| ADULTRESS | • adultress n. Alternative form of adulteress. • ADULTRESS n. a female adulterer, also ADULTERESS. |
| ARBITRESS | • arbitress n. A female arbiter. • ARBITRESS n. a female arbitrator. |
| AUDITRESS | • auditress n. (Dated) A female hearer. • AUDITRESS n. a female hearer. |
| AVIATRESS | • aviatress n. A female pilot of an aircraft. • AVIATRESS n. a female aviator, also AVIATRICE, AVIATRIX. |
| CHANTRESS | • chantress n. A female singer or chanter. • CHANTRESS n. a female chanter or singer, also CHAUNTRESS. |
| CREATRESS | • creatress n. A female creator. • CREATRESS n. a female creator, also CREATRIX. |
| ELECTRESS | • electress n. (Rare, dated) A woman who can vote in an election. • electress n. (Now historical) The wife of a German elector, often used as a title. • ELECTRESS n. the wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire, also ELECTORESS. |
| EXACTRESS | • exactress n. A female exactor. • EXACTRESS n. a female exactor. |
| HERITRESS | • heritress n. A female heritor. • HERITRESS n. a female heir. |
| JANITRESS | • janitress n. A female janitor. • JANITRESS n. a female janitor, also JANITRIX. |
| JOINTRESS | • jointress n. A widow who has a jointure; a dowager. • JOINTRESS n. a woman who has a jointure, also JOINTURESS. |
| MONITRESS | • monitress n. (Now rare) A female mentor or advisor; a female observer. • monitress n. (Dated) A female monitor, or school leader. • MONITRESS n. a female monitor. |
| PAINTRESS | • paintress n. (Archaic) A female painter. • PAINTRESS n. a female painter. |
| PRESTRESS | • prestress v. (Construction) To apply stress to structural components in order to produce a tension that counteracts… • prestress adj. (Linguistics) Before a stress (emphasis placed on a syllable of a word). • PRESTRESS v. to stress in advance. |
| PSALTRESS | • psaltress n. A woman who plays the psaltery. • PSALTRESS n. a woman who plays the psaltery. |
| TAPSTRESS | • tapstress n. A female tapster. • TAPSTRESS n. a female tapster. |
| TEMPTRESS | • temptress n. An alluring woman who seduces or exploits men. • temptress n. A woman considered sexually attractive by men. • TEMPTRESS n. a female tempter. |
| TRAITRESS | • traitress n. Obsolete form of traitoress. • TRAITRESS n. a female traitor, also TRAITORESS. |
| VISITRESS | • visitress n. (Archaic) A female visitor. • VISITRESS n. a female visitor. |