12-letter words that end in ss
- baselessness — The state or quality of being baseless.
- basementless — without a basement
- battle dress — military field uniform and accouterments, generally camouflaged and stripped of all ornamentation.
- be at a loss — If you say that you are at a loss, you mean that you do not know what to do in a particular situation.
- beam compass — an instrument for drawing large circles or arcs, consisting of a horizontal beam along which two vertical legs slide
- bear witness — to give written or oral testimony
- bearableness — The characteristic of being bearable.
- becomingness — The state or quality of becoming.
- benefactress — a female benefactor
- benumbedness — the condition of being benumbed
- bernina pass — a pass in the Alps between SE Switzerland and N Italy, east of Piz Bernina. Height: 2323 m (7622 ft)
- besottedness — the state of being besotted
- big business — Big business is business which involves very large companies and very large sums of money.
- bitter cress — any plant belonging to the genus Cardamine, of the mustard family, having usually pinnate leaves and clusters of white, pink, or purple flowers.
- biuniqueness — the quality of a one-to-one correspondence
- blamableness — the state of being blamable
- blanket toss — a game in which a person is repeatedly tossed into the air and caught on an open blanket by a group of people who hold the blanket at its edges and stretch and relax it for each toss and catch.
- blimpishness — actions or behaviour akin to those of the fictional character of Colonel Blimp, or the quality of resembling this character
- blind-emboss — blind-stamp.
- blissfulness — full of, abounding in, enjoying, or conferring bliss.
- bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
- bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- bootlessness — the quality of being useless or ineffective
- bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
- bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
- brenner pass — a pass over the E Alps, between Austria and Italy. Highest point: 1372 m (4501 ft)
- buffel grass — grass used for pasture in Africa, India, and Australia
- canary grass — any of various grasses of the genus Phalaris, esp P. canariensis, that is native to Europe and N Africa and has straw-coloured seeds used as birdseed
- cankeredness — spitefulness or crabbedness
- canorousness — The quality of being musical.
- capital loss — A capital loss is a loss on investment property.
- captiousness — The state of being captious.
- carefreeness — without anxiety or worry.
- carelessness — not paying enough attention to what one does: a careless typist.
- carpet grass — either of two grasses, Axonopus affinis or A. compressus, native to tropical and subtropical America.
- cattle class — a jocular name for the economy-class section of an airliner, in which passengers have little space to move
- cautiousness — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
- cavalierness — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
- celtic cross — a Latin cross with a broad ring surrounding the point of intersection
- centeredness — The state of being centered.
- channel bass — red drum.
- charity toss — a free shot given as a penalty for a foul
- charmingness — pleasing; delightful: a charming child.
- cheerfulness — full of cheer; in good spirits: a cheerful person.
- cheerishness — cheerfulness
- cheval glass — full-length mirror that can swivel
- chieftainess — a female chieftain
- childishness — of, like, or befitting a child: childish games.
- cholericness — The state or quality of being choleric.
- churlishness — The state of being churlish.