13-letter words containing ess
- barbarousness — The state or quality of being barbarous.
- barefacedness — The state or quality of being barefaced.
- basic process — Military. basic training. a soldier or airman receiving basic training.
- batch-process — to perform batch processing on (files)
- be witness to — If you are witness to something, you see it happen.
- beauteousness — The state or quality of being beauteous.
- beautifulness — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
- beginningless — having no beginning
- belongingness — the human state of being an essential part of something
- benightedness — intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
- beseemingness — a quality or state that is beseeming
- bespottedness — the state of being covered with spots or blemishes
- bessel method — a method of ascertaining position by the use of a map showing prominent features of the terrain and enabling one to sight through them to obtain a fix.
- bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
- bitch session — a discussion in which people complain or gripe, usually about a shared experience: Their first date turned into a four-hour bitch session about their ex-spouses' lawyers.
- blameableness — the quality of being blameable
- blessed event — the birth of a child; also, a newborn child
- blood vessels — any of the vessels, as arteries, veins, or capillaries, through which the blood circulates.
- bosch process — an industrial process for manufacturing hydrogen by the catalytic reduction of steam with carbon monoxide
- breakableness — the quality of being breakable
- brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
- burgess shale — a bed of Cambrian sedimentary rock in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia containing many unique invertebrate fossils
- bush sickness — an animal disease caused by a cobalt deficiency in old bush country
- business card — A person's business card or their card is a small card which they give to other people, and which has their name and details of their job and company printed on it.
- business case — a briefcase or attaché case.
- business park — an area specially designated and landscaped to accommodate business offices, warehouses, light industry, etc
- business plan — A business plan is a detailed plan for setting up or developing a business, especially one that is written in order to borrow money.
- business suit — a formal suit suitable for wearing to work
- business trip — a journey made somewhere and back again for business purposes in one's working capacity
- businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
- buttress root — a tree root that extends above ground as a platelike outgrowth of the trunk supporting the tree. Buttress roots are mainly found in trees of tropical rain forests
- capaciousness — capable of holding much; spacious or roomy: a capacious storage bin.
- causelessness — the quality or state of having no cause or reason
- ceaselessness — the quality of being uninterrupted or not stopping
- centricalness — the situation or quality of being centrical
- changefulness — Propensity to change.
- characterless — If you describe something as characterless, you mean that it is dull and uninteresting.
- cheerlessness — The state or characteristic of being cheerless.
- child process — (operating system) A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
- childlessness — The state of being childless.
- childlikeness — the character of being like a child
- chinese chess — a Chinese game, resembling chess, played on a board consisting of two halves, each eight squares by four, with a strip separating them: pieces representing the military of ancient China are placed on the intersections of the lines and the game is won when a general is checkmated.
- chromaticness — the attribute of colour that involves both hue and saturation
- civilizedness — having an advanced or humane culture, society, etc.
- clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
- classlessness — of or relating to a society in which there are no economic or social distinctions.
- cleavableness — the quality of being cleavable
- clothes-press — a piece of furniture for storing clothes, usually containing wide drawers and a cabinet
- cloudlessness — Absence of clouds.
- collectedness — The state or quality of being collected.