9-Letter Nouns Containing ESS

Here's the list of all the 819 9-Letter Nouns Containing ESS in the English Language.

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necessary
1. anything indispensable
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professor
1. someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university
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essential
1. anything indispensable
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processor
1. a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market
2. someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.)
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messenger
1. a person who carries a message
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awareness
1. having knowledge of
2. state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
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accessory
1. clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing
2. a supplementary component that improves capability
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stainless
1. steel containing chromium that makes it resistant to corrosion
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messaging
1. the sending and processing of e-mail by computer
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happiness
1. state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy
2. emotions experienced when in a state of well-being
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thickness
1. the dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width
2. indistinct articulation
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necessity
1. the condition of being essential or indispensable
2. anything indispensable
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accession
1. a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)
2. (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement
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readiness
1. the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action)
2. prompt willingness
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successor
1. a person who follows next in order
2. a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone
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obsession
1. an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
2. an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
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cessation
1. a stopping
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blindness
1. the state of being blind or lacking sight
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recession
1. the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
2. a small concavity
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greatness
1. the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence
2. unusual largeness in size or extent or number
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dizziness
1. a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
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obsessive
1. a person who has obsessions
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stiffness
1. the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
2. the property of moving with pain or difficulty
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freshness
1. the property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated
2. originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel
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sweetness
1. the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
2. the property of tasting as if it contains sugar
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emptiness
1. the state of containing nothing
2. having an empty stomach
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sharpness
1. a quick and penetrating intelligence
2. the attribute of urgency in tone of voice
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roughness
1. a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
2. the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses
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toughness
1. enduring strength and energy
2. the property of being big and strong
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strapless
1. a woman's garment that exposes the shoulders and has no shoulder straps
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soundness
1. a state or condition free from damage or decay
2. the quality of being prudent and sensible
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weirdness
1. strikingly out of the ordinary
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shortness
1. the property of being of short spatial extent
2. the condition of being short of something
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addressee
1. one to whom something is addressed
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closeness
1. a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
2. the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
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secession
1. an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s
2. formal separation from an alliance or federation
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tightness
1. a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
2. a tight feeling in some part of the body
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stillness
1. (poetic) tranquil silence
2. calmness without winds
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recessive
1. an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical
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lightness
1. a feeling of joy and pride
2. the property of being comparatively small in weight
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guesswork
1. an estimate based on little or no information
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tiredness
1. temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work
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wholeness
1. an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
2. a state of robust good health
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repressor
1. an agent that represses
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silliness
1. a ludicrous folly
2. an impulsive scatterbrained manner
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blackness
1. the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
2. total absence of light
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eagerness
1. a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something
2. prompt willingness
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alertness
1. the process of paying close and continuous attention
2. a state of readiness to respond
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priestess
1. a woman priest
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pessimism
1. the feeling that things will turn out badly
2. a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things
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hardiness
1. the property of being strong and healthy in constitution
2. the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger
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aggressor
1. someone who attacks
2. a confident assertive person who acts as instigator
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whiteness
1. the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
2. the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil
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lessening
1. a change downward
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deaconess
1. a woman deacon
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caressing
1. affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)
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sorceress
1. a woman sorcerer
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craziness
1. informal terms for insanity
2. the quality of being rash and foolish
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quickness
1. skillful performance or ability without difficulty
2. intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay
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vagueness
1. unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning
2. indistinctness of shape or character
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possessor
1. a person who owns something
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weariness
1. temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work
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nakedness
1. the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind
2. a bleak and desolate atmosphere
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confessor
1. a priest who hears confession and gives absolution
2. someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves)
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godliness
1. piety by virtue of being a godly person
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heaviness
1. the property of being comparatively great in weight
2. persisting sadness
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quietness
1. the property of making no sound
2. a state of peace and quiet
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headdress
1. clothing for the head
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harshness
1. the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions
2. the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses
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tardiness
1. the quality or habit of not adhering to a correct or usual or expected time
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temptress
1. a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive
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pessimist
1. a person who expects the worst
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governess
1. a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home)
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oppressor
1. a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures
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clearness
1. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
2. the quality of clear water
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otherness
1. the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known
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frankness
1. the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
2. the trait of being blunt and outspoken
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jessamine
1. a climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea
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exactness
1. the quality of being exact
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nastiness
1. a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
2. malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
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rightness
1. according with conscience or morality
2. appropriate conduct; doing the right thing
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swiftness
1. a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens
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smallness
1. the property of having a relatively small size
2. the property of being a relatively small amount
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9-Letter Nouns Containing ESS