15-letter words containing ess
- noblesse oblige — the moral obligation of those of high birth, powerful social position, etc., to act with honor, kindliness, generosity, etc.
- non-compression — the act of compressing.
- non-necessities — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- noncompressible — not able to be compressed
- noninvasiveness — The characteristic of being noninvasive.
- nonprofessional — not a member of or trained in a specific profession.
- nonprofessorial — not professorial
- nonsensicalness — Nonsensicality.
- not necessarily — If you reply 'Not necessarily', you mean that what has just been said or suggested may not be true.
- nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
- obstructiveness — The characteristic of being obstructive.
- odoriferousness — The quality of being odoriferous.
- onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
- openmouthedness — the state or condition of being filled with amazement and wonder
- opinionatedness — The state or condition of being opinionated.
- opprobriousness — The state or condition of being opprobrious.
- out of business — If a shop or company goes out of business or is put out of business, it has to stop trading because it is not making enough money.
- outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- over-aggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- over-assessment — too much assessment
- over-expressive — full of expression; meaningful: an expressive shrug.
- overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
- overcrowdedness — filled to excess; packed.
- overforwardness — the quality of being too familiar
- overpessimistic — excessively pessimistic or negative in outlook
- overzealousness — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
- paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
- parasiticalness — the condition or characteristic of being parasitic
- pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
- penetrativeness — the quality or condition of being penetrative
- perfector press — a flatbed press for printing both sides of a sheet in one operation.
- perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- permanent press — a process in which a fabric is chemically treated to make it wrinkle-resistant so as to require little or no ironing after washing.
- pessimistically — pertaining to or characterized by pessimism or the tendency to expect only bad outcomes; gloomy; joyless; unhopeful: His pessimistic outlook kept him from applying for jobs for which he was perfectly qualified.
- photo-secession — an association of photographers founded in New York City in 1902 by Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen that advocated the development and public recognition of photography as a fine art.
- picturesqueness — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- post-depression — the act of depressing.
- pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
- precipitantness — the condition or quality of being precipitant, hastiness
- prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
- prenflo process — The PRENFLO process is a gasification process to convert substances such as oil, gas, coal, and refinery residue into synthetic gas.
- preprofessional — of or relating to the time preceding one's concentrated study or practice of a profession: preprofessional training.
- press of canvas — the most sail a vessel can carry under given conditions
- press secretary — a person officially responsible for press and public relations for a prominent figure or organization and who often holds press conferences to answer journalists' questions.
- press the flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- pressure center — the central point of an atmospheric high or low.
- pressure cooker — a reinforced pot, usually of steel or aluminum, in which soups, meats, vegetables, etc., may be cooked quickly in heat above boiling point by steam maintained under pressure.
- pressure vessel — a vessel designed for containing substances, reactions, etc, at pressures above atmospheric pressure
- pressure-piping — Pressure-piping is a set of pipes which are used to contain fluid at high pressure.