9-letter words containing ess
- duchesses — the wife or widow of a duke.
- dumminess — the condition of being one who contributes nothing or has no comment to make on proceedings
- dumpiness — The quality of being dumpy.
- dungeness — a low shingle headland on the S coast of England, in Kent: two nuclear power stations: automatic lighthouse
- duskiness — somewhat dark; having little light; dim; shadowy.
- dustiness — The quality of being dusty.
- dwarfness — a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- dyingness — the nature or condition of expiring or declining
- e-address — an e-mail address
- eagerness — keen or ardent in desire or feeling; impatiently longing: I am eager for news about them. He is eager to sing.
- earliness — in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: early in the year.
- eerieness — Alternative spelling of eeriness.
- egressing — Present participle of egress.
- egression — The act of going; egress.
- egressive — Going or directed outward.
- electress — The wife of a German elector.
- eliteness — The quality of being elite.
- empressed — Simple past tense and past participle of empress.
- empresses — Plural form of empress.
- emptiness — The state of containing nothing.
- endlessly — In an endless manner; continuously without limit.
- equalness — (nonstandard) equality.
- erectness — The state of being erect, or of having an erect posture.
- errorless — (not comparable) Free from errors; accurate, correct.
- espressos — Plural form of espresso.
- essaouira — a port in SW Morocco on the Atlantic. Pop: 84 000 (2003)
- essayette — a short essay
- essayists — Plural form of essayist.
- essential — Absolutely necessary; extremely important.
- essequibo — a river in Guyana, rising near the Brazilian border and flowing north to the Atlantic: drains over half of Guyana. Length: 1014 km (630 miles)
- essex man — a characterization of a man who flaunts his new-found success and status, thought typical in SE England in the 1980s
- esslingen — a town in SW Germany, on the River Neckar: Gothic church, medieval buildings: wines, light industry. Pop: 91 980 (2003 est)
- ethicless — Without ethics.
- eton mess — a dessert consisting of a mixture of strawberries, cream, and crushed meringue
- eventless — Without events; uneventful.
- exactness — The quality of being accurate or correct; precision.
- exactress — A female exactor.
- excessive — More than is necessary, normal, or desirable; immoderate.
- expressed — Simple past tense and past participle of express.
- expresser — One who expresses.
- expresses — Plural form of express.
- expressly — Explicitly; clearly.
- faddiness — the state or quality of being excessively fussy, esp with food
- faintness — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
- faithless — not adhering to allegiance, promises, vows, or duty: the faithless behavior of Benedict Arnold.
- falseness — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- fanciless — Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination.
- fanciness — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- farmeress — (dated) A female farmer.
- fatalness — The quality of being fatal; deadliness.