TENACE

Definition: TENACE

TENACE

Noun

1. The holding by the fourth hand of the best and third best cards of a suit led; also, sometimes, the combination of best with third best card of a suit in any hand.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Tenace \Ten"ace\, noun. [French expression tenace tenacious, demeurer tenace to hold the best and third best cards and take both tricks, and adversary having to lead. See Tenacious.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: TENACE

French (fast, ineradicable, obstinate, persevering, persistent, relentless, single minded, stiff, stubborn, tenacious), Italian (firm, lasting, single minded, strong, tenacious), Romanian (stubborn, tenacious, tough).

Amour tenace (1912)

Rancune tenace (1985)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Gli uomini di tenace concetto : Leonardo Sciascia e l'inquisizione spagnola in Sicilia (reference)

• La crotte tenace et autres contes ngbaka-ma'bo de République Centrafricaine (Réalisation CETO/ORSTOM, Surugue, B.). Avec la collaboration de M. Mavode. (reference)

• Thérèse Casgrain, une femme tenace et engagée (reference)

• Une amitié tenace : roman (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Bulgarian 

форшет. (various references)

Manx

pinjoor. (various references)

Pig Latin

enacetay

Derivations

Words beginning with "TENACE": tenaces. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cetane.

-1 letter: eaten, enact, enate.

-2 letters: acne, ante, cane, cant, cate, cent, cete, etna, neat, tace, teen.

-3 letters: ace, act, ane, ant, ate, can, cat, cee, eat, eta, nae, nee, net, tae, tan, tea, tee, ten.

-4 letters: ae, an, at, en, et, na, ne, ta.

+1 letter: acetone, canteen, catenae, cementa, centare, cetanes, crenate, cuneate, enacted, reenact, tenaces.

+2 letters: accented, acescent, acetones, agenetic, anecdote, antecede, cabernet, canteens, cantered, carotene, casement, catenate, centares, centiare, cetacean, cineaste, cleanest, conepate, creatine, crenated, cuneated, decadent, decanted, decanter, echinate, enactive, entrance, exsecant, increate, iterance, lancelet, lanceted, notecase, nucleate, patience, pentacle, preenact, reaccent, reascent, recanted, recanter, recreant, reenacts, sarcenet, tangence, tendance, tentacle, uncreate.

+3 letters: acescents, acetylene, acuteness, ancienter, anecdotes, anteceded, antecedes, appetence, appetency, ascendent, cabernets, calenture, canescent, caretaken, carotenes, carpenter, caseinate, casements, catenated, catenates, cattlemen, celebrant, centaurea, centenary, centiares, centraler, certainer, cetaceans, chanteuse, chastened, chastener, cineastes, cisternae, clientage, coenacted, coeternal, conepates, contactee, creatines, crenulate, decadents, decanters, descanted, emittance, enactment, enchanted, enchanter, entranced, entrances, entrechat, enucleate, enunciate, exactness, executant, expectant, exsecants, exultance, fecundate, genetical, hesitance, interface, interlace, iterances, lancelets, latencies, mincemeat, nectaries, nectarine, notecases, nucleated, nucleates, pachytene, patencies, patiences, pectinate, pentacles, petulance, phenacite, placement, placentae, preenacts, reaccents, reactance, reascents, recanters, recreants, rectangle, reenacted, renascent, sarcenets, selectman, tangences, tenancies, tendances, tentacled, tentacles, tolerance, uncreated, uncreates, unteaches, utterance.

+4 letters: abducentes, abjectness, abstinence, accelerant, accentless, accentuate, acceptance, accruement, acetylenes, acetylenic, activeness, adolescent, advertence, advertency, amercement, ancestored, ancestress, ancestries, ancientest, anecdotage, anesthetic, antecedent, anteceding, antecessor, antechapel, anthelices, anthracene, antiemetic, appetences, apprentice, archentera, ascendents, attendance, auctioneer, benefactor, binucleate, cajolement, calentures, candescent, cantilever, carpenters, caseinates, catechumen, catenaries, celebrants, centaureas, centauries, centennial, centesimal, centigrade, centralest, centralise, centralize, certainest, chanteuses, chasteners, chasteness, chatelaine, cinematize, cleanliest, clientages, coalescent, coattended, coelentera, coetaneous, colemanite, commentate, compensate, condensate, congregate, consecrate, contactees, contravene, covenanted, covenantee, covenanter, creatinine, credential, crenelated, crenulated, cybernated, cysteamine, decadently, decampment, defacement, defecating, defecation, deracinate, descendant, desistance, detachment, diagenetic, effacement, emancipate, emittances, enactments, encampment, encasement, encashment, enchanters, endothecia, enlacement, entrechats, enucleated, enucleates, enunciated, enunciates, epicentral, escapement, escarpment, escheating, evanescent, execrating, execration, executants, expectance, expectancy, expectants, exultances, fecundated, fecundates, flatulence, geniculate, hesitances, impatience, incinerate, indelicate, injectable, intendance, interacted, intercaste, interfaced, interfaces, interlaced, interlaces, interocean, interspace, inveteracy, lanceolate, lemniscate, licentiate, linecaster, maleficent, medicament, melanocyte, mercantile, merchanted, metacenter, mincemeats, nectarines, nematicide, nematocide, newscaster, noticeable, opalescent, pachytenes, pangenetic, penetrance, percentage, petulances, phenacetin, phenacites, placements, planchette, plasticene, preachment, preenacted, purtenance, reaccented, reactances, recreating, recreation, rectangles, reenacting, reentrance, reluctance, remittance, renunciate, repentance, resistance, reteaching, solacement, sustenance, tabernacle, tangencies, temperance, tenacities, tetracaine, tolerances, trancelike, transected, transience, unaccented, unaccepted, unaffected, uncarpeted, uncleanest, unclearest, uncreative, undecadent, underacted, underreact, uneducated, utterances.

+5 letters: abstinences, acaulescent, accelerants, accentuated, accentuates, acceptances, accruements, acetanilide, achievement, acquiescent, acquirement, actinometer, acutenesses, adolescents, advancement, advertences, affectioned, amercements, anaesthetic, ancientness, ancientries, anecdotages, anesthetics, antecedence, antecedents, antecessors, antechamber, antechapels, anthracenes, antiemetics, antiscience, antisecrecy, appetencies, apprenticed, apprentices, arborescent, archenteron, areocentric, ascertained, atherogenic, attendances, auctioneers, awestricken, baronetcies, becarpeting, benefaction, benefactors, beneficiate, bicentenary, binucleated, cabinetries, caffeinated, cajolements, cantilevers, carpentered, carpentries, catechumens, catercorner, cattinesses, ceanothuses, celebrating, celebration, cementation, centenarian, centenaries, centennials, centerboard, centralised, centralises, centralized, centralizer, centralizes, centripetal, cerebrating, cerebration, certainties, chanterelle, chanticleer, chatelaines, cinematized, cinematizes, clandestine, codefendant, cogenerator, colemanites, coleopteran, collectanea, commentated, commentates, compensated, compensates, concatenate, concealment, concentrate, conceptacle, condensates, confederate, congealment, congregated, congregates, connectable, consecrated, consecrates, considerate, constellate, consternate, contemplate, contestable, contravened, contravener, contravenes, contredanse, copartnered, cotoneaster, countenance, counterbade, counterpane, counterplea, covenantees, covenanters, creatinines, credentials, crenelation, crenellated, crestfallen, cysteamines, decampments, decarbonate, deceptional, decremental, defacements, defecations, delectation, denticulate, deprecating, deprecation, deracinated, deracinates, descendants, desecrating, desecration, desistances, detachments, determinacy, effacements, electrician, emancipated, emancipates, embracement, emplacement, encampments, encapsulate, encasements, encashments, enchainment, enchantment, enchantress, enhancement, enlacements, entranceway, enucleating, enucleation, escapements, escarpments, esthetician, ethicalness, exactnesses, exceptional, excremental, execrations, exorbitance, expectances, expectantly, expectation, expectorant, exultancies, flatulences, furtherance, gametogenic, geanticline, genetically, geniculated, geomagnetic, glabrescent, glycerinate, hesitancies, impatiences, impeachment, inappetence, incalescent, incarcerate, incinerated, incinerates, incremental, ineffectual, ineluctable, inexactness, inflectable, inheritance, injectables, insectaries, intendances, interactive, interagency, intercalate, intercensal, interchange, intercrater, interspaced, interspaces, intestacies, intolerance, kitchenware, leatherneck, lecithinase, lemniscates, licentiates, lieutenancy, linecasters, maintenance, mantelpiece, medicaments, melanocytes, mendacities, merchantmen, metacenters, metacentric, metagenetic, metanephric, necessitate, nematicides, nematocides, neuroactive, newscasters, noncreative, nonreactive, pacesetting, paragenetic, parenthetic, pearlescent, pedunculate, penetrances, penicillate, pentarchies, pentazocine, percentages, petulancies, phenacetins, planchettes, plasticenes, plecopteran, praelecting, preachments, predicament, preenacting, purtenances, reaccenting, reaccepting, recarpeting, recontacted, recreations, recriminate, rectilinear, reeducating, reeducation, reenactment, reentrances, reflectance, reincarnate, reinoculate, rejacketing, reluctances, remittances, renunciates, repentances, replacement, resistances, revaccinate, rubefacient, scantnesses, solacements, superjacent, sustenances, tabernacled, tabernacles, tacitnesses, tackinesses, telecasting, temperances, teratogenic, tetracaines, traducement, transceiver, transcended, transfected, transiences, transpierce, trencherman, unaesthetic, unbracketed, unchartered, undecorated, undedicated, underactive, underreacts, unelectable, unenchanted, unexcitable, uninucleate, unmedicated, unteachable, untraceable.

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