| ABBESS | • abbess n. A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the… • abbess n. (Archaic, British slang) A woman who runs a brothel; a woman employed by a prostitute to find clients. • ABBESS n. a female abbot, head of a nunnery. |
| ACCESS | • access n. (Uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage. • access n. (Uncountable) The act of approaching or entering; an advance. • access n. (Uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility. |
| ASSESS | • assess v. (Transitive) To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate. • assess v. (Transitive) To impose or charge, especially as punishment for an infraction. • assess v. (Transitive) To calculate and demand (the tax money due) from a person or entity. |
| AWLESS | • awless adj. Archaic form of aweless. • AWLESS adj. without awe, also AWELESS. |
| CARESS | • caress n. An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness. • caress n. A gentle stroking or rubbing. • caress v. (Transitive) To touch or kiss lovingly; to fondle. |
| CITESS | • citess n. (Obsolete) A city woman. • CITESS n. (archaic) one who is not a gentlewoman. |
| DURESS | • duress n. (Obsolete) Harsh treatment. • duress n. Constraint by threat. • duress n. (Law) Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of… |
| EGRESS | • egress n. An exit or way out. • egress n. The process of exiting or leaving. • egress n. (Astronomy) The end of the transit of a celestial body through the disk of an apparently larger one. |
| EXCESS | • excess n. The state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or… • excess n. The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder. • excess n. An act of eating or drinking more than enough. |
| OBSESS | • obsess v. (Passive, constructed with "with") To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion. • obsess v. (Transitive) To dominate the thoughts of someone. • obsess v. (Intransitive, colloquial, construed with over) To think or talk obsessively about. |
| OGRESS | • ogress n. A female ogre. • ogress n. A fierce, unfriendly woman. • ogress n. (Heraldry) A roundel sable. |
| PAYESS | • payess n. Alternative form of peot. • PAYESS n. (Yiddish) uncut sideburns worn by some Jews. |
| RECESS | • recess n. (Archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back. • recess n. A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion. • recess n. A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest. |
| STRESS | • stress n. (Biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism. • stress n. (Biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions. • stress n. (Countable, physics) The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that… |
| UNLESS | • unless conj. Except on a specified condition; if not. • unless conj. If not; used with counterfactual conditionals. • unless conj. Except if; used with hypothetical conditionals. |
| VOWESS | • vowess n. (Archaic) A woman who has taken religious vows, especially a vow of chastity. • VOWESS n. (historical) a woman who has taken a vow; a nun. |