5-letter words containing se
- fused — Electricity. a protective device, used in an electric circuit, containing a conductor that melts under heat produced by an excess current, thereby opening the circuit. Compare circuit breaker.
- fusee — a wooden friction match having a large head, formerly used when a larger than normal flame was needed.
- fuses — Plural form of fuse.
- gaser — Alternative form of graser.
- gases — Plural form of gas.
- gause — Obsolete spelling of gauze.
- geese — a plural of goose.
- gemse — chamois (def 1).
- goose — any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
- gorse — any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.
- gosse — Sir Edmund William, 1849–1928, English poet, biographer, and critic.
- grise — (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
- guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- gypse — Obsolete form of gypsum.
- halse — to hug or to embrace
- hanse — Hansa.
- harse — Eye dialect of horse.
- hasek — Jaroslav [yah-raw-slahf] /ˈyɑ rɔˌslɑf/ (Show IPA), 1883–1923, Czech novelist and short-story writer.
- hawse — the part of a bow where the hawseholes are located.
- herse — 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.
- hesse — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, German novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1946.
- heyse — Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- hoise — to hoist.
- hoose — (Geordie, and, Scotland) house.
- horse — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- hosea — a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- hosed — a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point: a garden hose; a fire hose.
- hosel — the socket in the club head of an iron that receives the shaft.
- hosen — a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point: a garden hose; a fire hose.
- hoser — a person who is considered unintelligent or uncouth, especially a beer-drinking man.
- hoses — Plural form of hose.
- hosey — to choose sides, as in a children's game.
- house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- hulse — Russell Alan, born 1950, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1993.
- i see — You can say 'I see' to indicate that you understand what someone is telling you.
- ibsen — Henrik [hen-rik] /ˈhɛn rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1828–1906, Norwegian dramatist and poet.
- inset — something inserted; insert.
- ipsec — (networking, protocol, security) ("IP Secure"?) A protocol that provides security for transmission of sensitive information over unprotected networks such as the Internet. IPsec acts at the network layer, protecting and authenticating IP packets between participating devices ("peers"), such as Cisco routers.
- isere — a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- isetl — Interactive SETL by Gary Levin <[email protected]>. (Apr 1994)
- issei — a Japanese person who immigrated to the U.S. or Canada after 1907 and was not eligible until 1952 for citizenship.
- jasey — a wig, especially one made of worsted.
- jesse — the father of David. I Sam. 16.
- josei — A class of manga written for an older female audience.
- josep — a male given name, form of Joseph.
- kesey — Ken. 1935–2001, US novelist, best-known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
- koses — one of the Greek Dodecanese Islands in the SE Aegean Sea, off the SW coast of Turkey. 111 sq. mi. (287 sq. km).
- lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- lased — Simple past tense and past participle of lase.
- laser — a device that produces a nearly parallel, nearly monochromatic, and coherent beam of light by exciting atoms to a higher energy level and causing them to radiate their energy in phase.