12-letter words containing nc
- incumbrancer — (legal) One who holds incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- incunabulist — a person who specialises in incunabula, a collector of incunabula
- incurability — The quality or state of being incurable—not being able to be cured.
- indehiscence — not dehiscent; not opening at maturity.
- independence — a city in W Missouri: starting point of the Santa Fe and Oregon trails.
- independency — independence (def 1).
- indifference — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
- indifferency — indifference.
- indistinctly — not distinct; not clearly marked or defined: indistinct markings.
- indulgencies — indulgence.
- indulgencing — Present participle of indulgence.
- inefficiency — the quality or condition of being inefficient; lack of efficiency.
- inexpectancy — a lack or absence of expectancy; the state of being inexpectant
- inexpedience — The quality or state of being inexpedient; unsuitableness or impropriety.
- inexpediency — (uncountable) The condition of being inexpedient.
- inexperience — lack of experience.
- inheritances — Plural form of inheritance.
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- insomnolence — sleeplessness; insomnia: a troubled week of insomnolence.
- insurgencies — Plural form of insurgency.
- intelligence — capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
- intemperance — excessive or immoderate indulgence in alcoholic beverages.
- inter-branch — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- interference — an act, fact, or instance of interfering.
- interfluence — the action of flowing together or merging
- interjacency — The quality of being interjacent.
- internuncial — serving to announce or connect.
- internuncios — Plural form of internuncio.
- interscience — a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
- intolerances — Plural form of intolerance.
- intrenchment — Archaic spelling of entrenchment.
- intumescence — a swelling up, as with congestion.
- irreconciled — not reconciled, esp with God
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- irrepentance — Lack of repentance; impenitence.
- irresistance — (archaic) passive submission; lack of resistance.
- john hancock — Herbert Jeffrey ("Herbie") born 1940, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- junction box — an enclosure that houses electric wires or cables that are joined together and protects the connections.
- junction fet — Junction Field Effect Transistor
- junk science — faulty scientific information or research, especially when used to advance special interests.
- juvenescence — being or becoming youthful; young.
- kanchenjunga — a mountain in S Asia, between NE India and Nepal, in the E Himalayas: third highest in the world. 28,169 feet (8586 meters).
- kidney punch — an illegal punch in the lower back.
- kinchinjunga — Kanchenjunga.
- king's bench — a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a division of the High Court of Justice.
- lampadomancy — a method of divination by studying the carbon deposits left by a burning lamp or candle
- lanceolately — in a lanceolate way or form
- lancet clock — a mantel clock having a case formed like an acutely pointed arch.
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition