10-letter words containing nc
- anchoritic — of or relating to an anchorite
- anchorless — without an anchor
- anchylosis — (anatomy, medicine) alternative spelling of ankylosis.
- ancilliary — Misspelling of ancillary.
- ancipitous — Alternative form of ancipital.
- announcers — Plural form of announcer.
- announcing — Present participle of announce.
- annoyances — Plural form of annoyance.
- annunciate — to announce
- anticancer — acting against cancer
- appearance — When someone makes an appearance at a public event or in a broadcast, they take part in it.
- appendance — attached or suspended; annexed.
- appendence — attached or suspended; annexed.
- appliances — Plural form of appliance.
- approvance — approval
- arithmancy — divination by the use of numbers, especially by the number of letters in names.
- ascendance — the state of being in the ascendant; governing or controlling influence; domination.
- ascendancy — If one group has ascendancy over another group, it has more power or influence than the other group.
- ascendence — the state of being in the ascendant; governing or controlling influence; domination.
- ascendency — the state of being in the ascendant; governing or controlling influence; domination.
- assistance — If you give someone assistance, you help them do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- assurances — Plural form of assurance.
- astromancy — divination by means of the stars.
- asynchrony — a lack of synchronism or coincidence in time.
- at a pinch — If you say that something is possible at a pinch, or in American English if you say that something is possible in a pinch, you mean that it would be possible if it was necessary, but it might not be very comfortable or convenient.
- athermancy — an inability to transmit radiant heat or infrared radiation
- attendance — Someone's attendance at an event or an institution is the fact that they are present at the event or go regularly to the institution.
- attendancy — the condition or quality of accompanying or attending
- avalanched — Simple past tense and past participle of avalanche.
- avalanches — Plural form of avalanche.
- avengeance — (obsolete) vengeance.
- avirulence — The state of being avirulent.
- avoidances — Plural form of avoidance.
- avunculate — the custom in some societies of assigning rights and duties to a maternal uncle concerning his sister's son
- axinomancy — prediction of the future using the head of an axe or hatchet
- back bench — any of the rows of seats occupied by the backbenchers.
- balanchine — George. 1904–83, US choreographer, born in Russia
- balenciaga — Cristobal (krisˈtoβal). 1895–1972, Spanish couturier
- barn dance — A barn dance is a social event people go to for country dancing.
- bell punch — a machine that issues or stamps a ticket, etc, ringing a bell as it does so
- bench hook — a device with a hooklike part fitting over the front edge of a workbench as a means of preventing an object from slipping toward the rear of the bench.
- bench mark — a surveyor's mark made on a permanent landmark of known position and altitude: it is used as a reference point in determining other altitudes
- bench seat — a seat for more than one person
- bench show — an exhibition of small animals, esp. dogs, or cats, displayed on benches and competing for awards on the basis of how closely they conform to ideal standards for the breed
- bench stop — a metal device set flush with the top of a workbench and having a portion able to be raised to stop longitudinal movement of an object placed against it.
- bench test — the critical evaluation of a new or repaired component, device, apparatus, etc, prior to installation to ensure that it is in perfect condition
- bench vice — a vice mounted on a workbench
- bench work — work done at a workbench, worktable, etc., as in a factory or laboratory.
- bench-made — (of articles made of leather, wood, etc.) individually produced and finished, as on a carpenter's bench; custom-made.
- benignancy — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.