8-letter words containing nc
- geomancy — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- geulincx — Arnold, 1624?–69, Belgian philosopher.
- givenchy — Hubert de [y-ber duh] /üˈbɛr də/ (Show IPA), born 1927, French fashion designer.
- glancing — striking obliquely and bouncing off at an angle: a glancing blow.
- goncourt — Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de [ed-mawn lwee ahn-twan y-oh duh] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈtwan üˈoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1822–96, and his brother Jules Alfred Huot de [zhyl al-fred] /ʒyl alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA) 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules.
- grinches — Plural form of grinch.
- guidance — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- haunched — the hip.
- haunches — the hip.
- hawfinch — a European grosbeak, Coccothraustes coccothraustes.
- henchman — an unscrupulous and ruthless subordinate, especially a criminal: The leader of the gang went everywhere accompanied by his henchmen.
- henchmen — Plural form of henchman.
- hencoops — Plural form of hencoop.
- hinckley — a town in central England, in Leicestershire. Pop: 43 246 (2001)
- honchoed — a leader, especially an assertive leader; chief.
- huancayo — a city in central Peru, on the Mantaro River.
- hunching — to thrust out or up in a hump; arch: to hunch one's back.
- imitancy — a tendency to imitate
- incanted — Simple past tense and past participle of incant.
- incensed — an aromatic gum or other substance producing a sweet odor when burned, used in religious ceremonies, to enhance a mood, etc.
- incenser — One who instigates or incites.
- incenses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incense.
- incensor — an incense burner; censer
- incented — to give incentives to: The government should incentivize the private sector to create jobs.
- incenter — the center of an inscribed circle; that point where the bisectors of the angles of a triangle or of a regular polygon intersect.
- incentre — the centre of an inscribed circle
- incepted — to take in; ingest.
- inceptor — to take in; ingest.
- inchmeal — by inches; inch by inch; little by little.
- inchoate — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- inchtape — a measuring tape marked out in inches
- inchworm — measuringworm.
- incident — an individual occurrence or event.
- incienso — a shrubby, composite desert plant, Encelia farinosa, of the southwestern U.S., having silvery leaves and clusters of yellow flowers.
- incipits — Plural form of incipit.
- incircle — a circle inscribed within a triangle.
- incising — Present participle of incise.
- incision — a cut, gash, or notch.
- incisive — penetrating; cutting; biting; trenchant: an incisive tone of voice.
- incisors — any of the four anterior teeth in each jaw, used for cutting and gnawing.
- incisory — adapted for cutting, as the incisor teeth.
- incisura — (anatomy) a notch or indent.
- incisure — a notch, as in a bone or other structure.
- incitant — Inciting; stimulating.
- inciting — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- incivism — neglect of a citizen's duties; poor citizenship
- inclined — deviating in direction from the horizontal or vertical; sloping.
- incliner — One who, or that which, inclines, especially an inclined dial.
- inclines — Plural form of incline.
- inclosed — enclose.