9-letter words containing ance
- dancettee — having a pattern of chevrons
- dancewear — clothing, as leotards and tutus, designed for dancing or dance practice.
- de lancey — James, 1703–60, American jurist and politician in New York.
- déchéance — the act of forfeiting something
- defiances — Plural form of defiance.
- demilance — A light lance; a short spear.
- deviances — deviant quality or state.
- distanced — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distances — Plural form of distance.
- dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- elastance — (physics) An electrical property that is the inverse of capacitance.
- elegances — Plural form of elegance.
- emittance — The quantity emitted (per unit area).
- endurance — The fact or power of enduring an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way.
- enhancers — Plural form of enhancer.
- ensurance — (obsolete) insurance.
- enterance — Misspelling of entrance.
- entranced — Held at attention, as if by magic.
- entrances — Plural form of entrance.
- esperance — (obsolete) Expectation, hope.
- existance — Misspelling of existence.
- exultance — Exultation.
- faineance — Also, faineant [fey-nee-uh nt] /ˈfeɪ ni ənt/ (Show IPA). idle; indolent.
- fan dance — a solo dance performed by a nude or nearly nude woman using fans for covering.
- fauxmance — a fake romance between two celebrities in order to gain press coverage
- favorance — a liking or preference: My family always had a favorance for farming.
- flagrance — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- fragrance — the quality of being fragrant; a sweet or pleasing scent.
- francesca — Piero della [pee-air-oh del-uh;; Italian pye-raw del-lah] /piˈɛər oʊ ˈdɛl ə;; Italian ˈpyɛ rɔ ˈdɛl lɑ/ (Show IPA), (Piero dei Franceschi) c1420–92, Italian painter.
- 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.
- 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.
- habitance — (obsolete) dwelling; abode; residence.
- 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.
- 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.
- inertance — the effect of inertia in an acoustic system, an impeding of the transmission of sound through the system.
- 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
- issuances — Plural form of issuance.
- jouisance — joy; delight