5 Letter Words Ending in SE

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.

close

Verb : (physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.

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

Verb : (transitive) To obstruct or block.

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.

blase

Noun : A male given name from Latin.

Adjective : Alternative form of blasé [Unimpressed with something because of overfamiliarity.]

noise

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

Noun : Any sound.

Noun : Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.

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.

dense

Adjective : Having relatively high density.

Adjective : Compact; crowded together.

Adjective : Thick; difficult to penetrate.

rouse

Noun : An arousal.

Noun : (military, British 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 : (transitive) To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.

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.

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.

tense

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

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

Noun : (grammar, countable, proscribed) A grammatical aspect.

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.

arise

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

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

Verb : (intransitive) 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.

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.

lapse

Noun : A temporary failure; a slip.

Noun : A decline or fall in standards.

Noun : A pause in continuity.

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.

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.

guise

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

Noun : An external appearance in manner or dress; an appropriate indication or expression; a garb; a shape.

Noun : A misleading appearance; a cover, a cloak.

douse

Verb : (ambitransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.

Verb : (intransitive) To fall suddenly into water.

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

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.

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.

loose

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

Verb : (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.

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

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.

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.

souse

Noun : Something kept or steeped in brine.

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

Noun : (US, Appalachia) Pickled scrapple.

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.

parse

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

prise

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

Verb : Extract something that is difficult to obtain.

Noun : (obsolete) An enterprise or adventure.

erose

Adjective : (botany) Irregularly notched, eaten away, as though bitten.

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.

false

Adjective : Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.

Adjective : Based on factually incorrect premises.

Adjective : Spurious, artificial.

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.

perse

Noun : A very dark (almost black) purple or blue-gray colour.

Noun : A cloth of this colour.

Adjective : Very dark greyish (almost blackish) purple or blue.

mouse

Noun : Any small rodent of the genus Mus.

Noun : (informal) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling mice, typically having a small body, dark fur, long tail, and nocturnal sleeping pattern compared to rats.

Noun : A quiet or shy person.

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.

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.

chose

Noun : (law) A thing; personal property.

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

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.

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.

amuse

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

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

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

arose

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

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

Verb : (intransitive) 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.

nurse

Noun : A person involved in providing direct care for the sick:

Noun : (informal) Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession.

Noun : A medical worker performing this role, typically someone trained to provide such care but having credentials and rank below a doctor or physician assistant.

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.

per se

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

Verb : (nonstandard, more loosely, 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.

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.

pause

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

Verb : (transitive) To stop an activity for a while.

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

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.

mense

Noun : Property, owndom; possessions.

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

Verb : To adorn, bring honour to; grace.

touse

Verb : (transitive) To rumple, tousle.

Verb : (transitive) To pull to pieces.

Noun : a noisy disturbance

lisse

Verb : (obsolete) To relieve, mitigate, assuage (pain etc.).

Noun : A fine sheer fabric of silk or cotton used in women's neckwear and in ruching.

Noun : In tapestry, the threads of the warp taken together.

danse

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.

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.

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).

passe

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

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

rinse

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

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

Verb : (transitive) To swish (a liquid) around the inside of something.

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”) [(ambitransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.]

halse

Noun : (anatomy, archaic) The neck; the throat.

Verb : (dialectal) To fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace.

Verb : (transitive) To greet; salute; hail.

barse

Noun : The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch.

Noun : (UK, vulgar, slang) The perineum of a man.

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.

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.

morse

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

Noun : A town in Saskatchewan, Canada, named after inventor Samuel Morse.

Noun : The Rural Municipality of Morse No. 165, a rural municipality in southern Saskatchewan, which includes the town.

those

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

Verb : Denoting an equal degree.

Verb : Denoting 'as much', 'no less'.

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).

cense

Verb : To perfume with incense.

Noun : (obsolete) A census.

Noun : (obsolete) A public rate or tax.

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.

bouse

Verb : (nautical) To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.

Noun : (obsolete) to drink, especially alcoholic drink

Noun : (obsolete) a carouse; a booze

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).]

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 pig or boar native to north Britain, now extinct.]

herse

Noun : A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes, hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered to impede the advance of an enemy.

Noun : (obsolete) A funeral ceremony.

Noun : (astronomy) One of the moons of Jupiter.

lense

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

Noun : (proscribed) Alternative spelling of lens [(optics) 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.]

sarse

Noun : Alternative form of searce [(obsolete, countable) A sieve; a strainer.]

Verb : Alternative form of searce [(obsolete) To sift (through a sieve); to bolt.]

Noun : Pronunciation spelling of sauce. [A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.]

rowse

Noun : A surname.

Verb : Obsolete spelling of rouse. [(transitive) To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.]

harse

Noun : Pronunciation spelling of horse. [A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.]

fease

Noun : Alternative form of feeze [(now dialect and US) A state of worry or alarm.]

Verb : Alternative form of feeze [(transitive, obsolete, often with about, also feeze away) To drive off or away; to make (someone) run, put to flight; to frighten away; compare faze.]

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.

geese

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

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.

these

Verb : To the degree or extent indicated.

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

fosse

Noun : A ditch or moat.

Noun : A surname.

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

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.

masse

Noun : A surname from French.

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

prase

Noun : (mineralogy) A variety of cryptocrystalline of a green colour.

Noun : (mineralogy) A variety of chalcedony, with a green color due to inclusions of actinolite or other iron-bearing minerals.

hesse

Noun : A state of modern Germany.

Noun : A medieval principality and former duchy in Central Europe.

Noun : (countable) A surname from German.

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.

carse

Noun : (Scotland) Low, fertile land; a river valley.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : (countable) An area of fertile, low-lying (typically alluvial) land occupying certain Scottish river valleys, such as that of the River Forth.

pro se

Adjective : (law) Representing oneself (in court); without an attorney.

Verb : (law) Representing oneself in court; without an attorney.

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.

youse

Noun : A surname from German.

leese

Verb : (obsolete) To lose.

Verb : (obsolete) To release, set free.

Verb : (obsolete) To loosen, unfasten.

hoise

Verb : (transitive, obsolete except after Shakespeare) To hoist.

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To hoist, be raised.

tarse

Noun : (archaic) The penis.

Noun : The tarsus (seven bones in the ankle).

Noun : (falconry) A male falcon.

feese

Noun : Obsolete form of feeze (“running start”). [(now dialect and US) A state of worry or alarm.]

Noun : Obsolete form of feeze (“state of fretful excitement or worry”). [(now dialect and US) A state of worry or alarm.]

Noun : Alternative form of fess (“horizontal band, in heraldry”) [(heraldry) A horizontal band across the middle of the shield.]

rasse

Noun : Viverricula indica, the small Indian civet.

chuse

Verb : Obsolete spelling of choose. [To pick; to make the choice of; to select.]

clase

peise

Verb : (obsolete) To weigh or measure the weight of; to poise.

Verb : (obsolete, figuratively) To weigh or take the measure of (an immaterial object).

Verb : (obsolete, figuratively) To weigh down, retard

marse

Noun : A female given name.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : (obsolete, dialectal, US, Caribbean) Alternative form of master, often used as a general title of respect. [Someone who has control over something or someone.]

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