Assistance

Definition: Assistance

Assistance

Noun

1. The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose: "he gave me an assist with the housework"; "could not walk without assistance"; "rescue party went to their aid"; "offered his help in unloading".

2. A resource: "visual aids in teaching"; "economic assistance to depressed areas".

Date "assistance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Assistance \As*sist"ance\, noun. [Compare to the French expression assistance.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	Giving assistance to any one in a dream, foretells you will be favored in your efforts to rise to higher position. If any one assists you, you will be pleasantly situated, and loving friends will be near you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Insurance	French term, reflecting the civilian equivalent of salvage, based on the Roman law concept of negotiorum gestio (management of the business of another), whereby the "assistant" is remunerated for his efforts to save ship and cargo, regardless of whether or not those efforts are successful. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Assistance

Synonyms: assist (n), help (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Aid	Noun: aid, aidance; assistance, help, opitulation, succor; support, lift, advance, furtherance, promotion; coadjuvancy; (cooperation).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	21st Century Complete Guide to Federal Grants: The Official Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance for Loans, Grants, Surplus Equipment, and Training (reference) Officer Needs Assistance Again (reference) The Complete Guide to Customer Support: How to Turn Technical Assistance into a Profitable Relationship (reference) The Wealthy Barber: Everyone's Commonsense Guide to Becoming Financially Independent David Chilton Updated With Assistance from Arthur [UNABRIDGED] (reference) Transforming Foreign Aid: United States Assistance in the 21st Century (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Directory Of Federal And State Business Assistance (reference) Employee Assistance (reference) Employee Assistance Program Management Yearbook (reference) Federal Assistance Monitor (reference) Financial Assistance For Library And Information Studies (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Assistance With Resistance (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	No Assistance [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Shown are several different shots of an NIH employee, Shana Malone in her working environment. Shana works while seated in a wheelchair and can walk with the assistance of crutches. Credit: Ernie Branson (photographer).		Tuna purse seiner is deploying net with assistance of workboat which is seen at far end of net near horizon on upper right of picture. The boat appears as a small rectangle behind a vertical rope. Credit: Fisheries.
	A yacht basin with a municipal vessel assistance craft. Credit: Fisheries.		The sign thanking NOAA for its assistance in the construction. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	CAV (Construction Assistance Vehicle) could transport a ton at over 2 knots. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).		Well managed cool-season pasture in Davis County, Iowa. NRCS offers planning assistance for pasture production as part of its overall conservation planning assistance program. Credit: Lynn Betts.
	Farmer Jeff England (left) receives assistance from an NRCS conservationist in identifying pests that may damage his alfalfa crop. Credit: Tim McCabe.		Nest located on land where NRCS has provided technical assistance to landowners in the prairie pothole region of northeastern South Dakota. Credit: Don Poggensee.
	African American farmer Bennie Butler talks with Claude Gordon from the Federation of Southern cooperatives, Land Assistance fund on his farm in Calhoun County, GA. Credit: USDA.		Mother receives assistance from the WIC program. Credit: USDA.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Elbert Hubbard	Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.
Quintilian	Without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
The Talmud	The sun will set without thy assistance.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	It is one thing to owe honour, respect, gratitude and assistance; another to require an absolute obedience and submission. (Second Treatise of Government)
US Bill of Rights	1795	Amendment VI. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence. (reference)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	The cost of assistance by the Government of the Allied and Associated Powers to prisoners of war and to their families and dependents. (reference)
Winston S. Churchill	1946	We aim at nothing but mutual assistance and collaboration. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
United Nations	1948	Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. (reference)
Brown v. Board of Education	1954	In order that we may have the full assistance of the parties in formulating decrees, the cases will be restored to the docket, and the parties are requested to present further argument on Questions 4 and 5 previously propounded by the Court for the reargument this Term. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	The driver ran out to his assistance, and he and I together raised the unfortunate cyclist and carried him into the shop.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	He threw off all assistance, and stepped passionately forward a pace before the woman and the child.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	Sound] Thus high, by thy advice And thy assistance, is King Richard seated.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Respiratory assistance may be necessary. (references)
		Consider professional mental health assistance. (references)
		Ideally, these people can provide support and assistance. (references)
Business		ONEP has requested TDA technical assistance for funding the study. (references)
		Companies are in need of assistance on how to make this process easier. (references)
		China is the second largest recipient of such assistance, after Indonesia. (references)
Children	Suriname	If a family is unable to pay, the Government provides assistance. (references)
	Slovak Republic	There also is a system of assistance payments to families with children. (references)
	Belgium	Regional and community programs provide other assistance, such as job training. (references)
Civil Liberties	Georgia	Some have enlisted the assistance of the NGO community. (references)
	East Timor	The mosque was rebuilt by the community with the financial assistance of foreign donors. (references)
	Senegal	Religious organizations can receive direct financial and material assistance from the Government. (references)
Discrimination	Brazil	The entity gives free legal assistance to homosexuals suffering from discrimination or who are victims of verbal or physical hate crimes. (references)
	Monaco	It differentiates between rights that are accorded to nationals (including preference in employment, free education, and assistance to the ill or unemployed) and those accorded to all residents, for example, freedom of religion and inviolability of the home. (references)
	Slovak Republic	The law prohibits discrimination and provides for the equality of all citizens; however, enforcement of the law is inconsistent, and different minority groups have reported that their members often receive no government assistance for complaints about discrimination. (references)
Economic History	Ukraine	Security-Related Assistance. (references)
	Russia	How U.S. Assistance Has Evolved. (references)
	Mali	In 2000, U.S. assistance reached $40 million. (references)
Human Rights	Yugoslavia	Calls to the local police for assistance were not answered. (references)
	Fiji	The HRC has received 290 requests for assistance since its opening. (references)
	Russia	Some regions offer assistance in the form of food, clothing, and medicine. (references)
Indigenous People	Mexico	The ICRC announced that it would likely reduce food assistance after assessing results of the fall harvest. (references)
	Malaysia	Without assistance from independent surveyors, the NGO contends that indigenous people are powerless legally to dispute encroachment on their land. (references)
	Bangladesh	Tribal leaders also have expressed disappointment at the lack of progress in providing assistance to tribals who left the area during the insurgency. (references)
Minorities	Bosnia and Herzegovina	A lack of formal title to land, in some instances, has greatly delayed some assistance projects. (references)
	East Timor	One of the churches was rebuilt during the year with assistance from the entire community, including Protestants and Catholics. (references)
	Albania	Of all minority groups, ethnic Greeks are the largest and best organized and receive the most attention and assistance from abroad. (references)
Political Economy	Mongolia	It relies heavily on foreign economic assistance. (references)
	BELGIUM	Belgium is also a significant donor of development assistance. (references)
	Zambia	Peace Corps provides assistance through approximately 120 volunteers. (references)
Political Rights	Tanzania	Unlike in the previous year, international donors did not suspend direct assistance to Zanzibar in response to the authorities' human rights abuses. (references)
	Saudi Arabia	Typical topics raised in a majlis include complaints about bureaucratic delay or insensitivity, requests for personal redress or assistance, and criticism of particular acts of government affecting family welfare. (references)
	Cambodia	These are the first elections the country has organized without substantial foreign assistance, and election preparations also were marked by poor dissemination of information and other logistical and administrative problems. (references)
Trade	Tunisia	AFDB ASSISTANCE INCLUDES MAJOR DAM PROJECTS. (references)
	Hong Kong	ADB's leverage ratio is 8.4 times its own assistance. (references)
	Kenya	Project assistance covers ten key sectors of the Kenyan economy. (references)
Travel	Egypt	U.S. consular assistance to such persons is extremely limited. (references)
	Honduras	Costs are based on the destination, and rates are available through operator assistance. (references)
	Singapore	The Singapore Government does not provide legal assistance except in capital crimes cases. (references)
Women	Gabon	Only limited medical and legal assistance was available. (references)
	Lithuania	Seven women's shelters provide assistance to victims of violence. (references)
	Japan	These women also received medical and welfare assistance from the AWF. (references)
Worker Rights	Poland	La Strada provides several types of victim assistance. (references)
	Lebanon	They have no entitlement to government financial assistance. (references)
	Bahrain	Victims of trafficking may seek assistance from their embassies. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
General Richard Myers	Let me recharacterize that. I think the mission was Pakistani-led with U.S. assistance, several agencies and some intel agencies.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	Further assistance is desirable and essential.
Dwight Eisenhower	1953-1961	Across all continents, nearly a billion people seek, sometimes almost in desperation, for the skills and knowledge and assistance by which they may satisfy from their own resources, the material wants common to all mankind.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	Neither money nor technical assistance, however, can be our only weapon against poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	We are not prepared to see our assistance wasted, however, in conflict.
Richard Nixon	1969-1974	In cases involving other types of aggression, we shall furnish military and economic assistance when requested in accordance with our treaty commitments.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	This corrects a serious fault in our past food assistance policy.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	More than one-half billion dollars has been proposed for minority business assistance.
George Bush	1989-1993	Assistance can be shown here, and will be long remembered.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Last year, the Congress provided substantial assistance to help stave off a disaster in American agriculture.
George W. Bush	2001-2005	And we know that Iraq is continuing to finance terror and gives assistance to groups that use terrorism to undermine Middle East peace.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Assistance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Assistance" is used about 4,339 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4,339	2,270

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "assistance".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Lazar	N/A	Russian	Assistance of God
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "assistance": afford assistance ♦ alimentary assistance ♦ assistance by a public official in the escape of prisoners ♦ assistance in law enforcement ♦ assistance in the escape of prisoners ♦ assistance to prisoners ♦ be of assistance ♦ Development Assistance Committee ♦ directory assistance ♦ Directory Assistance Charping System ♦ financial assistance ♦ give assistance ♦ give assistance to ♦ Health Planning Technical Assistance ♦ host nation assistance ♦ incitement to commit or assistance with suicide ♦ International Security Assistance Force ♦ lane keeping assistance ♦ legal assistance ♦ lend assistance ♦ logistic assistance ♦ Medical Assistance ♦ Municipal Assistance Corporation ♦ national assistance ♦ Official Development Assistance ♦ Old Age Assistance ♦ pact of mutual assistance ♦ Planning Assistance through Technical Evaluation of Relevance Numbers ♦ Public Assistance ♦ Rapid Expert Assistance and Cooperation Teams ♦ render assistance ♦ social assistance ♦ technical assistance ♦ valuable assistance. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "assistance": assistance-even, assistance-for.
	Ending with "assistance": economic-assistance, Europ-assistance, mutual-assistance, non-assistance.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "assistance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		asistencë (relief), ndihmë (aid, backstop, bee, boon, charity, dole, endowment, facilitation, help, relief, stay, subsidy, subvention, succor, succour, support). (various references)

Arabic		‏مناصرة (patronage), ‏مساعدة (aid, assist, benefit, contribution, good turn, grant, help, relief, subsidy, succor, succour, support), ‏مساعد (accessory, accomplice, advantageous, aid, ancillary, auxiliary, backing, beneficial, conducive, contributory, favorable, favourable, help, helpful, helpmate, propitious, serviceable, subsidiary, supplementary, support, useful), ‏عون (aid, backing, benefit, boost, comfort, lift, relief, succor, succour), ‏إسداء العون. (various references)

Bulgarian		отмяна (help, helper), помощ (aid, benefit, dole, favour, help, leg up, lift, subvention, support), помагане (aiding, helping), подпомагане (aid, facilitation, furtherance, helping, lift, patronage, subvention). (various references)

Chinese		援助 (aid, help, support), 协助 (ASSIST, Assisted, Assisting), 幫助 (aid, to assist, to help). (various references)

Czech		asistence, pomoc (aid, help, ministration, refuge, relief, remedy, stand by, standby, succour, support), podpora (backing, backup, boost, encouragement, furtherance, lift, pension, promotion, relief, subsidy, subvention, support). (various references)

Danish		ydelse af laegehjaelp til noedstedt person, ydelse af hjaelp til noedstedt person, hjælp (aid, help). (various references)

Dutch		assistentie (aid, help), ondersteuning (subsidy), hulpbetoon (help), hulp (aid, assistant, assistent, help, helper). (various references)

Esperanto		asistado (help). (various references)

Farsi		پایمردی (Fortitude, Intercession), مواظبت (Attendance, Attention, Care, Vigilance), همدستی (Cooperation, Pally), کمک (Adjutant, Aid, Ancillary, Assist, Avail, Hand, Help, Helper, Helpmeet, Mate, Relief, Second, Service, Subservience, Succor, Support), رسیدگی (Attendance, Audit, Consideration, Examination, Inquest, Inquiry, Probe, Puberty, Scrutiny), دستیاری . (various references)

Finnish		avustus (allowance, contribution, grant, help, relief, subscription, subsidy, support), avunanto (aid, aiding and abetting, help), apu (aid, avail, help, relief, remedy, rescue, succour, support, use). (various references)

French		assistance. (various references)

German		hilfe (aid, easement, help, relief, succor), unterstützung (aid, backing, benefit, encouragement, grant, maintenance, promotion, relief, sponsorship, support), beistand (abetment, aid, attendance, help, legal adviser, second, sidekick, succor, succour, support). (various references)

Greek		βοήθεια (aid, help, helping, lift, succor, succour, support). (various references)

Hebrew		תמיכ�" (aid, countenance, help, hold, support, sustenance), עזר�" (aid, help, helping, succor, succour), עזר (aid, help, succour), �"עזרות (aid, help), סיוע (aid, facilitation, help, succor, succour, support), סעו�" (nursing, support). (various references)

Hungarian		segítség (aid, help, mayday, relief, subsidy, succor, succour, support), támogatás (advocacy, aid, backing, countenance, encouragement, espousal, favor, help, lean, promotion, protection, sponsorship, subservience, subserviency, subsidization, support, sustain), segély (aid, benefit, cost of living allowance, grant, help, redress, relief, subsidy, support), segédlet (aid, help, study-aid, work-help). (various references)

Indonesian		uluran (contribution, slackening), pertolongan (accomodation, aid, help), pedampingan. (various references)

Irish		chúnamh, cúnamh (aid), cabhair. (various references)

Italian		assistenza (aid, attendance, help, ministration, presence). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		補佐 (adviser, aid, assistant, counselor, help), 助力 (support), 扶助 (aid, help, support), 尽力 (efforts). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほよく (aid), ちからぞえ (help, service), じ�"りょく (efforts, human agency, human effort, human power, human strength), じょりょく (support), じょせい (aiding, assisting, backing, encouragement, female voice, fostering, one's son-in-law, reinforcements, schoolgirl, woman), よくさ�" (countenance, supporting), アシスト (assist), ゆうじょ (ablation shield, harlot, prostitute), らいえ�" (come to perform, support), �"うりき (alms, Buddhist almsgiving, contribution, herculean strength, mountain carrier-guide), かせい (backing, caustic, change, clearing of the river water, despotism, false, falsetto, force of flames, great poet, growth, honour of the family, household economy, Mars, metamorphosis, reinforcements, section system, transformation, tyranny), かた�" (complicity, conspiracy, lower end, participation, support), え�"じょ (aid, support), ほじょ (aid, auxiliary, support), ぎえ�" (contribution, donation), ほうじょ (backing), ほさ (adviser, aid, assistant, counselor, help), ほひつ (counsel, giving the Emperor advice on affairs of state), ふじょ (aid, help, medium, shrine maiden, sorceress, support, woman, womankind), ふよく, うよく (right-wing, wings), おか�' (backing, thanks or owing to), おか�'さま (backing), おうえ�" (aid, barracking, cheering, chrome yellow, help, reinforcement, rooting, support), すけ, すけ� ち (seconds), たすけ, せわ (aid, help, looking after). (various references)

Korean		원조 (Aid, Aiding, Assisting). (various references)

Manx		cooney ashoonagh (national assistance). (various references)

Pig Latin		assistanceay

Portuguese		assistência (aid, assist, attendance, audience, help, ministration, presence, public, relief). (various references)

Romanian		asistenţã (aid, attendance, audience, company, help, promotion, relief), ajutor (abettor, accommodation, accomplice, adjoint, adjunct, adjutancy, adjutant, adjuvant, adminicle, aid, ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, backer, backing, collaboration, contribution, co-operation, deputy, easement, fire, friend, furtherance, help, helper, helpfulness, helping, mate, means, ministrant, office, redress, refuge, relief, remedy, rescue, salvation, saver, second, service, sos, staff, stand by, stead, succor, succour, support, supporter, sustainer, upholder), sprijin (aid, backing, comfort, furtherance, help, ministration, patronage, prop, reliance, reposal, saddle, service, staff, stay, strength, succor, succour, support, supporter), oficiu (agency, bureau, door, function, help, office, pantry), cooperare (concurrence, co-operation), concurs (audition, competition, concurrence, contest, co-operation, help). (various references)

Russian		помощь (aid, facilitation, furtherance, hand, help, helping, relief, succor, succour). (various references)

Scottish		fòirin, cuideachadh, cobhair (aid, assist. See <A HREF="mf02.html#cabhair">cabhair</A>, help, relieve, succour), cabhair (aid, assist, help, relieve). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pomoć (aid, boost, help, helping, lift, relief, succor, succour). (various references)

Spanish		socorro (aid, help, relief, rescue, succor, succour, support), ayuda (abets, accommodation, aid, allowance, charity, consultation, countenance, crutch, donation, forgiveness, hand, help, intuition, it helps, lift, ministration), auxilio (help), asistencia (aid, attendance, care, handling, nursing, presence, relief). (various references)

Swedish		medverkan (agency, co-operation, instrumentality, instrumentation, participation, partnership), hjälp (aid, assist, backing, furtherance, help, helpmate, ministration, remedy, service, succour, support), bistånd (aid, help, succour), assistans (assist). (various references)

Turkish		yardım (aid, alms, assist, backing, backup, booster, comfort, contribution, cooperation, dole, donation, donative, Favor, favour, furtherance, hand, help, helpfulness, lift, relief, rescue, shot, stand by, succor, succour, support, sustenance, welfare), destek (aid, anchorage, backing, backup, bolster, booster, brace, bracer, bracket, buttress, contribution, cooperation, corbel, countenance, crutch, endorsement, friend, indorsement, mounting, pillar, pit prop, prop, reinforcement, relief, rest, rider, second, shore, shot, sponsorship, spur, staff, stake, stanchion, stand by, stay, stiffening, strut, support, supporter, supporting, sustenance, truss, underlay, upholder). (various references)

Turkmen		яowar (community aid). (various references)

Ukrainian		сприяння (agency, aid, auspices, promotion), допомога (abetment, aid, backing, bield, facilitation, furtherance, help, helping, relief, stipend, succor, succour). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự giúp đỡ (aid, backing, help, ministration, succor, succour). (various references)

Welsh		help (aid, help), cymorth (aid, assist, help). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	synergia. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adiutori, adiutoria, adiutorii, adiutoriis, adiutorio, adiutorium, adminiculum, auxilium, ops, praesidium, subsidium, suffragium. (various references)
Avestan	200-600	... avainghe, avô, avangh, avanghe , upastãm. (various references)
Medieval Latin	700-1500	succursus. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	relief. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "assistance": assistances. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Assistance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asistence, assisitance, assisstance, assistante, assistence, Assistencia. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "assistance" (pronounced usi"stuns)
7	-s i" s t u n s	consistence, insistence, persistence, subsistence.
6	-i" s t u n s	coexistence, distance, existence, resistance.
5	-s t u n s	instance, substance.
4	-t u n s	acceptance, acquaintance, admittance, capacitance, competence, importance, impotence, inadvertence, incompetence, inductance, inheritance, omnipotence, pittance, reluctance, remittance, repentance, sentence.
3	-u n s	abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, accordance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, imprudence, incidence, incoherence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, innocence, insignificance, insolence, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, remembrance, reminiscence, resemblance, residence, resilience, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-n-s-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: estancias.
	-2 letters: cineasts, entasias, estancia, scanties, sestinas.
	-3 letters: acetins, ascents, ascesis, ascites, assents, caseins, casitas, cassias, catenas, cineast, ectasis, entasia, entasis, incases, incests, insects, nasties, sanseis, satanic, secants, sestina, siestas, stances, taenias, tansies, tassies, tisanes.
	-4 letters: acetin, actins, anises, ansate, antics, ascent, assais, assent, assets, assist, casein, casita, cassia, cassis, castes, catena, centai, centas.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-n-s-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: assistances.
	+3 letters: sectarianisms.
	+4 letters: compassionates, necessitarians, psychasthenias, transcriptases.
	+5 letters: ancylostomiases, fanaticalnesses, fantasticalness, practicalnesses, sacramentalisms, sacramentalists, sacrosanctities, specialisations, straitlacedness.
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