16-letter words that end in ce
- domestic service — the work of household servants
- drumhead service — a religious service attended by members of a military unit while in the field
- electric furnace — any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current
- explosive device — a device, such as a bomb, that explodes or bursts loudly and with great force
- fair-trade price — the price set for a commodity by the Fairtrade Foundation
- family allowance — a regular government payment to the parents of children up to a certain age
- fictitious force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
- field dependence — a psychological trait associated with having an external locus of orientation (contrasted with field independence).
- fielder's choice — a fielder's attempt to put out a base runner rather than the batter when a play at first base would put out the batter.
- find one's voice — If someone finds their voice, they start to speak in spite of fear or surprise or difficult circumstances.
- flowering quince — any shrub belonging to the genus Chaenomeles, of the rose family, native to eastern Asia, having showy, waxy flowers and a quincelike fruit, grown widely as an ornamental.
- flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
- food intolerance — an intolerance of a specific type of food, causing an adverse reaction
- foreign commerce — an interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale between different countries (foreign commerce) or between different parts of the same country (domestic commerce) trade; business.
- forensic science — the collection of several fields of science to the purposes of law
- forinsec service — foreign service
- general practice — family practice.
- geometrical pace — a pace of 5 feet (1.5 meters), representing the distance between the places at which the same foot rests on the ground in walking.
- grapefruit juice — nectar of the grapefruit
- great-grandniece — a granddaughter of one's nephew or niece.
- gross negligence — extreme carelessness that shows wilful or reckless disregard for the consequences to the safety or property of another
- ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
- growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
- hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
- hamming distance — (data) The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
- haptic interface — (interface, hardware) A touch interface to a computer that provides feedback, such as a data glove.
- head post office — the main post office in a town
- health insurance — insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.
- hearsay evidence — testimony based on what a witness has heard from another person rather than on direct personal knowledge or experience.
- high renaissance — a style of art developed in Italy in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on draftsmanship, schematized, often centralized compositions, and the illusion of sculptural volume in painting. Compare Early Renaissance, Venetian (def 2).
- high-maintenance — needing frequent maintenance or repair: My bike is high-maintenance; this is its third front wheel this month.
- high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
- hold one's peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
- horizon distance — Television. the distance of the farthest point on the earth's surface visible from a transmitting antenna.
- hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
- huygens eyepiece — an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses, the plane sides of which both face the eye.
- immunocompetence — having the potential for immunologic response; capable of developing immunity after exposure to antigen.
- incorrespondence — Lack of correspondence; failure to correspond or match up; disagreement; disproportion.
- indexing service — a service that indexes the contents of a number of publications for use in printed or machine-readable form.
- indian liquorice — a woody leguminous climbing plant, Abrus precatorius, native to tropical Asia and naturalized elsewhere, having scarlet black-spotted poisonous seeds, used as beads, and roots used as a substitute for liquorice
- janet ip service — (networking) (JIPS) Joint Academic NETwork Internet Protocol. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- keep one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- kellner eyepiece — a Ramsden eyepiece having an achromatic lens, used in binoculars.
- keyman insurance — life insurance taken out by a business firm on an essential or very important employee, with the firm as beneficiary.
- know one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- leave of absence — permission to be absent from duty, employment, service, etc.; leave.
- letter of advice — a notification from a consignor to a consignee giving specific information as to a shipment, the name of the carrier, the date shipped, etc.
- listening device — a device used to overhear, record, or monitor speech
- lose one's voice — If you lose your voice, you cannot speak for a while because of an illness.
- marine insurance — ocean marine insurance.