16-letter words containing ress
- progress payment — an instalment of a larger payment made to a contractor for work carried out up to a specified stage of the job
- progressive jazz — an experimental, nonmelodic, and often free-flowing style of modern jazz, especially in the form of highly dissonant, rhythmically complex orchestral arrangements. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz.
- progressive jpeg — (graphics, file format) (PJPEG) An implementation of JPEG that supports progressive coding.
- progressive lens — a multifocal eyeglass lens that provides a continuous range of focal power between near and far distances.
- repressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
- russian dressing — a sharp mayonnaise dressing containing chopped pickles, chili sauce or ketchup, pimientos, etc.
- secondary stress — Engineering. a stress induced by the elastic deformation of a structure under a temporary load.
- self-suppression — Psychoanalysis. conscious inhibition of an impulse.
- standing cypress — a plant, Ipomopsis rubra, of the southern U.S., having feathery leaves and clusters of red and yellow flowers.
- storm and stress — Sturm und Drang.
- sub-postmistress — (in Britain) a woman who runs a sub-post office
- the yellow press — (formerly) popular newspapers publishing sensational stories
- to get bad press — If someone or something gets bad press, they are criticized, especially in the newspapers, on television, or on radio. If they get good press, they are praised.
- tongue depressor — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
- unimpressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- work-in-progress — In book-keeping, work-in-progress refers to the monetary value of work that has not yet been paid for because it has not yet been completed.