13-letter words containing nc
- concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
- concentrating — Present participle of concentrate.
- concentration — Concentration on something involves giving all your attention to it.
- concentrative — tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration
- concentrators — Plural form of concentrator.
- concentricity — having a common center, as circles or spheres.
- concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
- conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
- conceptuality — a conceptualization
- conceptualize — If you conceptualize something, you form an idea of it in your mind.
- concert grand — a full-size grand piano, usually around 7 feet in length
- concert party — a musical entertainment popular in the early 20th century, esp one at a British seaside resort
- concert pitch — the frequency of 440 hertz assigned to the A above middle C
- concertedness — the state of being concerted
- concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
- concertinaing — Present participle of concertina.
- concertmaster — The concertmaster of an orchestra is the most senior violin player, who acts as a deputy to the conductor.
- concessionary — A concessionary price is a special price which is lower than the normal one and which is often given to old people, students, and the unemployed.
- concessioners — Plural form of concessioner.
- concessionist — a person who supports or recommends concession
- conchological — Of or pertaining to conchology.
- conchylaceous — Of or relating to shells; resembling a shell.
- conclusionary — conclusory
- concomitances — Plural form of concomitance.
- concomitantly — existing or occurring with something else, often in a lesser way; accompanying; concurrent: an event and its concomitant circumstances.
- concord coach — a 19th-cent. type of stagecoach used by early settlers of the western U.S.
- concord grape — a variety of grape with purple-black fruit covered with a bluish bloom
- concrescences — Plural form of concrescence.
- concrete noun — a noun that refers to a material object, as for example horse
- concrete poet — a writer of concrete poetry.
- concretionary — formed by concretion; consisting of concreted matter or masses.
- concupiscence — strong desire, esp sexual desire
- concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
- concurrencies — Plural form of concurrency.
- concurrent ml — (language) (CML) A concurrent extension of SML/NJ written by J. Reppy at Cornell University in 1990. CML supports dynamic thread creation and synchronous message passing on typed channels. Threads are implemented using first-class continuations. First-class synchronous operations allow users to tailor their synchronisation abstractions for their application. CML also supports both stream I/O and low-level I/O in an integrated fashion. E-mail: <[email protected]> (bugs).
- concyclically — in a concyclic manner
- conjunctional — Grammar. any member of a small class of words distinguished in many languages by their function as connectors between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, as and, because, but, however. any other word or expression of similar function, as in any case.
- conjunctively — serving to connect; connective: conjunctive tissue.
- consenescence — decay, esp decay caused by ageing
- consenescency — consenescence
- conservancies — Plural form of conservancy.
- consistencies — a degree of density, firmness, viscosity, etc.: The liquid has the consistency of cream.
- constringence — inverse of the dispersive power of a medium
- contabescence — (of an anther) the condition of being unable to produce pollen
- contingencies — dependence on chance or on the fulfillment of a condition; uncertainty; fortuitousness: Nothing was left to contingency.
- convalescence — Convalescence is the period or process of becoming healthy and well again after an illness or operation.
- convalescency — convalescence
- council house — In Britain, a council house is a house that is owned by a local council and that people can rent at a low cost.