12-letter words containing en
- concentrical — concentric
- concernments — Plural form of concernment.
- concientious — Misspelling of conscientious.
- concrescence — a growing together of initially separate parts or organs
- concreteness — constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
- concupiscent — lustful or sensual.
- concurrences — Plural form of concurrence.
- concurrent c — 1. (language) An extension of C with rendezvous-based concurrency. Versions for most Unix systems were available commercially from AT&T. 2. (language) An extension of C with asynchronous message passing.
- concurrently — occurring or existing simultaneously or side by side: concurrent attacks by land, sea, and air.
- condensation — Condensation consists of small drops of water which form when warm water vapour or steam touches a cold surface such as a window.
- condescended — Simple past tense and past participle of condescend.
- condesending — Misspelling of condescending.
- conferencier — a lecturer or public speaker
- conferencing — communication between three or more speakers at different locations
- conferential — Of or pertaining to a conference.
- confidential — Information that is confidential is meant to be kept secret or private.
- confinements — Plural form of confinement.
- confoundment — The state of being confounded.
- confrontment — Confrontation.
- congenerical — congeneric
- congeniality — agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character: congenial surroundings.
- congenitally — of or relating to a condition present at birth, whether inherited or caused by the environment, especially the uterine environment.
- congruencies — congruence.
- congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).
- conjointment — (rare) conjunction (state of being conjoined).
- conscientize — to educate (a person) about an issue or idea
- conscientous — Misspelling of conscientious.
- consensually — formed or existing merely by consent: a consensual transaction.
- consent form — a form signed by a patient prior to a medical procedure to confirm that he or she agrees to the procedure and is aware of any risks that might be involved
- consentience — agreement or unity of opinion; concurrence.
- consentingly — in a consenting manner
- consequenced — Simple past tense and past participle of consequence.
- consequences — a game in which each player writes down a part of a story, folds over the paper, and passes it on to another player who continues the story. After several stages, the resulting (nonsensical) stories are read out
- consequently — Consequently means as a result.
- consignments — Plural form of consignment.
- consistently — agreeing or accordant; compatible; not self-contradictory: His views and actions are consistent.
- constituency — A constituency is an area for which someone is elected as the representative in a parliament or government.
- constituents — serving to compose or make up a thing; component: the constituent parts of a motor.
- constringent — constricting.
- contabescent — unable to produce pollen
- contact lens — Contact lenses are small plastic lenses that you put on the surface of your eyes to help you see better, instead of wearing glasses.
- containments — Plural form of containment.
- content farm — a website that exploits the way search engines retrieve and rank pages by incorporating popular search terms and topics in its content, often with little attention to the originality, appropriateness, or quality of the subject matter, in order to elevate the ranking of its articles in online search results and attract advertisers.
- content word — a word to which an independent meaning can be given by reference to a world outside any sentence in which the word may occur
- content-free — (jargon) 1. (By analogy with "context-free") Used of a message that adds nothing to the recipient's knowledge. Though this adjective is sometimes applied to flamage, it more usually connotes derision for communication styles that exalt form over substance or are centred on concerns irrelevant to the subject ostensibly at hand. Perhaps most used with reference to speeches by company presidents and other professional manipulators. See also four-colour glossies. (education) 2. Within British schools the term refers to general-purpose software such as a word processor, a spreadsheet or a program that tests spelling of words supplied by the teacher. This is in contrast to software designed to teach a particular topic, e.g. a plant growth simulation, an interactive periodic table or a program that tests spelling of a predetermined list of words. Content-free software can be more cost-effective as it can be reused for many lessons throughout the syllabus.
- contentation — satisfaction
- contentional — a struggling together in opposition; strife.
- contentments — Plural form of contentment.
- continentals — Plural form of continental.
- contingently — dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional (often followed by on or upon): Our plans are contingent on the weather.