8-letter words containing nc
- duncedom — the characteristic behaviour or the realm of a dunce or a dullard
- duncical — relating to a dunce or being stupid or simple-minded
- elegance — The quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; style.
- elegancy — Alternative form of elegance.
- elenchic — elenctic
- elenchus — A logical refutation.
- elenctic — Serving to refute; refutative.
- eminence — Fame or recognized superiority, esp. within a particular sphere or profession.
- eminency — Prominence or relative importance.
- encaenia — a festival of dedication or commemoration
- encamped — Simple past tense and past participle of encamp.
- encarpus — a decoration of fruit or flowers on a frieze
- encashed — Simple past tense and past participle of encash.
- encasing — Present participle of encase.
- encastre — (of a beam) fixed at the ends
- enceinte — An enclosure or the enclosing wall of a fortified place.
- enchains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enchain.
- enchants — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enchant.
- encharge — (obsolete, transitive) To give to somebody as a charge; to entrust with a duty or task.
- enchased — Simple past tense and past participle of enchase.
- enchaunt — Obsolete form of enchant.
- enchoric — Alternative form of enchorial.
- encierro — the Spanish bull-run, in which bulls are driven through streets to a bullring
- encipher — Convert (a message or piece of text) into a coded form ; encrypt.
- encircle — Form a circle around ; surround.
- enclaved — Simple past tense and past participle of enclave.
- enclaves — Plural form of enclave.
- enclined — Obsolete form of inclined.
- enclisis — the state of being enclitic
- enclitic — A word pronounced with so little emphasis that it is shortened and forms part of the preceding word, e.g., n’t in can’t.
- enclosed — Surround or close off on all sides.
- encloser — (now, chiefly, historical) Someone who appropriates common land.
- encloses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enclose.
- enclothe — To cover with clothing.
- encoding — (computing) The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
- encoffin — (transitive) To place or enclose in a coffin.
- encolour — to give a colour to
- encolure — The neck of a horse.
- encomium — A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly.
- encoring — Present participle of encore.
- encradle — to put in a cradle
- encrease — Obsolete spelling of increase.
- encroach — Intrude on (a person's territory or a thing considered to be a right).
- encrypts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encrypt.
- encumber — Restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.
- encysted — Simple past tense and past participle of encyst.
- enhanced — enhancement
- enhancer — Something that enhances.
- enhances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enhance.
- enounced — Simple past tense and past participle of enounce.