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17-letter words that end in ess

  • inconsiderateness — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
  • inconspicuousness — The condition of being inconspicuous.
  • indefatigableness — The state of being indefatigable.
  • indescribableness — The quality of being indescribable.
  • indeterminateness — The quality of being indeterminate.
  • indispensableness — The characteristic of being indispensable; indispensability.
  • indistinctiveness — The quality of being indistinctive.
  • inefficaciousness — Lack of efficacy.
  • inexhaustibleness — The quality of being inexhaustible.
  • instantaneousness — Condition of being instantaneous.
  • insupportableness — The state of being insupportable; insufferableness.
  • internationalness — The state or condition of being international.
  • introspectiveness — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
  • irrecoverableness — The quality of being irrecoverable.
  • jehovah's witness — A Jehovah's Witness is a member of a religious organization which accepts some Christian ideas and believes that the world is going to end very soon.
  • knowledgeableness — The state, quality, or measure of being knowledgeable; wisdom.
  • lackadaisicalness — without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic: a lackadaisical attempt.
  • mean-spiritedness — the quality of being mean-spirited
  • midsummer madness — a temporary lapse into foolishness, senseless behavior, folly, etc., especially during the summer: His plan to become a beachcomber is midsummer madness.
  • miscellaneousness — Quality of being miscellaneous.
  • mountain sickness — illness caused by being at high altitude
  • multitudinousness — The state or condition of being multitudinous.
  • mustard and cress — Mustard and cress is very young mustard plants and cress plants grown together and eaten in salad.
  • nonproductiveness — The quality of being nonproductive.
  • objectionableness — The quality of being objectionable.
  • order of business — a task assigned or to be dealt with: Our first order of business is to reduce expenses.
  • overnight success — sth or sb suddenly popular
  • permanent address — a fixed address
  • perspicaciousness — having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning: to exhibit perspicacious judgment.
  • piece of business — business (def 10).
  • property mistress — a female member of the stage crew in charge of the stage properties
  • pterygoid process — either of two long bony plates extending downwards from each side of the sphenoid bone within the skull
  • qualified success — If you describe something as a qualified success, you mean that it is only partly successful.
  • rhetorical stress — stress required by the meaning of a line, as distinguished from that required by the meter.
  • sanctimoniousness — making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
  • secondary process — the conscious mental activity and logical thinking controlled by the ego and influenced by environmental demands.
  • sequential access — of or relating to a storage medium, as magnetic tape, in which records must be accessed by reading or writing from the beginning of the file.
  • sequential-access — of or relating to a storage medium, as magnetic tape, in which records must be accessed by reading or writing from the beginning of the file.
  • sleeping sickness — Also called African sleeping sickness, African trypanosomiasis. a generally fatal disease, common in parts of Africa, characterized by fever, wasting, and progressive lethargy: caused by a parasitic protozoan, Trypanosoma gambiense or T. rhodesiense, that is carried by a tsetse fly, Glossina palpalis.
  • superstitiousness — of the nature of, characterized by, or proceeding from superstition: superstitious fears.
  • sweating sickness — a febrile epidemic disease that appeared in the 15th and 16th centuries: characterized by profuse sweating and frequently fatal in a few hours.
  • the peace process — negotiations (between governments, countries, ect) towards peace or the resolution of a conflict
  • the popular press — cheap newspapers with a mass circulation; the tabloid press
  • the tabloid press — (considered as a whole) newspapers with pages about 30 cm (12 inches) by 40 cm (16 inches), usually characterized by an emphasis on photographs and a concise and often sensational style
  • thompson seedless — a yellow, seedless variety of grape used in producing raisins.
  • uncomfortableness — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
  • uncooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • unimaginativeness — the quality of being unimaginative
  • unprecedentedness — without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled: an unprecedented event.
  • unpredictableness — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
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