12-letter words that end in se
- memory verse — a verse or passage from the Bible to be memorized, especially by members of a Sunday school.
- merveilleuse — marvellous
- metamorphose — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- mickey mouse — trite and commercially slick in character; corny: mickey mouse music.
- middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.
- missile base — a military base used for storing and firing missiles
- mitrailleuse — a machine gun.
- monkey house — a cage or enclosure in a zoo where monkeys are kept
- monodisperse — (of a colloid) Having particles of (approximately) the same size.
- montparnasse — a district in S Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine: noted for its cafés and the artists and writers who have frequented and lived in the area.
- mother goose — the fictitious author of a collection of nursery rhymes first published in London (about 1760) under the title of Mother Goose's Melody.
- mother house — a convent housing a mother superior of a community of nuns.
- multipurpose — able to be used for several purposes: a multipurpose lawn spray.
- muscle sense — a sense of movement derived from afferent nerves originating in tendons, muscle tissue, skin, and joints; proprioception.
- neurodiverse — Exhibiting neurodiversity; varying in mental configuration.
- news release — a statement prepared and distributed to the press by a public relations firm, governmental agency, etc.
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- oil of anise — the aromatic seed of anise, the oil of which (anise oil, aniseed oil, oil of anise) is used in the manufacture of anethole, in medicine as a carminative and expectorant, and in cookery and liqueurs for its licoricelike flavor.
- on the house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- on the loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- out of phase — in an unsynchronized way
- over-precise — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- over-promise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
- overexercise — to exercise excessively
- overpurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- oxycellulose — any substance formed naturally or synthetically by the oxidation of cellulose.
- pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
- packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- parallelwise — in a parallel manner
- parameterise — to describe (a phenomenon, problem, curve, surface, etc.) by the use of parameters.
- parish house — a building used by a church chiefly for administrative and social purposes.
- parlor house — (especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries) a brothel with a comfortable, often elaborately decorated parlor for the reception of clients.
- parochialise — to make parochial.
- pasture rose — a bristly-stemmed rose, Rosa carolina, of the eastern U.S., having slender, straight thorns and large, solitary, rose-pink flowers.
- pay increase — a rise in pay or salary
- philosophise — to speculate or theorize, usually in a superficial or imprecise manner.
- photocompose — to set (type) on a photocomposer.
- plough horse — a horse used for pulling a plough
- pocket mouse — any of numerous burrowing rodents, especially of the genus Perognathus, chiefly inhabiting arid regions of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, having fur-lined cheek pouches and a long tail.
- polydisperse — of or noting a sol that contains particles of different sizes.
- pommel horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, similar to a vaulting horse but having two graspable pommels on top, used by men for hand-supported balancing, rotating, and swinging maneuvers.
- porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
- postexercise — bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health: Walking is good exercise.
- prairie rose — a climbing rose, Rosa setigera, of the central U.S., having pinkish to white flowers: the state flower of North Dakota.
- pre-purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- prediscourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- presterilise — to sterilise in advance