10-letter words that end in nce
- resentence — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
- resilience — the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity.
- resistance — the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding.
- resurgence — rising or tending to rise again; reviving; renascent.
- retardance — any substance capable of reducing the speed of a given reaction.
- ring dance — round dance.
- ring-fence — assign to sth
- rock fence — a wall built of unmortared stones, as one bordering a field.
- sand lance — any slender marine fish of the family Ammodytidae that burrows into the sand.
- selectance — a measure of the drop in response of a radio receiving set or the like to a given frequency differing from the resonant frequency of the device, expressed as the ratio of the amplitude of the response at the resonant frequency to the amplitude of the response at the given frequency.
- senescence — growing old; aging.
- sevenpence — a monetary sum equal to seven pennies
- slam dance — a dance performed to punk rock by groups of people who flail and toss themselves about and slam into one another.
- snaphaunce — an early flintlock mechanism for igniting a charge of gunpowder in a gun.
- snow fence — a barrier erected on the windward side of a road, house, barn, etc., serving as a protection from drifting snow.
- somewhence — from somewhere
- somnolence — sleepy; drowsy.
- step dance — a dance in which the steps are the most important characteristic, specifically a solo dance with intricate, vigorous steps, often performed with the hands kept in the pockets.
- subscience — a science or field of study within another field of science or study
- subsidence — to sink to a low or lower level.
- succorance — the act of seeking out affectionate care and social support.
- succulence — full of juice; juicy.
- sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
- suffisance — a sufficiency, a sufficient or abundant quantity or supply
- sunderance — to separate; part; divide; sever.
- sunk fence — a wall or other barrier set in a ditch to divide lands without marring the landscape.
- suppliance — appeal; entreaty; plea; supplication: He knelt in an attitude of suppliance.
- surveyance — survey; inspection; superintendence
- survivance — survival
- sustenance — means of sustaining life; nourishment.
- temperance — moderation or self-restraint in action, statement, etc.; self-control.
- the bounce — the start of play at the beginning of each quarter or after a goal
- the prince — a treatise on statecraft (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli.
- the-prince — a treatise on statecraft (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli.
- threepence — (used with a singular or plural verb) British. a sum of three pennies.
- thrippence — threepence.
- thruppence — threepence.
- transience — transient state or quality.
- truculence — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
- tumescence — swelling; slightly tumid.
- turbulence — the quality or state of being turbulent; violent disorder or commotion.
- unisonance — the state or quality of agreeing or being identical in sound
- univalence — the quality of being univalent.
- upbuoyance — an uplifting or buoying up
- upsurgence — an upsurge, increase, or rise
- vicariance — the geographical separation and isolation of a subpopulation, resulting in the original population's differentiation as a new variety or species.
- virescence — state of becoming somewhat, though usually not totally, green, due to the abnormal presence of chlorophyll.
- worm fence — Chiefly Midland U.S. snake fence.