8-letter words that end in se
- berceuse — a cradlesong or lullaby
- bespouse — to marry
- bierkase — a semisoft, strong white cow's-milk cheese that originated in Germany, and is eaten especially with beer.
- bluenose — a puritanical or prudish person
- bookcase — A bookcase is a piece of furniture with shelves that you keep books on.
- boothose — a protective stocking or boot liner fashionable in the 17th century
- borghese — a noble Italian family whose members were influential in Italian art and politics from the 16th to the 19th century
- botryose — Mineralogy. botryoidal.
- boudeuse — a sofa or settee, usually upholstered, having two seats with a common backrest between them.
- brandise — a trivet
- bud vase — a relatively tall, slender vase, usually footed, for holding a single, stemmed flower, usually a rosebud
- bughouse — a mental hospital or asylum
- buginese — a member of a Muslim people inhabiting the southern part of Sulawesi.
- bullnose — a rounded exterior angle, as where two walls meet
- burnoose — a long cloak with a hood, worn by Arabs and Moors
- camboose — a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen
- canalise — (British spelling) To convert a river or other waterway into a canal.
- canarese — of or relating to Kanara, a part of the Maharashtra province in W India.
- canonise — Ecclesiastical. to place in the canon of saints.
- cardcase — a small case for holding business cards
- catalase — an enzyme that catalyses the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide
- catalyse — If something catalyses a thing or a situation, it makes it active.
- cathouse — a house of prostitution
- causeuse — an upholstered settee for two persons.
- chastise — If you chastise someone, you speak to them angrily or punish them for something wrong that they have done.
- civilise — To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour.
- cobhouse — A structure built of cob.
- collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
- colonise — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- comatose — A person who is comatose is in a coma.
- combwise — in the manner of a comb
- compense — (obsolete) To compensate.
- comprise — If you say that something comprises or is comprised of a number of things or people, you mean it has them as its parts or members.
- compulse — to compel
- comtesse — countess
- concause — a shared cause
- condense — If you condense something, especially a piece of writing or speech, you make it shorter, usually by including only the most important parts.
- conenose — any of several large bloodsucking bugs of the genus Triatoma
- confesse — Obsolete spelling of confess.
- consense — To agree; to form by consensus.
- contesse — countess.
- 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.
- 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
- cowhouse — a shelter for cows; a byre or cowshed
- crabwise — (of motion) sideways; like a crab
- creolise — (of a pidgin language) to become the native language of a speech community
- crevasse — A crevasse is a large, deep crack in thick ice or rock.
- crustose — having a crustlike appearance