Words that rhyme with currence

n 1: insurance issued jointly by two or more underwriters

n 1: agreement of results or opinions [syn: concurrence, concurrency] 2: acting together, as agents or circumstances or events [syn: concurrence, concurrency] 3: a state of cooperation [syn: concurrence, meeting of minds] 4: the temporal property of two things happening at the same time; "the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable" [syn: concurrence, coincidence, conjunction, co-occurrence]

n 1: a negative motivational influence [syn: disincentive, deterrence] [ant: incentive, inducement, motivator] 2: a communication that makes you afraid to try something [syn: determent, deterrence, intimidation] 3: the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety

n 1: an event that happens [syn: happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event] 2: an instance of something occurring; "a disease of frequent occurrence"; "the occurrence (or presence) of life on other planets"

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]

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]

n 1: relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand [syn: applicability, pertinence, pertinency] [ant: inapplicability]

n 1: an inadequate payment; "they work all day for a mere pittance"

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]

n 1: the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning [syn: abruptness, precipitateness, precipitousness, precipitance, precipitancy, suddenness]

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]

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)

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"

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]

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"

n 1: where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization" [syn: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience]

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]

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]

n 1: a document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt 2: payment of a debt or obligation [syn: repayment, quittance]

n 1: opposition to the flow of electric current resulting from inductance and capacitance (rather than resistance)

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]

n 1: the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence

n 1: the trait of being unmanageable [syn: refractoriness, unmanageableness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy]

n 1: happening again (especially at regular intervals); "the return of spring" [syn: recurrence, return]

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]

n 1: the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface [syn: coefficient of reflection, reflection factor, reflectance, reflectivity]

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"

n 1: the relation of something to the matter at hand [syn: relevance, relevancy] [ant: irrelevance, irrelevancy]

n 1: (psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst 2: transferring ownership [syn: transfer, transference] 3: the act of transfering something from one form to another; "the transfer of the music from record to tape suppressed much of the background noise" [syn: transfer, transference]