17-letter words containing ess
- court of sessions — any of state courts of criminal jurisdiction in California, New York, and a few other states.
- critical pressure — the pressure of a gas or the saturated vapour pressure of a substance in its critical state
- darwinian fitness — fitness (def 3).
- darwinian-fitness — health.
- demonstrativeness — The state or quality of being demonstrative.
- deprofessionalise — to remove from professional control, influence, manipulation, etc.
- deprofessionalize — to remove from professional control, influence, manipulation, etc.
- dessert chocolate — cooking chocolate
- diaphragm pessary — a device for inserting into the vagina to deliver a drug, such as a contraceptive
- directionlessness — Absence of direction.
- disadvantagedness — The quality of being disadvantaged.
- discreditableness — Quality of being discreditable.
- dishonourableness — Alternative spelling of dishonorableness.
- disinterestedness — unbiased by personal interest or advantage; not influenced by selfish motives: a disinterested decision by the referee.
- dispassionateness — The state or quality of being dispassionate.
- disrespectfulness — The state or quality of being disrespectful; disrespect; disregard.
- dissociated press — [Play on "Associated Press"; perhaps inspired by a reference in the 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon "What's Up, Doc?"] An algorithm for transforming any text into potentially humorous garbage even more efficiently than by passing it through a marketroid. The algorithm starts by printing any N consecutive words (or letters) in the text. Then at every step it searches for any random occurrence in the original text of the last N words (or letters) already printed and then prints the next word or letter. Emacs has a handy command for this. Here is a short example of word-based Dissociated Press applied to an earlier version of the Jargon File: wart: A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an array (C has no checks for this). This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the phrase is bent so as to be not worth paying attention to the medium in question. Here is a short example of letter-based Dissociated Press applied to the same source: window sysIWYG: A bit was named aften /bee't*/ prefer to use the other guy's re, especially in every cast a chuckle on neithout getting into useful informash speech makes removing a featuring a move or usage actual abstractionsidered interj. Indeed spectace logic or problem! A hackish idle pastime is to apply letter-based Dissociated Press to a random body of text and vgrep the output in hopes of finding an interesting new word. (In the preceding example, "window sysIWYG" and "informash" show some promise.) Iterated applications of Dissociated Press usually yield better results. Similar techniques called "travesty generators" have been employed with considerable satirical effect to the utterances of Usenet flamers; see pseudo.
- do one's business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- dress-down friday — In some companies employees are allowed to wear clothes that are less smart than usual on a Friday. This day is known as a dress-down Friday.
- dressed up as sth — portrayed as
- emergency session — an urgent meeting held by parliament, ministers, etc. to discuss what measures should be taken to deal with an emergency
- essential element — any chemical element required by an organism for healthy growth. It may be required in large amounts (macronutrient) or in very small amounts (trace element)
- excess employment — excessive numbers of employees for the amount of work available
- executive session — a session of the Senate for the discussion of executive business, such as the ratification of treaties: formerly held in secret
- extraordinariness — The property of being extraordinary.
- faint-heartedness — lack of courage
- fairness doctrine — a policy mandated by the Federal Communications Commission, requiring radio and television stations to grant equal time to a political candidate, group, etc., to present an opposing viewpoint to one already aired.
- fancy dress party — a party at which the guests wear fancy dress
- field penny-cress — the common penny-cress, Thlaspi arvense.
- fitness programme — a plan to help someone improve their health and physical condition
- gender expression — the external expression of gender roles, as through socially defined behaviors and ways of dressing.
- give the business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- greensand process — a process for casting iron with sand not previously heated.
- heart of darkness — a short novel (1902) by Joseph Conrad.
- heartbreakingness — The state or quality of being heartbreaking.
- horst wessel song — the official song of the Nazi party in Germany from 1933 to 1945.
- hot off the press — newspaper: freshly printed
- immunosuppressant — (pharmacology) Capable of immunosuppression, immunosuppressive.
- immunosuppression — the inhibition of the normal immune response because of disease, the administration of drugs, or surgery.
- immunosuppressive — capable of causing immunosuppression: immunosuppressive drugs.
- impracticableness — The state of being impracticable; impracticability.
- impressionability — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- in double harness — in a harness for two animals pulling the same carriage, plow, etc.
- in the process of — If you are in the process of doing something, you have started to do it and are still doing it.
- in the wilderness — If politicians or other well-known people spend time in the wilderness, they are not in an influential position or very active in their profession for that time.
- inappropriateness — not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.
- inclusive fitness — the fitness of an individual organism as measured in terms of the survival and reproductive success of its kin, each relative being valued according to the probability of shared genetic information, an offspring or sibling having a value of 50 percent and a cousin 25 percent.
- incompressibility — The quality of being incompressible, of not compressing under pressure.
- inconceivableness — The quality of being inconceivable.
- inconsiderateness — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.