16-letter words containing ess
- constructiveness — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- contemporariness — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- contemptibleness — The state or quality of being contemptible.
- contemptuousness — showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
- controllableness — The state of being controllable; the capability of being controlled.
- contumaciousness — The property of being contumacious.
- contumeliousness — The state or quality of being contumelious.
- court of session — the supreme civil court in Scotland
- creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
- curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
- data compression — the act of compressing.
- debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
- deferred success — (in Britain) a euphemism suggested as an alternative to ‘failure’, in order not to stigmatize pupils who have not achieved a pass in a particular subject
- deliberativeness — The state or quality of being deliberative.
- demonstrableness — The quality of being demonstrable.
- depression glass — cheap glassware mass-produced during the Depression of the 1930s, usually molded in patterns in pale colors, and collectible since the early 1970s
- depressurization — to remove the air pressure from (a pressurized compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft).
- destructibleness — The quality of being destructible.
- determinableness — Capability of being determined; determinability.
- diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
- disagreeableness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being disagreeable.
- disconcertedness — The characteristic of being disconcerted.
- disconnectedness — The characteristic of being disconnected.
- disconsolateness — (uncountable) The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
- discontentedness — The state or quality of being discontented.
- discourteousness — The state or quality of being discourteous.
- dishonorableness — The property of being dishonorable.
- disingenuousness — The state or quality of being disingenuous.
- disputatiousness — The state or quality of being disputatious or argumentative; contentiousness.
- disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
- do business with — trade or deal with
- do the necessary — to do something that is necessary in a particular situation
- dressing station — a post or center that gives first aid to the wounded, located near a combat area.
- duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
- dunderheadedness — Stupidity.
- duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
- ethernet address — (networking) (Or "MAC address") The physical address identifying an individual Ethernet controller board. An Ethernet addess is a 48-bit number aabbccddeeff where a-f are hexadecimal digits. The first 24 bits, aabbcc, identify the manufacturer of the controller. The Ethernet address is hard-wired on some controllers, stored in a ROM on some, and others allow it to be changed from software. It is usually written as six hexadecimal numbers, e.g. 08:00:20:03:72:DC. See also ARP, Internet address.
- expressionlessly — Without expression; in an expressionless way.
- faintheartedness — The quality or state of being fainthearted.
- falling sickness — epilepsy.
- fancy dress ball — a ball at which the guests wear fancy dress
- farewell address — (initial capital letters) U.S. History. a statement that President George Washington published in a Philadelphia newspaper in 1796 to announce that he would not run for a third term and to give his views on foreign and domestic policy.
- fashion business — the business dealing with style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
- father confessor — confessor (def 2).
- feeblemindedness — Quality of being feeble-minded; weak intellect.
- file compression — (algorithm) The compression of data in a file, usually to reduce storage requirements.
- finless porpoise — a porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides of the Indian and pacific Oceans that completely lacks a dorsal fin
- full court press — Basketball. a tactic of harassing, close-guarding defense in which the team without the ball pressures the opponent man-to-man the entire length of the court in order to disrupt dribbling or passing and force a turnover: Suddenly behind by eighteen points, they went to a full-court press.
- full-court press — Basketball. a tactic of harassing, close-guarding defense in which the team without the ball pressures the opponent man-to-man the entire length of the court in order to disrupt dribbling or passing and force a turnover: Suddenly behind by eighteen points, they went to a full-court press.
- fullness of time — the proper or destined time.