Words containing nc
3 letter words containing nc
4 letter words containing nc
- banc — the seat on which judges sit in court.
5 letter words containing nc
- adunc — hooked; curved inward
- ancho — a Poblano chilli pepper that has been dried and turned a dark-red or black colour
- ancon — a projecting bracket or console supporting a cornice
- ancre — having the end of each limb divided and carved outward like the flukes of an anchor; moline: a cross ancré.
- banco — a call in gambling games such as chemin de fer and baccarat by a player or bystander who wishes to bet against the entire bank
6 letter words containing nc
- agency — An agency is a business which provides a service on behalf of other businesses.
- anancy — a character in Caribbean folklore, a cunning trickster generally depicted as a spider with a human head; the subject of many Anancy stories, the character has its origins among the Ashanti of W Africa
- anchor — An anchor is a heavy hooked object that is dropped from a boat into the water at the end of a chain in order to make the boat stay in one place.
- ancile — a shield that was said to have fallen from heaven, on whose preservation the fortune of Rome was thought to depend
- ancona — a port in central Italy, on the Adriatic, capital of the Marches: founded by Greeks from Syracuse in about 390 bc. Pop: 100 507 (2001)
7 letter words containing nc
- absence — Someone's absence from a place is the fact that they are not there.
- adjunct — Something that is an adjunct to something larger or more important is connected with it or helps to perform the same task.
- advance — To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
- alencon — a town in NW France: early lace-manufacturing centre. Pop: 28 935 (1999)
- ancaeus — a son of Poseidon who joined the Argonauts and became helmsman of the Argo.
8 letter words containing nc
- abeyance — a state of being suspended or put aside temporarily
- abidance — the act or state of abiding.
- absences — state of being away or not being present: I acted as supervisor in his absence. Your absence was noted on the records.
- acutance — a physical rather than subjective measure of the sharpness of a photographic image
- adamance — a state of resoluteness
9 letter words containing nc
- aberrance — departing from the right, normal, or usual course.
- aberrancy — departing from the right, normal, or usual course.
- abondance — (card games) Alternative form of abundance.
- abundance — An abundance of something is a large quantity of it.
- accedence — to give consent, approval, or adherence; agree; assent; to accede to a request; to accede to the terms of a contract.
10 letter words containing nc
- abhorrence — Someone's abhorrence of something is their strong hatred of it.
- abjunction — the act of cutting off part of a mycelium or spore by forming a septum
- absorbance — a measure of the light-absorbing ability of an object, expressed as the logarithm to base 10 of the reciprocal of the internal transmittance
- absorbancy — absorbance
- absorbency — capable of absorbing heat, light, moisture, etc.; tending to absorb.
11 letter words containing nc
- aberrancies — departing from the right, normal, or usual course.
- abranchiate — having no gills
- abscondence — secret concealment or seclusion, or the action of absconding
- absorptance — a measure of the ability of an object to absorb radiation, equal to the ratio of the absorbed radiant flux to the incident flux. For a layer of material the ratio of the flux absorbed between the entry and exit surfaces of the layer to the flux leaving the entry surface is the internal absorptance
- accountancy — Accountancy is the theory or practice of keeping financial accounts.
12 letter words containing nc
- acquaintance — An acquaintance is someone who you have met and know slightly, but not well.
- acquiescence — Acquiescence is agreement to do what someone wants, or acceptance of what they do even though you do not agree with it.
- adjunctively — in an adjunctive manner
- adolescences — the transitional period between puberty and adulthood in human development, extending mainly over the teen years and terminating legally when the age of majority is reached; youth.
- alphitomancy — the use of barley meal as a means of divination.
13 letter words containing nc
- acupuncturist — An acupuncturist is a person who performs acupuncture.
- adularescence — (of certain gemstones, especially adularia) having a milky, bluish luster.
- alectryomancy — an ancient form of divination, using a rooster to select grains of food placed on letters of the alphabet.
- all-inclusive — All-inclusive is used to indicate that a price, especially the price of a holiday, includes all the charges and all the services offered.
- anencephalous — congenital absence of part or all of the brain.
14 letter words containing nc
- anti-incumbent — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- archencephalon — the primitive forebrain region of the embryo, anterior to the notochord, that gives rise to the midbrain and forebrain.
- back-clearance — Machinery. the gradual termination of a groove on the body of an object not ending there, as the upper termination of a flute in a twist drill. Also called back clearance. a space in a depressed area of an object into which a machine tool or grinding wheel may safely enter at the end of a pass or operation.
- bioequivalence — the equality of strength, bioavailability, and dosage of various drug products
- blanco-fombona — Rufino [roo-fee-naw] /ruˈfi nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1874–1944, Venezuelan author.
15 letter words containing nc
- aix-en-provence — a city and spa in SE France: the medieval capital of Provence. Pop: 145 721 (2006)
- ancylostomiasis — infestation of the human intestine with blood-sucking hookworms, causing progressive anaemia
- anticoincidence — of or relating to an electronic circuit that produces an output pulse if one but not both of its input terminals receives a pulse within a specified interval of time
- barrancabermeja — a city in N Colombia.
- bioluminescence — the production of light by living organisms as a result of the oxidation of a light-producing substance (luciferin) by the enzyme luciferase: occurs in many marine organisms, insects such as the firefly, etc
16 letter words containing nc
- acquaintanceship — a person known to one, but usually not a close friend.
- all-encompassing — all-embracing.
- ancienne-lorette — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- branchiopneustic — breathing by means of gills, as certain aquatic insect larvae.
- bronchopneumonia — inflammation of the lungs, originating in the bronchioles
17 letter words containing nc
- bouncebackability — the ability to recover after a setback, esp in sport
- buttock-clenching — making one tighten the buttocks through extreme fear or embarrassment
- chemiluminescence — the phenomenon in which a chemical reaction leads to the emission of light without incandescence
- chemoluminescence — (chemistry) The emission of light as the result of a chemical reaction.
- conceptualisation — The act of conceptualising, or something conceptualised.
18 letter words containing nc
- bankers-acceptance — a draft or bill of exchange that a bank has accepted. Abbreviation: BA. Also called banker's acceptance. Compare acceptance (def 6).
- bronchocandidiasis — See under candidiasis.
- disenfranchisement — to disfranchise.
19 letter words containing nc
- cathodoluminescence — luminescence caused by irradiation with electrons (cathode rays)
- complement-sentence — a subordinate clause that functions as the subject, direct object, or prepositional object of a verb, as that you like it in I'm surprised that you like it.
- conscience-stricken — feeling anxious or guilty
- convergent-sequence — an infinite sequence, x 1 , x 2 , …, whose terms are points in Ek, in which there exists a point y such that the limit as n goes to infinity of xn = y if and only if for every ε>0, there exists a number N such that i > N and j > N implies | xi − xj |< ε. Also called Cauchy sequence, convergent sequence. Compare complete (def 10b).
- counterintelligence — Counterintelligence consists of actions that a country takes in order to find out whether another country is spying on it and to prevent it from doing so.
20 letter words containing nc
- boulogne-billancourt — an industrial suburb of SW Paris. Pop: 106 367 (1999)
21 letter words containing nc
- conjunction-reduction — a rule that reduces coordinate sentences, applied, for example, to convert John lives in Ireland and Brian lives in Ireland into John and Brian live in Ireland
- deprovincialization's — to make provincial in character.
23 letter words containing nc
- alpes-de-haute-provence — a department of SE France in Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region. Capital: Digne. Pop: 144 508 (2003 est). Area: 6988 sq km (2725 sq miles)
- artificial-intelligence — the capacity of a computer to perform operations analogous to learning and decision making in humans, as by an expert system, a program for CAD or CAM, or a program for the perception and recognition of shapes in computer vision systems. Abbreviation: AI, A.I.
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