16-letter words that end in ss
- put out to grass — If you say that someone is being put out to grass, you mean they are no longer being employed because they are considered to be too old or no longer useful.
- 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.
- restricted class — a class of yachts that, although differing somewhat in design and rigging, are deemed able to race together because of conformity to certain standards.
- 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.
- solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
- spanish windlass — a stick used as a device for twisting and tightening a rope or cable
- 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.
- the yellow press — (formerly) popular newspapers publishing sensational stories
- this-worldliness — concern or preoccupation with worldly things and values.
- to get bad press — If someone or something gets bad press, they are criticized, especially in the newspapers, on television, or on radio. If they get good press, they are praised.
- to mean business — If you say that someone means business, you mean they are serious and determined about what they are doing.
- true-heartedness — the quality of being true-hearted
- unattractiveness — the condition of not appealing to the senses or mind through beauty, form, character, etc
- uncinate process — a curved, bony process on certain ribs of birds that projects backward and overlaps the succeeding rib, serving to strengthen the thorax.
- unreasonableness — not reasonable or rational; acting at variance with or contrary to reason; not guided by reason or sound judgment; irrational: an unreasonable person.
- unresponsiveness — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- unscrupulousness — not scrupulous; unrestrained by scruples; conscienceless; unprincipled.
- verneuil process — a process for making synthetic rubies, sapphires, spinels, etc., by the fusion at high temperatures of powdered compounds.
- way of the cross — stations of the cross.
- wholeheartedness — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- work-in-progress — In book-keeping, work-in-progress refers to the monetary value of work that has not yet been paid for because it has not yet been completed.