8-letter words containing ess
- fretless — Describing a stringed instrument that does not have frets.
- fullness — completely filled; containing all that can be held; filled to utmost capacity: a full cup.
- fundless — with no funds
- gainless — unprofitable.
- gameness — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- gaminess — the taste or odor of game, especially when slightly tainted.
- gamyness — the quality of being gamy
- gastness — terror or fright.
- gaumless — gormless.
- gazeless — to look steadily and intently, as with great curiosity, interest, pleasure, or wonder.
- gearless — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- germless — a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
- giantess — an imaginary female being of human form but superhuman size, strength, etc.
- girlness — (nonstandard) The state or condition of being a girl; femininity, girlhood.
- gladness — feeling joy or pleasure; delighted; pleased: glad about the good news; glad that you are here.
- glegness — quickness
- glibness — readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.
- gluiness — Alt form glueyness.
- glumness — sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.
- goalless — the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
- goddesse — Archaic spelling of goddess.
- goldless — lacking gold
- goneness — a sinking sensation; exhaustion or faintness.
- goodness — the state or quality of being good.
- gooiness — the quality of being gooey
- goriness — covered or stained with gore; bloody.
- gormless — lacking in vitality or intelligence; stupid, dull, or clumsy.
- grayness — of a color between white and black; having a neutral hue.
- greyness — The state or quality of being grey.
- grimness — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
- grumness — the quality of being grum
- guessers — Plural form of guesser.
- guessing — The act of making a guess; estimate or prediction; foresight.
- guinness — Sir Alec, 1914–2000, English actor.
- gustless — (obsolete) tasteless; insipid.
- hairless — without hair; bald: his pink hairless pate.
- haleness — free from disease or infirmity; robust; vigorous: hale and hearty men in the prime of life.
- halfness — The quality of being half; incompleteness.
- haltless — without stopping
- handless — without a hand or hands.
- hardness — the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
- harkness — Edward Stephan, 1874–1940, U.S. philanthropist.
- harmless — without the power or desire to do harm; innocuous: He looks mean but he's harmless; a harmless Halloween prank.
- hateless — without feelings of hatred
- haziness — characterized by the presence of haze; misty: hazy weather.
- headless — without a head.
- heatless — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- heedless — careless; thoughtless; unmindful: Heedless of the danger, he returned to the burning building to save his dog.
- heelless — Without a heel.
- heirless — a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.