9-letter words containing ess
- bossiness — given to ordering people about; overly authoritative; domineering.
- boughless — (of trees) having no boughs
- boundless — If you describe something as boundless, you mean that there seems to be no end or limit to it.
- boundness — the quality of being bound or obligated
- bowelless — ruthless, merciless
- brainless — If you describe someone or something as brainless, you mean that you think they are stupid.
- brandless — having or displaying no brand
- brashness — impertinent; impudent; tactless: a brash young man.
- braveness — possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance.
- brazeless — seamless
- breadless — without bread; without food
- briefless — (said of a barrister) without clients
- brineless — without brine
- briskness — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
- broadness — the state or character of being broad: the broadness of the ship; the broadness of his jokes.
- broodless — with no brood
- brushless — (of a motor) not using physical contacts for the communicator
- bruteness — the quality of being brutish or savage
- bulkiness — of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.
- burgesses — Anthony, 1917–93, English novelist and critic.
- bushiness — a bushy quality or state
- businessy — of, relating to, typical of, or suitable for the world of commercial or industrial business
- bustiness — the state of being busty
- butchness — the state of being butch
- cageyness — the quality of being cagey
- caithness — (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland, now part of Highland
- campiness — the quality of being campy
- canniness — the quality of being canny
- caressing — an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
- caressive — resembling a caress or tending to caress
- casteless — having no caste
- cattiness — catlike; feline.
- causeless — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- cavessons — Plural form of cavesson.
- ceaseless — If something, often something unpleasant, is ceaseless, it continues for a long time without stopping or changing.
- cessation — The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
- cessative — (of a verbal form or aspect) expressing cessation.
- cesspools — Plural form of cesspool.
- chainless — having no chain or chains
- chantress — a female chanter or singer
- chariness — the state of being chary
- charmless — If you say that something or someone is charmless, you mean that they are unattractive or uninteresting.
- chartless — not mapped; uncharted
- cheapness — The state of being cheap.
- checkless — without check or restraint
- cheerless — Cheerless places or weather are dull and depressing.
- chess pie — a dessert made of a custardlike mixture of butter, sugar, eggs, etc., baked in a pie shell
- chess set — a set of 32 chessmen constituting complete sets in two colours, and sometimes including a chess board
- chesstree — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a wooden fastening with one or more sheaves, attached to the topside of a sailing vessel, through which the windward tack of a course was rove.
- chewiness — the condition of necessitating chewing or of being difficult to chew