Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 8-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like NCE often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: abeyance, abidance, acutance.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| abeyance | 8 | 2 | |
| abidance | 8 | 3 | |
| acutance | 8 | 3 | |
| adamance | 8 | 3 | |
| affiance | 8 | 2 | |
| alliance | 8 | 2 | |
| ambiance | 8 | 2 | |
| ambience | 8 | 2 | |
| announce | 8 | 2 | |
| audience | 8 | 2 | |
| bechance | 8 | 2 | |
| brisance | 8 | 2 | |
| buoyance | 8 | 1 | |
| clarence | 8 | 2 | |
| commence | 8 | 2 | |
| convince | 8 | 2 | |
| coprince | 8 | 2 | |
| credence | 8 | 2 | |
| defiance | 8 | 2 | |
| denounce | 8 | 2 | |
| deviance | 8 | 2 | |
| distance | 8 | 2 | |
| elegance | 8 | 3 | |
| eminence | 8 | 3 | |
| ensconce | 8 | 2 | |
| entrance | 8 | 2 | |
| evidence | 8 | 3 | |
| exigence | 8 | 3 | |
| feasance | 8 | 2 | |
| florence | 8 | 2 | |
| guidance | 8 | 2 | |
| instance | 8 | 2 | |
| issuance | 8 | 2 | |
| iterance | 8 | 3 | |
| laitance | 8 | 2 | |
| lenience | 8 | 2 | |
| mergence | 8 | 2 | |
| nascence | 8 | 2 | |
| nondance | 8 | 2 | |
| nuisance | 8 | 2 | |
| opulence | 8 | 3 | |
| ordnance | 8 | 2 | |
| outdance | 8 | 2 | |
| outrance | 8 | 2 | |
| parlance | 8 | 2 | |
| patience | 8 | 2 | |
| piquance | 8 | 2 | |
| pittance | 8 | 2 | |
| portance | 8 | 2 | |
| presence | 8 | 2 | |
| pretence | 8 | 2 | |
| province | 8 | 2 | |
| prudence | 8 | 2 | |
| radiance | 8 | 2 | |
| reliance | 8 | 2 | |
| renounce | 8 | 2 | |
| riddance | 8 | 2 | |
| salience | 8 | 2 | |
| sapience | 8 | 2 | |
| sentence | 8 | 2 | |
| sequence | 8 | 2 | |
| sithence | 8 | 2 | |
| sixpence | 8 | 2 | |
| tangence | 8 | 2 | |
| tendance | 8 | 2 | |
| tendence | 8 | 2 | |
| tenpence | 8 | 2 | |
| tuppence | 8 | 2 | |
| twopence | 8 | 2 | |
| valiance | 8 | 2 | |
| variance | 8 | 2 | |
| vergence | 8 | 2 | |
| vibrance | 8 | 2 | |
| violence | 8 | 2 | |
| voidance | 8 | 2 |
What’s typical about NCE-ending words?
NCE often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.