17-letter words containing ense
- all-expenses-paid — (of a holiday, trip, etc) free, with everything paid for
- at the expense of — If you achieve something at the expense of someone, you do it in a way which might cause them some harm or disadvantage.
- character defense — a personality trait, as a habitual tendency to idealize or rationalize, that serves some unconscious defensive purpose.
- defense mechanism — A defense mechanism is a way of behaving or thinking which is not conscious or deliberate and is an automatic reaction to unpleasant experiences or feelings such as anxiety and fear.
- go to ... expense — If you go to the expense of doing something, you do something which costs a lot of money. If you go to great expense to do something, you spend a lot of money in order to achieve it.
- in the past tense — using a past tense verb
- learner's license — a provisional driving licence
- make sense of sth — When you make sense of something, you succeed in understanding it.
- missense mutation — a type of mutation to a specific protein, that results from the substitution, during translation, of one amino acid for another
- nonsense syllable — any of numerous letter combinations without meaning, used in learning experiments.
- sense of occasion — If there is a sense of occasion when a planned event takes place, people feel that something special and important is happening.
- spenserian sonnet — a sonnet employing the rhyme scheme abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.
- spenserian stanza — the stanza used by Spenser in his Faerie Queene and employed since by other poets, consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines and a final Alexandrine, with a rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc.
- standing expenses — fixed or flat expenses or charges
- statutory offense — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
- surface condenser — a device condensing steam or vapor by passing it over a cool surface.
- the perfect tense — the tense of a verb that indicates that the action has been completed
- the present tense — the form of a verb that expresses an action that is happening now or at the time of speaking
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