13-letter words containing nc
- recrudescence — breaking out afresh or into renewed activity; revival or reappearance in active existence.
- reincarnation — the belief that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form.
- reincorporate — to incorporate again
- relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- reperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- repunctuation — the act or process of punctuating differently or again
- resynchronize — to synchronize again
- retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
- retromingency — urinating backward because of bodily configuration: The lion is a retromingent animal.
- robber trench — a trench that originally contained the foundations of a wall, the stones of which have been taken away
- robot dancing — a dance of the 1980s characterized by jerky mechanical movements
- rural science — the study and theory of agriculture, biology, ecology, and associated fields
- sacrosanctity — extremely sacred or inviolable: a sacrosanct chamber in the temple.
- saint vincent — Saint, died a.d. 304, Spanish martyr: patron saint of winegrowers.
- san francisco — a seaport in W California, on San Francisco Bay: earthquake and fire 1906; United Nations Conference 1945.
- sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
- sanctimonious — making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
- sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
- sao francisco — a river flowing NE and E through E Brazil into the Atlantic. 1800 miles (2900 km) long.
- self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
- self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- semidominance — incomplete dominance.
- sendmail inc. — (company) The company, announced in November 1997 and launched in March 1998, created by Eric Allman, the original author of Sendmail. Allman is Chief Technology Officer, Greg Olson is President and CEO. Sendmail Inc. will sell commercial upgrades, service and support to Internet Service Providers and corporations running critical e-mail applications, while still continuing freeware development. Allman said that he devoted the fist six months of the life of Sendmail Inc. to finalising the freeware release. A commercial version was due in summer 1998, at around $1000 per server. The company is expected to reach $40m annual sales within three years. Funding is in the region of $1.25m. Address: Emeryville, California, USA.
- severance pay — money, exclusive of wages, back pay, etc., paid to an employee who has tenure and who is dismissed because of lack of work or other reasons beyond the employee's control.
- severance tax — a tax levied by a state on the extraction and use of a natural product, as coal, that is sold outside the state or during a certain period.
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- side entrance — an entrance at the side of a building
- significances — importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
- simware, inc. — (company) The producers of REXXWARE. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: Ottawa, Canada.
- sir-reverence — (used as an expression of apology, as before unseemly or indelicate words.)
- skip distance — the minimum distance along the earth's surface between the position of a short-wave transmitter and the region where its signal is received after one reflection from the ionosphere.
- slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
- socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
- soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
- somniloquence — sleep-talking
- space science — any of the sciences involved in space travel or the exploration of space, as space medicine.
- splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
- splanchnology — the visceral system
- step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- sub-reference — an act or instance of referring.
- subappearance — a slight appearance
- subcinctorium — an embroidered silk vestment resembling, but somewhat broader than, a maniple, worn by the pope on solemn occasions.
- subconcession — the act of conceding or yielding, as a right, a privilege, or a point or fact in an argument: He made no concession to caution.
- subconscience — an inhibiting sense of what is prudent: I'd eat another piece of pie but my conscience would bother me.
- sublanceolate — (of leaves, etc) almost spear-shaped
- substanceless — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- succinctorium — subcinctorium.
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs