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Words containing ess

4 letter words containing ess

  • bess — a diminutive of Elizabeth
  • cess — (formerly) any of several special taxes, such as a land tax in Scotland
  • fess — a teacher.

5 letter words containing ess

  • bless — When someone such as a priest blesses people or things, he asks for God's favour and protection for them.
  • chess — Chess is a game for two people, played on a chessboard. Each player has 16 pieces, including a king. Your aim is to move your pieces so that your opponent's king cannot escape being taken.
  • cress — Cress is a plant with small green leaves that are used in salads or to decorate food. See also mustard and cress.
  • dress — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
  • fesse — an ordinary in the form of a broad horizontal band across the middle of an escutcheon.

6 letter words containing ess

  • abbess — An abbess is the nun who is in charge of the other nuns in a convent.
  • access — If you have access to a building or other place, you are able or allowed to go into it.
  • assess — When you assess a person, thing, or situation, you consider them in order to make a judgment about them.
  • awless — displaying no awe; unawed.
  • bessel — Friedrich Wilhelm (ˈfriːdrɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1784–1846, German astronomer and mathematician. He made the first authenticated measurement of a star's distance (1841) and systematized a series of mathematical functions used in physics

7 letter words containing ess

  • abscess — An abscess is a painful swelling containing pus.
  • actress — An actress is a woman whose job is acting in plays or films.
  • address — Your address is the number of the house, flat, or apartment and the name of the street and the town where you live or work.
  • ageless — If you describe someone as ageless, you mean that they never seem to look any older.
  • aggress — to attack first or begin a quarrel

8 letter words containing ess

  • abessive — the grammatical case indicating absence
  • accessed — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
  • accesses — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
  • achiness — a constant, dull pain
  • actressy — exaggerated and affected in manner; theatrical

9 letter words containing ess

  • abscessed — a localized collection of pus in the tissues of the body, often accompanied by swelling and inflammation and frequently caused by bacteria.
  • accessary — accessory
  • accessing — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
  • accession — Accession is the act of taking up a position as the ruler of a country.
  • accessory — Accessories are items of equipment that are not usually essential, but which can be used with or added to something else in order to make it more efficient, useful, or decorative.

10 letter words containing ess

  • abruptness — sudden or unexpected: an abrupt departure.
  • absurdness — utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false: an absurd explanation.
  • accessible — If a place or building is accessible to people, it is easy for them to reach it or get into it. If an object is accessible, it is easy to reach.
  • accessibly — easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use.
  • actionless — inactive, without action

11 letter words containing ess

  • absentness' — not in a certain place at a given time; away, missing (opposed to present): absent from class.
  • abusiveness — using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
  • accessorial — of or like an accessory; supplementary
  • accessories — Accessories belong to a product category in fashion stores, which includes items such as scarves, hats, gloves, belts, and purses.
  • accessorise — to fit or equip with accessories: to accessorize a car with special seat covers.

12 letter words containing ess

  • abrasiveness — any material or substance used for grinding, polishing, etc., as emery, pumice, or sandpaper.
  • absoluteness — the quality of being absolute
  • abstractness — the quality of being abstract as opposed to concrete
  • abstruseness — hard to understand; recondite; esoteric: abstruse theories.
  • accessioning — the act of coming into the possession of a right, title, office, etc.: accession to the throne.

13 letter words containing ess

  • acceptingness — the state or quality of being accepting
  • accessibility — easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use.
  • accessorizing — to fit or equip with accessories: to accessorize a car with special seat covers.
  • addictiveness — producing or tending to cause addiction: an addictive drug.
  • addressograph — a machine for addressing envelopes, etc

14 letter words containing ess

  • abstemiousness — sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.
  • afro-pessimism — the belief that the provision of aid to African countries is futile
  • aggressiveness — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • antidepressant — An antidepressant is a drug which is used to treat people who are suffering from depression.
  • applicableness — applying or capable of being applied; relevant; suitable; appropriate: an applicable rule; a solution that is applicable to the problem.

15 letter words containing ess

  • accessorization — to fit or equip with accessories: to accessorize a car with special seat covers.
  • acquisitiveness — tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.: our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.
  • adventurousness — the quality of being adventurous
  • antidepressants — of or relating to a substance that is used in the treatment of mood disorders, as characterized by various manic or depressive affects.
  • appropriateness — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.

16 letter words containing ess

  • anti-progressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
  • antirecessionary — used to counteract or offest the economic effects of a recession: the president's antirecessionary program.
  • apprehensiveness — uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.
  • approachableness — capable of being approached; accessible.
  • bright-blindness — blindness occurring in sheep grazing pastures heavily infested with bracken

17 letter words containing ess

  • argumentativeness — fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
  • authoritativeness — having due authority; having the sanction or weight of authority: an authoritative opinion.
  • barrow-in-furness — an industrial town in NW England, in S Cumbria. Pop: 47 194 (2001)
  • communicativeness — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • complementariness — forming a complement; completing.

18 letter words containing ess

  • counter-aggression — the action of a state in violating by force the rights of another state, particularly its territorial rights; an unprovoked offensive, attack, invasion, or the like: The army is prepared to stop any foreign aggression.

20 letter words containing ess

  • congressman-at-large — (in the US) a member of the House of Representatives who was elected by the voters of an entire state as opposed to the voters of a single Congressional district

21 letter words containing ess

  • consciousness-raising — Psychology. a group-therapy technique in which the aim is to enhance the participants' awareness of their particular needs and goals as individuals or as a group.
  • ecological-succession — the coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, or in the course of events: many troubles in succession.

23 letter words containing ess

On this page, we collect all words with ESS. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 7942 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that contains ESS that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.

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