Words ending with ence
5 letter words ending with ence
- -ence — -ence and -ency are added to adjectives, usually in place of -ent, to form nouns referring to states, qualities, attitudes, or behaviour. For example, 'affluence' is the state of being affluent.
- fence — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- hence — as an inference from this fact; for this reason; therefore: The eggs were very fresh and hence satisfactory.
- pence — a plural of penny; used in referring to a sum of money rather than to the coins themselves (often used in combination): sixpence; The fare was 15 pence.
- barbed wire fence — a fence constructed from strong wire that has sharply pointed barbs at close intervals along its length
6 letter words ending with ence
7 letter words ending with ence
- abience — (psychology) Withdrawal from, or avoidance of a stimulus.
- absence — Someone's absence from a place is the fact that they are not there.
- cadence — The cadence of someone's voice is the way their voice gets higher and lower as they speak.
- decence — (obsolete) decency.
- defence — Defence is action that is taken to protect someone or something against attack.
8 letter words ending with ence
- -escence — the process of becoming or beginning
- ambience — The ambience of a place is the character and atmosphere that it seems to have.
- audience — The audience at a play, concert, film, or public meeting is the group of people watching or listening to it.
- clarence — a closed four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, having a glass front
- clemence — (obsolete) clemency.
9 letter words ending with ence
- accedence — to give consent, approval, or adherence; agree; assent; to accede to a request; to accede to the terms of a contract.
- accidence — inflectional morphology; the part of grammar concerned with changes in the form of words by internal modification or by affixation, for the expression of tense, person, case, number, etc
- acescence — The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness.
- adherence — Adherence is the fact of adhering to a particular rule, agreement, or belief.
- adjacence — the state of being adjacent
10 letter words ending with ence
- abhorrence — Someone's abhorrence of something is their strong hatred of it.
- absistence — (obsolete) A standing aloof.
- abstinence — Abstinence is the practice of abstaining from something such as alcoholic drink or sex, often for health or religious reasons.
- advertence — heedfulness or attentiveness
- albescence — becoming white; whitish.
11 letter words ending with ence
- abscondence — secret concealment or seclusion, or the action of absconding
- accrescence — continual increase
- acquiesence — A state or instance of acquiescing or passively accepting something, without necessarily consenting to it.
- adolescence — Adolescence is the period of your life in which you develop from being a child into being an adult.
- ambivalence — the simultaneous existence of two opposed and conflicting attitudes, emotions, etc
12 letter words ending with ence
- acquiescence — Acquiescence is agreement to do what someone wants, or acceptance of what they do even though you do not agree with it.
- alkalescence — the process of developing alkaline qualities
- altiloquence — Pompous language; lofty speech.
- anti-science — 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.
- antiviolence — opposed to or acting against violence in society
13 letter words ending with ence
- -in-residence — appointed to work at, and usually residing at, a given institution, as a college, for a certain period
- adularescence — (of certain gemstones, especially adularia) having a milky, bluish luster.
- birefringence — the splitting of a light ray, generally by a crystal, into two components that travel at different velocities and are polarized at right angles to each other
- centrifugence — the property of being centrifugal
- circumference — The circumference of a circle, place, or round object is the distance around its edge.
14 letter words ending with ence
- bioequivalence — the equality of strength, bioavailability, and dosage of various drug products
- chronosequence — (geology) A sequence of different soils formed at different times.
- clairsentience — The ability for a person to acquire psychic knowledge by means of feeling.
- colliquescence — the potential for turning to liquid
- condescendence — a statement of facts presented by the plaintiff in a cause
15 letter words ending with ence
- aix-en-provence — a city and spa in SE France: the medieval capital of Provence. Pop: 145 721 (2006)
- anticoincidence — of or relating to an electronic circuit that produces an output pulse if one but not both of its input terminals receives a pulse within a specified interval of time
- bioluminescence — the production of light by living organisms as a result of the oxidation of a light-producing substance (luciferin) by the enzyme luciferase: occurs in many marine organisms, insects such as the firefly, etc
- counterevidence — evidence that refutes other evidence
- counterviolence — the retaliatory use of violence
16 letter words ending with ence
- autofluorescence — (biology, microscopy) Self-induced fluorescence.
- counter-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- 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.
- postindependence — Also, independency. the state or quality of being independent.
17 letter words ending with ence
- anti-interference — intended to reduce electronic interference during radio transmissions
- call-by-reference — (programming) An argument passing convention where the address of an argument variable is passed to a function or procedure, as opposed to passing the value of the argument expression. Execution of the function or procedure may have side-effects on the actual argument as seen by the caller. The C language's "&" (address of) and "*" (dereference) operators allow the programmer to code explicit call-by-reference. Other languages provide special syntax to declare reference arguments (e.g. ALGOL 60). See also call-by-name, call-by-value, call-by-value-result.
- chemiluminescence — the phenomenon in which a chemical reaction leads to the emission of light without incandescence
- chemoluminescence — (chemistry) The emission of light as the result of a chemical reaction.
- counter-influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
18 letter words ending with ence
- immunofluorescence — any of various techniques for detecting an antigen or antibody in a sample by coupling its specifically interactive antibody or antigen to a fluorescent compound, mixing with the sample, and observing the reaction under an ultraviolet-light microscope.
- inter-independence — Also, independency. the state or quality of being independent.
- non-correspondence — communication by exchange of letters.
- self-transcendence — the quality or state of being transcendent.
- thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
19 letter words ending with ence
- cathodoluminescence — luminescence caused by irradiation with electrons (cathode rays)
- complement-sentence — a subordinate clause that functions as the subject, direct object, or prepositional object of a verb, as that you like it in I'm surprised that you like it.
- convergent-sequence — an infinite sequence, x 1 , x 2 , …, whose terms are points in Ek, in which there exists a point y such that the limit as n goes to infinity of xn = y if and only if for every ε>0, there exists a number N such that i > N and j > N implies | xi − xj |< ε. Also called Cauchy sequence, convergent sequence. Compare complete (def 10b).
- counterintelligence — Counterintelligence consists of actions that a country takes in order to find out whether another country is spying on it and to prevent it from doing so.
- countertransference — in psychotherapy, transference in which the psychoanalyst or other psychotherapist substitutes the client for the original object of his or her own repressed impulses
20 letter words ending with ence
- counter-intelligence — Counter-intelligence consists of actions that a country takes in order to find out whether another country is spying on it and to prevent it from doing so.
- material-equivalence — the state or fact of being equivalent; equality in value, force, significance, etc.
21 letter words ending with ence
- thermophosphorescence — thermoluminescence.
23 letter words ending with ence
- alpes-de-haute-provence — a department of SE France in Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region. Capital: Digne. Pop: 144 508 (2003 est). Area: 6988 sq km (2725 sq miles)
- artificial-intelligence — the capacity of a computer to perform operations analogous to learning and decision making in humans, as by an expert system, a program for CAD or CAM, or a program for the perception and recognition of shapes in computer vision systems. Abbreviation: AI, A.I.
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