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13-letter words containing nc

  • on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
  • on the bounce — in succession; one after the other
  • on the chance — acting on the possibility; in case
  • once and away — conclusively
  • once or twice — If you have done something once or twice, you have done it a few times, but not very often.
  • one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
  • one-two punch — Also called one-two punch. Boxing. a left-hand jab immediately followed by a right cross.
  • onto function — Mathematics. a function from one set to a second set, the range of which is the entire second set.
  • open juncture — a transition between successive sounds marked by a break in articulatory continuity, as by a pause or the modification of a preceding or following sound, and often indicating a division between words; presence of juncture (opposed to close juncture). Also called plus juncture. Compare close juncture, juncture (def 7a), terminal juncture.
  • open sentence — Mathematics. an equation or inequality containing one or more variables in which its truth or falsehood depends upon the values assumed by the variables in a particular instance, as the equation x + 3 = 8.
  • opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
  • optical bench — an apparatus, as a special table or rigid beam, for the precise positioning of light sources, screens, and optical instruments used for optical and photometric studies, having a ruled bar to which these devices can be attached and along which they can be readily adjusted.
  • outdistancing — Present participle of outdistance.
  • outrecuidance — (archaic) Presumption, arrogance, self-conceit.
  • over-reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
  • overabundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • overbalancing — Present participle of overbalance.
  • overdominance — excessive dominance
  • overencourage — to encourage too much
  • overfrequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
  • overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
  • overpronounce — to pronounce (a word, syllable, etc.) in an exaggerated, affected, or excessively careful manner.
  • pancreatotomy — incision of the pancreas.
  • paper advance — the feeding of paper through a printer
  • parencephalon — a cerebral hemisphere
  • pearl essence — a lustrous, silvery-white substance obtained from the scales of certain fishes or derived synthetically, as from mercuric chloride: used chiefly in the manufacture of simulated pearls and as a pigment in lacquer (pearl lacquer)
  • pencil crayon — coloured pencil
  • pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • pencil rubber — a piece of rubber used for erasing something written in pencil; eraser
  • pencil stripe — a stripe of varying widths, especially a dark stripe on a light ground.
  • pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • penny pincher — a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
  • penny-pincher — a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
  • perennibranch — any amphibian that retains its gills throughout its life
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • pet insurance — health insurance for a pet
  • peter's pence — an annual tax or tribute, originally of a penny, paid by certain English property owners to the papal see until the Reformation.
  • petrocurrency — money, paid in dollars, earned by a country for the exporting of petroleum
  • phase encoded — (storage)   (PE) A recording method used for 1600 BPI magnetic tapes. Compare NRZI, GCR.
  • phencyclidine — an anesthetic drug, C 1 7 H 2 5 N, used as an animal tranquilizer: also widely used in several forms as an illicit hallucinogen.
  • pinch pennies — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
  • plano-concave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
  • pluripresence — presence in more than one place at the same time
  • plus juncture — open juncture.
  • pomme blanche — breadroot.
  • ponce de leon — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1460–1521, Spanish explorer.
  • postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
  • postemergence — occurring or applied after emergence of a plant from the soil and before full growth: postemergence frost.
  • postemergency — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after an emergency
  • pre-emergence — of or relating to the period prior to emergence of something
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