14-letter words containing nc
- currency snake — an exchange rate system that operated between various member countries of the EEC during the 1970s, in which exchange rates between the currencies of the participating states were only allowed to fluctuate within a restricted range
- dance of death — a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death
- death instinct — the destructive or aggressive instinct, based on a compulsion to return to an earlier harmonious state and, ultimately, to nonexistence
- death sentence — A death sentence is a punishment of death given by a judge to someone who has been found guilty of a serious crime such as murder.
- deconcentrated — to reduce the power or control of (a corporation, industry, etc.); decentralize.
- defence forces — the armed services of a country
- delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
- desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
- disappearances — Plural form of disappearance.
- disconcertedly — In a disconcerted manner.
- disconcertment — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
- discontinuance — the act or state of discontinuing or the state of being discontinued; cessation: the discontinuance of a business.
- discountenance — to disconcert, embarrass, or abash: With his composure, he survived every attempt to discountenance him.
- disenchantment — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
- disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
- disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
- disincarcerate — to release from imprisonment
- disincentivise — Alternative spelling of disincentivize.
- disincentivize — to discourage or deter by removing incentives: The expiration of tax credits will disincentivize future participation in the energy-efficiency program. More affordable cholesterol-lowering medication may disincentivize people from adopting a vegetarian diet.
- disinclination — the absence of inclination; reluctance; unwillingness.
- disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
- disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- dismal science — the science of economics
- dna sequencing — the procedure of determining the order of base pairs in a section of DNA
- do violence to — to inflict harm upon; damage or violate
- dracunculiasis — a disease caused by infection with the Guinea worm
- dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
- eigenfrequency — One of the natural resonant frequencies of a system.
- electric fence — a fence with an electric current in it, typically used to keep cattle in a field
- electromotance — an electromotive force
- electrovalence — Alternative form of electrovalency.
- electrovalency — (physics) The net electric charge on an ion.
- emergency call — a telephone call to the emergency services made during an emergency
- emergency exit — door, way out
- emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
- emergency room — hospital: casualty department
- emergency stop — a sudden application of the brakes in a car, such as the driver would need to carry out in an emergency
- emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
- éminence grise — a person who wields power and influence unofficially or behind the scenes
- encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
- encaustic tile — a tile produced using the encaustic technique
- encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
- encephalitogen — an agent that is able to produce encephalitis
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- encephalograph — any other apparatus used to produce an encephalogram
- encephalopathy — A disease in which the functioning of the brain is affected by some agent or condition (such as viral infection or toxins in the blood).
- enclosed order — a Christian religious order that does not permit its members to go into the outside world