8-letter words containing ess
- dourness — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- dowfness — the quality or characteristic of being dowf
- downless — the soft, first plumage of many young birds.
- doziness — The state of being dozy.
- drabness — dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc.
- dress up — of or for a dress or dresses.
- dress-up — being an occasion, situation, etc., for which one must be somewhat formally well-dressed: the first dress-up dance of the season.
- dressage — haute école (def 1).
- dressers — Plural form of dresser.
- dressier — Comparative form of dressy.
- dressily — in a dressy manner
- dressing — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- dressler — Marie (Leila Koerber) 1869–1934, U.S. actress, born in Canada.
- dressoir — a cabinet of the 18th century, having a number of shallow shelves for dishes over a base with drawers and closed cupboards.
- dripless — designed so that the substance, item, or its contents will not drip: a dripless candle; a dripless pitcher.
- drugless — being without the use of drugs, as certain methods of medical treatment.
- druidess — a female member of the Druids.
- duchesse — a daybed having a rounded, partially enclosed head and usually a similar foot, sometimes made in two or three pieces able to be used separately (duchesse brisée)
- ductless — any tube, canal, pipe, or conduit by which a fluid, air, or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
- dullness — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- dumbness — lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
- duressor — a person who subjects another to duress.
- dustless — Free of dust.
- dutchess — Archaic spelling of duchess.
- dutiless — Without duties.
- e-ddress — electronic mail address
- easeless — having no peace or contentment
- easiness — the quality or condition of being easy.
- echoless — Without echo.
- edgeless — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
- edginess — nervously irritable; impatient and anxious.
- editress — a woman employed in the work of editing.
- eeriness — uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird: an eerie midnight howl.
- egressed — Simple past tense and past participle of egress.
- egresses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of egress.
- emperess — Obsolete form of empress.
- empresse — keen; zealous
- epicness — The quality or state of being epic.
- espresso — Strong black coffee made by forcing steam through ground coffee beans.
- essaying — Present participle of essay.
- essayish — resembling an essay
- essayist — A person who writes essays, especially as a literary genre.
- essences — Plural form of essence.
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- essoiner — a person who essoins
- essonite — a dark-brown kind of garnet
- eustress — Moderate or normal psychological stress interpreted as being beneficial for the experiencer.
- evenness — The quality of being even.
- evilness — The quality or state of being evil.
- excesses — Plural form of excess.