rencounter /ren-kownˈtər/ or (French) rencontre /rã-kɔ̃ˈtr’/

1. A chance meeting
2. An encounter
3. A casual combat
4. A collision
5. An informal meeting of scientists

1. To meet
2. To encounter

• first-aider
• first-aiders
• first and last
• first-attack
• first-begotten
• first blood
• first blush
• First Book of Discipline
• first-born
• first cab off the rank
• first catch your hare
• first cause
• first chop
• first-class
• first-class mail
• first-class post
• first cousin
• first cousin once removed
• first-day
• first-day cover
• first-day covers
• hexaëmeron
• hexed
• hexene
• hexenes