insectoid — Insect-like.
- insolence — contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech.
- insolency — Quality of being insolent.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- intercome — (intransitive) To intervene; interpose; interfere.
- intercoms — Plural form of intercom.
- intercrop — to grow one crop between the rows of another, as in an orchard or field.
- interlock — to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
- introduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.