13-letter words containing enc
- mesencephalic — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- mesencephalon — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- metencephalon — the anterior section of the hindbrain, comprising the cerebellum and pons.
- micr encoding — The MICR encoding of a check is the magnetic ink pattern at the bottom that can be scanned and that contains information about the check.
- middle french — the French language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Abbreviation: MF.
- mis-reference — an act or instance of referring.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- modern french — the French language since c1600.
- monkey wrench — spanner
- monkey-wrench — to ruin (plans, a schedule, etc.) unavoidably or, sometimes, deliberately: The storm monkey-wrenched our plans for a picnic.
- multicurrency — Involving more than one currency.
- multiloquence — the quality of being excessively talkative; loquaciousness
- multipresence — the quality or state of being multipresent
- neoencephalon — neencephalon.
- neurosciences — Plural form of neuroscience.
- no-confidence — If members of an organization pass a vote or motion of no-confidence in someone, they take a vote which shows that they no longer support that person or their ideas.
- nomenclatural — a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.
- nomenclatures — Plural form of nomenclature.
- non-adherence — the quality of adhering; steady devotion, support, allegiance, or attachment: adherence to a party; rigid adherence to rules.
- non-coherence — the act or state of cohering; cohesion.
- non-emergency — a sudden, urgent, usually unexpected occurrence or occasion requiring immediate action.
- non-existence — absence of existence.
- non-reference — an act or instance of referring.
- non-residence — not resident in a particular place.
- nonconference — (sports) Not within an athletic conference.
- nonconfidence — a motion of parliament expressing a lack of confidence in the government
- nonindulgence — Lack of indulgence.
- nonoccurrence — absence or lack of occurrence.
- norman french — Also called Norman. the French dialect of the Normans or of Normandy.
- null sequence — a sequence that has zero as its limit.
- old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
- open sentence — Mathematics. an equation or inequality containing one or more variables in which its truth or falsehood depends upon the values assumed by the variables in a particular instance, as the equation x + 3 = 8.
- optical bench — an apparatus, as a special table or rigid beam, for the precise positioning of light sources, screens, and optical instruments used for optical and photometric studies, having a ruled bar to which these devices can be attached and along which they can be readily adjusted.
- overencourage — to encourage too much
- overfrequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- parencephalon — a cerebral hemisphere
- pearl essence — a lustrous, silvery-white substance obtained from the scales of certain fishes or derived synthetically, as from mercuric chloride: used chiefly in the manufacture of simulated pearls and as a pigment in lacquer (pearl lacquer)
- pencil crayon — coloured pencil
- pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- pencil rubber — a piece of rubber used for erasing something written in pencil; eraser
- pencil stripe — a stripe of varying widths, especially a dark stripe on a light ground.
- pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- peter's pence — an annual tax or tribute, originally of a penny, paid by certain English property owners to the papal see until the Reformation.
- petrocurrency — money, paid in dollars, earned by a country for the exporting of petroleum
- phase encoded — (storage) (PE) A recording method used for 1600 BPI magnetic tapes. Compare NRZI, GCR.
- phencyclidine — an anesthetic drug, C 1 7 H 2 5 N, used as an animal tranquilizer: also widely used in several forms as an illicit hallucinogen.
- pluripresence — presence in more than one place at the same time
- postemergence — occurring or applied after emergence of a plant from the soil and before full growth: postemergence frost.
- postemergency — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after an emergency
- pre-emergence — of or relating to the period prior to emergence of something