8-letter words containing ess
- lungless — Without lungs.
- lushness — (of vegetation, plants, grasses, etc.) luxuriant; succulent; tender and juicy.
- lustless — Without sexual lust.
- maidless — Without a maid (female servant).
- makeless — having no mate or match.
- maleness — a person bearing an X and Y chromosome pair in the cell nuclei and normally having a penis, scrotum, and testicles, and developing hair on the face at adolescence; a boy or man.
- maneless — the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- manyness — The quality or state of being many.
- marquess — marquee (def 3).
- massless — pertaining to an elementary particle having zero rest mass, as a photon.
- mateless — Without a mate.
- matiness — sociable; friendly: a matey chat.
- mattress — a large pad for supporting the reclining body, used as or on a bed, consisting of a quilted or similarly fastened case, usually of heavy cloth, that contains hair, straw, cotton, foam rubber, etc., or a framework of metal springs.
- mayoress — a woman who is the chief executive official of a city, village, or town.
- meanness — the state or quality of being mean.
- meatless — the flesh of animals as used for food.
- meekness — humbly patient or docile, as under provocation from others.
- meetness — Fitness; suitability; propriety.
- mess kit — a portable set of usually metal cooking and eating utensils, used especially by soldiers and campers.
- mess tin — a kind of portable saucepan used esp by the military
- mess-dos — /mes-dos/ (Or MS-DOG, Messy-DOS, mess-dross, mess-loss, mush-dos) Derisory term for MS-DOS. Often followed by the ritual banishing "Just say No!" Most hackers (even many MS-DOS hackers) loathe MS-DOS for its single-tasking nature, its limits on application size, its nasty primitive interface, and its ties to IBMness (see fear and loathing). In Ireland and the UK it is sometimes called "Domestos" after a brand of toilet cleanser.
- messaged — Simple past tense and past participle of message.
- messager — One who sends a message.
- messages — A verbal, written, or recorded communication sent to or left for a recipient who cannot be contacted directly.
- messapic — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- messenia — a division of ancient Greece, in the SW Peloponnesus: an important center of Mycenaean culture.
- messiaen — Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles [aw-lee-vyey œ-zhen praw-sper sharl] /ɔ liˈvyeɪ œˈʒɛn prɔˈspɛr ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1908–92, French composer and organist.
- messiahs — Plural form of messiah.
- messidor — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the tenth month of the year, extending from June 19 to July 18.
- messiest — Superlative form of messy.
- messines — a village in W Belgium, near Ypres: battles 1914, 1917.
- messmate — a person, especially a friend, who is a member of a group regularly taking meals together, as in an army camp.
- messroom — a dining room aboard ship or at a naval base.
- messuage — a dwelling house with its adjacent buildings and the lands appropriated to the use of the household.
- mildness — amiably gentle or temperate in feeling or behavior toward others.
- milkless — Without milk.
- mindless — without intelligence; senseless: a mindless creature.
- miriness — a miry quality or condition
- misguess — to guess wrongly
- mistress — a woman who has authority, control, or power, especially the female head of a household, institution, or other establishment.
- modeless — (computing) Not modal; not having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
- monessen — a city in SW Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
- moonless — the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- mootness — The state or condition of being moot.
- mopiness — languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.
- moreness — the state of being greater than something else, greatness
- moveless — lacking movement: the still night with its moveless branches.
- muchness — Archaic. greatness, as in quantity, measure, or degree.
- museless — Uncultured.
- muteness — silent; refraining from speech or utterance.