8-letter words ending with S
Dive into the specific realm of 8-letter words that conclude with the letter S. This focused section reveals the fascinating ways in which words of this particular length, ending with S, contribute to the richness of the English language. Whether it's for expanding your vocabulary, solving puzzles, or simply for the love of words, discover how these terms uniquely blend length and ending sound.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| business | 10 | a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | he bought his brother's business |
| princess | 12 | a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign) | - |
| feelings | 12 | emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity) | the remark hurt his feelings |
| upstairs | 10 | on a floor above | they lived upstairs |
| goodness | 10 | that which is pleasing or valuable or useful | - |
| gorgeous | 10 | dazzlingly beautiful | a gorgeous Victorian gown |
| precious | 12 | obviously contrived to charm | an insufferably precious performance |
| darkness | 13 | absence of light or illumination | - |
| politics | 12 | social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power | office politics is often counterproductive |
| progress | 11 | move forward, also in the metaphorical sense | - |
| services | 13 | performance of duties or provision of space and equipment helpful to others | the mayor tried to maintain city services |
| presents | 10 | - | - |
| partners | 10 | - | - |
| highness | 15 | the quality of being high or lofty | - |
| nowadays | 15 | the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech | - |
| fabulous | 13 | extremely pleasing | a fabulous vacation |
| previous | 13 | just preceding something else in time or order | the previous owner |
| generous | 9 | more than is usual or necessary | a generous portion |
| mistress | 10 | an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man | - |
| enormous | 10 | extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree | an enormous boulder |
| hopeless | 13 | certain to fail | the situation is hopeless |
| hercules | 13 | (classical mythology) a hero noted for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality | - |
| homeless | 13 | physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security | - |
| weakness | 15 | a flaw or weak point | - |
| congress | 11 | the social act of assembling for some common purpose | the lovers met discreetly for the purposes of sexual congress |
| williams | 13 | United States playwright (1911-1983) | - |
| stations | 8 | (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary | - |
| analysis | 11 | a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud | his physician recommended psychoanalysis |
| elements | 10 | violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements) | they felt the full fury of the elements |
| trousers | 8 | (usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately | he had a sharp crease in his trousers |
| quarters | 17 | housing available for people to live in | he found quarters for his family |
| scissors | 10 | a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze | - |
| kindness | 13 | tendency to be kind and forgiving | - |
| helpless | 13 | lacking in or deprived of strength or power | lying ill and helpless |
| glorious | 9 | having great beauty and splendor | a glorious spring morning |
| bollocks | 16 | make a mess of, destroy or ruin | - |
| waitress | 11 | serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant | - |
| respects | 12 | (often used with `pay') a formal expression of esteem | he paid his respects to the mayor |
| weekends | 16 | - | - |
| sickness | 14 | impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | - |
| injuries | 15 | - | - |
| harmless | 13 | not causing or capable of causing harm | harmless bacteria |
| curtains | 10 | - | - |
| restless | 8 | lacking or not affording physical or mental rest | a restless night |
| measures | 10 | - | - |
| overseas | 11 | in a place across an ocean | - |
| feathers | 14 | - | - |
| mattress | 10 | a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed | - |
| chambers | 17 | English architect (1723-1796) | - |
| cannabis | 12 | any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs | - |
| distress | 9 | psychological suffering | the death of his wife caused him great distress |
| channels | 13 | official routes of communication | you have to go through channels |
| olympics | 17 | the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country | - |
| careless | 10 | (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration | careless of the consequences |
| gracious | 11 | characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | - |
| countess | 10 | female equivalent of a count or earl | - |
| ruthless | 11 | without mercy or pity | an act of ruthless ferocity |
| reckless | 14 | marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences | became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans |
| numerous | 10 | amounting to a large indefinite number | numerous times |
| sneakers | 12 | - | - |
| fortress | 11 | a fortified defensive structure | - |
| barracks | 16 | - | - |
| sessions | 8 | United States composer who promoted 20th century music (1896-1985) | - |
| premises | 12 | land and the buildings on it | bread is baked on the premises |
| cautious | 10 | people who are fearful and cautious | - |
| fearless | 11 | oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them | - |
| policies | 12 | - | - |
| contents | 10 | a list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start | - |
| congrats | 11 | - | - |
| sniffles | 14 | - | - |
| mornings | 11 | - | - |
| crackers | 16 | informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | - |
| evenings | 12 | - | - |
| cleaners | 10 | shop where dry cleaning is done | - |
| sideways | 15 | to, toward or at one side | - |
| diabetes | 11 | a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst | - |
| brussels | 10 | the capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization | - |
| johannes | 18 | - | - |
| virtuous | 11 | in a state of sexual virginity | - |
| reserves | 11 | civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army | - |
| airlines | 8 | - | - |
| infamous | 13 | known widely and usually unfavorably | the infamous Benedict Arnold |
| wireless | 11 | an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals | - |
| receipts | 12 | the entire amount of income before any deductions are made | - |
| advances | 14 | - | - |
| archives | 16 | collection of records especially about an institution | - |
| galaxies | 16 | - | - |
| outdoors | 9 | outside a building | - |
| nauseous | 8 | causing or able to cause nausea | nauseous offal |
| buttocks | 16 | the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | - |
| syphilis | 16 | a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) | - |
| ancients | 10 | people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe) | - |
| hypnosis | 16 | a state that resembles sleep but that is induced by suggestion | - |
| colonies | 10 | - | - |
| writings | 12 | the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures | - |
| checkers | 19 | a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | - |
| findings | 13 | a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes | - |
| flawless | 14 | without a flaw | a flawless gemstone |
| holiness | 11 | the quality of being holy | - |
| forwards | 15 | at or to or toward the front | - |
| clueless | 10 | totally uninformed about what is going on; not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring | - |
| trenches | 13 | - | - |
| knickers | 18 | (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | - |
| classics | 12 | study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome | - |
| suppress | 12 | come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | - |
| needless | 9 | unnecessary and unwarranted | a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life |
| pilgrims | 13 | - | - |
| finances | 13 | assets in the form of money | - |
| geniuses | 9 | - | - |
| knuckles | 18 | (used in the plural) a small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand | - |
| shitless | 11 | (used as complement) to the utmost degree | the students were bored shitless |
| dealings | 10 | the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | he has always been honest is his dealings with me |
| genetics | 11 | the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms | - |
| prophets | 15 | the second of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures | - |
| hastings | 12 | United States architect who formed and important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929) | - |
| clitoris | 10 | a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | - |
| spacious | 12 | (of buildings and rooms) having ample space | a spacious ballroom |
| earnings | 9 | the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | - |
| painless | 10 | not causing physical or psychological pain | painless dentistry |
| wondrous | 12 | (used as an intensifier) extremely well | the colors changed wondrously slowly |
| lifeless | 11 | deprived of life; no longer living | a lifeless body |
| trespass | 10 | make excessive use of | She is trespassing upon my privacy |
| nameless | 10 | being or having an unknown or unnamed source | corporations responsible to nameless owners |
| fairness | 11 | ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty | - |
| headless | 12 | not using intelligence | - |
| fondness | 12 | a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | - |
| whiskers | 18 | the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face | - |
| winnings | 12 | something won (especially money) | - |
| emphasis | 15 | special importance or significance | the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis |
| genitals | 9 | external sex organ | - |
| couscous | 12 | a pasta made in northern Africa of crushed and steamed semolina | - |
| schnapps | 17 | any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes | - |
| proceeds | 13 | the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | - |
| comforts | 15 | things that make you comfortable and at ease | all the comforts of home |
| spotless | 10 | completely neat and clean | - |
| breakers | 14 | waves breaking on the shore | - |
| likeness | 12 | similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | man created God in his own likeness |
| trumpets | 12 | pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids | - |
| selfless | 11 | showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others | - |
| bearings | 11 | - | - |
| baroness | 10 | a noblewoman who holds the rank of baron or who is the wife or widow of a baron | - |
| mindless | 11 | not mindful or attentive | - |
| twenties | 11 | the decade from 1920 to 1929 | - |
| dynamics | 16 | the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies | - |
| graphics | 16 | photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication | - |
| billings | 11 | the largest city in Montana; located in southern Montana on the Yellowstone river | - |
| dialysis | 12 | separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes | - |
| arteries | 8 | - | - |
| clutches | 15 | the act of grasping | - |
| luscious | 10 | having strong sexual appeal | - |
| ugliness | 9 | the quality of being wicked | - |
| rainbows | 13 | - | - |
| thirties | 11 | the time of life between 30 and 40 | - |
| pancreas | 12 | a large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach; secretes pancreatic juice and insulin | - |
| nothings | 12 | inconsequential conversation | they traded a few nothings as they parted |
| timeless | 10 | unaffected by time | Helen's timeless beauty |
| asbestos | 10 | a fibrous amphibole; used for making fireproof articles; inhaling fibers can cause asbestosis or lung cancer | - |
| humorous | 13 | full of or characterized by humor | humorous stories |
| imagines | 11 | - | - |
| pointers | 10 | - | - |
| grievous | 12 | of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | a grievous fault |
| clippers | 14 | - | - |
| aerobics | 12 | exercise that increases the need for oxygen | - |
| choppers | 17 | - | - |
| venomous | 13 | marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | venomous criticism |
| platypus | 15 | small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae | - |
| calculus | 12 | a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body | - |
| scruples | 12 | motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions | - |
| britches | 15 | (used in the plural) informal term for breeches | - |
| privates | 13 | external sex organ | - |
| vigorous | 12 | characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity | a vigorous hiker |
| shambles | 15 | a building where animals are butchered | - |
| eighties | 12 | the decade from 1880 to 1889 | - |
| dominoes | 11 | any of several games played with small rectangular blocks | - |
| overalls | 11 | - | - |
| syringes | 12 | - | - |
| rigorous | 9 | rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard | rigorous application of the law |
| rudeness | 9 | a wild or unrefined state | - |
| primates | 12 | an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings | - |
| marshals | 13 | the United States' oldest federal law enforcement agency is responsible today for protecting the Federal Judiciary and transporting federal prisoners and protecting federal witnesses and managing assets seized from criminals and generally ensuring the effective operation of the federal judicial system | - |
| luminous | 10 | softly bright or radiant | a sky luminous with stars |
| charades | 14 | guessing game in which one player pantomimes a word or phrase for others to guess | - |
| tweezers | 20 | - | - |
| perilous | 10 | fraught with danger | a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat |
| overpass | 13 | bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels | - |
| antennas | 8 | - | - |
| eugenics | 11 | the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating) | - |
| hairless | 11 | having no hair or fur | a Mexican Hairless is about the size of a fox terrier and hairless except for a tufts on the head and tail |
| hibiscus | 15 | any plant of the genus Hibiscus | - |
| plastics | 12 | - | - |
| openness | 10 | characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive | - |
| stimulus | 10 | any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action | - |
| sleepers | 10 | - | - |
| soulless | 8 | lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling | - |
| entrails | 8 | internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | - |
| tireless | 8 | characterized by hard work and perseverance | - |
| skittles | 12 | a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins | - |
| lodgings | 11 | temporary living quarters | - |
| calmness | 12 | steadiness of mind under stress | - |
| neurosis | 8 | a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction | - |
| coldness | 11 | the absence of heat | the coldness made our breath visible |
| vastness | 11 | unusual largeness in size or extent or number | - |
| workings | 16 | the internal mechanism of a device | - |
| richness | 13 | the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | he praised the richness of the soil |
| fullness | 11 | greatness of volume | - |
| outwards | 12 | toward the outside | - |
| trembles | 12 | disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot | - |
| softness | 11 | the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | - |
| machetes | 15 | - | - |
| canaries | 10 | a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces | - |
| wetlands | 12 | - | - |
| shingles | 12 | eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia | - |
| proverbs | 15 | an Old Testament book consisting of proverbs from various Israeli sages (including Solomon) | - |
| bagpipes | 15 | - | - |
| terminus | 10 | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome | - |
| faceless | 13 | without a face or identity | a faceless apparition |
| loveless | 11 | receiving no love | a loveless childhood |
| miseries | 10 | - | - |
| confines | 13 | a bounded scope | he stayed within the confines of the city |
| stadiums | 11 | - | - |
| sensuous | 8 | taking delight in beauty | the sensuous joy from all things fair |
| airwaves | 14 | - | - |
| laziness | 17 | apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) | - |
| compress | 14 | make more compact by or as if by pressing | compress the data |
| colossus | 10 | a person of exceptional importance and reputation | - |
| wellness | 11 | a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease | - |
| robotics | 12 | the area of AI concerned with the practical use of robots | - |
| ravenous | 11 | devouring or craving food in great quantities | ravenous as wolves |
| numbness | 12 | the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | - |
| coolness | 10 | calm and unruffled self-assurance | he performed with all the coolness of a veteran |
| ceramics | 14 | the art of making and decorating pottery | - |
| weekdays | 19 | - | - |
| badlands | 12 | an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska | - |
| nineties | 8 | the decade from 1990 to 1999 | - |
| reassess | 8 | revise or renew one's assessment | - |
| methinks | 17 | - | - |
| wildness | 12 | a feeling of extreme emotional intensity | the wildness of his anger |
| baseless | 10 | without a basis in reason or fact | baseless gossip |
| midlands | 12 | - | - |
| attaches | 13 | - | - |
| boldness | 11 | the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly | - |
| unawares | 11 | at a disadvantage | - |
| cobblers | 14 | a man's testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler's awl rhymes with ball) | - |
| pickings | 17 | the act of someone who picks up or takes something | the pickings were easy |
| boneless | 10 | being without a bone or bones | jellyfish are boneless |
| borealis | 10 | - | - |
| meanness | 10 | the quality of being deliberately mean | - |
| pleiades | 11 | a star cluster in the constellation Taurus | - |
| firmness | 13 | the muscle tone of healthy tissue | his muscular firmness |
| fibrosis | 13 | development of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ | - |
| hardness | 12 | devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | - |
| desirous | 9 | having or expressing desire for something | desirous of high office |
| succubus | 14 | a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men | - |
| peerless | 10 | eminent beyond or above comparison | a peerless scholar |
| nuptials | 10 | the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed | - |
| cheerios | 13 | - | - |
| shorties | 11 | - | - |
| pitiless | 10 | without mercy or pity | - |
| listless | 8 | marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm | reacted to the crisis with listless resignation |
| calluses | 10 | - | - |
| seamless | 10 | smooth, especially of skin | - |
| baldness | 11 | the condition of having no hair on the top of the head | - |
| huntress | 11 | a woman hunter | - |
| idleness | 9 | having no employment | - |
| molasses | 10 | thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining | - |
| circuses | 12 | - | - |
| sopranos | 10 | - | - |
| breeches | 15 | (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | - |
| galoshes | 12 | - | - |
| lustrous | 8 | reflecting light | lustrous auburn hair |
| tactless | 10 | lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others | in the circumstances it was tactless to ask her age |
| synopsis | 13 | a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory | - |
| tinnitus | 8 | a ringing or booming sensation in one or both ears; a symptom of an ear infection or Meniere's disease | - |
| mesdames | 13 | - | - |
| studious | 9 | characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading | a quiet studious child |
| sourpuss | 10 | someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | - |
| lateness | 8 | quality of coming late or later in time | - |
| spyglass | 14 | a small refracting telescope | - |
| skivvies | 18 | (used in the plural) men's underwear consisting of cotton undershirt and underpants | - |
| moonless | 10 | without a moon or a visible moon | the dark moonless night |
| bloomers | 12 | (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | she was afraid that her bloomers might have been showing |
| gravitas | 12 | formality in bearing and appearance | - |
| gladness | 10 | experiencing joy and pleasure | - |
| nautilus | 8 | cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells | - |
| campuses | 14 | - | - |
| formless | 13 | having no definite form or distinct shape | an aggregate of formless particles |
| odorless | 9 | having no odor | odorless gas |
| dampness | 13 | a slight wetness | - |
| sexiness | 15 | the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | - |
| specious | 12 | plausible but false | a specious claim |
| bakeries | 14 | - | - |
| feckless | 17 | generally incompetent and ineffectual | feckless attempts to repair the plumbing |
| draughts | 13 | a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | - |
| lowlands | 12 | the southern part of Scotland that is not mountainous | - |
| lewdness | 12 | the trait of behaving in an obscene manner | - |
| spurious | 10 | plausible but false | spurious inferences |
| blinkers | 14 | - | - |
| emeritus | 10 | a professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties | - |
| environs | 11 | an outer adjacent area of any place | - |
| mutinous | 10 | consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny | mutinous acts |
| necrosis | 10 | the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) | - |
| thanatos | 11 | (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die | - |
| avionics | 13 | science and technology of electronic systems and devices for aeronautics and astronautics | avionics has become even more important with the development of the space program |
| fatigues | 12 | military uniform worn by military personnel when doing menial labor | - |
| dossiers | 9 | - | - |
| deafness | 12 | partial or complete loss of hearing | - |
| cascades | 13 | a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range | - |
| skinless | 12 | having no skin | - |
| smithers | 13 | - | - |
| sphinxes | 20 | - | - |
| auspices | 12 | kindly endorsement and guidance | the tournament was held under the auspices of the city council |
| hearties | 11 | - | - |
| neatness | 8 | the state of being neat and smart and trim | - |
| narcosis | 10 | unconsciousness induced by narcotics or anesthesia | - |
| niceness | 10 | a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage | - |
| leotards | 9 | skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls | - |
| cordless | 11 | not having a cord | cordless telephone |
| cryonics | 15 | the freezing of a seriously ill or recently deceased person to stop tissues from decomposing; the body is preserved until new medical cures are developed that might bring the person back to life | cryonics is more science fiction than serious science |
| cuteness | 10 | the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman) | - |
| calvados | 14 | dry apple brandy made in Normandy | - |
| vagaries | 12 | - | - |
| smugness | 11 | an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction | - |
| blueness | 10 | blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime | - |
| bursitis | 10 | inflammation of a bursa; frequently in the shoulder | - |
| lashings | 12 | a large number or amount | - |
| moorings | 11 | - | - |
| leavings | 12 | - | - |
| wordless | 12 | expressed without speech | choking exasperation and wordless shame |
| squashes | 20 | - | - |
| preggers | 12 | - | - |
| blinders | 11 | - | - |
| doldrums | 12 | a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | - |
| chitlins | 13 | small intestines of hogs prepared as food | - |
| cystitis | 13 | inflammation of the urinary bladder and ureters | - |
| valorous | 11 | having or showing valor | - |
| walruses | 11 | - | - |
| vitreous | 11 | (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it | hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures |
| sameness | 10 | the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety | he hated the sameness of the food the college served |
| slowness | 11 | unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | - |
| baptists | 12 | any of various evangelical Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of voluntary believers | - |
| sundress | 9 | a light loose sleeveless summer dress with a wide neckline and thin shoulder straps that expose the arms and shoulders | - |
| sundries | 9 | miscellaneous objects too numerous or too small to be specified | - |
| tidiness | 9 | the trait of being neat and orderly | - |
| tuneless | 8 | not having a musical sound or pleasing tune | - |
| rissoles | 8 | - | - |
| rounders | 9 | an English ball game similar to baseball | - |
| rootless | 8 | wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community | a rootless wanderer |
| shoeless | 11 | without shoes | shoeless Joe Jackson |
| snuffles | 14 | - | - |
| pennines | 10 | a system of hills in Britain that extend from the Scottish border in the north to the Trent River in the south; forms the watershed for English rivers | - |
| phimosis | 15 | an abnormal tightness of the foreskin preventing retraction over the glans | - |
| pickaxes | 23 | - | - |
| eateries | 8 | - | - |
| easiness | 8 | a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry | the easiness we feel when sleeping |
| landless | 9 | owning no land | the landless peasantry |
| meatless | 10 | lacking meat | meatless days |
| offsides | 15 | illegally beyond a prescribed line or area or ahead of the ball or puck | - |
| thinness | 11 | relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | the thinness of a rope |
| populous | 12 | densely populated | - |
| pureness | 10 | the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | - |
| realness | 8 | the state of being actual or real | - |
| baseness | 10 | unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | - |
| dumbness | 13 | the quality of being mentally slow and limited | - |
| evilness | 11 | the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice | - |
| champers | 17 | - | - |
| deepness | 11 | the extent downward or backward or inward | - |
| dateless | 9 | having no known beginning and presumably no end | the dateless rise and fall of the tides |
| dingbats | 12 | - | - |
| wingless | 12 | lacking wings | - |
| windless | 12 | without or almost without wind | he prefers windless days for playing golf |
| victuals | 13 | a source of materials to nourish the body | - |
| technics | 15 | - | - |
| staggers | 10 | a disease of the central nervous system affecting especially horses and cattle; characterized by an unsteady swaying gait and frequent falling | - |
| sonorous | 8 | full and loud and deep | a herald chosen for his sonorous voice |
| backless | 16 | lacking a back | a stool is a backless and armless seat |
| bifocals | 15 | (plural) eyeglasses having two focal lengths, one for near vision and the other for far vision | - |
| brioches | 15 | - | - |
| flatness | 11 | inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | - |
| heedless | 12 | characterized by careless unconcern | the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes |
| kinetics | 14 | the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies | - |
| landmass | 11 | a large continuous extent of land | - |
| nighties | 12 | - | - |
| chateaus | 13 | - | - |
| cleavers | 13 | annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | - |
| deadness | 10 | the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events | in an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away |
| vortices | 13 | - | - |
| sunglass | 9 | a convex lens that focuses the rays of the sun; used to start a fire | - |
| tailless | 8 | not having a tail | - |
| tameless | 10 | - | - |
| thalamus | 13 | large egg-shaped structures of grey matter that form the dorsal subdivision of the diencephalon | - |
| tortuous | 8 | highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | tortuous legal procedures |
| unctuous | 10 | unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | the unctuous Uriah Heep |
| stenosis | 8 | abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway | - |
| polemics | 14 | the branch of Christian theology devoted to the refutation of errors | - |
| rashness | 11 | the trait of acting rashly and without prudence | - |
| anagrams | 11 | a game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters | - |
| cactuses | 12 | - | - |
| druthers | 12 | the right or chance to choose | given my druthers, I'd eat cake |
| ellipsis | 10 | omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences | - |
| equities | 17 | - | - |
| flinders | 12 | British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814) | - |
| foetuses | 11 | - | - |
| foulness | 11 | (of weather) the badness of the weather | they were wearied with the foulness of the weather |
| handless | 12 | lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature |
| hipsters | 13 | a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music | - |
| glibness | 11 | a kind of fluent easy superficiality | the glibness of a high-pressure salesman |
| neckless | 14 | lacking or apparently lacking a neck | - |
| nebulous | 10 | of or relating to or resembling a nebula | - |
| oiliness | 8 | consisting of or covered with oil | - |
| leggings | 11 | - | - |
| collards | 11 | kale that has smooth leaves | - |
| coziness | 19 | a state of warm snug comfort | - |
| covetous | 13 | showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages | he was never covetous before he met her |
| cyanosis | 13 | a bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes | - |
| uxorious | 15 | foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife | - |
| wariness | 11 | the trait of being cautious and watchful | - |
| vertices | 13 | - | - |
| tailings | 9 | - | - |
| tuberous | 10 | of or relating to or resembling a tuber | a tuberous root |
| starches | 13 | foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread) | - |
| starless | 8 | not starry; having no stars or starlike objects | dark starless nights |
| sawbones | 13 | a physician who specializes in surgery | - |
| seedless | 9 | lacking seeds | seedless grapefruit |
| pelvises | 13 | - | - |
| paleness | 10 | the property of having a naturally light complexion | - |
| armories | 10 | - | - |
| beatniks | 14 | a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | - |
| buttress | 10 | a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | - |
| adenoids | 10 | - | - |
| acidosis | 11 | abnormally high acidity (excess hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues | - |
| dullness | 9 | the quality of being slow to understand | - |
| eatables | 10 | - | - |
| grimness | 11 | the quality of being ghastly | - |
| grayness | 12 | a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | - |
| hustings | 12 | the activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making) | - |
| jalopies | 17 | - | - |
| lameness | 10 | disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | - |
| gasworks | 16 | the workplace where coal gas is manufactured | - |
| genomics | 13 | the branch of genetics that studies organisms in terms of their genomes (their full DNA sequences) | - |
| gormless | 11 | (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality | - |
| matrices | 12 | - | - |
| mastitis | 10 | inflammation of a breast (or udder) | - |
| meniscus | 12 | (anatomy) a disk of cartilage that serves as a cushion between the ends of bones that meet at a joint | - |
| leafless | 11 | having no leaves | - |
| choruses | 13 | - | - |
| chequers | 22 | - | - |
| detritus | 9 | the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | - |
| warmness | 13 | a positive feeling of liking | the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home |
| vaqueros | 20 | - | - |
| vaporous | 13 | resembling or characteristic of vapor | vaporous clouds |
| synapsis | 13 | the side by side pairing of homologous maternal and paternal chromosomes at the start of meiosis | - |
| tankless | 12 | - | - |
| treeless | 8 | not wooded | - |
| starkers | 12 | (British informal) stark naked | - |
| rhinitis | 11 | an inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the nose (usually associated with nasal discharge) | - |
| roofless | 11 | physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security | - |
| scabrous | 12 | rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | - |
| sharpies | 13 | - | - |
| skywards | 19 | toward the sky | look skywards! |
| pervious | 13 | admitting of passage or entrance | pervious soil |
| effigies | 15 | - | - |
| edgeways | 16 | with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge | he sawed the board edgeways |
| fineries | 11 | - | - |
| hugeness | 12 | - | - |
| glossies | 9 | - | - |
| loudness | 9 | tasteless showiness | - |
| lordosis | 9 | an abnormal inward (forward) curvature of the vertebral column | - |
| marquess | 19 | nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count | - |
| milkless | 14 | having no milk | milkless breasts |
| mildness | 11 | acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered | even in the pulpit there are moments when mildness of manner is not enough |
| ninepins | 10 | a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins | - |
| nowheres | 14 | - | - |
| libelous | 10 | (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | - |
| limbless | 12 | having no limbs | a snake is a limbless reptile |
| clappers | 14 | (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | - |
| decorous | 11 | according with custom or propriety | - |
| tearless | 8 | free from tears | - |
| timorous | 10 | timid by nature or revealing timidity | timorous little mouse |
| ulcerous | 10 | having an ulcer or canker | - |
| slyboots | 13 | a shifty deceptive person | - |
| someways | 16 | in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means | - |
| sourness | 8 | the property of being acidic | - |
| soreness | 8 | an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | - |
| pathless | 13 | lacking pathways | - |
| poorness | 10 | the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | - |
| puniness | 10 | the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | - |
| alveolus | 11 | a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways | - |
| bacillus | 12 | aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil | - |
| bermudas | 13 | a group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; a popular resort | - |
| bootless | 10 | unproductive of success | - |
| eyeglass | 12 | lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles | - |
| exegesis | 16 | an explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible) | - |
| fastness | 11 | a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens | - |
| footless | 11 | having no feet or analogous appendages | - |
| frijoles | 18 | - | - |
| gadzooks | 23 | - | - |
| gumboots | 13 | - | - |
| heirless | 11 | - | - |
| kindless | 13 | - | - |
| luckless | 14 | having or bringing misfortune | - |
