12-letter words that end in nt
- in the event — You say in the event after you have been discussing what could have happened in a particular situation, in order to indicate that you are now describing what actually did happen.
- in-compliant — not compliant; unyielding.
- in-congruent — not congruent.
- in-continent — unable to restrain natural discharges or evacuations of urine or feces.
- inaniloquent — Tending to speak inanely; loquacious; garrulous.
- incalcitrant — Recalcitrant.
- incandescent — (of light) produced by incandescence.
- incapacitant — something, as a chemical spray, that incapacitates an individual: to use incapacitants for riot control.
- inconsequent — characterized by lack of proper sequence in thought, speech, or action.
- inconsistent — lacking in harmony between the different parts or elements; self-contradictory: an inconsistent story.
- inconvenient — not easily accessible or at hand: The phone is in an inconvenient place.
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- increasement — (rare) An increase; growth.
- indian agent — an official representing the U.S. government in dealing with an Indian tribe or tribes.
- inequipotent — not equally powerful or potent
- inequivalent — Not equivalent.
- inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
- infotainment — edutainment.
- infringement — a breach or infraction, as of a law, right, or obligation; violation; transgression.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- inspiritment — to infuse spirit or life into; enliven.
- insufficient — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
- intercipient — (of a medicine) having the effect of stopping the flow of humours, such as the aqueous humour
- intercurrent — intervening, as of time or events.
- interelement — a component or constituent of a whole or one of the parts into which a whole may be resolved by analysis: Bricks and mortar are elements of every masonry wall.
- intermittent — stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again: an intermittent pain.
- interpellant — a person who interpellates; interpellator.
- intersectant — intersecting: an intersectant road.
- intersegment — Between segments.
- intervenient — intervening, as in place, time, order, or action.
- inthrallment — Obsolete spelling of enthrallment.
- intransigent — refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
- intrenchment — Archaic spelling of entrenchment.
- intromittent — to send, put, or let in; introduce; admit.
- inveiglement — to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into): to inveigle a person into playing bridge.
- irritainment — Entertainment that annoys, embarrasses, or upsets more than or as much as it entertains, whether unintentionally or by design.
- jersey giant — one of a breed of large domestic chickens raised primarily for their meat, originally black but now with a white variety, developed in New Jersey by interbreeding Langshans and large Asiatic fowl.
- joint tenant — one of two or more persons who hold property in joint tenancy.
- joseph brant — Joseph (Thayendanegea) 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- lapped joint — a joint made by placing one member over another and fastening them together
- law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
- light client — thin client
- line segment — segment (def 2b).
- liquefacient — something that liquefies or promotes liquefaction.
- little stint — a small, dark-legged wader which breeds in Europe and Asia and migrates to Africa in winter
- loan account — finance: bank
- locker plant — an establishment for storing food under refrigeration, containing lockers for renting to individual users.