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Definition: -ENCE |
-ENCE1. A noun suffix signifying action, state, or quality; also, that which relates to the action or state; as in emergence, diffidence, diligence, influence, difference, excellence. See -ance. |
Crosswords: -ENCE |
| English words defined with "-ENCE": -ency. (references) |
| Words ending with "ence": hence, Spence, thence, Whence. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-n" | |
-1 letter: cee, nee. | |
-2 letters: en, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n" | |
+1 letter: cense, fence, hence, niece, pence, scene. | |
+2 letters: achene, careen, cement, cenote, censed, censer, censes, center, centre, cetane, congee, crenel, cymene, decane, decent, decern, edenic, encage, encase, encode, encore, enface, enlace, entice, evince, fenced, fencer, fences, fennec, icemen, menace, necked, necker, nieces, pecten, pencel, recane, recent, scenes, screen, seance, secern, seneca, spence, tenace, tenrec, thence, whence. | |
+3 letters: absence, acetone, achenes, bedunce, beechen, benched, bencher, benches, benefic, buckeen, cadence, canteen, careens, caserne, catenae, cavemen, cayenne, cementa, cements, cenacle, cenotes, censers, censure, centare, centers, centile, centime, centner, centred, centres, cerumen, cervine, cetanes, cheapen, chutnee, cineole, cleaned, cleaner, cleanse, clement, codeine, coenure, colleen, concede, congeed, congees, convene, corneae, cozened, cozener, credent, crenate, crenels, crewmen, cuneate, cymenes, decanes, decency, decerns, decline, defence, descend, descent, eccrine, echelon, ecotone, eirenic, elenchi, enacted, encaged, encages, encased, encases, enchase, enclave, enclose, encoded, encoder, encodes, encored, encores, endemic, enfaced, enfaces, enforce, enhance, enlaced, enlaces, enounce, enteric, enticed, enticer, entices, epicene, essence, eucaine, eugenic, eupneic, evinced, evinces, faience, fencers, fennecs, fiancee, generic, genetic, henpeck, incense, kenches, kneecap, lectern, leucine, licence, license, licente, lucence, lucerne, menaced, menacer, menaces, nacelle, neckers, necktie, necrose, neglect, obscene, offence, pectens, penance, pencels, penoche, penuche, percent, potence, precent, recaned, recanes, recency, reclean, recline, redneck, reenact, refence, regency, scalene, scended, scenery, scented, science, screens, seances, secerns, seconde, selenic, senecas, senecio, silence, sincere, spencer, spences, tenaces, tenches, tenrecs, unfence, valence, vendace, wenched, wencher, wenches. | |
+4 letters: abeyance, absences, accented, acescent, acetones, agencies, agenetic, ambience, anecdote, antecede, ascended, ascender, audience, beaconed, bechance, beckoned, beckoner, bedrench, bedunced, bedunces, beechnut, benchers, benedick, benedict, benefice, bernicle, bescreen, beuncled, blenched, blencher, blenches, buckeens, cabernet, cabezone, cadenced, cadences, caffeine, calender, camphene, canceled, canceler, caneware, cankered, canteens, cantered, carageen, careened, careener, carotene, casement, casernes, catenate, caverned, cayenned, cayennes, ceinture, cemented, cementer, cementum, cenacles, cenobite, censored, censured, censurer, censures, censused, censuses, centares, centered, centeses, centesis, centiare, centiles, centimes, centners, centones, centuple, cerement, ceremony, cerulean, cerumens, cesarean, cetacean, cheapens, cheeking, cheeping, cheering, cheesing, chenille, chessmen, cheveron, choremen, chutnees, cicerone, cindered, cineaste, cineoles, cineplex, clarence, cleaners, cleanest, cleansed, cleanser, cleanses, cleeking, clemency, clenched, clencher, clenches, codeines, coendure, coenures, coenzyme, coextend, coherent, coinhere, colleens, commence, conceded, conceder, concedes, conceive, concrete, condense, conenose, conepate, conferee, confrere, congener, conserve, convened, convener, convenes, converge, converse, convexes, conveyed, conveyer, cooeeing, cornered, cozenage, cozeners, cravened, creatine, credence, credenda, credenza, creeling, creeping, crenated, creneled, crenelle, crescent, cretonne, crewneck, croceine, cuneated, cuteness, cymogene, cysteine, deaconed, decadent, decanted, decanter, decedent, decenary, decennia, decenter, decently, decentre, decerned, declined, decliner, declines, defences, defiance, denounce, denticle, descends, descents, deviance, dezinced, drenched, drencher, drenches, duecento, ecdysone, echelons, echidnae, echinate, ecotones, ecumenic, ejecting, ejection, electing, election, electron, elegance, elegancy, elenchic, elenchus, elenctic, emceeing, eminence, eminency, enactive, encaenia, encamped, encashed, encashes, enceinte, enchased, enchaser, enchases, encipher, encircle, enclaves, enclosed, encloser, encloses, encoders, encumber, encysted, endemics, endermic, enforced, enforcer, enforces, enhanced, enhancer, enhances, enneadic, enounced, enounces, enriched, enricher, enriches, ensconce, ensorcel, enthetic, enticers, entrance, entrench, enuretic, epicenes, epigenic, erecting, erection, erogenic, esculent, essences, eucaines, eugenics, euphenic, eupnoeic, evanesce, evection, evidence, evincive, exchange, exigence, exigency, exocrine, exsecant, faiences, feasance, feculent, fencerow, fencible, fervency, fiancees, fleecing, flenched, flenches, florence, frenched, frenches, frenetic, generics, genetics, genocide, gentrice, gynaecea, henchmen, henpecks, incensed, incenses, incenter, incepted, increase, increate, indecent, indictee, inductee, infected, infecter, injected, insecure, invected, iterance, kneecaps, kneesock, lancelet, lanceted, larcener, lecterns, leeching, lenience, leniency, lenticel, leucines, licenced, licencee, licencer, licences, licensed, licensee, licenser, licenses, lichened, lucences, lucernes, lycopene, medicine, menacers, menarche, menschen, mensches, mergence, nacelles, narceine, nascence, necklace, neckless, necklike, neckline, neckties, neckwear, necrosed, necroses, neglects, neotenic, neoteric, nescient, newcomer, niceness, niceties, nickeled, nickered, nonelect, notecase, nuclease, nucleate, nucleole, obscener, offences, oncogene, onscreen, opulence, overnice, parcener, patience, peacenik, pectines, peduncle, penanced, penances, penciled, penciler, pendency, penoches, penoncel, pentacle, penuches, penuchle, penuckle, percents, phenetic, pinecone, placemen, plenches, potences, precents, preclean, preenact, prentice, presence, pretence, prudence, pulicene, quenched, quencher, quenches, quercine, reaccent, reascend, reascent, recanted, recanter, receding, recenter, recently, rechange, rechosen, reckoned, reckoner, recleans, reclined, recliner, reclines, recoined, reconvey, recreant, rednecks, reenacts, refenced, refences, reincite, reinduce, reinfect, reinject, reliance, relucent, renounce, rescreen, reticent, retrench, revanche, richened, salience, sapience, sarcenet, scavenge, schnecke, sciences, screened, screener, seceding, secerned, seconded, seconder, secondes, secretin, seicento, senecios, sentence, sequence, sequency, sickened, sickener, silenced, silencer, silences, sincerer, sinecure, sithence, sixpence, spacemen, specimen, spencers, stenches, tangence, tendance, tendence, tendency, tenesmic, tenpence, tentacle, terpenic, trecento, trenched, trencher, trenches, tuppence, twopence, unbreech, unchewed, uncreate, undecked, unfenced, unfences, vaccinee, valences, vendaces, verecund, vergence, vernacle, vernicle, violence, wenchers, wrenched, wrenches. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)2D 45 4E 43 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)00101101 01000101 01001110 01000011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)- E N C E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)002D 0045 004E 0043 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)1539483739 |
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