12-letter words containing anc
- sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
- significance — importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
- significancy — significance.
- slam dancing — the act of hurling oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock-music concert
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- square dance — hoedown, barn dance
- square-dance — to perform or participate in a square dance.
- surveillance — a watch kept over a person, group, etc., especially over a suspect, prisoner, or the like: The suspects were under police surveillance.
- take chances — to behave in a risky manner
- taxi dancing — a system, as in a dance hall or hotel, whereby a person pays for a partner (taxi dancer) for a dance, payment being required for each individual dance during an evening
- the alliance — the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party acting or regarded as a political entity from 1981 to 1988
- the ancients — the people who lived in ancient times
- the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
- the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
- transhumance — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
- turf dancing — a fluid style of street-dancing originating in the Bay Area of San Francisco, California
- unacceptance — the act of taking or receiving something offered.
- unattendance — the act of attending.
- undertenancy — the tenancy held by an undertenant; a sublease
- unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- unimportance — a lack of importance
- unobservance — a failure to comply or observe (a law, custom, etc)
- unrepentance — the state of being unrepentant, impenitent, or unremorseful
- unsanctified — not sanctified
- unsanctioned — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- unstanchable — unstoppable
- waggle dance — a series of patterned movements performed by a scouting bee, communicating to other bees of the colony the direction and distance of a food source or hive site.
- weigh anchor — to raise a vessel's anchor or (of a vessel) to have its anchor raised in preparation for departure