13-letter words containing nc
- pre-encounter — to come upon or meet with, especially unexpectedly: to encounter a new situation.
- pre-existence — to exist beforehand.
- pre-reference — an act or instance of referring.
- preconception — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- preponderance — the fact or quality of being preponderant; superiority in weight, power, numbers, etc.: The preponderance of votes is against the proposal.
- prepreference — taking precedence over preference shares in dividends or in capital distribution at the time of dissolution or liquidation of a business.
- prepubescence — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
- prince george — a city in central British Columbia, in W Canada.
- prince regent — a prince who is regent of a country.
- prince rupert — Prince, 1619–82, German Royalist general and admiral in the English Civil War (nephew of Charles I of England).
- prince's pine — pipsissewa
- prince's-pine — pipsissewa.
- princess post — (in a queen truss) one of two vertical suspension members supplementing the queen posts nearer to the ends of the span.
- principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
- principalness — the quality or position of being principal
- principalship — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
- privy council — a board or select body of personal advisers, as of a sovereign.
- prix goncourt — Goncourt (def 2).
- pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- pronouncement — a formal or authoritative statement.
- pronunciation — Rare. an act or instance of declaring publicly; pronouncement: It was but the latest pronunciation of the political double-standard uttered in the course of this scandal. Synonyms: declaration, assertion, statement; announcement, affirmation; proclamation, promulgation, dissemination.
- provence rose — an erect Eurasian shrub, Rosa gallica, of the rose family, having a creeping rootstock, densely prickly and bristly stems, and large, solitary, pink or crimson flowers.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- pseudoscience — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
- punctiliously — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- punctuational — punctuated equilibrium.
- puncture vine — a caltrop, Tribulus terrestris, having spiny fruit that can puncture tires.
- puncture weed — a caltrop, Tribulus terrestris, having spiny fruit that can puncture tires.
- quantivalence — quantitative equivalence
- queen'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.
- quincentenary — a 500th anniversary or its celebration.
- quincuncially — In a quincuncial fashion.
- quintessences — Plural form of quintessence.
- radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
- re-acceptance — the act of taking or receiving something offered.
- re-admittance — permission or right to enter: admittance into the exhibit room.
- re-appearance — the act or fact of appearing, as to the eye or mind or before the public: the unannounced appearance of dinner guests; the last appearance of Caruso in Aïda; her first appearance at a stockholders' meeting.
- re-experience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
- real presence — the doctrine that the substance of the body and blood of Christ are present in the Eucharist.
- recalcitrance — resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
- reconcentrate — to cause (the mind, thoughts, efforts, etc) to be concentrated again on a particular purpose or goal
- reconcilement — to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
- reconvergence — an act or instance of converging.