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16-letter words that end in ess

  • disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
  • dunderheadedness — Stupidity.
  • ethernet address — (networking)   (Or "MAC address") The physical address identifying an individual Ethernet controller board. An Ethernet addess is a 48-bit number aabbccddeeff where a-f are hexadecimal digits. The first 24 bits, aabbcc, identify the manufacturer of the controller. The Ethernet address is hard-wired on some controllers, stored in a ROM on some, and others allow it to be changed from software. It is usually written as six hexadecimal numbers, e.g. 08:00:20:03:72:DC. See also ARP, Internet address.
  • faintheartedness — The quality or state of being fainthearted.
  • falling sickness — epilepsy.
  • farewell address — (initial capital letters) U.S. History. a statement that President George Washington published in a Philadelphia newspaper in 1796 to announce that he would not run for a third term and to give his views on foreign and domestic policy.
  • fashion business — the business dealing with style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
  • feeblemindedness — Quality of being feeble-minded; weak intellect.
  • full court press — Basketball. a tactic of harassing, close-guarding defense in which the team without the ball pressures the opponent man-to-man the entire length of the court in order to disrupt dribbling or passing and force a turnover: Suddenly behind by eighteen points, they went to a full-court press.
  • full-court press — Basketball. a tactic of harassing, close-guarding defense in which the team without the ball pressures the opponent man-to-man the entire length of the court in order to disrupt dribbling or passing and force a turnover: Suddenly behind by eighteen points, they went to a full-court press.
  • functionlessness — The quality or state of being functionless.
  • good-heartedness — the quality of being good-hearted
  • have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • hypercorrectness — The state or condition of being hypercorrect.
  • illegitimateness — Quality of being illegitimate.
  • immeasurableness — The state or condition of being immeasurable.
  • immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
  • impenetrableness — The quality of being impenetrable.
  • imperceptiveness — The quality of being imperceptive.
  • imperfectiveness — (grammar) The state or quality of being imperfective.
  • imperishableness — The characteristic or property of being imperishable.
  • inaccessibleness — The quality or state of being inaccessible or unreachable.
  • inapplicableness — The state or quality of being inapplicable; inapplicability.
  • inarticulateness — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
  • inauspiciousness — The state, quality, or condition of being inauspicious or unpropitious; unfavorableness.
  • incommodiousness — The state or quality of being incommodious.
  • inconclusiveness — The state or condition of being inconclusive.
  • inconsolableness — The quality of being inconsolable.
  • incorrigibleness — The quality of being incorrigible; incorrigibility.
  • indigestibleness — The quality of being indigestible.
  • indirect address — the address in a storage location that contains the actual machine address of a data item or of other information, as the next instruction, or that contains another indirect address.
  • indisputableness — The property of being indisputable.
  • indissolubleness — The quality of being indissoluble.
  • inexplicableness — The state of being difficult to account for; the state of being inexplicable.
  • infelicitousness — (linguistics, pragmatics) The quality or state of being infelicitous, or pragmatically ill-formed.
  • infinite regress — causal or logical relationship of terms in a series without the possibility of a term initiating the series.
  • inharmoniousness — The quality of being inharmonious.
  • inhospitableness — The quality of being inhospitable.
  • insufferableness — The state of being insufferable.
  • intellectualness — Quality of being intellectual.
  • intelligibleness — The quality of being intelligible.
  • intermediateness — The condition of being intermediate.
  • interminableness — The state or condition of being interminable.
  • intermissionless — (US) Without an intermission; without a pause between acts in the performance of a play or in a film on television.
  • internet address — IP address
  • internet express — An Internet provider in Colorado Springs, USA. Formerly called the Community News Service. They provide SLIP accounts at no extra charge.
  • interrelatedness — reciprocally or mutually related: an interrelated series of experiments.
  • invulnerableness — The quality of being invulnerable.
  • irrefragableness — The quality or degree of being irrefragable.
  • irremediableness — The state or quality of being irremediable.
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