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11-letter words containing nc

  • annunciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of annunciate.
  • annunciator — a device that gives a visual indication as to which of a number of electric circuits has operated, such as an indicator in a hotel showing in which room a bell has been rung
  • antecedence — precedence; priority
  • antecedency — the fact or condition of being antecedent
  • antiscience — opposed to science or scientific method
  • appearances — the act or fact of appearing, as to the eye or mind or before the public: the unannounced appearance of dinner guests; the last appearance of Caruso in Aïda; her first appearance at a stockholders' meeting.
  • appendences — attached or suspended; annexed.
  • aquaintance — Misspelling of acquaintance.
  • as concerns — in regard to; with reference to; about
  • asplanchnic — having no gut
  • assemblance — the action or process of gathering or congregating
  • assistances — the act of assisting; help; aid; support.
  • astringence — Alternative spelling of astringency.
  • astringency — An astringent taste.
  • astromancer — divination by means of the stars.
  • asynclitism — The position of a baby in the uterus such that the head is presenting first, tilted to the shoulder and thus no longer in line with the birth canal.
  • asyncronous — (spelling)   It's spelled "asynchronous".
  • at a glance — If you see something at a glance, you see or recognize it immediately, and without having to think or look carefully.
  • at variance — If one thing is at variance with another, the two things seem to contradict each other.
  • attendances — Plural form of attendance.
  • attractancy — the capacity of a pheromone to attract
  • austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
  • averruncate — to avert, to turn away
  • avuncularly — in the manner of an uncle
  • back anchor — a small anchor for backing a larger one.
  • backbencher — A backbencher is a Member of Parliament who is not a minister and who does not hold an official position in their political party.
  • backbenches — The backbenches are the seats in the British House of Commons where backbenchers sit. The Members of Parliament who sit on the backbenches are also referred to as the backbenches.
  • balance lug — a lugsail having a portion of its area forward of the mast and having a long foot, often with a boom.
  • balance out — If two or more opposite things balance out or if you balance them out, they become equal in amount, value, or effect.
  • bancassurer — a bank that sells insurance products
  • beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
  • belly dance — a sensuous and provocative dance of Middle Eastern origin, performed by women, with undulating movements of the hips and abdomen
  • bench check — a test made on an engine or other machine or device in a workshop rather than under field conditions.
  • bench lathe — a lathe mounted on a workbench
  • bench press — a weight-training exercise in which a person lies on a bench and pushes a barbell upwards with both hands from chest level until the arms are straight, then lowers it again
  • bench screw — a wooden or metal screw rotated by a handle fixed to one end within a threaded block fixed to a workbench: used with various jaws to form a vise.
  • bench table — a course of masonry forming a bench at the foot of a wall.
  • bench-press — a weightlifting exercise in which one lies supine on a bench and with both hands pushes a barbell or fixed weight upward from chest level to arm's length and then lowers it back to chest level: usually repeated in sets.
  • benchership — the position of a bencher at the Inns of Court
  • benchwarmer — a player who is usually on the bench; reserve
  • beneficence — the act of doing good; kindness
  • benevolence — inclination or tendency to help or do good to others; charity
  • bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
  • big science — scientific research that requires a large investment of capital
  • blanca peak — highest peak of the Sangre de Cristo range, S Colo.: 14,317 ft (4,364 m)
  • blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
  • blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
  • boat anchor — 1. Like doorstop but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space. 3. Obsolete but still working hardware, especially when used of an old S100-bus hobbyist system; originally a term of annoyance, but became more and more affectionate as the hardware became more and more obsolete.
  • botanomancy — a form of divination in which tree branches or leaves are burnt
  • bounce back — If you bounce back after a bad experience, you return very quickly to your previous level of success, enthusiasm, or activity.
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