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9-letter words containing nc

  • ancipital — flattened and having two edges
  • announced — Simple past tense and past participle of announce.
  • announcer — An announcer is someone who introduces programmes on radio or television or who reads the text of a radio or television advertisement.
  • announces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of announce.
  • annoyance — Annoyance is the feeling that you get when someone makes you feel fairly angry or impatient.
  • appetence — a natural craving or desire
  • appetency — a strong desire; craving; appetite
  • appliance — An appliance is a device or machine in your home that you use to do a job such as cleaning or cooking. Appliances are often electrical.
  • archebanc — a bench or settle of the medieval and Renaissance periods, wide enough for several persons and having a seat with a chest beneath, arms at the ends, and a high back.
  • arrivance — the action or state of arriving
  • arrogance — the quality or state of being arrogant; overbearing pride or self-importance
  • arrogancy — offensive display of superiority or self-importance; overbearing pride.
  • assonance — the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery
  • assurance — If you give someone an assurance that something is true or will happen, you say that it is definitely true or will definitely happen, in order to make them feel less worried.
  • at anchor — If a boat is at anchor, it is floating in a particular place and is prevented from moving by its anchor.
  • audiences — the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert: The audience was respectful of the speaker's opinion.
  • audiencia — a high court, found in South America during the colonial period
  • avalanche — An avalanche is a large mass of snow that falls down the side of a mountain.
  • avoidance — Avoidance of someone or something is the act of avoiding them.
  • avuncular — An avuncular man or a man with avuncular behaviour is friendly and helpful towards someone younger.
  • backbench — A backbench MP is a Member of Parliament who is not a minister and who does not hold an official position in his or her political party.
  • balancers — Plural form of balancer.
  • balancing — the process of achieving or maintaining equilibrium
  • barrancas — Plural form of barranca.
  • belomancy — the art of divination using arrows
  • bench dog — a dog on exhibit at a dog show before and after competition in the show ring.
  • benchland — a stretch of level ground at the foot of mountains
  • benchless — without a bench or benches
  • benchmark — A benchmark is something whose quality or quantity is known and which can therefore be used as a standard with which other things can be compared.
  • benchrest — a tablelike support for a target rifle used in target practice.
  • biconcave — (of a lens) having concave faces on both sides; concavo-concave
  • bivalence — the semantic principle that there are exactly two truth values, so that every meaningful statement is either true or false
  • bivalency — Chemistry. having a valence of two. having two valences, as aluminum with valences of two and three.
  • blanchett — Cate (keɪt), full name Catherine Elise Blanchett. born 1969, Australian actress; her films include Elizabeth (1998), the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03), Notes on a Scandal (2006), and Blue Jasmine (2013) for which she won an Academy Award
  • bononcini — Giovanni Maria [jaw-vahn-nee mah-ree-ah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1640–78, and his sons Giovanni Battista [baht-tee-stah] /bɑtˈti stɑ/ (Show IPA) 1670–1747, and Marc Antonio [mahrk ahn-taw-nyaw] /mɑrk ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA) 1675–1726, Italian composers.
  • box lunch — A box lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
  • brabancon — one of a variety of the Brussels griffon having a short, smooth coat.
  • braincase — the part of the cranium that protects the brain
  • branchery — a group or system of branches
  • branchiae — the gills of an aquatic animal
  • branchial — of or relating to the gills of an aquatic animal, esp a fish
  • branching — the occurrence of several decay paths (branches) in the disintegration of a particular nuclide or the de-excitation of an excited atom. The branching fraction (nuclear) or branching ratio (atomic) is the proportion of the disintegrating nuclei that follow a particular branch to the total number of disintegrating nuclides
  • branchio- — gills
  • branchlet — a small branch
  • bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
  • bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
  • brunching — a meal that serves as both breakfast and lunch.
  • bullfinch — A bullfinch is a type of small European bird. The male has a black head and a pinkish-red breast.
  • by chance — Something that happens by chance was not planned by anyone.
  • by inches — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
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