10-letter words containing ance
- in advance — to move or bring forward: The general advanced his troops to the new position.
- inbalances — Plural form of inbalance.
- incessance — The quality of being incessant.
- indignance — Indignation.
- inductance — that property of a circuit by which a change in current induces, by electromagnetic induction, an electromotive force. Symbol: L. Compare inductive coupling, mutual inductance, self-inductance.
- inelegance — the quality or state of being inelegant; lack of elegance.
- insistance — Misspelling of insistence.
- insurancer — a person who in some way protects something important to another person when that thing is endangered
- insurances — Plural form of insurance.
- intendance — an administrative department, especially one in the government system introduced by the French statesman Richelieu during the 17th century, or the officials in charge of it.
- invariance — The property of being invariant.
- irradiance — incident flux of radiant energy per unit area.
- jazz-dance — to perform jazz dance.
- jouissance — Physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy.
- lance rest — a support for a couched lance, fixed to the breastplate of a suit of armor.
- lanceolate — shaped like the head of a lance.
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- lap dancer — a scantily dressed woman who dances erotically for individual members of the audience
- line dance — a kind of partnerless dance in which the dancers stand side by side in a line or lines and perform, in unison, a series of set, often complex, steps to various kinds of popular music
- line-dance — to participate in a line dance.
- luxuriance — luxuriant growth or productiveness; rich abundance; lushness.
- malignance — the quality or condition of being malignant.
- misbalance — To balance badly or wrongly.
- mischances — Plural form of mischance.
- miscreance — a misbelief or false religious faith.
- monstrance — a receptacle in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration.
- new france — the French colonies and possessions in North America up to 1763.
- nurturance — warm and affectionate physical and emotional support and care.
- obeisances — Plural form of obeisance.
- observance — an act or instance of following, obeying, or conforming to: the observance of traffic laws.
- obstinance — The characteristic of being obstinate.
- off chance — See at chance (def 17).
- off-chance — See at chance (def 17).
- on balance — a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.
- ordinances — Plural form of ordinance.
- ordonnance — the arrangement or disposition of parts, as of a building, picture, or literary work.
- outbalance — to outweigh.
- overglance — to glance over
- penetrance — the frequency, expressed as a percentage, with which a particular gene produces its effect in a group of organisms. Compare expressivity (def 2).
- perdurance — permanence; the quality of lasting or enduring forever
- ph balance — a method of expressing the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a solution
- ponderance — weight or significance
- postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- prefinance — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- prevenance — assiduity in anticipating or catering to the pleasures of others.
- procurance — the act of bringing about or getting something; agency; procurement.
- provenance — place or source of origin: The provenance of the ancient manuscript has never been determined.
- pulsatance — the angular frequency of a periodic motion
- purtenance — the liver, heart, and lungs of an animal.
- purveyance — the act of purveying.