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 : Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.

Noun : A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.

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.

Verb : (intransitive) To make a noise; to sound.

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

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

Verb : To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).

Verb : To provoke (someone) to action or anger.

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

Noun : Any woodland or woodlot.

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

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.

Adjective : Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.

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.

Verb : (transitive) To set off an event or action; to bring about; to produce.

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

arise

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.

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

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 : Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.

lapse

Noun : A temporary failure; a slip.

Noun : A decline or fall in standards.

Noun : A pause in continuity.

curse

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

Verb : To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

Verb : (transitive) To place a curse upon (a person or object).

tease

Verb : (transitive) To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately in a playful way.

Verb : (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.

Verb : (transitive) To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.

guise

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.

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.)

douse

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

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

Verb : (intransitive) To fall suddenly into water.

prose

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

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

Verb : To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.

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

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

Noun : A large house, a mansion.

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

verse

Noun : Poetic form in general.

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

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

souse

Verb : (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.

Verb : (transitive) To steep in brine; to pickle.

Noun : Something kept or steeped in brine.

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

Noun : (figuratively) A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such beats or throbs.

parse

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

Verb : (computing, transitive) To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar.

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.

prise

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

Verb : To 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.

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

Noun : A cloth of this colour.

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.

Noun : A quiet or shy person.

louse

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

Verb : To remove lice from; to delouse.

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

posse

Noun : (colloquial) A group of (especially young) people seen as constituting a peer group or band of associates; a gang, a group of friends.

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

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 : (transitive) To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.

arose

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.

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

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 : (law) Not leaving discretion to the judge to take into account additional factors that could rebut the judgment, deriving the qualification from the statute.

burse

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

Noun : (now chiefly historical) A purse.

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 : (UK, dialect) Decency; propriety; civility.

Noun : Property, owndom; possessions.

Noun : (UK, dialect) A large amount.

touse

Verb : (transitive) To rumple, tousle.

Verb : (transitive) To pull to pieces.

Noun : a noisy disturbance

lisse

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.

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

danse

lease

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

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

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

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 generally bigger than ducks.

Noun : The flesh of the goose used as food.

Noun : (strictly) A female goose.

reuse

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

Verb : To use 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.

Noun : The action of rinsing.

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

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

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

Verb : (transitive) To beseech; adjure.

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

Verb : (transitive) To transmit by Morse code.

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.

those

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

Verb : Denoting an equal degree.

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

hawse

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

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

Verb : (nautical, of a vessel) Lying to two anchors, streamed from either bow.

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

Noun : (obsolete) to drink, especially alcoholic drink

Noun : (obsolete) a carouse; a booze

Verb : (obsolete) To drink immoderately; to carouse; to 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 : Pronunciation spelling of sauce. [A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.]

Verb : Pronunciation spelling of sauce. [To add sauce to; to season.]

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

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 : A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.

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

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 : (archaic) A dead body, a corpse.

Noun : (obsolete) A (living) body.

Noun : A village and civil parish in Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7828).

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

Noun : A surname.

pro se

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

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

hanse

Noun : (historical) The Hanseatic League: a commercial association of German towns in the Middle Ages.

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.

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 : The tarsus (seven bones in the ankle).

Noun : (falconry) A male falcon.

Noun : (archaic) The penis.

feese

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

Verb : Alternative form of feeze (“to freeze”). [(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.]

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

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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