8-letter words containing se
- conserve — If you conserve a supply of something, you use it carefully so that it lasts for a long time.
- contesse — countess.
- contused — Simple past tense and past participle of contuse.
- contuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contuse.
- converse — If you converse with someone, you talk to them. You can also say that two people converse.
- convulse — If someone convulses or if they are convulsed by or with something, their body moves suddenly in an uncontrolled way.
- corselet — a piece of armour for the top part of the body
- corseted — A woman who is corseted is wearing a corset.
- corsetry — the making of or dealing in corsets
- cosecant — (of an angle) a trigonometric function that in a right-angled triangle is the ratio of the length of the hypotenuse to that of the opposite side; the reciprocal of sine
- cosmoses — Plural form of cosmos.
- cosseted — pampered; spoilt
- cossette — One of the thin strips into which sugar beets are cut as part of the sugar-making process.
- cot case — a person confined to bed through illness
- coulisse — a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel, such as a sluicegate, portcullis, or stage flat
- counsell — Obsolete spelling of counsel.
- counsels — Plural form of counsel.
- coursers — Plural form of courser.
- courtsey — Archaic spelling of curtsey.
- cowhouse — a shelter for cows; a byre or cowshed
- crabwise — (of motion) sideways; like a crab
- crassest — without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: crass commercialism; a crass misrepresentation of the facts.
- creolise — (of a pidgin language) to become the native language of a speech community
- cressent — Charles. 1685–1768, French cabinetmaker, noted esp for his marquetry using coloured woods
- crevasse — A crevasse is a large, deep crack in thick ice or rock.
- crevises — Plural form of crevis.
- criseyde — Cressida
- crocuses — Plural form of crocus.
- crosette — a projection at a corner of a door or window architrave.
- crossers — Plural form of crosser.
- crossest — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- crousely — in a crouse manner
- cruisers — Plural form of cruiser.
- crustose — having a crustlike appearance
- cu-seeme — (communications) /see`-yoo-see'-mee/ ("CU" from Cornell University) A shareware personal computer-based videoconferencing program for use over the Internet, developed at Cornell University, starting in 1992. CU-SeeMe allows for direct audiovisual connections between clients, or, like irc, it can support multi-user converencing via servers (here called "reflectors") to distribute the video and audio signals between multiple clients. CU-SeeMe was the first videoconferencing tool available at a reasonable price (in this case, free) to users of personal computers. Compare with multicast backbone.
- cumulose — abounding in heaps or cumuli
- cursedly — In a cursed manner; miserably.
- curseful — (archaic) horrendous, horrific.
- curtises — Benjamin Robbins, 1809–74, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1851–57; resigned in dissent over Dred Scott case.
- cuscuses — Plural form of cuscus.
- cutpurse — a thief who stole purses by cutting them from the belts to which they were attached
- cyanosed — (pathology) Afflicted with cyanosis.
- cybersex — Cybersex involves using the Internet for sexual purposes, especially by exchanging sexual messages with another person.
- cypselae — Plural form of cypsela.
- danseuse — a female ballet dancer
- dassehra — an annual Hindu festival celebrated on the 10th lunar day of Navaratri; images of the goddess Durga are immersed in water
- data set — a collection of data records for computer processing.
- database — A database is a collection of data that is stored in a computer and that can easily be used and added to.
- datasets — Plural form of dataset.
- day case — a patient or case that comes into hospital for a surgical procedure and is dealt with and released in the course of one day