10-letter words containing ns
- consenting — A consenting adult is a person who is considered to be old enough to make their own decisions about who they have sex with.
- consentual — involving or carried out by mutual consent: a consentual divorce.
- consequent — Consequent means happening as a direct result of an event or situation.
- conservant — having the quality of conserving or preserving
- conservate — (dated, transitive) To conserve.
- conserving — Present participle of conserve.
- considered — A considered opinion or act is the result of careful thought.
- considerer — One who considers.
- consignees — Plural form of consignee.
- consignify — to signify (something) when understood or interpreted in combination with something else
- consigning — Present participle of consign.
- consilient — showing consilience
- consimilar — similar; alike
- consistant — Misspelling of consistent.
- consistent — Someone who is consistent always behaves in the same way, has the same attitudes towards people or things, or achieves the same level of success in something.
- consisteth — Archaic third-person singular form of consist.
- consisting — to be made up or composed (usually followed by of): This cake consists mainly of sugar, flour, and butter.
- consistory — the court of a diocese (other than Canterbury) administering ecclesiastical law
- consociate — to enter into or bring into friendly association
- consolable — to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort: Only his children could console him when his wife died.
- consolably — In an consolable manner.
- consolette — a small shelf or recess in a handy location, as in the armrest, dashboard, or door panel of a car, in a shower stall, etc., for holding small, frequently used items.
- consonance — agreement, harmony, or accord
- consonancy — consonance (sense 1)
- consonants — Phonetics. (in English articulation) a speech sound produced by occluding with or without releasing (p, b; t, d; k, g), diverting (m, n, ng), or obstructing (f, v; s, z, etc.) the flow of air from the lungs (opposed to vowel). (in a syllable) any sound other than the sound of greatest sonority in the syllable, as b, r, and g in brig (opposed to sonant). Compare vowel (def 1b). (in linguistic function) a concept empirically determined as a phonological element in structural contrast with vowel, as the b of be, the w of we, the y, s, and t of yeast, etc.
- consortest — Archaic second-person singular form of consort.
- consortial — a combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc., for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital.
- consorting — a husband or wife; spouse, especially of a reigning monarch. Compare prince consort, queen consort.
- consortion — a husband or wife; spouse, especially of a reigning monarch. Compare prince consort, queen consort.
- consortism — symbiosis
- consortium — A consortium is a group of people or firms who have agreed to co-operate with each other.
- conspectus — an overall view; survey
- conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
- conspirant — planning a crime or harmful act in secret
- conspiring — of or involved in a conspiracy
- constables — Plural form of constable.
- constans i — (Flavius Julius Constans) a.d. c323–350, emperor of Rome 337–350 (son of Constantine I).
- constantan — an alloy of copper (60 per cent) and nickel (40 per cent). It has a high resistivity that does not vary significantly with temperature and is used in resistors and, with copper, in thermocouples
- constantia — a region of the Cape Peninsula
- constantly — not changing or varying; uniform; regular; invariable: All conditions during the three experiments were constant.
- constative — (of a statement) able to be true or false
- constipate — to cause constipation in
- constitute — If something constitutes a particular thing, it can be regarded as being that thing.
- constrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of constrain.
- constraint — A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do.
- constricts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of constrict.
- constringe — to shrink or contract
- constructs — Plural form of construct.
- construing — to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret.
- consubsist — to subsist together