9-letter words containing nc
- latencies — Plural form of latency.
- latitancy — The act or state of lying hidden, or lurking.
- launcelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- launching — Present participle of launch.
- launchpad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- laurencin — Marie [ma-ree] /maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1885–1956, French painter, lithographer, and stage designer.
- licencees — a person, company, etc., to whom a license is granted or issued.
- licencing — license.
- limerance — Alternative form of limerence.
- limerence — The state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person, typically experienced involuntarily and characterized by a strong desire for reciprocation of one’s feelings but not primarily for a sexual relationship.
- linchpins — Plural form of linchpin.
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- lip-synch — the technical process by which this is done.
- loincloth — a piece of cloth worn around the loins or hips, especially in tropical regions as the only item of clothing.
- lucencies — shining.
- luminance — brightness
- lunch box — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- luncheons — Plural form of luncheon.
- lunchhook — Usually, lunchhooks. hands.
- lunchmeat — luncheon meat.
- lunchpail — lunchbox.
- lunchroom — a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.
- lunchtime — a period set aside for eating lunch or the period of an hour or so, beginning roughly at noon, during which lunch is commonly eaten.
- lynch law — the administration of summary punishment, especially death, upon a suspected, accused, or convicted person by a mob acting without legal process or authority.
- lynch mob — A lynch mob is an angry crowd of people who want to kill someone without a trial, because they believe that person has committed a crime.
- lynchburg — a city in central Virginia.
- lynchings — Plural form of lynching.
- lynchpins — Plural form of lynchpin.
- mancation — a holiday for a group of men, esp. one that involves typically masculine pursuits
- manchette — armpad.
- manchukuo — a former country (1932–45) in E Asia, under Japanese control: included Manchuria and parts of Inner Mongolia; now a part of China.
- manchuria — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- mancipate — (obsolete) To enslave.
- manciples — Plural form of manciple.
- mancunian — a native or resident of Manchester, England.
- manurance — the cultivation or occupation of land
- microinch — a unit of length equal to one millionth of an inch. Symbol: μin.
- militance — (uncountable) The condition of being militant.
- militancy — vigorously active and aggressive, especially in support of a cause: militant reformers.
- mimencode — (Originally distributed as "mmencode"). A replacement for uuencode for use in electronic mail and news. Part of MIME. uuencode uses characters that don"t translate well across all mail gateways (particularly those which convert between ASCII and EBCDIC). Also, different variants of uuencode encode data in different and incompatible ways, with no standard. Finally, few uuencode variants work well in a pipe. Mimencode implements the encodings which were defined for MIME as uuencode replacements, and should be considerably more robust for e-mail use. Written by Nathaniel S. Borenstein of Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore) in 1991.
- mince pie — a pie filled with mincemeat.
- mincemeat — a mixture composed of minced apples, suet, and sometimes meat, together with raisins, currants, candied citron, etc., for filling a pie.
- mincingly — (of the gait, speech, behavior, etc.) affectedly dainty, nice, or elegant.
- mischance — a mishap or misfortune.
- mischancy — unlucky; unfortunate
- moonchild — a person born under the zodiacal sign of Cancer.
- mooncraft — a lunar module
- multisync — (hardware) An NEC trademark term for multiscan. As NEC was the first to manufacture multiscan monitors the term is often used interchangeably with multiscan.
- mumchance — Mute, or not speaking; silent.