9-letter words containing anc
- francis i — 1494–1547, king of France 1515–47.
- francisco — a male given name, Spanish form of Francis.
- francises — a male given name: from an Old French word meaning “Frenchman.”.
- francolin — any of numerous Eurasian and African partridges of the genus Francolinus, having sharply spurred legs.
- franconia — a medieval duchy in Germany, largely in the valley of the Main River.
- freelance — Also, freelancer. a person who works as a writer, designer, performer, or the like, selling work or services by the hour, day, job, etc., rather than working on a regular salary basis for one employer.
- fu manchu — a mustache whose ends droop to the chin.
- geomancer — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
- guidances — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- gyromancy — a method of prediction or prophecy in which a person moves round and round in a circle and the place at which they fall to the ground is said to be highly significant
- habitance — (obsolete) dwelling; abode; residence.
- habitancy — the act or fact of inhabiting; inhabitancy.
- halomancy — Divination by use of salt. This is the origin for the superstition of spilled salt.
- hat dance — a Mexican folk dance in which the man places his sombrero on the ground as an offer of love and the woman dances on the hat's brim and then places the hat on her head to indicate her acceptance of him.
- heritance — inheritance.
- hesitance — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- ice dance — any of a number of dances, mostly based on ballroom dancing, performed by a couple skating on ice
- ignorance — the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
- imbalance — the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution.
- impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
- inbalance — Alternative spelling of imbalance.
- indurance — Obsolete form of endurance.
- inerrancy — lack of error; infallibility.
- inertance — the effect of inertia in an acoustic system, an impeding of the transmission of sound through the system.
- infancies — the state or period of being an infant; very early childhood, usually the period before being able to walk; babyhood.
- instanced — Simple past tense and past participle of instance.
- instances — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- insurance — the act, system, or business of providing financial protection for property, life, health, etc, against specified contingencies, such as death, loss, or damage, and involving payment of regular premiums in return for a policy guaranteeing such protection
- irritancy — tending to cause irritation; irritating.
- issuances — Plural form of issuance.
- jouisance — joy; delight
- jubilance — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.
- jubilancy — (rare) Jubilation.
- kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.
- la mancha — a plateau region in central Spain: famous as the birthplace of Don Quixote, the hero of Cervantes' novel Don Quixote de la Mancha.
- lancaster — the English royal family that reigned 1399–1461, descended from John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster), and that included Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI. Compare York (def 1).
- lancejack — a lance corporal
- lancelets — Plural form of lancelet.
- lanceolar — (botany) lanceolate.
- lancewood — the tough, elastic wood of any of various trees, especially Oxandra lanceolata, of tropical America, used for carriage shafts, cabinetwork, etc.
- lanciform — shaped like a lance: lanciform windows.
- lancinate — to stab or pierce.
- lap dance — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
- lap-dance — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
- latitancy — The act or state of lying hidden, or lurking.
- limerance — Alternative form of limerence.
- luminance — brightness