12-letter words that end in ance
- microfinance — (finance) Finance that is provided to unemployed or low-income people or groups.
- modern dance — a form of contemporary theatrical and concert dance employing a special technique for developing the use of the entire body in movements expressive of abstract ideas.
- morris dance — a rural folk dance of north English origin, performed in costume traditionally by men who originally represented characters of the Robin Hood legend, especially in May Day festivities.
- non-alliance — the act of allying or state of being allied.
- non-reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- noninsurance — the condition or state of not having insurance
- not a chance — no possibility
- of substance — wealthy
- omnidistance — the distance between an omnirange station and a receiver.
- overbearance — (rare, or, obsolete) Overbearing behaviour; arrogance; imperiousness.
- overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
- overreliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- oxygen lance — a tube for conveying oxygen, used in various thermal cutting or steelmaking operations.
- participance — participation.
- perseverance — steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
- pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
- preassurance — a guarantee or assurance offered beforehand
- precipitance — the quality or state of being precipitant.
- preclearance — the act of clearing.
- predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
- preordinance — an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
- protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
- readmittance — the act or process of admitting someone or something again
- reappearance — 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.
- recognizance — Law. a bond or obligation of record entered into before a court of record or a magistrate, binding a person to do a particular act. the sum pledged as surety on such a bond.
- reconveyance — to convey again.
- remonstrance — an act or instance of remonstrating.
- self-finance — 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.
- shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
- significance — importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
- square dance — hoedown, barn dance
- square-dance — to perform or participate in a square dance.
- surveillance — a watch kept over a person, group, etc., especially over a suspect, prisoner, or the like: The suspects were under police surveillance.
- the alliance — the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party acting or regarded as a political entity from 1981 to 1988
- the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
- the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
- transhumance — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
- unacceptance — the act of taking or receiving something offered.
- unattendance — the act of attending.
- unimportance — a lack of importance
- unobservance — a failure to comply or observe (a law, custom, etc)
- unrepentance — the state of being unrepentant, impenitent, or unremorseful
- waggle dance — a series of patterned movements performed by a scouting bee, communicating to other bees of the colony the direction and distance of a food source or hive site.