11-letter words that end in nce
- contrivance — If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
- convenience — If something is done for your convenience, it is done in a way that is useful or suitable for you.
- convergence — The convergence of different ideas, groups, or societies is the process by which they stop being different and become more similar.
- conversance — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- cooch dance — a sinuous, quasi-Oriental dance performed by a woman and characterized chiefly by suggestive gyrating and shaking of the body.
- coordinance — a joint ordinance
- coreference — a relationship between two words or phrases in which both refer to the same person or thing and one stands as a linguistic antecedent of the other, as the two pronouns in She taught herself but not in She taught her.
- coresidence — (anthropology) Living together, sharing a residence, as of an adult child with a parent.
- countenance — If someone will not countenance something, they do not agree with it and will not allow it to happen.
- court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
- decoherence — the process in which a system's behaviour changes from that which can be explained by quantum mechanics to that which can be explained by classical mechanics
- deliverance — Deliverance is rescue from imprisonment, danger, or evil.
- dereference — Obtain from (a pointer) the address of a data item held in another location.
- descendence — The act of descending.
- despondence — state of being despondent; depression of spirits from loss of courage or hope; dejection.
- discordance — a discordant state; disagreement; discord.
- discrepance — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
- disentrance — to bring out of an entranced condition; disenchant.
- dissilience — the act of bursting apart or out
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- dog licence — a special license which permits the holder to be the keeper of a dog
- emparlaunce — an act of parleying or conferring
- encumbrance — A burden or impediment.
- enheritance — Obsolete form of inheritance.
- equibalance — an equal weight or balance
- equivalence — The condition of being equal or equivalent in value, worth, function, etc.
- erubescence — the process of growing red or a condition of redness
- evanescence — The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance.
- everywhence — from all directions
- excrescence — A distinct outgrowth on a human or animal body or on a plant, especially one that is the result of disease or abnormality.
- exorbitance — The state or characteristic of being exorbitant.
- fancy dance — Also called pan-Indian dancing. a fast Native American powwow dance that features jumping and twirling, with participants wearing bright colors and flying feathers and ribbons.
- flamboyance — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flocculence — The condition of being flocculent; wooliness, flakiness.
- florescence — the act, state, or period of flowering; bloom.
- fluid ounce — a measure of capacity equal to 1/16 (0.0625) pint (29.6 milliliters) in the U.S., and equal to 1/20 (0.05) of an imperial pint (28.4 milliliters) in Great Britain. Symbol: f. Abbreviation: fl. oz;
- forbearance — the act of forbearing; a refraining from something.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- forinstance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- fremescence — a dull or incipient rumbling or roaring sound
- furtherance — the act of furthering; promotion; advancement.
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- go-go dance — a dance performed by a go-go dancer
- gun licence — an official document granting a person permission to own and use a gun, usually subject to various restrictions
- idempotence — (mathematics, computing) A quality of an action such that repetitions of the action have no further effect on outcome \u2013 being idempotent.
- illuminance — illumination (def 6).
- impenitence — not feeling regret about one's sin or sins; obdurate.
- impuissance — Impotence, weakness.
- in abeyance — If something is in abeyance, it is not operating or being used at the present time.