16-letter words that end in ess
- irresistibleness — The quality of being irresistible.
- irresolvableness — The state or quality of being irresolvable.
- irreversibleness — The state or quality of being irreversible.
- learning process — a process of learning
- leisure sickness — a medical condition in which people who have been working become ill with symptoms such as fatigue or muscular pains at a weekend or while on holiday
- lightheartedness — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- line of business — profession, trade: field
- lost-wax process — a process of investment casting in which a refractory mold is built up around a pattern of wax and then baked so as to melt and drain off the wax.
- malcontentedness — not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances.
- manipulativeness — Quality of being manipulative.
- meretriciousness — alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.
- mexican hairless — one of a breed of small dogs having no hair except for a tuft on the top of the head and a little fuzz on the lower part of the tail.
- microsoft access — 1. (database) A relational database running under Microsoft Windows. Data is stored as a number of "tables", e.g. "Stock". Each table consists of a number of "records" (e.g. for different items) and each record contains a number of "fields", e.g. "Product code", "Supplier", "Quantity in stock". Access allows the user to create "forms" and "reports". A form shows one record in a user-designed format and allows the user to step through records one at a time. A report shows selected records in a user-designed format, possibly grouped into sections with different kinds of total (including sum, minimum, maximum, average). There are also facilities to use links ("joins") between tables which share a common field and to filter records according to certain criteria or search for particular field values. Version: 2 (date?). 2. (communications) A communications program from Microsoft, meant to compete with ProComm and other programs. It sucked and was dropped. Years later they reused the name for their database.
- miss one's guess — to fail to guess or predict accurately
- monterey cypress — a tree, Cupressus macrocarpa, of southern California, being pyramid-shaped in youth, but spreading in age: occurs naturally in only two groves on the coast of Monterey County, California, but is cultivated extensively.
- morning sickness — nausea occurring in the early part of the day, especially as a characteristic symptom in the first months of pregnancy.
- moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
- muddleheadedness — The state of being muddle-headed.
- multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
- narrowmindedness — Alternative spelling of narrow-mindedness.
- no fixed address — Someone who is of no fixed address does not have a permanent place to live.
- non-spuriousness — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
- obstreperousness — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
- odontoid process — the toothlike upward projection at the back of the second vertebra of the neck
- ostentatiousness — characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others: an ostentatious dresser.
- otherworldliness — The quality of being otherworldly.
- overcautiousness — the quality or state of being too cautious, wary, or careful
- overnumerousness — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
- overwhelmingness — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- perfecting press — a rotary press for printing both sides of a sheet or web in one operation.
- physical address — (memory management) The address presented to a computer's main memory in a virtual memory system, in contrast to the virtual address which is the address generated by the CPU. A memory management unit translates virtual addresses into physical addresses.
- physical fitness — good physical condition
- plain-spokenness — the quality or characteristic of being plain-spoken
- presumptuousness — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
- quantitativeness — The state or quality of being quantitative.
- questionableness — The state or condition of being questionable; dubiousness.
- rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- reversal process — a process for converting the negative on a film or plate to a positive by bleaching and redeveloping.
- scratch hardness — resistance of a material, as a stone or metal, to scratching by one of several other materials, the known hardnesses of which are assembled into a standard scale, as the Mohs' scale of minerals.
- secondary stress — Engineering. a stress induced by the elastic deformation of a structure under a temporary load.
- shortsightedness — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- shoulder harness — the part of a seat belt that goes over the shoulder and diagonally across the chest.
- spherical excess — the difference between the sum of the angles of a spherical triangle and two right angles.
- 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.
- strait-lacedness — the state or quality of being strait-laced
- sub-postmistress — (in Britain) a woman who runs a sub-post office
- subconsciousness — existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness: the subconscious self. Compare preconscious, unconscious.
- superciliousness — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
- terminal illness — A terminal illness cannot be cured, and causes death.