Name Report For First Name ANCE:

ANCE

First name ANCE's origin is Hebrew. ANCE means "grace". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ANCE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of ance.(Brown names are of the same origin (Hebrew) with ANCE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with ANCE - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming ANCE

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ANCE AS A WHOLE:

candance yohance lance ancelina aviance caidance fanceen france francena francene francesca kaidance kaydance morgance chance chancellor chancey darrance derrance lancelin lancelot leodegrance lorance terrance torrance vance laudegrance bellance ancelin ancenned constance nancey dorrance

NAMES RHYMING WITH ANCE (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (nce) - Names That Ends with nce:

caydence clemence essence florence kadence kadience kaedence kaydence kaydience ronce chaunce darence darrence laurence lawrence leodegraunce leonce lorence nahcomence ponce prince spence tarrence terrence vince ryence cadence patience terence torence torrence

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ce) - Names That Ends with ce:

fenice alarice canace circe dice dirce eunice eurydice glauce helice kalonice benoyce prentice anstice eustace maurice aleece aleyece alice allyce alyce anice annice berenice bernice bernyce brandice brandyce candace candice candyce caprice catrice cherice clarice danice darice delice denice deniece derorice dulce ellice ellyce elyce felice galice ganice grace gurice jahnisce janice janiece jayce jeanice jenice jeniece jeyce joyce kandace kandice kandyce kaprice katrice kayce lanice loyce lucrece morice

NAMES RHYMING WITH ANCE (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (anc) - Names That Begins with anc:

anca ancaeus anchises anci ancil

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (an) - Names That Begins with an:

an-her ana anaba anabella anabelle anacelia anahid anahita anais anakausuen anakin analee analeigh analena analise anama anamari anamarie anan ananda anant ananya anarosa anassa anastagio anastasia anastasio anastasios anastasius anasuya anasztaizia anasztaz anat anata anate anati anatie anatloe anatol anatola anatoli anatolia anatolie anaxarete anaya anayi anbar anbessa anbidian anda andeana andee andena ander andera andere anders anderson andettan andi andie andor andr andraemon andraste andre andrea andreana andreas andree andrei andreo andres andret andreu andrew andria andrian andrianna andric andriel androgeus andromache andromeda andrue andsaca andsware andswarian andswaru andw andweard andwearde andwyrdan andy ane

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ANCE:

First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 'e':

aase abame abarrane abbie abbigale abebe abegayle abeque able ace aceline adalene adalie adalwine adare addaneye addergoole addie ade adelaide adele adelheide adeline adelise adelle adelyte adene adenne adette adibe adilene adine adne adorlee adriane adrianne adrie adriene adrienne aeccestane aedre aefre aegelmaere aelfdane aelfdene aelfwine aelle aerlene aescwine aesoburne aethe aethelhere aethelmaere aethelwine aethelwyne afrodille agate agathe agaue agave age aggie aghamore aglarale agnese agurtzane agustine ahane ahave ahelie aherne ahote aibne aife aiglentine ailbe ailbhe aileene ailise ailse ailsie aimee aine ainmire ainslee ainslie aintzane airdsgainne aithne ajanae akibe akintunde akinwole akule al-fadee al-hadiye alacoque alaine alane alastrine

English Words Rhyming ANCE

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ANCE AS A WHOLE:

abaisancenoun (n.) Obeisance.

abearancenoun (n.) Behavior.

aberrancenoun (n.) Alt. of Aberrancy

abeyancenoun (n.) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.
 noun (n.) Suspension; temporary suppression.

abidancenoun (n.) The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with).

abodancenoun (n.) An omen; a portending.

abundancenoun (n.) An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.

acceptancenoun (n.) The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.
 noun (n.) State of being accepted; acceptableness.
 noun (n.) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.
 noun (n.) The bill itself when accepted.
 noun (n.) An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.
 noun (n.) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.
 noun (n.) Meaning; acceptation.

accordancenoun (n.) Agreement; harmony; conformity.

accustomancenoun (n.) Custom; habitual use.

achievancenoun (n.) Achievement.

acquaintancenoun (n.) A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him.
 noun (n.) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.

acquaintanceshipnoun (n.) A state of being acquainted; acquaintance.

acquittancenoun (n.) The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.
 noun (n.) A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand.
 verb (v. t.) To acquit.

admirancenoun (n.) Admiration.

admittancenoun (n.) The act of admitting.
 noun (n.) Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.
 noun (n.) Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument.
 noun (n.) Admissibility.
 noun (n.) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
 noun (n.) The reciprocal of impedance.

advanceadjective (a.) Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.
 verb (v. t.) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
 verb (v. t.) To raise; to elevate.
 verb (v. t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
 verb (v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.
 verb (v. t.) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.
 verb (v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.
 verb (v. t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
 verb (v. t.) To extol; to laud.
 verb (v. i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
 verb (v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
 verb (v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.
 verb (v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
 verb (v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.
 verb (v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
 verb (v.) The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural.
 verb (v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.

advancedadjective (a.) In the van or front.
 adjective (a.) In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.
 adjective (a.) Far on in life or time.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Advance

advancernoun (n.) One who advances; a promoter.
 noun (n.) A second branch of a buck's antler.

affiancenoun (n.) Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.
 noun (n.) Trust; reliance; faith; confidence.
 verb (v. t.) To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage.
 verb (v. t.) To assure by promise.

affiancernoun (n.) One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.

affirmancenoun (n.) Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.
 noun (n.) A strong declaration; affirmation.

aggrievancenoun (n.) Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.

aidancenoun (n.) Aid.

allegeancenoun (n.) Allegation.

allegiancenoun (n.) The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state.
 noun (n.) Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.

alliancenoun (n.) The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.
 noun (n.) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
 noun (n.) The persons or parties allied.
 verb (v. t.) To connect by alliance; to ally.

allowancenoun (n.) Approval; approbation.
 noun (n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
 noun (n.) Acknowledgment.
 noun (n.) License; indulgence.
 noun (n.) That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
 noun (n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
 noun (n.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
 noun (n.) To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.

allurancenoun (n.) Allurement.

ambulancenoun (n.) A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.
 noun (n.) An ambulance wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital.

amenancenoun (n.) Behavior; bearing.

ancestornoun (n.) One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.
 noun (n.) An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
 noun (n.) One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.

ancestorialadjective (a.) Ancestral.

ancestraladjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.

ancestressnoun (n.) A female ancestor.

ancestrynoun (n.) Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
 noun (n.) A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

annoyancenoun (n.) The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.
 noun (n.) That which annoys.

appearancenoun (n.) The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.
 noun (n.) A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky.
 noun (n.) Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien.
 noun (n.) Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him.
 noun (n.) The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator.
 noun (n.) Probability; likelihood.
 noun (n.) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction.

appendancenoun (n.) Something appendant.

appertinancenoun (n.) Alt. of Appertinence

appliancenoun (n.) The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience.
 noun (n.) The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances.

approvancenoun (n.) Approval.

appurtenancenoun (n.) That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land.

archchancellornoun (n.) A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.

arrivancenoun (n.) Arrival.

arrogancenoun (n.) The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.

ascendancenoun (n.) Same as Ascendency.

assemblancenoun (n.) Resemblance; likeness; appearance.
 noun (n.) An assembling; assemblage.

assistancenoun (n.) The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support.
 noun (n.) An assistant or helper; a body of helpers.
 noun (n.) Persons present.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ANCE (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (nce) - English Words That Ends with nce:


abhorrencenoun (n.) Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.

abscondencenoun (n.) Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding.

absencenoun (n.) A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.
 noun (n.) Want; destitution; withdrawal.
 noun (n.) Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind.

absistencenoun (n.) A standing aloof.

abstinencenoun (n.) The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence.
 noun (n.) The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.

accedencenoun (n.) The act of acceding.

accidencenoun (n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.
 noun (n.) The rudiments of any subject.

accrescencenoun (n.) Continuous growth; an accretion.

acescencenoun (n.) Alt. of Acescency

acquiescencenoun (n.) A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
 noun (n.) Submission to an injury by the party injured.
 noun (n.) Tacit concurrence in the action of another.

acturiencenoun (n.) Tendency or impulse to act.

acustumauncenoun (n.) See Accustomance.

adherencenoun (n.) The quality or state of adhering.
 noun (n.) The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions.

adolescencenoun (n.) The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

affluencenoun (n.) A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx.
 noun (n.) An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth.

albescencenoun (n.) The act of becoming white; whitishness.

alkalescencenoun (n.) Alt. of Alkalescency

altiloquencenoun (n.) Lofty speech; pompous language.

antecedencenoun (n.) The act or state of going before in time; precedence.
 noun (n.) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.

apparencenoun (n.) Appearance.

appendencenoun (n.) Alt. of Appendency

appertinencenoun (n.) See Appurtenance.

appetencenoun (n.) A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency.

arborescencenoun (n.) The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.

armipotencenoun (n.) Power in arms.

assonancenoun (n.) Resemblance of sound.
 noun (n.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary.
 noun (n.) Incomplete correspondence.

assurancenoun (n.) The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
 noun (n.) The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
 noun (n.) Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
 noun (n.) Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.
 noun (n.) Betrothal; affiance.
 noun (n.) Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death.
 noun (n.) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.

attemperancenoun (n.) Temperance; attemperament.

audienceadjective (a.) The act of hearing; attention to sounds.
 adjective (a.) Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.
 adjective (a.) An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers.

avengeancenoun (n.) Vengeance.

avoidancenoun (n.) The act of annulling; annulment.
 noun (n.) The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
 noun (n.) A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
 noun (n.) The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
 noun (n.) The courts by which anything is carried off.

avowancenoun (n.) Act of avowing; avowal.
 noun (n.) Upholding; defense; vindication.

balancenoun (n.) An apparatus for weighing.
 noun (n.) Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.
 noun (n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.
 noun (n.) The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.
 noun (n.) An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account.
 noun (n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).
 noun (n.) The constellation Libra.
 noun (n.) The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.
 noun (n.) A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S.
 noun (n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.
 noun (n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.
 noun (n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.
 noun (n.) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
 noun (n.) To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them.
 noun (n.) To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.
 noun (n.) To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.
 noun (n.) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.
 noun (n.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.
 verb (v. i.) To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.
 verb (v. i.) To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.
 verb (v. i.) To move toward a person or couple, and then back.

belligerencenoun (n.) Alt. of Belligerency

beneficencenoun (n.) The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.

benevolencenoun (n.) The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
 noun (n.) An act of kindness; good done; charity given.
 noun (n.) A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity.

blandiloquencenoun (n.) Mild, flattering speech.

boastancenoun (n.) Boasting.

bobancenoun (n.) A boasting.

boncenoun (n.) A boy's game played with large marbles.

bouncenoun (n.) A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
 noun (n.) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
 noun (n.) An explosion, or the noise of one.
 noun (n.) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
 noun (n.) A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
 verb (v. i.) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
 verb (v. i.) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.
 verb (v. i.) To boast; to talk big; to bluster.
 verb (v. t.) To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
 verb (v. t.) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
 verb (v. t.) To bully; to scold.
 adverb (adv.) With a sudden leap; suddenly.

breviloquencenoun (n.) A brief and pertinent mode of speaking.

brillancenoun (n.) Brilliancy.

buoyancenoun (n.) Buoyancy.

cadencenoun (n.) The act or state of declining or sinking.
 noun (n.) A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence.
 noun (n.) A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet.
 noun (n.) Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse.
 noun (n.) See Cadency.
 noun (n.) Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse.
 noun (n.) A uniform time and place in marching.
 noun (n.) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord.
 noun (n.) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
 verb (v. t.) To regulate by musical measure.

calescencenoun (n.) Growing warmth; increasing heat.

calorescencenoun (n.) The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility.

candescencenoun (n.) See Incandescence.

centrifugencenoun (n.) The property or quality of being centrifugal.

centripetencenoun (n.) Centripetency.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ANCE (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (anc) - Words That Begins with anc:


anchornoun (n.) A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.
 noun (n.) Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.
 noun (n.) Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety.
 noun (n.) An emblem of hope.
 noun (n.) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
 noun (n.) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
 noun (n.) One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
 noun (n.) An anchoret.
 verb (v. t.) To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship.
 verb (v. t.) To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge.
 verb (v. i.) To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.
 verb (v. i.) To stop; to fix or rest.

anchoringnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Anchor

anchorableadjective (a.) Fit for anchorage.

anchoragenoun (n.) The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
 noun (n.) A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor.
 noun (n.) The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
 noun (n.) Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.
 noun (n.) Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.
 noun (n.) A toll for anchoring; anchorage duties.
 noun (n.) Abode of an anchoret.

anchorateadjective (a.) Anchor-shaped.

anchoredadjective (a.) Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.
 adjective (a.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Anchor

anchoressnoun (n.) A female anchoret.

anchoretnoun (n.) Alt. of Anchorite

anchoritenoun (n.) One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse.
 noun (n.) Same as Anchoret.

anchoreticadjective (a.) Alt. of Anchoretical

anchoreticaladjective (a.) Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.

anchoretishadjective (a.) Hermitlike.

anchoretismnoun (n.) The practice or mode of life of an anchoret.

anchoritessnoun (n.) An anchoress.

anchorlessadjective (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

anchovynoun (n.) A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

anchusinnoun (n.) A resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root.

anchylosingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Anchylose

anchylosisnoun (n.) Alt. of Ankylosis

anchyloticadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to anchylosis.

ancientnoun (n.) Those who lived in former ages, as opposed to the moderns.
 noun (n.) An aged man; a patriarch. Hence: A governor; a ruler; a person of influence.
 noun (n.) A senior; an elder; a predecessor.
 noun (n.) One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.
 noun (n.) An ensign or flag.
 noun (n.) The bearer of a flag; an ensign.
 adjective (a.) Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days.
 adjective (a.) Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle.
 adjective (a.) Known for a long time, or from early times; -- opposed to recent or new; as, the ancient continent.
 adjective (a.) Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable.
 adjective (a.) Experienced; versed.
 adjective (a.) Former; sometime.

ancientnessnoun (n.) The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.

ancientrynoun (n.) Antiquity; what is ancient.
 noun (n.) Old age; also, old people.
 noun (n.) Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth.

ancientynoun (n.) Age; antiquity.
 noun (n.) Seniority.

ancilenoun (n.) The sacred shield of the Romans, said to have-fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.

ancillaryadjective (a.) Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary.

ancillenoun (n.) A maidservant; a handmaid.

ancipitaladjective (a.) Alt. of Ancipitous

ancipitousadjective (a.) Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.

ancistroidadjective (a.) Hook-shaped.

anclenoun (n.) See Ankle.

ancomenoun (n.) A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow.

anconnoun (n.) The olecranon, or the elbow.
 noun (n.) Alt. of Ancone

anconenoun (n.) The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter.
 noun (n.) A bracket supporting a cornice; a console.

anconaladjective (a.) Alt. of Anconeal

anconealadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow.

anconeusnoun (n.) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.

anconoidadjective (a.) Elbowlike; anconal.

anconynoun (n.) A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ANCE:

English Words which starts with 'a' and ends with 'e':

abalonenoun (n.) A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

abandoneenoun (n.) One to whom anything is legally abandoned.

abaseadjective (a.) To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
 adjective (a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade.

abatableadjective (a.) Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance.

abatenoun (n.) Abatement.
 verb (v. t.) To beat down; to overthrow.
 verb (v. t.) To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope.
 verb (v. t.) To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.
 verb (v. t.) To blunt.
 verb (v. t.) To reduce in estimation; to deprive.
 verb (v. t.) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.
 verb (v. t.) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
 verb (v. t.) To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates.
 verb (v. t.) To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates.

abaturenoun (n.) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.

abaxileadjective (a.) Away from the axis or central line; eccentric.

abbenoun (n.) The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

abbreviatenoun (n.) An abridgment.
 adjective (a.) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
 adjective (a.) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
 verb (v. t.) To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.
 verb (v. t.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.

abbreviaturenoun (n.) An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.
 noun (n.) An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.

abderitenoun (n.) An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace.

abdicableadjective (a.) Capable of being abdicated.

abdicativeadjective (a.) Causing, or implying, abdication.

abditiveadjective (a.) Having the quality of hiding.

abelenoun (n.) The white poplar (Populus alba).

abelitenoun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian

abhominableadjective (a.) Abominable.

abhorribleadjective (a.) Detestable.

abietenenoun (n.) A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

abietinenoun (n.) A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether.

abietitenoun (n.) A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata).

abimenoun (n.) Alt. of Abyme

abymenoun (n.) A abyss.

abirritativeadjective (a.) Characterized by abirritation or debility.

abjunctiveadjective (a.) Exceptional.

ablativeadjective (a.) Taking away or removing.
 adjective (a.) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.
  () The ablative case.

ableadjective (a.) To make able; to enable; to strengthen.
 adjective (a.) To vouch for.
 superlative (superl.) Fit; adapted; suitable.
 superlative (superl.) Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.
 superlative (superl.) Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech.
 superlative (superl.) Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property.

ablegatenoun (n.) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.
 verb (v. t.) To send abroad.

abnegativeadjective (a.) Denying; renouncing; negative.

abodenoun (n.) Act of waiting; delay.
 noun (n.) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
 noun (n.) Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation.
 verb (v. t.) An omen.
 verb (v. t.) To bode; to foreshow.
 verb (v. i.) To be ominous.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Abide
  () pret. of Abide.

abolishableadjective (a.) Capable of being abolished.

abominableadjective (a.) Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
 adjective (a.) Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive.

aborsiveadjective (a.) Abortive.

aborticidenoun (n.) The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.

abortivenoun (n.) That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
 noun (n.) A fruitless effort or issue.
 noun (n.) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion.
 verb (v.) Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child.
 verb (v.) Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum.
 verb (v.) Rendering fruitless or ineffectual.
 verb (v.) Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt.
 verb (v.) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.
 verb (v.) Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines.
 verb (v.) Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever.

abranchiateadjective (a.) Without gills.

abraseadjective (a.) Rubbed smooth.

abrasiveadjective (a.) Producing abrasion.

abrogableadjective (a.) Capable of being abrogated.

abrogateadjective (a.) Abrogated; abolished.
 verb (v. t.) To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.
 verb (v. t.) To put an end to; to do away with.

abrogativeadjective (a.) Tending or designed to abrogate; as, an abrogative law.

absenteenoun (n.) One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee.

absinthatenoun (n.) A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.

absinthenoun (n.) The plant absinthium or common wormwood.
 noun (n.) A strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol.

absolutenoun (n.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
 adjective (a.) Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
 adjective (a.) Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
 adjective (a.) Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.
 adjective (a.) Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
 adjective (a.) Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
 adjective (a.) Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
 adjective (a.) Authoritative; peremptory.
 adjective (a.) Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
 adjective (a.) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.

absolvableadjective (a.) That may be absolved.

absorbableadjective (a.) Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

absorptiveadjective (a.) Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe.

abstersivenoun (n.) Something cleansing.
 adjective (a.) Cleansing; purging.

abstractiveadjective (a.) Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.

abstruseadjective (a.) Concealed or hidden out of the way.
 adjective (a.) Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning.

abusableadjective (a.) That may be abused.

abusagenoun (n.) Abuse.

abusiveadjective (a.) Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
 adjective (a.) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.
 adjective (a.) Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.
 adjective (a.) Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
 adjective (a.) Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.

acacinenoun (n.) Gum arabic.

academenoun (n.) An academy.

acalephaenoun (n. pl.) A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.

acalycineadjective (a.) Alt. of Acalysinous

acanthineadjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.

acarineadjective (a.) Of or caused by acari or mites; as, acarine diseases.

acaudateadjective (a.) Tailless.

acaulineadjective (a.) Same as Acaulescent.

acauloseadjective (a.) Alt. of Acaulous

accelerativeadjective (a.) Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

accendibleadjective (a.) Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable.

accentuableadjective (a.) Capable of being accented.

acceptableadjective (a.) Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.

acceptiveadjective (a.) Fit for acceptance.
 adjective (a.) Ready to accept.

accessibleadjective (a.) Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.
 adjective (a.) Open to the influence of; -- with to.
 adjective (a.) Obtainable; to be got at.

accessiveadjective (a.) Additional.

accidienoun (n.) Sloth; torpor.

accipitrineadjective (a.) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

acclimatableadjective (a.) Capable of being acclimated.

acclimatizableadjective (a.) Capable of being acclimatized.

acclimaturenoun (n.) The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated.

accliveadjective (a.) Acclivous.

accoladenoun (n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.
 noun (n.) A brace used to join two or more staves.

accommodableadjective (a.) That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree.

accommodateadjective (a.) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
 verb (v. t.) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
 verb (v. t.) To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
 verb (v. t.) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
 verb (v. i.) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.

accompanableadjective (a.) Sociable.

accompletiveadjective (a.) Tending to accomplish.

accomplicenoun (n.) A cooperator.
 noun (n.) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.

accomplishableadjective (a.) Capable of being accomplished; practicable.

accomptableadjective (a.) See Accountable.

accordableadjective (a.) Agreeing.
 adjective (a.) Reconcilable; in accordance.

accostableadjective (a.) Approachable; affable.

accoucheusenoun (n.) A midwife.

accountableadjective (a.) Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.
 adjective (a.) Capable of being accounted for; explicable.

accreteadjective (a.) Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.
 adjective (a.) Grown together.
 verb (v. i.) To grow together.
 verb (v. i.) To adhere; to grow (to); to be added; -- with to.
 verb (v. t.) To make adhere; to add.

accretiveadjective (a.) Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth.

accruenoun (n.) To increase; to augment.
 noun (n.) To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.
 noun (n.) Something that accrues; advantage accruing.

accumulateadjective (a.) Collected; accumulated.
 verb (v. t.) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
 verb (v. i.) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.

accumulativeadjective (a.) Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional.

accurateadjective (a.) In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.
 adjective (a.) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

accusableadjective (a.) Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of.

accusativenoun (n.) The accusative case.
 adjective (a.) Producing accusations; accusatory.
 adjective (a.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.

accusenoun (n.) Accusation.
 verb (v. t.) To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense
 verb (v. t.) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.
 verb (v. t.) To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
 verb (v. t.) To betray; to show. [L.]

accustomableadjective (a.) Habitual; customary; wonted.

acenoun (n.) A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.
 noun (n.) Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
 noun (n.) A single point won by a stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.; in tennis, frequently, a point won by a service stroke.

aceratenoun (n.) A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.
 adjective (a.) Acerose; needle-shaped.