| ADVANCE | • advance v. To promote or advantage. • advance v. To move forward in space or time. • advance v. To raise, be raised. |
| ARRIVANCE | • arrivance n. (Obsolete) Arrival. • ARRIVANCE n. (Shakespeare) company arriving, also ARRIVANCY. |
| CALAVANCE | • calavance n. Any bean, but especially the hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus). • calavance n. Food made from beans. • CALAVANCE n. a kind of pulse, also CARAVANCE. |
| CARAVANCE | • caravance n. Alternative form of calavance. • CARAVANCE n. a kind of pulse, also CALAVANCE. |
| GRIEVANCE | • grievance n. (Countable) Something which causes grief. • grievance n. (Countable) A wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a complaint. • grievance n. (Uncountable) Feelings of being wronged; outrage. |
| READVANCE | • readvance v. To advance again. • READVANCE v. to advance again. |
| RELEVANCE | • relevance n. The property or state of being relevant or pertinent. • RELEVANCE n. the state of being relevant, also RELEVANCY. |
| APPROVANCE | • approvance n. (Archaic) Approval. • APPROVANCE n. (archaic) approval. |
| CAPTIVANCE | • captivance n. (Obsolete, rare) Captivity. • CAPTIVANCE n. (Spenser) captivity, also CAPTIVAUNCE. |
| CONNIVANCE | • connivance n. (Law) The process of conniving or conspiring. • CONNIVANCE n. the act of conniving, also CONNIVANCY. |
| DISADVANCE | • disadvance v. (Obsolete, transitive) To draw back, pull back. • DISADVANCE v. (Spenser) to draw back, or cause to draw back, also DISAVAUNCE. |
| OBSERVANCE | • observance n. The practice of complying with a law, custom, command or rule. • observance n. The custom of celebrating a holiday or similar occasion. • observance n. Observation or the act of watching. |
| SURVIVANCE | • survivance n. (Now rare) Survival. • survivance n. Succession to an estate, office etc. of someone who survives the previous holder, as nominated by them; survivorship. • survivance n. (Canada) The survival of Francophone culture in the face of Anglo-American hegemony. |
| CONTRIVANCE | • contrivance n. A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task. • contrivance n. A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective. • contrivance n. Something overly artful or artificial. |
| IRRELEVANCE | • irrelevance n. Lack of relationship with the topic at hand; lack of importance. • IRRELEVANCE n. the state of being irrelevant, also IRRELEVANCY. |
| INOBSERVANCE | • inobservance n. Lack of observance. • INOBSERVANCE n. lack of attention. |
| UNOBSERVANCE | • unobservance n. Lack or neglect of observance. • UNOBSERVANCE n. lack of observance. |
| MISOBSERVANCE | • misobservance n. The instance or practice of not complying with a law, custom, command or rule. • misobservance n. The custom of not celebrating a holiday or similar occasion. • MISOBSERVANCE n. an incorrect observance. |
| NONOBSERVANCE | • nonobservance n. The failure to observe a custom, or to conform with a law. • NONOBSERVANCE n. a lack of observance. |