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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
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