7-letter words containing nc
- pynchon — Thomas, born 1937, U.S. novelist.
- quinces — Plural form of quince.
- quinche — to move, to wince
- quincke — Angioedema.
- rancher — a person who owns or works on a ranch.
- rancour — bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
- raunchy — vulgar or smutty; crude; earthy; obscene: a raunchy joke.
- recency — of late occurrence, appearance, or origin; lately happening, done, made, etc.: recent events; a recent trip.
- refence — to provide (something) with a fence again
- regence — noting or pertaining to the style of French furnishings and decoration of c1700–20, in which a transition occurs from the Baroque style of Louis XIV to the Rococo of Louis XV.
- regency — the office, jurisdiction, or control of a regent or body of regents exercising the ruling power during the minority, absence, or disability of a sovereign.
- reincur — to incur again
- rhonchi — a wheezing or snoring sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by an accumulation of mucus or other material.
- rinceau — an ornamental foliate or floral motif.
- romance — Music. a short, simple melody, vocal or instrumental, of tender character.
- runcorn — a town in NW England, in Halton unitary authority, N Cheshire, on the Manchester Ship Canal: port and industrial centre; designated a new town in 1964. Pop: 60 072 (2001)
- sanchez — Sonia (Wilsonia Driver) born 1934, U.S. poet, activist, and teacher.
- sanctum — a sacred or holy place.
- sanctus — (italics). Also called Tersanctus. the hymn beginning “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts,” with which the Eucharistic preface culminates.
- science — a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
- scranch — to crunch
- scrunch — to crunch, crush, or crumple.
- silence — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
- sincere — free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest: a sincere apology.
- sonance — the condition or quality of being sonant.
- sonancy — the characteristic of being sonant
- spancel — a noosed rope with which to hobble an animal, especially a horse or cow.
- spencer — Charles, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, 1674–1722, British statesman: prime minister 1718–21.
- squinch — a small arch, corbeling, or the like, built across the interior angle between two walls, as in a square tower for supporting the side of a superimposed octagonal spire.
- staunch — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- stencil — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- syncarp — an aggregate fruit.
- synched — synchronization: The picture and the soundtrack were out of sync.
- synchro — any of a number of electrical devices in which the angular position of a rotating part is transformed into a voltage, or vice versa
- syncing — synchronization: The picture and the soundtrack were out of sync.
- syncope — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- tancred — 1078?–1112, Norman leader in the first Crusade.
- tenancy — a holding, as of lands, by any kind of title; occupancy of land, a house, or the like, under a lease or on payment of rent; tenure.
- terence — (Publius Terentius Afer) c190–159? b.c, Roman playwright.
- tinchel — (in Scotland) a circle of deer hunters who gradually close in on a deer herd
- tranced — a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- trancey — (of music) having a hypnotic effect due to repetitive rhythms
- tranche — Finance. one part or division of a larger unit, as of an asset pool or investment: The loan will be repaid in three tranches. a group of securities that share a certain characteristic and form part of a larger offering: The second tranche of the bond issue has a five-year maturity.
- trounce — to beat severely; thrash.
- truancy — the act or state of being truant.
- truncal — belonging or relating to the trunk, for example of the body or of a tree
- uncaged — not confined in a cage.
- uncanny — having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary: uncanny accuracy; an uncanny knack of foreseeing trouble.
- unceded — to yield or formally surrender to another: to cede territory.
- unchain — to free from or as if from chains; set free.