resonance the characteristic of having a loud deep sound
dissonance disagreeable sounds
assonance the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
writer's name the name that appears on the by-line to identify the author of a work
countenance the appearance conveyed by a person's face
putrescence the quality of rotting and becoming putrid
Rhaeto-Romance Romance dialects spoken in parts of southeastern Switzerland and northern Italy and the Tyrol
iridescence the visual property of having lustrous, varying colors
consonance a harmonious state of things and of their properties
repugnance intense aversion
provenance where something originated or was nurtured
appurtenance equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles
order Sphagnales coextensive with the genus Sphagnum
governance the act of exercising authority
arteria ascendens the branch of the ileocolic artery that supplies the ascending colon
terseness a neatly short and concise expressive style
maintenance activity involved in keeping something in good working order
riddance the act of removing something
magnetic resonance resonance of electrons or atoms or molecules or nuclei to radiation frequencies as a result of space quantization in a magnetic field
distressingness the quality of being painful