13-letter words containing ance
- re-appearance — the act or fact of appearing, as to the eye or mind or before the public: the unannounced appearance of dinner guests; the last appearance of Caruso in Aïda; her first appearance at a stockholders' meeting.
- recalcitrance — resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
- reperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
- semidominance — incomplete dominance.
- severance pay — money, exclusive of wages, back pay, etc., paid to an employee who has tenure and who is dismissed because of lack of work or other reasons beyond the employee's control.
- severance tax — a tax levied by a state on the extraction and use of a natural product, as coal, that is sold outside the state or during a certain period.
- side entrance — an entrance at the side of a building
- significances — importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
- skip distance — the minimum distance along the earth's surface between the position of a short-wave transmitter and the region where its signal is received after one reflection from the ionosphere.
- subappearance — a slight appearance
- sublanceolate — (of leaves, etc) almost spear-shaped
- substanceless — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- take a chance — act on a possibility
- tax allowance — amount of income left untaxed
- tax avoidance — Tax avoidance is the use of legal methods to pay the smallest possible amount of tax.
- thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
- trade balance — balance of trade.
- transmittance — Physics. the ratio of the radiant flux transmitted through and emerging from a body to the total flux incident on it: equivalent to one minus the absorptance.
- treble chance — a method of betting in football pools in which the chances of winning are related to the number of draws and the number of home and away wins forecast by the competitor
- trial balance — a statement of all the open debit and credit items, made preliminary to balancing a double-entry ledger.
- tropic-cancer — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
- underfinanced — Underfinanced means the same as underfunded.
- vraisemblance — verisimilitude; appearance of truth
- well-balanced — rightly balanced, adjusted, or regulated: a well-balanced diet.
- well-financed — 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.