Nouns Ending in ESS and Containing OS

Browse 109 valid English nouns ending in ESS and containing OS, from Closeness, Hostess, Possessiveness, Looseness, Positiveness, Explosiveness and Grossness to rarer terms. Check definitions and spelling below, or visit our noun grammar guide to review pluralization and capitalization rules.

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Starts with A
4 words
appositeness
anticorrosiveness
adiposeness
animoseness
Starts with B
2 words
bossiness
boskiness
Starts with C
13 words
closeness
choosiness
corrosiveness
crossness
costliness
costiveness
cohostess
composedness
compositeness
closefistedness
crossgrainedness
choosableness
crosswiseness
Starts with D
2 words
disposableness
drossiness
Starts with E
7 words
explosiveness
engrossingness
exposedness
erosiveness
expositress
expositoriness
eleemosynariness
Starts with F
2 words
frostiness
fostress
Starts with G
6 words
grossness
glossiness
grandioseness
ghostliness
goosiness
globoseness
Starts with H
3 words
hostess
hospitableness
hypostress
Starts with I
7 words
imposingness
impossibleness
inhospitableness
introspectiveness
indisposedness
inappositeness
indecomposableness
Starts with J
1 words
jocoseness
Starts with L
3 words
looseness
lostness
losableness
Starts with M
2 words
moroseness
mossiness
Starts with N
8 words
nosiness
nonpossessiveness
noncorrosiveness
nonexplosiveness
nonpurposiveness
noncompositeness
nonprosperousness
nonintrospectiveness
Starts with O
7 words
ostentatiousness
oppositeness
operoseness
otioseness
overprosperousness
overpositiveness
ostleress
Starts with P
22 words
possessiveness
positiveness
purposefulness
purposelessness
postmistress
poshness
purposiveness
preposterousness
posthumousness
philosophicalness
prosperousness
prosaicness
prosiness
photosensitiveness
philosophess
prospectiveness
possessedness
philosopheress
prepossessingness
proscriptiveness
prosaicalness
possessionlessness
Starts with R
4 words
rosiness
reposedness
retrospectiveness
reposefulness
Starts with S
5 words
sacrosanctness
supposititiousness
semipurposiveness
squamoseness
superpositiveness
Starts with T
2 words
technostress
transposableness
Starts with U
7 words
unostentatiousness
unhospitableness
unprosperousness
unpossessiveness
unprepossessingness
unphilosophicalness
unpreposterousness
Starts with V
2 words
verboseness
varicoseness

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