13-letter words containing ance
- exotic dancer — a striptease dancer or belly dancer
- extravagances — Plural form of extravagance.
- for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- france modern — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
- gallo-romance — the vernacular language, a development from Latin, spoken in France from about a.d. 600 to 900. Abbreviation: Gallo-Rom.
- gap insurance — GAP insurance pays the difference between what someone owes on their car loan and the actual cash value of the vehicle in the event that it is stolen or damaged.
- good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
- halotolerance — The quality or degree of being halotolerant.
- holy alliance — a league formed by the principal sovereigns of Europe in 1815 with the professed object of promoting Christian brotherhood but the practical object of repressing democratic revolutions and institutions. The English and Turkish rulers and Pope Pius VII did not join the league.
- ile de france — a former province in N France, including Paris and the region around it.
- Île-de-france — a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century
- in advance of — prior to
- in attendance — If someone is in attendance at a place or an event, they are there.
- in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
- it governance — information technology governance
- jolly balance — a spring balance used for determining the density of a sample by comparison of its weight in air and water.
- lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
- list enhanced — (operating system, tool) An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- mean distance — the arithmetic mean of the greatest and least distances of a planet from the sun, used in stating the size of an orbit; the semimajor axis.
- mendes-france — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1907–1982, French statesman and economist: premier 1954–55.
- merry dancers — the aurora borealis
- microbalances — Plural form of microbalance.
- misgovernance — to govern or manage badly.
- misobservance — a failure to observe thoroughly or properly
- mood enhancer — something, esp a drug, that has the effect of lifting a person's mood
- morris dancer — A morris dancer is a person who takes part in morris dancing.
- non-insurance — the act, system, or business of insuring property, life, one's person, etc., against loss or harm arising in specified contingencies, as fire, accident, death, disablement, or the like, in consideration of a payment proportionate to the risk involved.
- non-tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
- nonacceptance — the act of taking or receiving something offered.
- nonappearance — failure to appear, as in a court.
- nonattendance — failure to attend: Members of the society can be dropped for chronic nonattendance.
- noncancelable — not subject to cancellation: a noncancellable insurance policy.
- noncompliance — failure or refusal to comply, as with a law, regulation, or term of a contract.
- nonobservance — absence or lack of observance.
- nonresistance — the policy or practice of not resisting violence or established authority, even when tyrannical, by force.
- nuisance call — an unsolicited telephone call such as a prank call or a call for telemarketing purposes
- on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
- on the chance — acting on the possibility; in case
- outrecuidance — (archaic) Presumption, arrogance, self-conceit.
- over-reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- overabundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overdominance — excessive dominance
- overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
- paper advance — the feeding of paper through a printer
- pet insurance — health insurance for a pet
- preponderance — the fact or quality of being preponderant; superiority in weight, power, numbers, etc.: The preponderance of votes is against the proposal.
- re-acceptance — the act of taking or receiving something offered.
- re-admittance — permission or right to enter: admittance into the exhibit room.