10-letter words containing ance
- cognisance — awareness, realization, or knowledge; notice; perception: The guests took cognizance of the snide remark.
- cognizance — Cognizance is knowledge or understanding.
- comeupance — Alternative form of comeuppance.
- compliance — a disposition to yield to or comply with others
- condonance — the act of condoning; the overlooking or implied forgiving of an offense.
- connivance — Connivance is a willingness to allow or assist something to happen even though you know it is wrong.
- consonance — agreement, harmony, or accord
- convenance — suitable behaviour; propriety
- conveyance — A conveyance is a vehicle.
- covariance — a measure of the association between two random variables, equal to the expected value of the product of the deviations from the mean of the two variables, and estimated by the sum of products of deviations from the sample mean for associated values of the two variables, divided by the number of sample points. Written as Cov (X, Y)
- dalliances — A casual romantic or sexual relationship.
- dance band — a band of musicians playing music for dancing
- dance card — a schedule of appointments
- dance form — the binary form used in most of the movements of the 18th-century suite.
- dance hall — Dance halls were large rooms or buildings where people used to pay to go and dance, usually in the evening.
- dancefloor — Alternative form of dance floor.
- dancercise — an exercise system that uses dancing to improve fitness
- defeasance — the act or process of rendering null and void; annulment
- demilancer — A soldier who carries a demilance.
- dependance — the state of relying on or needing someone or something for aid, support, or the like.
- desistance — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- disadvance — to stop or cause to stop advancing
- dissonance — inharmonious or harsh sound; discord; cacophony.
- do penance — make amends for sth
- emittances — Plural form of emittance.
- endurances — Plural form of endurance.
- exceedance — An instance where an action, activity or substance exceeds a limit set by medical or legal practice.
- expectance — Anticipation, hope.
- exuberance — The quality of being full of energy, excitement, and cheerfulness; ebullience.
- fat chance — having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person.
- folk dance — a dance that originated among, and has been transmitted through, the common people. Compare court dance.
- fragrances — Plural form of fragrance.
- free lance — self employed
- freelanced — Simple past tense and past participle of freelance.
- freelancer — freelance (def 1).
- freelances — Plural form of freelance.
- glance off — If an object glances off something, it hits it at an angle and bounces away in another direction.
- glanceable — noting or relating to information on an electronic screen that can be understood quickly or at a glance: glanceable data; a glanceable scoreboard.
- governance — information technology governance
- grievances — Plural form of grievance.
- guardiance — (obsolete) guardianship.
- hinderance — Archaic spelling of hindrance.
- hindrances — Plural form of hindrance.
- ignorances — the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
- imbalanced — If you describe a situation as imbalanced, you mean that the elements within it are not evenly or fairly arranged.
- immittance — impedance or admittance, used when the distinction between the two is not relevant.
- imparlance — an extension of time granted to one party in a lawsuit to plead or to settle the dispute amicably.
- impartance — Impartation.
- impedances — Plural form of impedance.
- importance — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.