Words That End With: UCES

• light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork

• any coniferous tree of the genus Picea

• marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

• make neat, smart, or trim

• dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion

• reason by deduction; establish by deduction

• conclude by reasoning; in logic

• advance evidence for

• the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx

• The basic, central, or essential point or feature.

• The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.

• A puzzle or difficulty.

• The hardest point of a climb.

• A cross on a coat of arms.

• cut down on; make a reduction in

• make less complex

• bring to humbler or weaker state or condition

• simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another

• lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation

• be the essential element

• reduce in size; reduce physically

• lessen and make more modest

• make smaller

• to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons

• narrow or limit

• put down by force or intimidation

• undergo meiosis

• reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site

• destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• be cooked until very little liquid is left

• cook until very little liquid is left

• lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture

• take off weight

• cause to arise

• cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner

• cause to occur rapidly

• reason or establish by induction

• produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes

• induce to have sex

• lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct