8-letter words containing se
- anginose — (dated) Relating to angina; anginous.
- anglaise — an old English country-dance.
- anglesey — an island and county of N Wales, formerly part of Gwynedd (1974–96), separated from the mainland by the Menai Strait. Administrative centre: Llangefni. Pop: 59 500 (2003 est). Area: 720 sq km (278 sq miles)
- angolese — a member of any of the tribes residing in Angola.
- angulose — having angles
- anisette — a liquorice-flavoured liqueur made from aniseed
- ankylose — (of bones in a joint, etc) to fuse or stiffen by ankylosis
- annalise — record in annals
- annamese — of or relating to Annam
- annulose — (of earthworms, crustaceans, and similar animals) having a body formed of a series of rings; segmented
- anserine — of or resembling a goose
- ansermet — Ernest (ɛrnɛst). 1883–1969, Swiss orchestral conductor; principal conductor of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
- antabuse — a drug, a brand of disulfiram, used in the treatment of alcoholism, that acts by inducing nausea and other unpleasant symptoms following ingestion of alcohol; tetraethylthiuram disulphide
- antheses — Plural form of anthesis.
- antisera — a serum containing antibodies, as antitoxins or agglutinins, obtained by inoculation of animals and used for injection into other animals to provide immunity to a specific disease.
- antrorse — directed or pointing upwards or forwards
- aphetise — lose a vowel at the beginning of a word
- aphorise — To create an aphorism.
- apodoses — Plural form of apodosis.
- apophyse — Apophysis.
- appeased — to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
- appeaser — to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
- appeases — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appease.
- appetise — (rare) To whet the appetite.
- applause — Applause is the noise made by a group of people clapping their hands to show approval.
- appraise — If you appraise something or someone, you consider them carefully and form an opinion about them.
- apprised — appraise.
- appriser — a person who appraises
- apprises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apprise.
- appulses — Plural form of appulse.
- apurpose — (dialect) on purpose; deliberately.
- apyrases — Plural form of apyrase.
- aquacise — A type of physical exercise practiced in water mostly vertically and without swimming, typically in a swimming pool in waist deep or deeper water.
- arabises — any plant of the genus Arabis, including the rock cresses.
- aral sea — a lake in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, east of the Caspian Sea, formerly the fourth largest lake in the world: shallow and saline, now badly polluted; use of its source waters for irrigation led to a loss of over 50% of its area between 1967 and 1997, after which the reduction began to be slowed. Area originally (to 1960) about 68 000 sq km (26 400 sq miles); water area reduced by 2004 to about 17 158 sq km (6625 sq miles) and the lake divided into sections
- araneose — arachnoid, especially as a plant.
- arborise — To cause to have a tree like appearance.
- archaise — Standard spelling of from=non-Oxford.
- archwise — like an arch
- arginase — an enzyme which hydrolyses arginine into ornithine and urea
- arrasene — a material of wool and silk that is used in embroidery
- arsehole — If one person calls another person an arsehole, they think that person is extremely stupid or has behaved in a stupid way.
- arsenals — Plural form of arsenal.
- arsenate — a salt or ester of arsenic acid, esp a salt containing the ion A5O43–
- arsenide — a compound in which arsenic is the most electronegative element
- arsenite — a salt or ester of arsenous acid, esp a salt containing the ion A5O33–
- arsenous — of or containing trivalent arsenic
- arthouse — a cinema which specializes in showing films which are not part of the commercial mainstream
- aseismic — denoting a region free of earthquakes
- aseptate — not divided into cells or sections by septa