12-letter words that end in ce
- intelligence — capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
- intemperance — excessive or immoderate indulgence in alcoholic beverages.
- inter-office — functioning or communicating between the offices of a company or organization; within a company: an interoffice memo.
- interference — an act, fact, or instance of interfering.
- interfluence — the action of flowing together or merging
- interscience — a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
- interservice — (US) Involving relationships between branches of the armed services.
- intumescence — a swelling up, as with congestion.
- irrepentance — Lack of repentance; impenitence.
- irresistance — (archaic) passive submission; lack of resistance.
- jasmine rice — an aromatic, flavorful long-grain rice of Asia, especially Thailand.
- jungle juice — moonshine: home-made alcohol
- junk science — faulty scientific information or research, especially when used to advance special interests.
- juvenescence — being or becoming youthful; young.
- king's peace — (in early medieval England) the protection secured by the king for particular people or places
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- landed price — the price when delivered
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- leaf lettuce — a type of lettuce having loosely clustered, often curled leaves that are sometimes tinged with red.
- life science — any science that deals with living organisms, their life processes, and their interrelationships, as biology, medicine, or ecology.
- linear space — vector space.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- look askance — glance sidelong or with suspicion
- luminescence — the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
- magnificence — the quality or state of being magnificent; splendor; grandeur; sublimity: the magnificence of snow-covered mountains; the magnificence of his achievements.
- maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
- maintainence — Misspelling of maintenance.
- major tenace — the ace and queen of a suit held by one player.
- malefeasance — Obsolete form of malfeasance.
- manu-service — denoting a business that involves both the manufacture of goods and the provision of after-sales services
- market price — the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.
- mass balance — Mass balance is a consideration of the input, output, and distribution of a substance between streams in a process or stage.
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- mechlin lace — a fine bobbin lace with raised cord, originally made in Mechlin.
- memory trace — engram.
- metric space — a space with a metric defined on it.
- microbalance — a balance for weighing minute quantities of material.
- microfinance — (finance) Finance that is provided to unemployed or low-income people or groups.
- mid-sentence — in the middle of a sentence or utterance
- middle voice — the voice or form used when the subject of a verb performs an action on itself (often the reflexive form)
- middlescence — the middle-age period of life, especially when considered a difficult time of self-doubt and readjustment.
- minor tenace — the king and jack of a suit held by one player.
- misinference — Incorrect inference.
- mispronounce — Pronounce (a word) incorrectly.
- misreference — to reference (an academic work, a publication, etc) inaccurately or incorrectly
- 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.
- mornay sauce — a rich white sauce to which grated cheese, usually Swiss or Parmesan, and seasonings have been added
- 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.
- multiscience — a broad knowledge
- multiservice — involving two or more of the armed services