12-letter words containing nc
- succinctness — expressed in few words; concise; terse.
- sucker punch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
- sucker-punch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
- sun-drenched — Sun-drenched places have a lot of hot sunshine.
- sunday punch — Boxing. the most powerful and effective punch of a boxer, especially the punch used in trying to gain a knockout.
- surveillance — a watch kept over a person, group, etc., especially over a suspect, prisoner, or the like: The suspects were under police surveillance.
- swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
- sybase, inc. — (company) A software vendor focused on database management software. Yearly sales: $903.9 million (1997). Address: 6475 Christie Ave., Emeryville, California, USA.
- synchro unit — a type of alternating-current motor designed to maintain continuously, at some remote location, the same rotational angle that may be imposed by force upon the electrically connected rotating element of a similar motor.
- synchroflash — of or relating to photography employing a device that synchronizes the photoflash with the shutter.
- synchroneity — the state of being synchronous; synchronism.
- synchronical — happening at the same time
- synchroscope — an instrument for determining the difference in phase between two related motions, as those of two aircraft engines or two electric generators.
- synclinorium — a regional structure of general synclinal form that includes a series of smaller folds.
- syncretistic — the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion.
- take chances — to behave in a risky manner
- take offence — be upset or shocked
- tax increase — an increase in the amount of tax that people and companies are obliged to pay
- taxi dancing — a system, as in a dance hall or hotel, whereby a person pays for a partner (taxi dancer) for a dance, payment being required for each individual dance during an evening
- telepresence — the use of virtual reality technology to operate machinery by remote control or to create the effect of being at a different or imaginary location
- tetravalence — the condition of having a valency of four
- the alliance — the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party acting or regarded as a political entity from 1981 to 1988
- the ancients — the people who lived in ancient times
- the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
- the munchies — a craving for food, esp when induced by alcohol or drugs
- the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
- town council — municipal government
- transference — the act or process of transferring.
- transhumance — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
- transilience — leaping or passing from one thing or state to another.
- translucence — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- translucency — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- transparence — Also, transparence. the quality or state of being transparent.
- transparency — Also, transparence. the quality or state of being transparent.
- trench fever — a recurrent fever, often suffered by soldiers in trenches in World War I, caused by a rickettsia transmitted by the body louse.
- trench knife — a short knife for stabbing, sometimes equipped with brass knuckles as a guard, used in modern warfare in hand-to-hand combat.
- trench mouth — Vincent's angina.
- tronc master — a person who distributes pooled tips and service charges to waiters, waitresses, hotel workers etc.
- turf dancing — a fluid style of street-dancing originating in the Bay Area of San Francisco, California
- unacceptance — the act of taking or receiving something offered.
- unattendance — the act of attending.
- uncalculable — determinable by calculation; ascertainable: This map was designed so that distances by road are easily calculable.
- uncalculated — not calculated; that has not been computed or evaluated
- uncalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- uncalled for — not called for; not required; superfluous; unwanted.
- uncalled-for — not called for; not required; superfluous; unwanted.
- uncandidness — the quality or condition of being uncandid; lack of candidness or openness
- uncapsizable — (of a boat, etc) that cannot be capsized
- uncapturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- uncatalogued — not added to or detailed in a catalogue