8-letter words containing ess
- kneeless — Without knees.
- laceless — (of shoes, basketballs, etc.) Without laces.
- laciness — a lacy quality or state
- lameness — crippled or physically disabled, especially in the foot or leg so as to limp or walk with difficulty.
- lampless — Without a lamp or lamps; unlit.
- landless — without landed property; not owning land: a landless noble.
- lankness — The property of being lank.
- largesse — generous bestowal of gifts.
- lashless — Without eyelashes.
- lastness — The quality of being or coming last; finality.
- lateness — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- laziness — lazy evaluation
- leadless — Chemistry. a heavy, comparatively soft, malleable, bluish-gray metal, sometimes found in its natural state but usually combined as a sulfide, especially in galena. Symbol: Pb; atomic weight: 207.19; atomic number: 82; specific gravity: 11.34 at 20°C.
- leafless — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- leakless — Without leaks.
- leanness — (of persons or animals) without much flesh or fat; not plump or fat; thin: lean cattle.
- lectress — a female reader
- lemessus — ancient name of Limassol.
- lensless — Without a lens or lenses.
- lessened — to become less.
- lessness — (philosophy) The state or condition of being less.
- lessoned — Simple past tense and past participle of lesson.
- lewdness — inclined to, characterized by, or inciting to lust or lechery; lascivious.
- lifeless — not endowed with life; having no life; inanimate: lifeless matter.
- lifeness — (rare, philosophy) The state or quality of having a life.
- likeless — Unlike; dissimilar in form; different.
- likeness — a representation, picture, or image, especially a portrait: to draw a good likeness of Churchill.
- limbless — a part or member of an animal body distinct from the head and trunk, as a leg, arm, or wing: the lower limbs; artificial limbs.
- limeless — not having or containing lime
- limpness — lacking stiffness or firmness, as of substance, fiber, structure, or bodily frame: a limp body.
- lineless — Free of lines.
- lintless — That does not contain, or does not shed lint.
- listless — having or showing little or no interest in anything; languid; spiritless; indifferent: a listless mood; a listless handshake.
- liteness — the quality of being 'lite', normally related to low-calorie and low-fat food
- liveness — being alive; living; alive: live animals.
- loamless — not containing loam
- lobeless — without lobes
- lockless — without locks
- loessial — a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia.
- loftless — (of a building) not having a loft
- loneness — being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied: a lone traveler.
- long ess — a style of the letter s, suggesting a lowercase f in form, formerly common in handwriting and as a type character.
- longness — (rare) length, lengthiness.
- lordless — having no lord.
- lossless — Having or involving no dissipation of electrical or electromagnetic energy.
- lostness — The quality of being lost.
- loudness — (of sound) strongly audible; having exceptional volume or intensity: loud talking; loud thunder; loud whispers.
- loveless — without any love: a loveless marriage.
- loveness — Love.
- luckless — having no luck; unfortunate; hapless; ill-fated; turning out or ending disastrously: a luckless venture that ruined many of the investors.