12-letter words containing enc
- nonresidence — (uncountable) The state or condition of being nonresident.
- nullipotence — Quality of being nullipotent.
- oblivescence — the process of forgetting.
- obliviscence — the condition or fact of failing to remember or having failed to remember or of being absent-minded
- obmutescence — persistent silence
- obsolescence — the state, process, or condition of being or becoming obsolete.
- omnipresence — present everywhere at the same time: the omnipresent God.
- omnisciences — Plural form of omniscience.
- on the bench — a long seat for several persons: a bench in the park.
- on the fence — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- paling-fence — Also called paling fence. picket fence.
- pearlescence — a pearly lustre or sheen
- pencil cedar — the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.
- pencil skirt — women's garment: straight skirt
- pentavalence — the condition of having a valency of five
- picket fence — a fence consisting of pickets or pales nailed to horizontal stringers between upright posts.
- plenipotence — the possession of total authority
- plenipotency — the state of being plenipotent
- pre-eminence — the state or character of being preeminent.
- preemergence — occurring or applied before the emergence of a plant from the soil: preemergence herbicide.
- presentenced — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
- press agency — news-reporting organization
- pretenceless — without pretence
- quenchlessly — without quenching
- quintessence — the pure and concentrated essence of a substance.
- radiolucency — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- re-emergence — the act or process of emerging.
- re-encounter — to encounter again
- recalescence — a brightening exhibited by cooling iron as latent heat of transformation is liberated.
- reexperience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
- reminiscence — the act or process of recalling past experiences, events, etc.
- reoccurrence — the action, fact, or instance of occurring.
- resipiscence — acknowledgment that one has been mistaken
- resplendence — a resplendent quality or state; splendor.
- retrenchment — the act of retrenching; a cutting down or off, as by the reduction of expenses.
- reviviscence — the act or state of being revived; revival; reanimation.
- science park — A science park is an area, usually linked to a university, where there are a lot of private companies, especially ones concerned with high technology.
- sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- sea defences — walls, breakwaters and other measures designed to prevent coastal erosion
- self-defence — the act of defending one's person when physically attacked, as by countering blows or overcoming an assailant: the art of self-defense.
- sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
- soft science — any of the specialized fields or disciplines, as psychology, sociology, anthropology, or political science, that interpret human behavior, institutions, society, etc., on the basis of scientific investigations for which it may be difficult to establish strictly measurable criteria.
- soil science — the science that deals with the study of soils.
- spencer gulf — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in S Australia, between the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas. Length: about 320 km (200 miles). Greatest width: about 145 km (90 miles)
- st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- stringencies — stringent character or condition: the stringency of poverty.
- subreference — a secondary reference
- subservience — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- subserviency — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- sun-drenched — Sun-drenched places have a lot of hot sunshine.