17-letter words that end in ss
- heartbreakingness — The state or quality of being heartbreaking.
- hot off the press — newspaper: freshly printed
- impracticableness — The state of being impracticable; impracticability.
- in double harness — in a harness for two animals pulling the same carriage, plow, etc.
- in the wilderness — If politicians or other well-known people spend time in the wilderness, they are not in an influential position or very active in their profession for that time.
- inappropriateness — not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.
- inclusive fitness — the fitness of an individual organism as measured in terms of the survival and reproductive success of its kin, each relative being valued according to the probability of shared genetic information, an offspring or sibling having a value of 50 percent and a cousin 25 percent.
- inconceivableness — The quality of being inconceivable.
- inconsiderateness — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
- inconspicuousness — The condition of being inconspicuous.
- indefatigableness — The state of being indefatigable.
- indescribableness — The quality of being indescribable.
- indeterminateness — The quality of being indeterminate.
- indispensableness — The characteristic of being indispensable; indispensability.
- indistinctiveness — The quality of being indistinctive.
- inefficaciousness — Lack of efficacy.
- inexhaustibleness — The quality of being inexhaustible.
- instantaneousness — Condition of being instantaneous.
- insupportableness — The state of being insupportable; insufferableness.
- internationalness — The state or condition of being international.
- intestinal bypass — the surgical circumvention, by anastomosis, of a diseased portion of the intestine; also sometimes used to reduce nutrient absorption in morbidly obese patients.
- introspectiveness — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- irrecoverableness — The quality of being irrecoverable.
- isomorphism class — (mathematics) A collection of all the objects isomorphic to a given object. Talking about the isomorphism class (of a poset, say) ensures that we will only consider its properties as a poset, and will not consider other incidental properties it happens to have.
- jehovah's witness — A Jehovah's Witness is a member of a religious organization which accepts some Christian ideas and believes that the world is going to end very soon.
- john of the cross — Saint (Juan de Yepis y Álvarez) 1542–91, Spanish mystic, writer, and theologian: cofounder with Saint Theresa of the order of Discalced Carmelites.
- knowledgeableness — The state, quality, or measure of being knowledgeable; wisdom.
- lackadaisicalness — without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic: a lackadaisical attempt.
- mariner's compass — a compass used for navigational purposes, consisting of a pivoted compass card in a gimbal-mounted, nonferrous metal bowl.
- mean-spiritedness — the quality of being mean-spirited
- midsummer madness — a temporary lapse into foolishness, senseless behavior, folly, etc., especially during the summer: His plan to become a beachcomber is midsummer madness.
- mill on the floss — a novel (1860) by George Eliot.
- miscellaneousness — Quality of being miscellaneous.
- mountain sickness — illness caused by being at high altitude
- multitudinousness — The state or condition of being multitudinous.
- mustard and cress — Mustard and cress is very young mustard plants and cress plants grown together and eaten in salad.
- nonproductiveness — The quality of being nonproductive.
- objectionableness — The quality of being objectionable.
- order of business — a task assigned or to be dealt with: Our first order of business is to reduce expenses.
- overnight success — sth or sb suddenly popular
- patriarchal cross — a Latin cross having a shorter crosspiece above the customary one.
- permanent address — a fixed address
- perspicaciousness — having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning: to exhibit perspicacious judgment.
- perth and kinross — a council area of N central Scotland, corresponding mainly to the historical counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire: part of Tayside Region from 1975 until 1996: chiefly mountainous, with agriculture, tourism, and forestry. Administrative centre: Perth. Pop: 135 990 (2003 est). Area: 5321 sq km (2019 sq miles)
- piece of business — business (def 10).
- prismatic compass — a hand compass equipped with sights and prisms to permit aiming the instrument at a point and at the same time reading the compass direction of the point.
- property mistress — a female member of the stage crew in charge of the stage properties
- pterygoid process — either of two long bony plates extending downwards from each side of the sphenoid bone within the skull
- qualified success — If you describe something as a qualified success, you mean that it is only partly successful.
- reed canary grass — any of various grasses of the genus Phalaris, as P. canariensis, native to the Canary Islands, bearing seed used as food for cage birds, or P. arundinacea (reed canary grass) used throughout the Northern Hemisphere as fodder.