8-letter words containing se
- grisette — a young French workingwoman.
- grossest — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- grousers — Plural form of grouser.
- guernsey — Isle of, one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel. With adjacent islands, about 24½ sq. mi. (63 sq. km).
- guessers — Plural form of guesser.
- guianese — of or relating to the region of Guiana, its inhabitants, or their language.
- gunhouse — an armoured rotatable enclosure for guns on a warship
- gusseted — Reinforced with a gusset.
- guyanese — an independent republic on the NE coast of South America: a former British protectorate; gained independence 1966; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 82,978 sq. mi. (214,913 sq. km). Capital: Georgetown.
- gynobase — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
- gypseian — relating to gypsies
- gypseous — of or relating to gypsum.
- haggises — Plural form of haggis.
- halosere — a plant community that originates and develops in conditions of high salinity
- handsels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of handsel.
- handsets — Plural form of handset.
- handsewn — sewn by hand.
- harassed — stressed, tormented
- harasser — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- harasses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harass.
- hard-set — firmly or rigidly set; fixed: a hard-set smile.
- hardcase — a container that has a rigid structure
- hardnose — a person who is tough and uncompromising
- haroseth — a mixture of chopped nuts and apples, wine, and spices that is eaten at the Seder meal on Passover: traditionally regarded as symbolic of the mortar used by Israelite slaves in Egypt.
- have sex — have intercourse
- hawknose — a nose curved like the beak of a hawk.
- hayseeds — Plural form of hayseed.
- head sea — a formation of waves running in a direction opposite to that of a vessel.
- headcase — (informal) A mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person, especially one who displays aggressive behavior.
- headsets — Plural form of headset.
- heavyset — having a large body build.
- helicase — any of the enzymes that use the energy derived from the hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphates to unwind the double-stranded helical structure of nucleic acids: RNA and DNA helicases.
- hemisect — to cut into two equal parts; to bisect, especially along a medial longitudinal plane.
- hempseed — the seed of hemp, used as food for birds.
- henhouse — a shelter for poultry.
- heptoses — Plural form of heptose.
- hi-riser — a couch with two mattresses, one below the other on a separate frame, that is convertible into a double bed or two single beds
- hiatuses — Plural form of hiatus.
- high sea — the sea or ocean beyond the three-mile limit or territorial waters of a country.
- highrise — (of a building) having a comparatively large number of stories and equipped with elevators: a high-rise apartment house.
- himselfe — Obsolete spelling of himself.
- hiwassee — a river in NE Georgia, SW North Carolina, and SE Tennessee, flowing N to the Tennessee River. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- hoarsely — having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky: the hoarse voice of the auctioneer.
- hoarsest — Superlative form of hoarse.
- holy see — Roman Catholic Church. the see of Rome; the office or jurisdiction of the pope.
- hooknose — a curved nose; aquiline nose.
- hoosegow — a jail.
- horsebox — A vehicle for transporting horses.
- horsecar — a streetcar drawn by a horse or horses.
- horsefly — any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.