12-letter words containing ress
- press agency — news-reporting organization
- press bureau — an organization or a department whose function is press-agentry.
- press button — a button on a phone dial which you press
- press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
- press office — a section of a government department or other organization responsible for dealing with the press
- press report — a report in a newspaper, magazine, etc
- pressed duck — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- pressed felt — Pressed felt is a material made from compressed fibers and used as a filter.
- presser foot — a forked, metal device on a sewing machine used for holding the fabric in place while stitching.
- pressure ice — a general term for ice broken and deformed by stresses generated by wind, currents, or waves.
- pressureless — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- professoress — a female professor
- progenitress — a female progenitor (parent or ancestor)
- proof stress — the load per unit area that a structure can withstand without being permanently deformed by more than a specified amount.
- proprietress — a woman who owns a business establishment.
- racket press — a device consisting of a frame closed by a spring mechanism, for keeping taut the strings of a tennis racket, squash racket, etc
- regressivity — regressing or tending to regress; retrogressive.
- reimpression — a second or repeated impression.
- repressively — tending or serving to repress: repressive laws.
- repressurize — to raise the internal atmospheric pressure of to the required or desired level: to pressurize an astronaut's spacesuit before a walk in space.
- ressentiment — any cautious, defeatist, or cynical attitude based on the belief that the individual and human institutions exist in a hostile or indifferent universe or society.
- rotary press — a printing press in which the type or plates to be printed are fastened upon a rotating cylinder and are impressed on a continuous roll of moving paper.
- sense stress — the stress pattern or patterns associated with words as arranged in sentences in a particular language.
- shear stress — the external force acting on an object or surface parallel to the slope or plane in which it lies; the stress tending to produce shear.
- stress-timed — having a rhythm in which stressed syllables tend to occur at regular intervals of time, regardless of the number of intervening unstressed syllables.
- stressbuster — a product, practice, system, etc, that is designed to alleviate stress
- stressed out — afflicted with or incapacitated by stress.
- stressed-out — afflicted with or incapacitated by stress.
- superexpress — a superexpress train
- suppressedly — in a suppressed manner
- suppressible — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
- sweaterdress — a knitted, woollen dress
- taskmistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
- technostress — any mental stress caused by (too much) interaction with technology
- top dressing — tennis court
- transgressed — to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
- transgressor — to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
- un-stressful — full of stress or tension: the stressful days before a war.
- unaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- underdressed — to clothe oneself less completely or formally than is usual or fitting for the circumstances.
- unexpressive — not expressive; lacking in expression of meaning, feeling, etc.: a bland and unexpressive person.
- unimpressive — having the ability to impress the mind; arousing admiration, awe, respect, etc.; moving; admirable: an impressive ceremony; an impressive appearance.
- unoppressive — not cruel or harsh
- unsuppressed — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
- vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
- vindicatress — a female vindicator
- well-dressed — attired in clothing that is of good quality, is properly fitted, and is appropriate and becoming.
- winter cress — any cress belonging to the genus Barbarea, of the mustard family, having lyrate leaves and yellow flowers.
- workmistress — a woman who oversees or controls work
- yellow cress — any of various species of cress (Rorippa) that are related to watercress and have yellow flowers. They are not confined to water margins and some are garden weeds