16-letter words containing enc
- foreign currency — money used in another country
- forensic science — the collection of several fields of science to the purposes of law
- franco-provencal — a Romance dialect group of western Switzerland and neighboring parts of France: closely related to both Provençal and northern French.
- french cameroons — Cameroun (def 2).
- french community — a cultural and economic association of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former French territories that chose to maintain association after becoming independent republics: formed 1958.
- french directory — the body of five directors in power in France from 1795 until their overthrow by Napoleon in 1799
- french ice cream — a type of ice cream in which an egg and cream mixture is cooked to a light custard before being frozen.
- french indochina — an area in SE Asia, formerly a French colonial federation including Cochin-China, the protectorates of Annam, Cambodia, Tonkin, and Laos, and the leased territory of Kwangchowan: now comprising the three independent states of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Capital: Hanoi.
- french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
- french telephone — handset (def 1).
- gross negligence — extreme carelessness that shows wilful or reckless disregard for the consequences to the safety or property of another
- have the decency — If you say that someone did not have the decency to do something, you are criticizing them because there was a particular action which they did not do but which you believe they ought to have done.
- hearsay evidence — testimony based on what a witness has heard from another person rather than on direct personal knowledge or experience.
- huffman encoding — Huffman coding
- immunocompetence — having the potential for immunologic response; capable of developing immunity after exposure to antigen.
- immunodeficiency — impairment of the immune response, predisposing to infection and certain malignancies.
- incontinence pad — an absorbent pad used by incontinent people
- incorrespondence — Lack of correspondence; failure to correspond or match up; disagreement; disproportion.
- indecency charge — an accusation of committing indecency
- independence day — July 4, a U.S. holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
- inference engine — A program that infers new facts from known facts using inference rules. Commonly found as part of a Prolog interpreter, expert system or knowledge based system.
- interdependences — Plural form of interdependence.
- interference fit — a match between the size and shape of two parts, such that force is required for assembly as one part is slightly larger than the other
- leave of absence — permission to be absent from duty, employment, service, etc.; leave.
- louisiana french — French as spoken in Louisiana; Cajun. Abbreviation: LaF.
- lourenco marques — former name of Maputo.
- managed currency — a currency whose value is established and maintained by deliberate governmental action working through national and international financial institutions, in contrast to the quasi-automatic gold standard.
- marriage licence — an official document stating that a marriage will be allowed to take place
- medium frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 kilohertz. Abbreviation: MF.
- microencapsulate — (transitive) To embed by means of microencapsulation.
- military science — the study of the causative factors and tactical principles of warfare.
- motoring offence — a crime committed which concerns driving
- nominal sentence — a sentence consisting of a subject and complement without a linking verb, as Very interesting, those books.
- north providence — a town in NE Rhode Island.
- old north french — the dialect of Old French spoken in northern France. Abbreviation: ONF.
- peace conference — a conference where representatives of warring governments or countries sign a treaty to end conflict
- pencil and paper — An archaic information storage and transmission device that works by depositing smears of graphite on bleached wood pulp. More recent developments in paper-based technology include improved "write-once" update devices which use tiny rolling heads similar to mouse balls to deposit coloured pigment. All these devices require an operator skilled at so-called "handwriting" technique. These technologies are ubiquitous outside hackerdom, but nearly forgotten inside it. Most hackers had terrible handwriting to begin with, and years of keyboarding tend to have encouraged it to degrade further. Perhaps for this reason, hackers deprecate pencil-and-paper technology and often resist using it in any but the most trivial contexts.
- pencil sharpener — tool for sharpening pencils to a point
- personnel agency — an agency for placing employable persons in jobs; employment agency.
- phase difference — the difference between two sinusoidally varying quantities that have the same frequency, measured either as an angle or a time
- physical science — any of the natural sciences dealing with inanimate matter or with energy, as physics, chemistry, and astronomy.
- postencephalitic — inflammation of the substance of the brain.
- postindependence — Also, independency. the state or quality of being independent.
- pre-independence — Also, independency. the state or quality of being independent.
- preference share — a share of preferred stock.
- preference stock — preferred stock.
- presence chamber — the special room in which a great personage, as a sovereign, receives guests, holds audiences, etc.
- presence of mind — a calm state of mind that allows one to think clearly or act effectively in an emergency.
- press conference — a prearranged interview with news reporters, held to elicit publicity or, as granted by a dignitary, public official, research scientist, etc., to fulfill a request from the press.
- proficiency test — an exam which test how proficient or skilled someone is in a particular activity, field of study, language, etc