Abstract Nouns Ending in E and Containing NS

Browse 137 valid English abstract nouns ending in E and containing NS, from Sense, Defense, Response, Insurance, Instance, License and Offense to rarer terms. Check definitions and spelling below, or visit our noun grammar guide to explore examples of abstract vs. concrete nouns.

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Starts with B
2 words
biodefense
bienseance
Starts with C
24 words
consequence
comprehensive
conscience
cleanse
censure
consulate
commonsense
counteroffensive
cyberdefense
consonance
coinsurance
counterresponse
consilience
countertransference
censorware
censorate
consuetude
constative
counterinstance
considerance
constringence
consulage
constructure
consentience
Starts with D
9 words
defense
defensive
downside
demonstrative
downslide
ditransitive
defensative
demitranslucence
desponsage
Starts with E
9 words
expense
ensemble
ensample
eigenstate
ensuance
extense
expansure
ensellure
extensure
Starts with G
1 words
greensome
Starts with H
1 words
happenstance
Starts with I
24 words
insurance
instance
institute
intensive
indispensable
insistence
insoluble
insignificance
insolence
intransigence
intransitive
inspectorate
incommensurable
insurgence
insouciance
inconsequence
inscape
insentience
inconsonance
insipience
insomnolence
insphere
intensitive
intensative
Starts with L
2 words
license
licensure
Starts with M
3 words
missense
mansuetude
mense
Starts with N
7 words
nonsense
nonresponse
nonscience
noninsurance
nonsentence
nonstyle
nontransmittance
Starts with O
4 words
offense
offensive
overinsurance
ownsome
Starts with P
7 words
pretense
pensee
prerinse
photoresponse
proconsulate
protense
predemonstrative
Starts with R
8 words
response
rinse
recompense
ransomware
reinsurance
remonstrance
relicensure
retrotransference
Starts with S
11 words
sense
sunshine
suspense
sunstroke
sublicense
supersensible
subsense
sonse
sansculotterie
somatosense
superconsequence
Starts with T
16 words
tense
transcendence
transpose
transverse
transference
transitive
transience
tonsure
translucence
transmittance
transhumance
transconductance
translative
transfinite
transportance
transilience
Starts with U
4 words
untranslatable
unsayable
underinsurance
undersense
Starts with Y
1 words
yonside

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