18-letter words containing ess
- accident proneness — the unconscious tendency, thought to exist in some people, to involve themselves in a large number of accidents
- address resolution — (networking) Conversion of an Internet address into the corresponding physical address (Ethernet address). This is usually done using Address Resolution Protocol. The resolver is a library routine and a set of processes which converts hostnames into Internet addresses, though this process in not usually referred to as resolution. See DNS.
- addressing machine — a printer that prints addresses directly on to letters, labels, and envelopes
- adverse possession — the occupation or possession of land by a person not legally entitled to it. If continued unopposed for a period specifed by law, such occupation extinguishes the title of the rightful owner
- antipatheticalness — The state or quality of being antipathetical.
- assessment process — a series of steps that constitute a method of assessing students or workers
- awnless bromegrass — Hungarian bromegrass.
- bessemer converter — a refractory-lined furnace used to convert pig iron into steel by the Bessemer process
- bichromate process — any of several methods of photography in which the light-sensitive medium is alkaline bichromate associated with a colloid such as gum, albumen, or gelatin.
- box-office success — a very successful film or play that earns a lot of money
- brightness control — a control that enables the brightness of the image on a television screen, computer monitor, etc to be adjusted
- business education — education for general knowledge of business practices.
- carolina jessamine — a vine, Gelsemium sempervirens, of the southern U.S. and Central America, of the logania family, having glossy, lance-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow flowers: the state flower of South Carolina.
- centre of pressure — the point in a body at which the resultant pressure acts when the body is immersed in a fluid
- chickenheartedness — Alternative form of chicken-heartedness.
- common user access — (programming) (CUA) The user interface standard of SAA.
- compassionlessness — The quality, state, or condition of being compassionless; uncompassion.
- comprehensibleness — The quality of being comprehensible; comprehensibility.
- compression stroke — The compression stroke is the stroke in an engine in which the air or air/fuel mixture is compressed before ignition.
- compressor program — a computer program that compresses data
- compressor station — A compressor station is a facility with several compressors (= devices that increase the pressure of air or natural gas) and other equipment to pump natural gas under pressure over long distances.
- conditional access — the encryption of television programme transmissions so that only authorized subscribers with suitable decoding apparatus may have access to them
- congress of vienna — the European conference held at Vienna from 1814–15 to settle the territorial problems left by the Napoleonic Wars
- continuous process — A continuous process is a process in which the product comes out without interruption and not in groups.
- contrastive stress — a stress imposed on a word or syllable contrary to its normal accentuation in order to contrast it with an alternative word or syllable or to focus attention on it, as the stress given to the normally unstressed word of in government of the people, by the people, for the people in order to point up the parallel between of, by, and for and to distinguish of from words such as over or against.
- cordless telephone — a portable battery-powered telephone with a short-range radio link to a fixed base unit
- couldn't care less — If you say that you couldn't care less about someone or something, you are emphasizing that you are not interested in them or worried about them. In American English, you can also say that you could care less, with the same meaning.
- 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.
- cultural awareness — Someone's cultural awareness is their understanding of the differences between themselves and people from other countries or other backgrounds, especially differences in attitudes and values.
- distress frequency — a radio frequency band reserved for emergency signals from aircraft or ships in distress.
- dressing table set — a set including a hairbrush, mirror and comb, often with silver backs
- due process of law — the administration of justice in accordance with established rules and principles
- essence of violets — an alcoholic solution derived from violets, used as perfume
- excess profits tax — a tax on profits exceeding a certain amount
- expressionlessness — The state of being without an expression.
- extemporaneousness — The degree or property of being extemporaneous.
- eyewitness account — a description given by someone who was present at an event
- fitness instructor — physical trainer, exercise teacher
- fixed-radio access — Wireless Local Loop
- flat address space — (architecture) The memory architecture in which any memory location can be selected from a single contiguous block by a single integer offset. Almost all popular processors have a flat address space, but the Intel x86 family has a segmented address space. A flat address space greatly simplifies programming because of the simple correspondence between addresses (pointers) and integers.
- forethoughtfulness — The condition of being forethoughtful.
- forwarding address — address for mail to be sent on
- fracture toughness — The fracture toughness of a material is how likely it is to resist fracture.
- funeral procession — ceremonial cortège at a burial
- general confession — a prayer confessing sins
- general precession — the precession that results from both lunisolar precession and planetary precession; precession of the equinoxes.
- gettysburg address — the notable short speech made by President Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa.
- harnessed antelope — any African antelope of the genus Tragelaphus, especially the bushbuck, having the body marked with white stripes and spots that resemble a harness, and, in the male, long, gently spiraling horns.
- honest-to-goodness — real or genuine.
- horseless carriage — an automobile: The horse and buggy were eventually replaced by the horseless carriage.
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