11-letter words containing ress
- dress shoes — formal shoes for wearing with evening dress
- dresser set — a set of toilet articles, as comb, brush, mirror, etc., usually of matching design, for arrangement and use on a dresser or vanity.
- dressing-up — When children play at dressing-up, they put on special or different clothes and pretend to be different people.
- dressmakers — Plural form of dressmaker.
- dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- drill press — a drilling machine having a single vertical spindle.
- electresses — Plural form of electress.
- enchantress — A woman who uses magic or sorcery, esp. to put someone or something under a spell.
- expositress — a female expositor
- expressable — Capable of being expressed.
- expressible — Able to be expressed.
- expressibly — In an expressible way.
- expressions — Plural form of expression.
- expressness — the quality of being express; exactness; specificity
- expressways — Plural form of expressway.
- fancy dress — a costume for a ball, masquerade, etc., chosen to please the fancy, usually a costume characteristic of a particular period or place, class of persons, or historical or fictitious character.
- go to press — When a newspaper or magazine goes to press, it starts being printed.
- hairdresser — a person who arranges or cuts hair.
- hardpressed — Subject to difficulty in accomplishing or making progress.
- headdresses — Plural form of headdress.
- hoary cress — a perennial Mediterranean plant, Cardaria (or Lepidium) draba, with small white flowers: a widespread troublesome weed: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- hucksteress — a female huckster
- hyperstress — extreme stress or anxiety
- impressible — capable of being impressed; impressionable.
- impressibly — In an impressible manner.
- impressions — Plural form of impression.
- impressment — the act of impressing people or property into public service or use.
- in distress — (of a ship, aircraft, etc) in dire need of help
- in progress — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
- ingressives — Plural form of ingressive.
- inhabitress — a female inhabitant
- inheritress — Female inheritor.
- jointresses — Plural form of jointress.
- laundresses — Plural form of laundress.
- letterpress — the process of printing from letters or type in relief, rather than from intaglio plates or planographically.
- mac address — The hardware address of a device connected to a shared network medium. See also Media Access Control.
- marsh cress — any cress belonging to the genus Rorippa, of the mustard family, especially R. islandica, that grows in marshy areas in North America and Eurasia.
- microstress — a stress in the microstructure of a metal, as one caused by the distortion of space lattices.
- minidresses — Plural form of minidress.
- oppressions — Plural form of oppression.
- overdressed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdress.
- overexpress — to put (thought) into words; utter or state: to express an idea clearly.
- overimpress — to impress to an excessive degree
- pants press — A pants press in a hotel room is a machine that you put a pair of pants inside to get rid of the creases.
- party dress — a dress to wear to a party
- perma-press — permanent-press.
- power press — a press operated by a mechanical, hydraulic, or pneumatic device.
- pre-address — a speech or written statement, usually formal, directed to a particular group of persons: the president's address on the state of the economy.
- precentress — a female precentor
- preceptress — a woman who is an instructor; teacher; tutor.