Nouns Ending in NCE and Containing S

This list gathers 432 English nouns ending in NCE and containing S, such as Science, Sentence, Presence, Insurance, Distance, Instance and Existence. Use the sorting controls below to organize entries by length, or consult our noun grammar guide to review pluralization and capitalization rules.

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Starts with A
24 words
assistance
absence
assurance
adolescence
abstinence
acquiescence
ascendance
assonance
absorbance
agriscience
autofluorescence
antiscience
absorptance
arborescence
astringence
assemblance
abscondence
albescence
alkalescence
adularescence
acescence
accrescence
adnascence
autoluminescence
Starts with B
5 words
bioscience
bioluminescence
bancassurance
brisance
bienseance
Starts with C
24 words
consequence
circumstance
conscience
correspondence
coexistence
convalescence
consonance
coinsurance
coalescence
complaisance
concupiscence
chemiluminescence
copresence
consilience
countertransference
chemoresistance
conversance
casamance
counterreconnaissance
concrescence
condescendence
crescence
counterinstance
candescence
Starts with D
24 words
distance
disturbance
disappearance
disobedience
dissonance
dissidence
discontinuance
disallowance
discordance
desistance
dehiscence
disinheritance
discountenance
despondence
deliquescence
disaffirmance
detumescence
dissemblance
defeasance
disencumbrance
defervescence
descendence
degenerescence
decalescence
Starts with E
22 words
existence
essence
effervescence
evanescence
efflorescence
excrescence
esperance
equidistance
electroluminescence
epifluorescence
elastance
ensuance
eschewance
erubescence
ethnoscience
esurience
extumescence
exsuperance
excandescence
exacerbescence
emollescence
equisonance
Starts with F
9 words
fluorescence
florescence
feasance
fervescence
frondescence
fremescence
fatiscence
frutescence
festinance
Starts with G
2 words
geoscience
glaucescence
Starts with H
4 words
happenstance
hesitance
hypersomnolence
hyperphosphorescence
Starts with I
24 words
insurance
instance
insistence
issuance
insignificance
insolence
intransigence
iridescence
inflorescence
insurgence
incandescence
insouciance
immunofluorescence
inconsequence
impuissance
inexistence
inobservance
intumescence
insentience
inconsonance
incorrespondence
infructescence
insipience
irresistance
Starts with J
3 words
jurisprudence
jouissance
juvenescence
Starts with L
6 words
luminescence
liquescence
labradorescence
lactescence
lapidescence
latescence
Starts with M
19 words
malfeasance
misguidance
mischance
monstrance
misgovernance
misfeasance
misalliance
misbalance
magnetoresistance
mesalliance
marcescence
middlescence
misreference
misintelligence
misobservance
miscreance
multiscience
misadvertence
multipresence
Starts with N
20 words
nuisance
neuroscience
nonexistence
nanoscience
naissance
nonresistance
nonfeasance
nescience
nascence
nonobservance
nonresidence
nonscience
nigrescence
noninsurance
nonsentence
noncorrespondence
nondeliquescence
nontransmittance
nondiscontinuance
nonincandescence
Starts with O
12 words
observance
obsolescence
obeisance
omniscience
omnipresence
opalescence
overinsurance
obmutescence
overissuance
oscitance
omnisignificance
obliviscence
Starts with P
24 words
presence
persistence
perseverance
pestilence
pseudoscience
prescience
phosphorescence
pursuance
pubescence
puissance
preadolescence
pleasance
preexistence
putrescence
pearlescence
prepubescence
photoluminescence
parascience
photoreconnaissance
postadolescence
postemergence
pulsatance
preassurance
pseudoacquaintance
Starts with Q
2 words
quintessence
quiescence
Starts with R
24 words
resistance
residence
resilience
renaissance
resonance
resemblance
reassurance
reconnaissance
resurgence
reminiscence
reinsurance
remonstrance
resplendence
renascence
recrudescence
radioluminescence
recalescence
rejuvenescence
respondence
rubescence
reconvalescence
reviviscence
revivescence
recusance
Starts with S
24 words
science
sentence
silence
substance
significance
sequence
stance
surveillance
severance
semblance
subsistence
sustenance
salience
sixpence
seance
subsidence
sconce
sufferance
sentience
subservience
senescence
subsequence
spence
somnolence
Starts with T
21 words
transcendence
transference
transience
telepresence
translucence
transmittance
transhumance
thermoluminescence
transconductance
tumescence
turgescence
triboluminescence
thermoresistance
telescience
transportance
torpescence
transilience
tribophosphorescence
tabescence
tribofluorescence
thermophosphorescence
Starts with U
7 words
underinsurance
usance
ultradistance
unobservance
upsurgence
unisonance
unessence
Starts with V
6 words
vraisemblance
virescence
viridescence
vaporescence
vitrescence
virilescence

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