17-letter words that end in ss
- accommodativeness — The state or quality of being accommodative.
- actual total loss — the complete destruction or loss of a piece of property that has been insured, or damage that is so extensive that the item can no longer be salvaged or used
- adventuresomeness — The state or quality of being adventuresome.
- altitude sickness — a condition affecting some persons at high altitudes, caused by insufficient oxygen in the blood and characterized by dizziness, nausea, and shortness of breath.
- anticipatory loss — grief that is felt in anticipation of someone's death
- argumentativeness — fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
- authoritativeness — having due authority; having the sanction or weight of authority: an authoritative opinion.
- barbed-wire grass — an aromatic grass, Cymbopogon refractus, with groups of seed heads resembling barbed wire
- barrow-in-furness — an industrial town in NW England, in S Cumbria. Pop: 47 194 (2001)
- be one's own boss — If you are your own boss, you work for yourself or make your own decisions and do not have anyone telling you what to do.
- bicycle motocross — a bicycle race over a rough cross-country course, usually consisting of jumps, obstacles, and turns. Abbreviation: BMX.
- bottlebrush grass — a North American grass, Hystrix patula, having loose flower spikes with long awns.
- character actress — an actress who specializes in playing odd or eccentric characters
- character witness — a witness in a trial who testifies to the accused's general good character rather than providing evidence about the specific offence which has led to him or her being on trial
- characterlessness — The state or condition of being characterless; lack of character.
- cocktail waitress — a woman who serves in a bar or cocktail lounge
- collaborativeness — Quality of being collaborative.
- collodion process — wet plate process.
- communicativeness — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- companionableness — The state or quality of being companionable.
- compassionateness — The state or quality of being compassionate.
- complementariness — forming a complement; completing.
- complimentariness — The state or quality of being complimentary.
- comprehensiveness — of large scope; covering or involving much; inclusive: a comprehensive study of world affairs.
- condescendingness — The state or quality of being condescending.
- conscientiousness — The state or characteristic of being conscientious.
- consequentialness — The quality or state of being consequential.
- contemplativeness — The state or quality of being contemplative.
- contradictoriness — asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
- controversialness — The state or quality of being controversial.
- darwinian fitness — fitness (def 3).
- darwinian-fitness — health.
- demonstrativeness — The state or quality of being demonstrative.
- directionlessness — Absence of direction.
- disadvantagedness — The quality of being disadvantaged.
- discreditableness — Quality of being discreditable.
- dishonourableness — Alternative spelling of dishonorableness.
- disinterestedness — unbiased by personal interest or advantage; not influenced by selfish motives: a disinterested decision by the referee.
- dispassionateness — The state or quality of being dispassionate.
- disrespectfulness — The state or quality of being disrespectful; disrespect; disregard.
- dissociated press — [Play on "Associated Press"; perhaps inspired by a reference in the 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon "What's Up, Doc?"] An algorithm for transforming any text into potentially humorous garbage even more efficiently than by passing it through a marketroid. The algorithm starts by printing any N consecutive words (or letters) in the text. Then at every step it searches for any random occurrence in the original text of the last N words (or letters) already printed and then prints the next word or letter. Emacs has a handy command for this. Here is a short example of word-based Dissociated Press applied to an earlier version of the Jargon File: wart: A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an array (C has no checks for this). This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the phrase is bent so as to be not worth paying attention to the medium in question. Here is a short example of letter-based Dissociated Press applied to the same source: window sysIWYG: A bit was named aften /bee't*/ prefer to use the other guy's re, especially in every cast a chuckle on neithout getting into useful informash speech makes removing a featuring a move or usage actual abstractionsidered interj. Indeed spectace logic or problem! A hackish idle pastime is to apply letter-based Dissociated Press to a random body of text and vgrep the output in hopes of finding an interesting new word. (In the preceding example, "window sysIWYG" and "informash" show some promise.) Iterated applications of Dissociated Press usually yield better results. Similar techniques called "travesty generators" have been employed with considerable satirical effect to the utterances of Usenet flamers; see pseudo.
- do one's business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- equivalence class — (mathematics) An equivalence class is a subset whose elements are related to each other by an equivalence relation. The equivalence classes of a set under some relation form a partition of that set (i.e. any two are either equal or disjoint and every element of the set is in some class).
- extraordinariness — The property of being extraordinary.
- faint-heartedness — lack of courage
- field penny-cress — the common penny-cress, Thlaspi arvense.
- get off the grass — an exclamation of disbelief
- give the business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- greensand process — a process for casting iron with sand not previously heated.
- heart of darkness — a short novel (1902) by Joseph Conrad.
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