12-letter words containing anc
- chances are… — it is likely (that)…
- chenin blanc — a white grape grown in the Loire region of France and in South Africa, California, New Zealand, and elsewhere, used for making wine
- chilpancingo — a town in S Mexico, capital of Guerrero state, in the Sierra Madre del Sur. Pop: 166 000 (2005 est)
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- clairvoyance — the alleged power of perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses
- clairvoyancy — the faculty of clairvoyance
- colon cancer — a type of cancer that affects the colon
- comeuppances — Plural form of comeuppance.
- complaisance — deference to the wishes of others; willing compliance
- compliancies — compliance (defs 1, 2, 4).
- concomitance — existence or occurrence together or in connection with another
- concomitancy — concomitance.
- concordances — Plural form of concordance.
- concubitancy — a custom requiring marriage between two people, esp a custom requiring a woman to marry her husband's brother on her husband's death
- conductances — Plural form of conductance.
- considerance — consideration
- continuances — Plural form of continuance.
- contradances — Plural form of contradance.
- contrivances — Plural form of contrivance.
- conveyancing — Conveyancing is the process of transferring the legal ownership of property.
- coscinomancy — a form of divination involving the interpretation of the movement of a sieve suspended by shears
- countenanced — appearance, especially the look or expression of the face: a sad countenance.
- countenancer — One who countenances, favours, or supports.
- countenances — Plural form of countenance.
- dance on air — to move one's feet or body, or both, rhythmically in a pattern of steps, especially to the accompaniment of music.
- dance studio — A dance studio is a place where people pay to learn how to dance.
- dancing frog — (programming, humour) A bug or glitch that only occurs for a particular user; never when the user tries to show it to anyone else. The term is derived from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which a man discovers a frog which can sing and dance; he believes this will make his fortune but the frog never performs in front of anyone else.
- dancing girl — a professional female dancer who dances to entertain customers at a club, theatre, etc
- dancing step — balanced step.
- deliverances — Plural form of deliverance.
- dependancies — Plural form of dependancy.
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- dibranchiate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dibranchiata, a group or former order of cephalopod molluscs, including the octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish, having two gills
- dinner dance — a formal social gathering that includes a dinner followed by dancing.
- dinner-dance — a formal social gathering that includes a dinner followed by dancing.
- disagreeance — (obsolete) disagreement.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- discrepances — Plural form of discrepance.
- disentranced — to bring out of an entranced condition; disenchant.
- disfranchise — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
- disordinance — (obsolete) disarrangement; disturbance.
- displeasance — the state or cause of being displeased
- dissemblance — dissembling; dissimulation.
- disseverance — The act of dissevering; separation.
- distanceless — without distance
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- dog's chance — little likelihood; small chance (usually used in the negative): That project didn't have a dog's chance of succeeding.
- drift anchor — a sea anchor or drag.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- emancipating — Present participle of emancipate.