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.