12-letter words that end in nt
- bridle joint — a heading joint in which the end of one member, notched to form two parallel tenons, is fitted into two gains cut into the edges of a second member.
- bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
- bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
- cardan joint — type of universal joint
- cash account — an account with a brokerage which stipulates that the client pays in full for any transactions, rather than being extended credit
- cash payment — an immediate payment in cash
- change front — to redeploy (a force in the field) so that its main weight of weapons points in another direction
- change point — a point to which a foresight and backsight are taken in levelling; turning point
- chastisement — Chastisement is the same as punishment.
- chastizement — Alternative form of chastisement.
- chisel point — a nail or spike with the point formed by two flat inclined sides meeting at a sharp angle.
- circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
- circumjacent — surrounding; lying around
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- clovis point — flint projectile dating from the 10th millennium bc
- co-dependent — A co-dependent person is in an unsatisfactory relationship with someone who is ill or an addict, but does not want the relationship to end.
- co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
- co-recipient — one of two or more recipients, as of an award.
- code segment — (memory) (Intel 8086 CS) The area of memory containing the machine code instructions of a program. The code segment of a program may be shared between multiple processes running that code so long as none of them tries to modify it. Initialised data is located in the data segment.
- collar point — a point midway between the heart point and top of an escutcheon.
- commencement — The commencement of something is its beginning.
- completement — (obsolete) Act of completing or perfecting; completion.
- concelebrant — each of the priests celebrating the Eucharist or Mass jointly
- concupiscent — lustful or sensual.
- confoundment — The state of being confounded.
- confrontment — Confrontation.
- conglutinant — (of the edges of a wound or fracture) promoting union; adhesive
- congratulant — expressing congratulation
- conjointment — (rare) conjunction (state of being conjoined).
- constringent — constricting.
- contabescent — unable to produce pollen
- conterminant — enclosed within a common boundary
- contranatant — (of migrating fish) swimming upstream, against the current
- contrivement — contrivance
- convalescent — Convalescent means relating to convalescence.
- convincement — The act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction.
- corespondent — a person charged with having committed adultery with the wife or husband from whom a divorce is being sought
- cost-account — to subject to cost accounting.
- cosurfactant — a surfactant that acts in addition to another surfactant, further reducing the surface tension of a liquid
- counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
- counterpoint — Something that is a counterpoint to something else contrasts with it in a satisfying way.
- county agent — a government employee who gives advice on agriculture in a rural area
- cross potent — a cross with equal arms, each of which ends in a bar
- crosscurrent — a current in a river or sea flowing across another current
- cunctipotent — (obsolete) almighty; all-powerful.
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- dark current — the residual current produced by a photoelectric device when not illuminated
- data segment — (memory) The range of memory locations where the initialised data of a program produced by a Unix linker is located. Executable code is located in the code segment and uninitialised data in the bss segment.
- dead account — an account that is no longer being used and on which no transactions have taken place for a considerable length of time
- decipherment — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.