13-letter words containing nc
- great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
- gut-wrenching — involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut-wrenching decision.
- guzman blanco — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1829–99, Venezuelan political leader: president 1870–88.
- gyrofrequency — the frequency of rotation of an electron or other charged particle in a magnetic field, directly proportional to the charge of the particle and to the field strength and inversely proportional to the mass of the particle.
- halotolerance — The quality or degree of being halotolerant.
- hard currency — money that is backed by gold reserves and is readily convertible into foreign currencies.
- hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
- herd instinct — the impulse or tendency toward clustering or acting in a group, especially the presumed instinct toward or need for gregariousness and conformity.
- holy alliance — a league formed by the principal sovereigns of Europe in 1815 with the professed object of promoting Christian brotherhood but the practical object of repressing democratic revolutions and institutions. The English and Turkish rulers and Pope Pius VII did not join the league.
- hors concours — noting an artist, architect, or the like, not competing or not qualified to compete for the prizes in an exhibit or competition.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- hypobranchial — situated below the gills or beneath the branchial arches.
- idiosyncratic — pertaining to the nature of idiosyncrasy, or something peculiar to an individual: The best minds are idiosyncratic and unpredictable as they follow the course of scientific discovery.
- ile de france — a former province in N France, including Paris and the region around it.
- Île-de-france — a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century
- ill-concealed — poorly disguised
- ill-conceived — badly conceived or planned: an ill-conceived project.
- impact wrench — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- impercipience — The quality of being impercipient.
- impertinences — Plural form of impertinence.
- in advance of — prior to
- in attendance — If someone is in attendance at a place or an event, they are there.
- in conclusion — to sum up, to conclude
- in confidence — full trust; belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person or thing: We have every confidence in their ability to succeed.
- in conscience — the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action: to follow the dictates of conscience.
- in-difference — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
- in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- incandescence — the emission of visible light by a body, caused by its high temperature. Compare luminescence.
- incandescents — Plural form of incandescent.
- incapableness — The quality or state of being incapable; incapability.
- incapacitated — unable to act, respond, or the like (often used euphemistically when one is busy or otherwise occupied): He can't come to the phone now—he's incapacitated.
- incarcerating — Present participle of incarcerate.
- incarceration — the act of incarcerating, or putting in prison or another enclosure: The incarceration rate has increased dramatically.
- incarcerative — to imprison; confine.
- incardination — to institute as a cardinal.
- incarnational — an incarnate being or form.
- incense cedar — any of several coniferous trees of the genus Libocedrus (or Calocedrus), especially L. decurrens, of the western U.S., growing to a height of 150 feet (50 meters).
- incense stick — a stick coated with incense, which burns slowly, releasing a fragrant odour
- incentive pay — additional pay, a higher wage, or a bonus paid to promote the productivity of an employee.
- incentivising — Present participle of incentivise.
- incentivizing — to give incentives to: The government should incentivize the private sector to create jobs.
- incessantness — Quality of being incessant.
- incident room — An incident room is a room used by the police while they are dealing with a major crime or accident.
- incidentaloma — an abnormal lesion or tumor detected by chance during a medical imaging test, physical examination, or surgery.
- inclinatorium — an instrument invented by Robert Norman in 1576, used to determine the degree to which a magnetic needle dips towards the earth; a dipping needle
- inclinometers — Plural form of inclinometer.
- inclusion map — a map of a set to itself in which each element of a given subset of the set is mapped to itself.
- inclusiveness — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.