8-letter words containing se
- aspersed — Simple past tense and past participle of asperse.
- asperser — to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
- assamese — the state language of Assam, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family and closely related to Bengali
- assegais — Plural form of assegai.
- assemble — When people assemble or when someone assembles them, they come together in a group, usually for a particular purpose such as a meeting.
- assembly — An assembly is a large group of people who meet regularly to make decisions or laws for a particular region or country.
- assented — to agree or concur; subscribe to (often followed by to): to assent to a statement.
- assenter — a person who agrees or complies
- assentor — any of the eight voters legally required to endorse the nomination of a candidate in a parliamentary or local election in addition to the nominator and seconder
- asserted — resting on a statement or claim unsupported by evidence or proof; alleged: The asserted value of the property was twice the amount anyone offered.
- asserter — One who makes an assertion.
- assertor — One who asserts or avers.
- assessed — Simple past tense and past participle of assess.
- assessee — Something or someone that is assessed.
- assesses — to estimate officially the value of (property, income, etc.) as a basis for taxation.
- assessor — An assessor is a person who is employed to calculate the value of something, or the amount of money that should be paid, for example in tax.
- atmolyse — to separate gases, which have differing degrees of diffusibility, by filtering
- atomised — to reduce to atoms.
- atomiser — Modern commonwealth spelling of 'atomizer'.
- atomises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of atomise.
- autolyse — to undergo or cause to undergo autolysis
- aversely — having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.; opposed: He is not averse to having a drink now and then.
- backseat — relating to or taking place on the back seat of a vehicle
- backsets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backset.
- bad seed — a person who is seen as being congenitally disposed to wrongdoing and likely to be a bad influence on others
- baghouse — a dust-filtering chamber consisting of fabric filter bags
- balinese — of or relating to Bali, its people, or their language
- banalise — to render or make banal; trivialize: Television has often been accused of banalizing even the most serious subjects.
- baptised — to immerse in water or sprinkle or pour water on in the Christian rite of baptism: They baptized the new baby.
- baptises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baptise.
- barbusse — Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1873–1935, French novelist and poet. His novels include L'Enfer (1908) and Le Feu (1916), reflecting the horror of World War I
- base box — a unit used in the sale of tin plate, equal to the total area of 112 sheets each measuring 14 by 20 inches (35 by 50 cm), or 31,360 square inches (196,000 sq. cm).
- base hit — a play in which the batter hits a fair ball and gets on base without benefit of an opponent's error and without forcing out a runner already on base
- base map — an outline map on which data may be plotted
- base pay — the basic rate of pay for a particular job exclusive of overtime pay, bonuses, etc.
- baseball — In America, baseball is a game played by two teams of nine players. Each player from one team hits a ball with a bat and then tries to run around three bases and get to the home base before the other team can get the ball back.
- baseband — a transmission technique using a narrow range of frequencies that allows only one message to be telecommunicated at a time
- baseborn — born of humble parents
- basecamp — Alternative spelling of base camp.
- basecoat — a first coat of a surfacing material, as paint.
- baselard — a historical (predominantly 13th–17th century) short Swiss sword with a distinctive crescent-shaped pommel and crossguard
- baseless — If you describe an accusation, rumour, or report as baseless, you mean that it is not true and is not based on facts.
- baseline — The baseline of a tennis, badminton, or basketball court is one of the lines at each end of the court that mark the limits of play.
- baseload — The minimum load on a power station over a standard period.
- basement — The basement of a building is a floor built partly or completely below ground level.
- basename — (file system) The name of a file which, in contrast to a pathname, does not mention any of the directories containing the file. Examples:
- baseness — morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable; meanspirited; selfish; cowardly.
- baseword — (linguistics) The word used a base and upon whose stem affixes are added, forming new words.
- basseted — an outcrop, as of the edges of strata.
- bathorse — a horse which carries a military officer's baggage; a military packhorse