8-letter words containing ess
- bondless — without bonds, unrestrained
- boneless — without bones; specif., with the bones removed
- boniness — the condition of being bony
- bookless — having no books
- boonless — useless or unhelpful
- bootless — of little or no use; vain; fruitless
- boxiness — the quality of being boxy
- browless — without eyebrows
- burpless — a belch; eructation.
- bushless — devoid of vegetation
- business — Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services.
- busyness — the quality or condition of being busy.
- buttress — Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.
- cageless — Without a cage.
- caginess — cautious, wary, or shrewd: a cagey reply to the probing question.
- cakiness — the state of being cakey
- calfless — (of a cow) having no calves
- calmness — without rough motion; still or nearly still: a calm sea.
- campness — the quality of being camp
- canoness — a woman belonging to any one of several religious orders and living under a rule but not under a vow
- careless — If you are careless, you do not pay enough attention to what you are doing, and so you make mistakes, or cause harm or damage.
- caressed — an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
- caresser — One who caresses.
- caresses — an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
- cashless — Cashless payments are made using cards or electronic methods rather than physical money.
- cateress — a female caterer
- cavesson — a kind of hard noseband, used (esp formerly) in breaking a horse in
- cessavit — (UK, legal, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
- cessions — Plural form of cession.
- cesspipe — a waste pipe, especially one discharging from a cesspool.
- cesspits — Plural form of cesspit.
- cesspool — A cesspool is the same as a cesspit.
- chadless — (of a keypunch) not producing chads
- chapless — lacking a lower jaw
- chessman — any of the eight pieces and eight pawns used by each player in a game of chess
- chessmen — any piece used in the game of chess.
- chicness — the condition of being stylish or elegant
- chiefess — a chief who is female
- chinless — having a receding chin
- clanless — a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor: the Mackenzie clan.
- clawless — Having no claws.
- clerkess — a female office clerk
- cloyless — not cloying
- clueless — If you describe someone as clueless, you are showing your disapproval of the fact that they do not know anything about a particular subject or that they are incapable of doing a particular thing properly.
- coalless — without coal
- coatless — without a coat or coat of arms
- codeless — lacking a code
- coldness — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
- colessee — a joint lessee
- colessor — a joint lessor