BESS
/bɛs/
BESS is the initialism of Basic Enlisted Submarine School.
BESS is the initialism of Balloon-borne Experiment with Superconducting Spectrometer.
BESS is the initialism of Battery Energy Storage System.
BESS is the initialism of biportal endoscopic spine surgery.
Proper noun capitalized: Bess
Bess
- A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
- Come hither Beſſe, and let me kiſſe my Boy: […]c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
- "Jack, couldn't you call me Bette again? You know how much I hate Bess. I don't know what's happened; you've been calling me Bette since we came to California and now, suddenly, you're calling me Bess."
There's a long silence. Dad's still up on his knees; I'm driving along Sepulveda Boulevard...1981, William Wharton, Dad, Knopf, →ISBN, page 293
- A term applied to a fellow gay man, usually preceding an admonition.
- Listen here, Bess.
Origin of BESS
Variant of Beth, a clipping of Elizabeth.
Words formed from BESS
Phrases with BESS
Words that rhyme with BESS
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- SMS
- success
- compress
- largesse
- ness
- profess
- confess
- distress
- regress
- depress
- excess
- guess
- prepossess
- undress
- CBS
- ingress
- oppress
- redress
- transgress
- assess
- cess
- duress
- fess
- fluoresce
- Hesse
- less
- mayoress
- obsess
- tress
- unless
- yes
- accresce
- acquiesce
- aggress
- caress
- clothes press
- congress
- defervesce
- digress
- ess
- foulness
- Hess
- intumesce
- jess
- lazy S
- liquesce
- repress
- second-guess
Questions about BESS
- What does BESS mean?
- BESS means a diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
- What is BESS the initialism of?
- BESS is the initialism of Basic Enlisted Submarine School.
- What part of speech is BESS?
- BESS is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce BESS?
- BESS is pronounced /bɛs/.
Words near BESS in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: BESS (page history and authors); Bess (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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