5 Letter Words Ending in SE

arise

Verb : To come up from a lower to a higher position.

Verb : To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.

Verb : To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself.

house

Noun : A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.

Noun : (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.

Noun : A container; a thing which houses another.

horse

Noun : A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

Noun : Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.

Noun : (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.

sense

Noun : Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.

Noun : Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.

Noun : Sound practical or moral judgment.

loose

Verb : (transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.

Verb : (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.

Verb : (transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.

cause

Noun : (countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.

Noun : (uncountable, especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason.

Noun : (countable) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.

raise

Verb : (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.

Verb : To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.

Verb : To cause something to come to the surface of water.

close

Verb : (physical) To remove a gap.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.

Verb : To obstruct or block.

parse

Verb : (linguistics, transitive, intransitive) To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically.

Verb : (transitive) To examine closely; to scrutinize.

Verb : (computing, transitive, intransitive) To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.

abuse

Noun : Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.

Noun : Misuse; improper use; perversion.

Noun : (obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.

mouse

Noun : Any small rodent of the genus Mus.

Noun : (informal) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.

Noun : A quiet or shy person.

chase

Noun : The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.

Noun : A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.

Noun : (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.

phase

Noun : A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.

Noun : That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.

Noun : Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view.

pulse

Noun : (physiology)

Noun : A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them.

Noun : The nature or rate of this beat as an indication of a person's health.

goose

Noun : Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks.

Noun : (strictly) A female goose.

Noun : The flesh of the goose used as food.

nurse

Noun : (archaic) A wet nurse.

Noun : A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.

Noun : A person trained to provide care for the sick.

lapse

Noun : A temporary failure; a slip.

Noun : A decline or fall in standards.

Noun : A pause in continuity.

terse

Adjective : (by extension) Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point.

Adjective : (by extension) Of manner or speech: abruptly or brusquely short; curt.

Adjective : (obsolete) Burnished, polished; fine, smooth; neat, spruce.

noise

Noun : (uncountable) Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.

Noun : Any sound.

Noun : Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.

poise

Noun : A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.

Noun : Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.

Noun : Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.

prose

Noun : Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.

Noun : Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.

Noun : (Roman Catholicism) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.

tease

Verb : (transitive) To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).

Verb : (transitive) To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.

Verb : (transitive) To backcomb.

cease

Verb : (formal, intransitive) To stop.

Verb : (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).

Verb : (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.

lease

Noun : (formal, law) An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold.

Noun : An interest granting exclusive use of any thing, such as a car or boat.

Noun : The contract or deed under which such an interest is granted.

whose

curse

Noun : A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.

Noun : A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.

Noun : The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.

tense

Noun : (grammar, countable) Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists.

Noun : (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.

Noun : (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.

chose

Noun : (law) A thing; personal property.

Noun : (management) Acronym of confidence, hope, optimism, subjective well-being, and emotional intelligence. [Self-assurance.]

verse

Noun : A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.

Noun : Poetic form in general.

Noun : One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.

louse

Noun : A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Psocodea.

Noun : (colloquial, dated, not usually used in plural form) A contemptible person; one who is deceitful or causes harm.

Verb : To remove lice from; to delouse.

purse

Noun : A small bag for carrying money.

Noun : (US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)

Noun : A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.

dense

Adjective : Having relatively high density.

Adjective : Compact; crowded together.

Adjective : Thick; difficult to penetrate.

blase

Noun : A male given name from Latin.

Adjective : Alternative spelling of blasé [Unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity.]

per se

Verb : Without determination by or involvement of extraneous factors; by its very nature.

Verb : (colloquial, sometimes proscribed, chiefly in the negative) In a true or literal sense; as one would expect from the name or description.

Verb : (philosophy) As the principle of its own determination and positing itself.

abase

Verb : (transitive) To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.

rouse

Noun : An arousal.

Noun : (military, Britain and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.

Verb : To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.

posse

Noun : A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.

Noun : (now historical, in later use chiefly US) A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.

Noun : (US) A search party.

guise

Noun : Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.)

Noun : External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.

Noun : Misleading appearance; cover, cloak.

false

Adjective : Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.

Adjective : Based on factually incorrect premises.

Adjective : Spurious, artificial.

passe

Adjective : Alternative spelling of passé [(colloquial) Dated; out of style; old-fashioned.]

Verb : Obsolete spelling of pass [To change place.]

masse

Noun : A surname from French.

Noun : Obsolete form of mass. [(physical) Matter, material.]

worse

Verb : Less skillfully.

Verb : More severely or seriously.

Verb : (sentence adverb) Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.

rinse

Verb : (transitive) To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.

Verb : (transitive) To remove soap from (something) using water.

Verb : (UK, slang) To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.

pause

Verb : (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.

Verb : (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.

Verb : (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.

moose

Noun : The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.

Noun : Any of the extinct moose-like deer of the genera Cervalces and Libralces.

Noun : (figuratively, derogatory, colloquial) An ugly person.

prise

Verb : To force (open) with a lever; to pry.

Verb : Extract something that is difficult to obtain.

Noun : (obsolete) An enterprise or adventure.

douse

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.

Verb : (intransitive) To fall suddenly into water.

Verb : (transitive) To put out; to extinguish.

noose

Noun : An adjustable loop of rope, such as the one placed around the neck in hangings, or the one at the end of a lasso.

Verb : (transitive) To tie or catch in a noose; to entrap or ensnare.

amuse

Verb : (transitive) To entertain or occupy (someone or something) in a pleasant manner; to stir (an individual) with pleasing emotions.

Verb : To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.

copse

Noun : A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).

Noun : Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.

Noun : Any woodland or woodlot.

arose

Verb : To come up from a lower to a higher position.

Verb : To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.

Verb : To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself.

anise

Noun : An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds, which are used as a spice. It has a licorice scent.

Noun : (US, often qualified as "sweet anise" or "wild anise") Fennel, Foeniculum vulgare.

those

Verb : (degree) To a given extent or degree.

Verb : (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).

Verb : (informal, Britain, Australia) To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).

these

Verb : To the degree or extent indicated.

Noun : (philosophy) Something being indicated that is here; one of these.

sease

Noun : A surname.

Verb : Obsolete form of seize. [(transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.]

erase

Verb : (transitive) to remove markings or information

Verb : (transitive) To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.

Verb : (transitive) To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.

obese

Adjective : Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their conventionally ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².

Noun : A person who is obese.

reuse

Noun : The act of salvaging or in some manner restoring a discarded item to yield something usable.

Noun : The act of using again, or in another place.

Verb : To use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else).

norse

Adjective : Of or relating to the people, language and culture of Scandinavia.

Adjective : Of or relating to the North Germanic group of languages.

Noun : The collective Scandinavian (historically Norwegian) people.

perse

Noun : A dark blue-gray colour.

Noun : A cloth of this colour.

Adjective : Dark greyish blue or purple.

ukase

Noun : An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or later ruler.

Noun : (figuratively) Any absolutist order or arrogant proclamation

Noun : Alternative letter-case form of ukase [An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or later ruler.]

souse

Noun : Something kept or steeped in brine.

Noun : The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.

Noun : (US, Appalachia) Pickled scrapple.

erose

Adjective : Irregularly notched, eaten away, as though bitten.

youse

Noun : A surname from German.

manse

Verb : (transitive) To excommunicate; curse.

Noun : A house inhabited by the minister of a parish.

Noun : (archaic) A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house.

-wise

lense

Noun : Misspelling of lens. [An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.]

Noun : (proscribed) Alternative spelling of lens [An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.]

Verb : Misspelling of lens. [(transitive, cinematography) To film, shoot.]

amase

gorse

Noun : An evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having thorns, spiny leaves, and yellow flowers.

morse

Noun : A surname transferred from the given name, variant of Morris, from the given name Maurice.

Noun : A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Noun : A number of places in the United States:

geese

Noun : an American rock band based in Brooklyn, New York.

farse

Noun : A vernacular paraphrase inserted into Latin liturgy.

Verb : (transitive) To insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy).

fosse

Noun : A ditch or moat.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : (anatomy) Alternative form of fossa [(anatomy) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.]

cruse

Noun : (religion, heraldry or obsolete) A small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water.

Noun : (now uncommon) An oil lamp; a crusy.

Noun : A surname.

dowse

Verb : (intransitive) To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.

Noun : A surname.

Verb : Alternative form of douse (“to plunge into water”) [(transitive, intransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.]

cense

Verb : To perfume with incense.

Noun : (obsolete) A census.

Noun : (obsolete) A public rate or tax.

jesse

Noun : (biblical) The son of Obed and the father of king David.

Noun : A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.

Noun : A female given name, variant of Jessie.

torse

Noun : (heraldry) A twist of cloth or wreath, typically placed underneath and forming part of a crest (as an orle or wreath) and customarily shown with six twists, the first tincture being the tincture of the field, the second the tincture of the metal, and so on; rarely, it occurs as a charge.

Noun : Obsolete form of torso. [The main part of the (human) body that extends from the neck to the groin, excluding the head and limbs.]

elise

Noun : A female given name from Hebrew.

niese

Noun : A surname.

grise

Noun : (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Alternative form of grice (a pig) [(now Scotland) A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of wild pig or boar native to Scotland, now extinct.]

corse

Noun : (obsolete) A (living) body.

Noun : (archaic) A dead body, a corpse.

Noun : An uncommon surname originating in Europe, specifically the United Kingdom and Scandinavia.

hanse

Noun : (historical) A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I.

Noun : (historical) The rights and privileges of such guilds, particularly their trade monopolies.

Noun : (historical) A commercial association of Scottish free burghs in the Middle Ages.

hawse

Noun : (nautical) The part of the bow containing the hawseholes.

Noun : (nautical) A hawsehole or hawsepipe.

Noun : (nautical) The horizontal distance or area between an anchored vessel's bows and the actual position of her anchor(s).

reese

Noun : A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic] from Welsh Rhys.

Noun : A male given name from Welsh, derived from the surname or directly from Rhys.

Noun : A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1980s and later American usage.

touse

Verb : (transitive) To rumple, tousle.

Verb : (transitive) To pull to pieces.

Noun : a noisy disturbance

tawse

Noun : (chiefly Scotland) A leather strap or thong which is split into (typically three) tails, used for corporal punishment in schools, applied to the palm of the hands or buttocks.

Verb : (transitive, chiefly Scotland) To beat with a tawse.

boise

Noun : A river in Idaho; flowing 102 miles from the confluence of the North and Middle forks in the Sawtooth Range into the Snake near Parma.

Noun : The capital and largest city of Idaho, United States, and the county seat of Ada County; probably named for the river.

Noun : A ghost town in Texas.

seise

Verb : (transitive, law) To vest ownership of an estate in land (to someone).

Verb : (transitive, law, with of) To put in possession.

Verb : (archaic) To seize.

toise

Noun : (historical) A former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres.

tasse

Noun : (chiefly in the plural) A piece of armor for the hips and thighs: one of a set of plates (each being of one piece or segmented) hanging from the bottom of the breastplate or from faulds.

brose

Noun : (Scotland) Oatmeal mixed with boiling water or milk.

Noun : A diminutive of the male given name Ambrose.

valse

Noun : Archaic form of waltz. [A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.]

Verb : Archaic form of waltz. [(intransitive, transitive) To dance the waltz (with).]

burse

Noun : (now chiefly historical) A purse.

Noun : A fund or foundation for the maintenance of the needy scholars in their studies.

Noun : (ecclesiastical) An ornamental case to hold the corporal when not in use.

roose

Verb : (Scotland, dialect) to flatter or praise.

Verb : (Scotland, dialect) to be proud.

Noun : A surname.

chese

hesse

Noun : A former realm and modern state of Germany.

Noun : (countable) A surname from German.

pease

Verb : (obsolete) To make peace between (conflicting people, states etc.); to reconcile.

Verb : (obsolete) To bring (a war, conflict) to an end.

Verb : (obsolete) To placate, appease (someone).

danse

mense

Noun : Property, owndom; possessions.

Noun : (UK, dialect) manliness; dignity; comeliness; civility

Verb : To adorn, bring honour to; grace.

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