11-letter words containing ess
- aquafitness — a keep-fit regime in which exercises are performed standing up in a swimming pool
- archduchess — the wife or widow of an archduke
- arduousness — requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult: an arduous undertaking.
- artlessness — The state or quality of being artless.
- ashamedness — the condition of feeling ashamed
- assessingly — So as to assess.
- assessments — Plural form of assessment.
- assessorial — a person who makes assessments, especially for purposes of taxation.
- assuredness — guaranteed; sure; certain; secure: an assured income.
- audibleness — The state or quality of being audible.
- augmentless — (grammar) lacking augment.
- austereness — The state of being austere; harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.
- averageness — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- awarenesses — the state or condition of being aware; having knowledge; consciousness: The object of the information drive is to raise awareness of what spreads HIV/AIDS.
- awelessness — the state or quality of lacking awe
- awesomeness — causing or inducing awe; inspiring an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, or fear: an awesome sight.
- awkwardness — lacking skill or dexterity. Synonyms: clumsy, inept; unskillful, unhandy, inexpert. Antonyms: deft, adroit, skillful, dexterous; handy.
- babyishness — The state or quality of being babyish.
- baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
- balefulness — The characteristic of being baleful.
- banefulness — The state or quality of being baneful.
- baroqueness — The state or condition of being baroque.
- bashfulness — The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
- basic dress — a simple, usually dark dress that may be worn with various accessories or in combination with other garments so that it is suitable for different occasions.
- battledress — the ordinary uniform of a soldier, consisting of tunic and trousers
- beardedness — the quality of having a beard, the quality of being bearded
- bearishness — The characteristic of being bearish.
- beastliness — of or like a beast; bestial.
- belatedness — coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
- bench press — a weight-training exercise in which a person lies on a bench and pushes a barbell upwards with both hands from chest level until the arms are straight, then lowers it again
- bench-press — a weightlifting exercise in which one lies supine on a bench and with both hands pushes a barbell or fixed weight upward from chest level to arm's length and then lowers it back to chest level: usually repeated in sets.
- betweenness — the condition of being between
- biliousness — Physiology, Pathology. pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile.
- bindingness — the quality of being binding
- bittercress — one of several perennial or annual plants of the genus Cardamine, that are related to lady's-smock, including hairy bittercress (C. hirsuta), a common weed resembling shepherd's purse, with which it is often confused: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- blessedness — consecrated; sacred; holy; sanctified: the Blessed Sacrament.
- bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
- blushlessly — in a manner without blushing, shamelessly
- boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
- boundedness — the quality of being bounded
- branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
- breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
- breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
- brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
- bristliness — the quality of being bristly
- brittleness — the quality of being brittle
- brusqueness — abrupt in manner; blunt; rough: A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return.
- bulbousness — the quality of being bulbous
- buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
- businessman — A businessman is a man who works in business.