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.