5-letter words containing se
- noose — a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- norse — of or relating to ancient Scandinavia, its inhabitants, or their language.
- nosed — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- noser — (rare) someone who noses, a nosy person.
- noses — Plural form of nose.
- nosey — unduly curious about the affairs of others; prying; meddlesome.
- nouse — (neologism) A form of computer mouse operated with the nose.
- nurse — a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm. Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- oases — a small fertile or green area in a desert region, usually having a spring or well.
- obese — very fat or overweight; corpulent.
- oesel — German name of Saaremaa.
- onsen — A hot spring in Japan, often with accompanying bathing facilities.
- onset — a beginning or start: the onset of winter.
- osset — a member of an Aryan people of Ossetia whose religion combines features of Islam and Christianity.
- oused — Simple past tense and past participle of ouse.
- ousel — dipper (def 4).
- owsen — ox.
- paise — Also, pice. an aluminum coin and monetary unit, the 100th part of the rupee of India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
- pakse — a city in S Laos, on the Mekong River.
- parse — parser
- paseo — a slow, idle, or leisurely walk or stroll.
- pases — (in bullfighting) a maneuver by a bullfighter with the capa or muleta to gain the attention of the bull and to guide the course of its attack.
- passe — no longer fashionable, in wide use, etc.; out-of-date; outmoded: There were many photographs of passé fashions. I thought hand-cranked pencil sharpeners were passé.
- pause — a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action: a short pause after each stroke of the oar.
- pease — a pea.
- perse — of a very deep shade of blue or purple.
- peyse — to balance or equalize in weight
- phase — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- poise — a centimeter-gram-second unit of viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in which a stress of one dyne per square centimeter is required to maintain a difference of velocity of one centimeter per second between two parallel planes in the fluid that lie in the direction of flow and are separated by a distance of one centimeter. Symbol: P.
- posed — to assume a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others: He likes to pose as an authority on literature.
- posen — German name of Poznań.
- poser — wannabe, pretentious person
- poset — partially ordered set
- posey — characteristic of or being a poser, especially in being trendy or fashionable in a superficial way.
- posse — posse comitatus.
- prase — a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- prese — a mark, as :S:, +, or §, used in a canon, round, etc., to indicate where the successive voice parts are to take up the theme.
- prise — pry2 .
- prose — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- pseud — a person of fatuously earnest intellectual, artistic, or social pretensions.
- pulse — the edible seeds of certain leguminous plants, as peas, beans, or lentils.
- purse — a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- puses — a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- pusey — Edward Bouverie [boo-vuh-ree] /ˈbu və ri/ (Show IPA), 1800–82, English clergyman.
- raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
- rased — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- raser — raze.
- rases — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- rasse — a small civet, Viverricula indica, of S and SE Asia
- resee — to see again