10-Letter Words Containing: P,R,E,T,E,N,C,E

• the trait of avoiding excesses

• abstaining from excess

• the act of tempering

• a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); ten percent

• assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group

• an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time

• (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions

• a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws

• a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)

• preceding in time, order, or significance

• remorse for your past conduct

• (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total

• relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand

• the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake

• The quality or state of being penetrant; power of entering or piercing; penetrating power.

• The proportion of individuals carrying a particular variation of a gene that also express an associated trait