11-letter words containing ance
- importances — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- impuissance — Impotence, weakness.
- in abeyance — If something is in abeyance, it is not operating or being used at the present time.
- in chancery — (of a suit) pending in a court of equity
- incumbrance — encumbrance.
- inductances — Plural form of inductance.
- inhabitance — place of residence; habitation.
- inhancement — Obsolete form of enhancement.
- inheritance — something that is or may be inherited; property passing at the owner's death to the heir or those entitled to succeed; legacy.
- insouciance — the quality of being insouciant; lack of care or concern; indifference.
- intolerance — lack of tolerance; unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect opinions or beliefs contrary to one's own.
- irrelevance — the quality or condition of being irrelevant.
- lanceolated — Alternative form of lanceolate.
- lancet arch — an arch having a head that is acutely pointed.
- lancet fish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- lung cancer — malignant disease affecting the lungs
- main chance — an opportunity offering the greatest gain: Being ambitious, he always had an eye for the main chance.
- maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
- malfeasance — the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance (def 2), nonfeasance.
- menaissance — a supposed re-emergence and acceptance of masculine virtues and behaviour
- mesalliance — a marriage with someone who is considered socially inferior; misalliance.
- misalliance — an improper or incompatible association, especially in marriage; mésalliance.
- misbalanced — badly balanced
- misfeasance — a wrong, actual or alleged, arising from or consisting of affirmative action.
- misguidance — to guide wrongly; misdirect.
- monstrances — Plural form of monstrance.
- mountenance — a quantity, amount, duration, or value
- necromancer — a method of divination through alleged communication with the dead; black art.
- nonchalance — the state or quality of being nonchalant; cool indifference or lack of concern; casualness.
- nonfeasance — the omission of some act that ought to have been performed. Compare malfeasance, misfeasance (def 2).
- observances — Plural form of observance.
- off balance — If you are off balance, you are in an unsteady position and about to fall.
- open stance — a batting stance in which the front foot is farther from the inside of the batter's box than the back foot.
- outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
- outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
- outdistance — to leave behind, as in running; outstrip: The winning horse outdistanced the second-place winner by five lengths.
- overbalance — to outweigh: The opportunity overbalances the disadvantages of leaving town.
- performance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- permittance — the act of permitting or giving consent
- perpetuance — to make perpetual.
- prefinanced — financed in advance
- q clearance — (in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission) the highest level of security clearance, permitting access to secret information, documents, etc., relating to nuclear research.
- re-entrance — the act of re-entering
- reassurance — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- reclearance — the revalidation of a person's security clearance, usually done periodically for those handling top-secret material.
- reflectance — the ratio of the intensity of reflected radiation to that of the radiation incident on a surface.
- reinsurance — the process or business of reinsuring.
- remembrance — a retained mental impression; memory.
- renaissance — the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
- resemblance — the state or fact of resembling; similarity.