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12-letter words that end in nce

  • perseverance — steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
  • picket fence — a fence consisting of pickets or pales nailed to horizontal stringers between upright posts.
  • plenipotence — the possession of total authority
  • pre-eminence — the state or character of being preeminent.
  • 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.
  • preemergence — occurring or applied before the emergence of a plant from the soil: preemergence herbicide.
  • preordinance — an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
  • protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
  • quintessence — the pure and concentrated essence of a substance.
  • re-emergence — the act or process of emerging.
  • 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.
  • recalescence — a brightening exhibited by cooling iron as latent heat of transformation is liberated.
  • 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.
  • reexperience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
  • reminiscence — the act or process of recalling past experiences, events, etc.
  • remonstrance — an act or instance of remonstrating.
  • reoccurrence — the action, fact, or instance of occurring.
  • resipiscence — acknowledgment that one has been mistaken
  • resplendence — a resplendent quality or state; splendor.
  • reviviscence — the act or state of being revived; revival; reanimation.
  • self-defence — the act of defending one's person when physically attacked, as by countering blows or overcoming an assailant: the art of self-defense.
  • 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.
  • sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
  • soft science — any of the specialized fields or disciplines, as psychology, sociology, anthropology, or political science, that interpret human behavior, institutions, society, etc., on the basis of scientific investigations for which it may be difficult to establish strictly measurable criteria.
  • soil science — the science that deals with the study of soils.
  • square dance — hoedown, barn dance
  • square-dance — to perform or participate in a square dance.
  • st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
  • subreference — a secondary reference
  • subservience — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
  • surveillance — a watch kept over a person, group, etc., especially over a suspect, prisoner, or the like: The suspects were under police surveillance.
  • take offence — be upset or shocked
  • telepresence — the use of virtual reality technology to operate machinery by remote control or to create the effect of being at a different or imaginary location
  • tetravalence — the condition of having a valency of four
  • 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
  • transference — the act or process of transferring.
  • transhumance — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
  • transilience — leaping or passing from one thing or state to another.
  • translucence — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
  • transparence — Also, transparence. the quality or state of being transparent.
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