11-letter words containing nc
- continuance — The continuance of something is its continuation.
- contradance — contredanse
- contrivance — If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
- convenience — If something is done for your convenience, it is done in a way that is useful or suitable for you.
- conveniency — convenience
- convergence — The convergence of different ideas, groups, or societies is the process by which they stop being different and become more similar.
- convergency — an act or instance of converging.
- conversance — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- conversancy — The condition of being conversant.
- conveyanced — Simple past tense and past participle of conveyance.
- conveyancer — a person engaged in conveyancing.
- conveyances — Plural form of conveyance.
- convincible — to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action: to convince a jury of his guilt; A test drive will convince you that this car handles well.
- cooch dance — a sinuous, quasi-Oriental dance performed by a woman and characterized chiefly by suggestive gyrating and shaking of the body.
- coordinance — a joint ordinance
- coprincipal — a joint principal
- core cancer — (jargon) A process that exhibits a slow but inexorable resource leak - like a cancer, it kills by crowding out productive "tissue".
- coreference — a relationship between two words or phrases in which both refer to the same person or thing and one stands as a linguistic antecedent of the other, as the two pronouns in She taught herself but not in She taught her.
- coresidence — (anthropology) Living together, sharing a residence, as of an adult child with a parent.
- corncockles — Plural form of corncockle.
- council tax — In Britain, council tax is a tax that you pay to your local authority in order to pay for local services such as schools, libraries, and rubbish collection. The amount of council tax that you pay depends on the value of the house or flat where you live.
- councillors — Plural form of councillor.
- councillour — Obsolete form of councillor.
- countenance — If someone will not countenance something, they do not agree with it and will not allow it to happen.
- court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- crance iron — a metal ring or cap to which bobstays and shrouds are secured, at the forward end of a bowsprit.
- crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
- cross-bench — a seat in Parliament occupied by a neutral or independent member
- crunch time — the critical moment
- crunchiness — The state of being crunchy.
- cunctatious — addicted to or prone to cunctation
- dad dancing — enthusiastic but inelegant dancing to pop music, regarded as typical of middle-aged men
- dance drama — drama performed through dance movements, frequently with dialogue.
- dance floor — In a restaurant or night club, the dance floor is the area where people can dance.
- dance music — music that is suitable for dancing
- decoherence — the process in which a system's behaviour changes from that which can be explained by quantum mechanics to that which can be explained by classical mechanics
- defeasances — Plural form of defeasance.
- defenceless — If someone or something is defenceless, they are weak and unable to defend themselves properly.
- defunctness — The state or quality of being defunct.
- delinquency — Delinquency is criminal behaviour, especially that of young people.
- delinquincy — Alternative form of delinquency.
- deliverance — Deliverance is rescue from imprisonment, danger, or evil.
- denunciated — Simple past tense and past participle of denunciate.
- denunciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denunciate.
- dependences — the state of relying on or needing someone or something for aid, support, or the like.
- dereference — Obtain from (a pointer) the address of a data item held in another location.
- descendancy — Lb uncountable The quality or condition of being a descendant.
- descendence — The act of descending.
- descendency — The property of descendence.