12-letter words containing enc
- independence — a city in W Missouri: starting point of the Santa Fe and Oregon trails.
- independency — independence (def 1).
- indifference — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
- indifferency — indifference.
- indulgencies — indulgence.
- indulgencing — Present participle of indulgence.
- inefficiency — the quality or condition of being inefficient; lack of efficiency.
- inexpedience — The quality or state of being inexpedient; unsuitableness or impropriety.
- inexpediency — (uncountable) The condition of being inexpedient.
- inexperience — lack of experience.
- insomnolence — sleeplessness; insomnia: a troubled week of insomnolence.
- insurgencies — Plural form of insurgency.
- intelligence — capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
- interference — an act, fact, or instance of interfering.
- interfluence — the action of flowing together or merging
- interjacency — The quality of being interjacent.
- interscience — 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.
- intrenchment — Archaic spelling of entrenchment.
- intumescence — a swelling up, as with congestion.
- junk science — faulty scientific information or research, especially when used to advance special interests.
- juvenescence — being or becoming youthful; young.
- king's bench — a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a division of the High Court of Justice.
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- life science — any science that deals with living organisms, their life processes, and their interrelationships, as biology, medicine, or ecology.
- luminescence — the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
- magnificence — the quality or state of being magnificent; splendor; grandeur; sublimity: the magnificence of snow-covered mountains; the magnificence of his achievements.
- maintainence — Misspelling of maintenance.
- mid-sentence — in the middle of a sentence or utterance
- middlescence — the middle-age period of life, especially when considered a difficult time of self-doubt and readjustment.
- misinference — Incorrect inference.
- misreference — to reference (an academic work, a publication, etc) inaccurately or incorrectly
- monkeywrench — Alternative form of monkey wrench.
- multipotency — (cytology, developmental biology) The ability of a progenitor cell to develop into a limited number of cell types.
- multiscience — a broad knowledge
- multivalence — Chemistry. having a valence of three or higher.
- neencephalon — the more recent part of the brain in the evolutionary development of animals, including the cerebral cortex and its related structures.
- neuroscience — the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.
- noctilucence — (of high-altitude clouds) visible during the short night of the summer.
- nomenclative — relating to the act of naming
- nomenclators — Plural form of nomenclator.
- nomenclature — a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.
- non-violence — absence or lack of violence; state or condition of avoiding violence.
- nonadherence — the quality of adhering; steady devotion, support, allegiance, or attachment: adherence to a party; rigid adherence to rules.
- nonemergency — Not an emergency.
- nonexistence — absence of existence.
- nonfluencies — spoken or written with ease: fluent French.
- noninfluence — a lack of influence, failure to influence
- nonobedience — absence or lack of obedience.
- nonoccurence — Misspelling of nonoccurrence.