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Definition: CRESSES |
CRESSESPlural1. Of Cress |
Date "CRESSES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Crosswords: CRESSES |
| English words defined with "CRESSES": Cressy ♦ rock cress, rockcress ♦ scurvy grass, St. Barbara's herb ♦ watercress, winter cress. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CRESSES": Stephens. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "CRESSES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Kressen. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | essescray gleòrann. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CRESSES": ancresses, pennycresses, watercresses. (additional references) | |
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"CRESSES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cesses, Crassus, crese, creshes, Cresley, Cressa, Cresse, Cresser, Cressid, crisises, croesuses, Gressis, Gressus, resses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CRESSES" (pronounced kre"suz) |
| 5 | -r e" s u z | depresses, distresses, dresses, expresses, impresses, presses, stresses, suppresses, tresses. |
| 4 | -e" s u z | assesses, blesses, confesses, esses, excesses, guesses, messes, possesses, professes, successes, yeses. |
| 3 | -s u z | absences, abuses, acceptances, accomplices, aces, acquaintances, actresses, addresses, advances, affixes, albatrosses, aliases, allegiances, alliances, allowances, amaryllises, ambulances, annexes, announces, annoyances, apparatuses, appearances, appendixes, appliances, apprentices, asses, assurances, atlases, audiences, auspices, axes, balances, bases, basses, biases, Biosciences, blitzes, blouses, boardinghouses, bonuses, bookcases, bosses, bounces, bourses, boxes, braces, briefcases, buses, businesses, Busses, buttresses, bypasses, cabooses, cadences, campuses, canvases, canvasses, carcasses, Casas, cases, caucuses, cayuses, ceases, censuses, chances, chases, choices, choruses, circumstances, circuses, classes, clearances, clearinghouses, climaxes, clubhouses, coaxes, coffeehouses, coincidences, collapses, commences, complexes, compresses, concourses, condolences, conferences, confidences, congresses, consciences, consequences, continuances, contrivances, conveniences, converses, convinces, corpses, countenances, courses, courthouses, creases, crevices, crocuses, crosses, crosspieces, crucifixes, curses, dances, databases, decreases, defenses, denounces, devices, differences, disabuses, disallowances, disappearances, discourses, discusses, dismisses, dispenses, displaces, distances, disturbances, divergences, divorces, dollhouses, doses, earpieces, eclipses, embarrasses, embraces, eminences, encompasses, endorses, enforces, enhances, entrances, erases, evidences, excuses, exes, expanses, expenses, experiences, eyeglasses, eyewitnesses, faces, farmhouses, faxes, fences, fetuses, finances, firehouses, fireplaces, fixes, flexes, flounces, focuses, forces, fortresses, foxes, fragrances, furnaces, fusses, gases, gasses, gearboxes, geniuses, glances, glasses, glimpses, glosses, goddesses, graces, grasses, greenhouses, grievances, grimaces, grosses, grouses, guesthouses, harnesses, headdresses, hindrances, hippopotamuses, hisses, hoaxes, horses, hospices, hostesses, houses, hyraxes, ices, illnesses, imbalances, impulses, incidences, inconveniences, increases, indexes, induces, indulgences, inferences, influences, injustices, instances, insurances, interfaces, intersperses, introduces, invoices, irises, issuances, juices, jukeboxes, justices, kisses, laces, lapses, latexes, leases, licences, licenses, lighthouses, likenesses, looses, losses, lynxes, mailboxes, marketplaces, masses, masterpieces, mattresses, medusas, minibuses, minuses, misses, missus, mistresses, mixes, molasses, mongooses, morasses, mosses, mouthpieces, necklaces, nieces, nixes, notices, novices, nuances, nurses, observances, occurrences, offenses, offices, omnibuses, ordinances, orifices, ounces, outhouses, outpaces, overdoses, overpasses, paces, palaces, paradoxes, passes, penises, performances, perplexes, perses, pieces, pizzas, places, pluses, polices, porpoises, poultices, powerhouses, practices, prances, preferences, prejudices, premises, presences, pretenses, prices, princes, princesses, processes, produces, progresses, prominences, promises, pronounces, prospectuses, protuberances, provinces, pulses, purchases, purposes, purses, pusses, racehorses, races, reassurances, recesses, reduces, references, refinances, reflexes, refocuses, rehearses, reimburses, reinforces, reintroduces, relapses, relaxes, releases, remembrances, reminiscences, reminisces, remittances, renounces, replaces, reproduces, repurchases, resemblances, residences, resources, responses, retroviruses, reverses, romances, sacrifices, sauces, sciences, sconces, seamstresses, senses, sentences, sequences, services, sexes, shoelaces, showcases, silences, sinuses, sixes, skyboxes, slaughterhouses, slices, solstices, sources, spaces, spices, splices, spouses, staircases, stances, statehouses, steakhouses, stewardesses, substances, suffices, suitcases, sunglasses, surfaces, surpasses, surpluses, surtaxes, taxes, terraces, tolerances, tortoises, tosses, townhouses, traces, treatises, trusses, typefaces, universes, uses, utterances, variances, vases, verses, versus, vices, viruses, voices, waitresses, walruses, waltzes, waxes, weaknesses, witnesses, workhorses, workplaces, xeroxes. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-r-s-s-s" | |
-1 letter: cesses, recess, screes. | |
-2 letters: ceres, cress, erses, esses, scree, seers, seres. | |
-3 letters: cees, cere, cess, eses, recs, rees, secs, seer, sees, sere, sers. | |
-4 letters: cee, ere, ers, ess, rec, ree, res, sec, see, ser. | |
-5 letters: er, es, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-r-s-s-s" | |
+1 letter: caresses, cressets, recesses. | |
+2 letters: actresses, ancresses, caressers, crestless, crevasses, cypresses, percusses, precesses, processes, recrosses, scleroses, scoreless, sesterces, setscrews, sorceress, surceases. | |
+3 letters: ancestress, archnesses, casseroles, cassimeres, cateresses, cerussites, coarseness, compresses, congresses, creaseless, crosstrees, cursedness, curtnesses, excursuses, fricassees, princesses, racinesses, recessions, recessives, refocusses, richnesses, sacredness, scarceness, screwiness, searchless, secureness, seductress, smearcases, smiercases, sourceless, spruceness, sunscreens, tesseracts, victresses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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