5-letter words containing ess
- -less — -less is added to nouns in order to form adjectives that indicate that someone or something does not have the thing that the noun refers to.
- -ness — -ness is added to adjectives to form nouns which often refer to a state or quality. For example, 'sadness' is the state of being sad and 'kindness' is the quality of being kind.
- amess — Alternative form of amyss.
- bless — When someone such as a priest blesses people or things, he asks for God's favour and protection for them.
- cessl — CEll Space Simulation Language
- 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.
- essay — A short piece of writing on a particular subject.
- essen — An industrial city in the Ruhr valley, in northwestern Germany; pop. 627,000.
- esses — Plural form of ess, the name of the letter S.
- essex — a county of SE England, on the North Sea and the Thames estuary; the geographical and ceremonial county includes Thurrock and Southend-on-Sea, which became independent unitary authorities in 1998. Administrative centre: Chelmsford. Pop (excluding unitary authorities): 1 324 100 (2003 est). Area (excluding unitary authorities): 3446 sq km (1310 sq miles)
- fesse — an ordinary in the form of a broad horizontal band across the middle of an escutcheon.
- fress — to eat or snack, especially often or in large quantities.
- gesso — gypsum or plaster of Paris prepared with glue for use as a surface for painting.
- guess — to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
- hesse — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, German novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1946.
- jesse — the father of David. I Sam. 16.
- lesse — Archaic form of less.
- loess — a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia.
- messi — Lionel (Andrés). (ljoˈnel anˈdres) born 1987, Argentinian footballer; a prolific goalscorer for both Barcelona (from 2004) and Argentina (from 2005)
- messy — characterized by a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: a messy room.
- press — to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
- sessa — an exclamation found in Shakespeare, of unknown meaning; suggestions include 'be gone', 'come', or a woman's name
- tessa — a female given name, form of Theresa.
- tress — Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
- wessi — a native, inhabitant, or citizen of that part of Germany that was formerly West Germany
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