Words that rhyme with bunce

• absorbance 0
  n 1: (physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation [syn: optical density, transmission density, photographic density, absorbance]
• accordance 0
  n 1: concurrence of opinion; "we are in accord with your proposal" [syn: accord, conformity, accordance] 2: the act of granting rights; "the accordance to Canada of rights of access" [syn: accordance, accordance of rights]
• disturbance 0
  n 1: activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption; "the term `distress' connotes some degree of perturbation and emotional upset"; "he looked around for the source of the disturbance"; "there was a disturbance of neural function" [syn: perturbation, disturbance] 2: an unhappy and worried mental state; "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset she caused me" [syn: disturbance, perturbation, upset] 3: a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused" [syn: disturbance, disruption, commotion, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle] 4: a noisy fight [syn: affray, disturbance, fray, ruffle] 5: the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion 6: (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness [syn: mental disorder, mental disturbance, disturbance, psychological disorder, folie] 7: electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication [syn: noise, interference, disturbance]
• dunce 0
  n 1: a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence [syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead]
• importance 0
  n 1: the quality of being important and worthy of note; "the importance of a well-balanced diet" [ant: unimportance] 2: a prominent status; "a person of importance" [syn: importance, grandness]
• once 0
  adv 1: on one occasion; "once I ran into her" [syn: once, one time, in one case] 2: as soon as; "once we are home, we can rest" 3: at a previous time; "at one time he loved her"; "her erstwhile writing"; "she was a dancer once"; [syn: once, formerly, at one time, erstwhile, erst]
• perseverance 0
  n 1: persistent determination [syn: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenacity, tenaciousness, pertinacity] 2: the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior; "his perseveration continued to the point where it was no longer appropriate" [syn: perseverance, persistence, perseveration]
• persistence 0
  n 1: the property of a continuous and connected period of time [syn: continuity, persistence] 2: persistent determination [syn: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenacity, tenaciousness, pertinacity] 3: the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior; "his perseveration continued to the point where it was no longer appropriate" [syn: perseverance, persistence, perseveration]
• pertinence 0
  n 1: relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand [syn: applicability, pertinence, pertinency] [ant: inapplicability]
• pittance 0
  n 1: an inadequate payment; "they work all day for a mere pittance"
• precedence 0
  n 1: status established in order of importance or urgency; "...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals"; "national independence takes priority over class struggle" [syn: precedence, precedency, priority] 2: preceding in time [syn: priority, antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency] [ant: posteriority, subsequence, subsequentness] 3: the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) [syn: precession, precedence, precedency]
• precipitance 0
  n 1: the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning [syn: abruptness, precipitateness, precipitousness, precipitance, precipitancy, suddenness]
• predominance 0
  n 1: the state of being predominant over others [syn: predominance, predomination, prepotency] 2: the quality of being more noticeable than anything else; "the predomination of blues gave the painting a quiet tone" [syn: predomination, predominance]
• preference 0
  n 1: a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney" [syn: preference, penchant, predilection, taste] 2: a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation" [syn: predilection, preference, orientation] 3: the right or chance to choose; "given my druthers, I'd eat cake" [syn: preference, druthers] 4: grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties)
• preponderance 0
  n 1: superiority in power or influence; "the preponderance of good over evil"; "the preponderance of wealth and power" 2: a superiority in numbers or amount; "a preponderance of evidence against the defendant" [syn: preponderance, prevalence] 3: exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight; "the least preponderance in either pan will unbalance the scale"
• prominence 0
  n 1: the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent [ant: obscurity] 2: relative importance 3: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]
• protuberance 0
  n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence] 2: the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out; "the protuberance of his belly"
• provenance 0
  n 1: where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization" [syn: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience]
• providence 0
  n 1: the capital and largest city of Rhode Island; located in northeastern Rhode Island on Narragansett Bay; site of Brown University [syn: Providence, capital of Rhode Island] 2: the guardianship and control exercised by a deity; "divine providence" 3: a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures 4: the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources [ant: improvidence, shortsightedness]
• prudence 0
  n 1: discretion in practical affairs [ant: imprudence] 2: knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress; "the servants showed great tact and discretion" [syn: discretion, discreetness, circumspection, prudence]
• pubescence 0
  n 1: the time of life when sex glands become functional [syn: puberty, pubescence]
• puissance 0
  n 1: power to influence or coerce; "the puissance of the labor vote"
• reactance 0
  n 1: opposition to the flow of electric current resulting from inductance and capacitance (rather than resistance)
• reappearance 0
  n 1: the event of something appearing again; "the reappearance of Halley's comet" 2: the act of someone appearing again; "his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited" [syn: reappearance, return]
• reassurance 0
  n 1: the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence
• recalcitrance 0
  n 1: the trait of being unmanageable [syn: refractoriness, unmanageableness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy]
• recurrence 0
  n 1: happening again (especially at regular intervals); "the return of spring" [syn: recurrence, return]
• reference 0
  n 1: a remark that calls attention to something or someone; "she made frequent mention of her promotion"; "there was no mention of it"; "the speaker made several references to his wife" [syn: mention, reference] 2: a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases" [syn: citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotation] 3: an indicator that orients you generally; "it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved" [syn: reference point, point of reference, reference] 4: a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts; "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic" [syn: reference book, reference, reference work, book of facts] 5: a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability; "requests for character references are all too often answered evasively" [syn: character, reference, character reference] 6: the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; "the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos" [syn: reference, denotation, extension] 7: the act of referring or consulting; "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer" [syn: reference, consultation] 8: a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to; "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation" [syn: reference, source] 9: (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored [syn: address, computer address, reference] 10: the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to; "he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes" v 1: refer to; "he referenced his colleagues' work" [syn: reference, cite]
• reflectance 0
  n 1: the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface [syn: coefficient of reflection, reflection factor, reflectance, reflectivity]
• reinsurance 0
  n 1: sharing the risk by insurance companies; part or all of the insurer's risk is assumed by other companies in return for part of the premium paid by the insured; "reinsurance enables a client to get coverage that would be too great for any one company to assume"
• relevance 0
  n 1: the relation of something to the matter at hand [syn: relevance, relevancy] [ant: irrelevance, irrelevancy]
• reliance 0
  n 1: certainty based on past experience; "he wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists"; "he put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun" [syn: reliance, trust] 2: the state of relying on something
• re-entrance 0
• kunce 0
• munce 0

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