You can make 42 words from recess according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
Definitions and meaning of recess
recess
Etymology
The noun is borrowed from Latinrecessus(“act of going back, departure, receding, retiring; (figuratively) retreat, withdrawal; (metonymically) distant, secluded, or secret spot, corner, nook, retreat; recessed part, indentation”) (also Late Latinrecessus(“decree or resolution of the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire”)), from recēdō(“to go back, recede, retire, withdraw; to go away, depart; (by extension) to disappear, vanish; to separate; to stand back, be distant; to yield”) (from re-(prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + cēdō(“to go, move, proceed”)) + -tus(suffix forming action nouns from verbs); influenced by Middle Frenchrecès, Frenchrecès(“a break, pause; break between classes in school; school vacation; ebbing of tide; reduction”) (also Anglo-Normanrecès and Old Frenchrecès(“hiding place; hollow”).
Sense 5 (“decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire, etc.”) is possibly influenced by Italianrecesso and refers to a decree or resolution made just before a meeting ends.
recess (countable and uncountable, pluralrecesses)
(countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
Hyponyms:piriform recess, sphenoethmoidal recess
(architecture) A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest; a niche.
Synonyms:alcove, indentation
(criminal slang, usually in the plural) The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.
(countable) A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
(archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, or seclusion.
(figuratively, usually in the plural) An obscure, remote, or secret situation.
(countable) A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
Synonyms:day off, hiatus, moratorium; see also Thesaurus:pause, Thesaurus:vacation
(government) A period of time when the proceedings of a committee, court of law, parliament, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
(Australia, British, Canada, US, education) A time away from studying during the school day for a meal or recreation.
Synonyms:break, (Britain)playtime
(countable, archaic) An act of retiring or withdrawing; a moving back.
Synonyms:recession, retreat
(countable, historical) A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League.
(obsolete)
(countable) An act of retiring or withdrawing from public life, society, etc.; also, an act of living in retirement or seclusion, or a period of such retirement or seclusion.
(uncountable)
Leisure, relaxation.
The state of being withdrawn.
Synonyms:privacy, seclusion
(figuratively)
(countable) A departure from a norm or position.
(countable) A time interval during which something ceases; an interruption, a respite.
(countable, geology) An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.