12-letter words containing enc
- french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- french chalk — a talc for marking lines on fabrics.
- french congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
- french curve — a flat drafting instrument, usually consisting of a sheet of clear plastic, the edges of which are cut into several scroll-like curves enabling a draftsperson to draw lines of varying curvature.
- french doors — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- french drain — a drainage trench filled to ground level with fragments of brick, rock, etc.
- french franc — the former standard monetary unit of France, most French dependencies, Andorra, and Monaco, divided into 100 centimes; replaced by the euro in 2002
- french fries — thin fried sticks of potato
- french india — the five small former French territories in India, including Chandernagor, Karikal, Pondicherry, and Yanaon on the E coast, and Mahé on the W coast.
- french leave — Sometimes Offensive. a departure without ceremony, permission, or notice: Taking French leave, he evaded his creditors.
- french pleat — curtain, draperies
- french shore — either of two stretches of coastline inhabited mainly by Francophone Canadians: the W coast of Newfoundland and the SW coast of Nova Scotia between Yarmouth and Digby.
- french sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and an augmented fourth between the root and the augmented sixth
- french stick — a long straight notched stick loaf
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
- french twist — French roll.
- french union — a former association of France and its overseas territories, colonies, and protectorates as constituted in 1946: superseded by the French Community in 1958.
- french-style — French-cut.
- frondescence — the process or period of putting forth leaves, as a tree, plant, or the like.
- frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
- give offence — to cause annoyance or displeasure to someone
- glaucescence — the state of having bluish green coloration
- gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
- half cadence — a cadence ending with dominant harmony.
- happenchance — happenstance.
- hard science — any of the natural or physical sciences, as chemistry, biology, physics, or astronomy, in which aspects of the universe are investigated by means of hypotheses and experiments.
- henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
- impermanence — not permanent or enduring; transitory.
- impermanency — Alternative form of impermanence.
- impertinence — unmannerly intrusion or presumption; insolence.
- impertinency — impertinence.
- improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
- in residence — assigned to a staff position in an institution such as a college or university, while allowed sufficient time to pursue one's own professional work, study, or research (usually used in combination): a poet-in-residence at the university.
- in-residence — assigned to a staff position in an institution such as a college or university, while allowed sufficient time to pursue one's own professional work, study, or research (usually used in combination): a poet-in-residence at the university.
- inabstinence — a lack of abstinence or abstention
- inadvertence — the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
- inadvertency — inadvertence.
- incalescence — The state of being incalescent, or growing warm.
- inclemencies — (of the weather, the elements, etc.) severe, rough, or harsh; stormy.
- incoherences — Plural form of incoherence.
- incompetence — the quality or condition of being incompetent; lack of ability.
- incompetency — the quality or condition of being incompetent; lack of ability.
- inconfidence — (rare) Lack of confidence; mistrust.
- incongruence — not congruent.
- incongruency — Incongruence.
- incontinence — unable to restrain natural discharges or evacuations of urine or feces.
- incontinency — unable to restrain natural discharges or evacuations of urine or feces.
- incumbencies — Plural form of incumbency.
- indehiscence — not dehiscent; not opening at maturity.