5-Letter Words Ending in SE

All 110 five-letter words ending in SE

A

• abase7v. To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause...
• abuse7n. Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an...
• amuse7v. To entertain or occupy (someone or something) in a pleasant manner; to...
• anise5n. An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt...
• arise5v. To come up from a lower to a higher position.

B

• barse7n. The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the...
• basse7n. The bass voice or part within French music.
• birse7n. Bristle.
• boose7n. A stall for an animal (usually a cow).
• bouse7v. To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.
• brise7n. A tract of land that has been left untilled for a long time.
• brose7n. Oatmeal mixed with boiling water or milk.
• burse7n. A purse.

C

• carse7n. Low, fertile land; a river valley.
• casse7n. A fault in wine, caused by an enzyme, making it turn from red to brown...
• cause7n. The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces...
• cease7v. To stop.
• cense7v. To perfume with incense.
• chase10n. The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
• chose10n. A thing; personal property.
• close7v. To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap...
• cluse7n. A defile or narrow gorge, especially one that cuts transversely through...
• copse9n. A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting...
• corse7n. A (living) body.
• crase7v. Early Modern spelling of craze (“break into pieces, crack”).
• cruse7n. An oil lamp; a crusy.
• curse7n. A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.

D

• dense6adj. Having relatively high density.
• douse6v. To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.
• dowse9v. To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.
• druse6n. A rock surface with a crust of tiny crystals.
• dulse6n. A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata) which is...

E

• erase5v. To remove (markings or information).

F

• false8adj. Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
• farse8n. A vernacular paraphrase inserted into Latin liturgy.
• foose8n. The houseleek.
• fosse8n. A ditch or moat.
• fouse8v. To tumble, disarrange, rumple.

G

• goose6n. Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have...
• gorse6n. An evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having thorns, spiny leaves, and...
• grise6n. A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
• guise6n. A customary way of speaking or acting; a fashion, a manner, a practice...

H

• halse8v. To fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace.
• hanse8n. The guildhall of a Hanse.
• hause8n. A col, a lower neck or ridge between two peaks: a mountain pass.
• hawse11n. The part of the bow containing the hawseholes.
• herse8n. A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded...
• hoise8v. To hoist.
• hoose8n. House.
• horse8n. A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history...
• house8n. A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.

L

• lapse7n. A temporary failure; a slip.
• lease5n. An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate...
• leese5v. To lose.
• lefse8n. A traditional soft Norwegian flatbread made from potato, flour, and...
• lisse5n. A fine sheer fabric of silk or cotton used in women's neckwear and in...
• loose5v. To let loose, to free from restraints.
• losse5n. A lynx.
• louse5n. A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Psocodea.
• lyase8n. Any of many classes of enzyme that catalyze the breaking of a specific...

M

• manse7v. To excommunicate; curse.
• mease7n. A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short)...
• meese7n. A titmouse.
• mense7n. Property, owndom; possessions.
• merse7n. Alluvial, often marshy land by the side of a river, estuary or sea.
• moose7n. The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes...
• morse7n. A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually...
• mouse7n. Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a...
• murse7n. A man's purse.

N

• nasse5n. Synonym of cyrtos.
• nause5n. An annoying person, especially one who intentionally annoys others.
• noise5n. Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
• noose5n. An adjustable loop of rope, such as the one placed around the neck in...
• nouse5n. A form of computer mouse operated with the nose.
• nurse5n. Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession.

O

• obese7adj. Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or...

P

• parse7v. To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the...
• pause7v. To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an...
• pease7v. To make peace between (conflicting people, states etc.); to reconcile.
• perse7n. A very dark (almost black) purple or blue-gray colour.
• phase10n. A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.
• poise7n. A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.
• posse7n. A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile...
• prase7n. A variety of cryptocrystalline of a green colour.
• prise7v. To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
• prose7n. Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
• pulse7n. A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example...
• purse7n. A small bag for carrying money.

R

• raise5v. To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
• rasse5n. Viverricula indica, the small Indian civet.
• reese5n. Synonym of peanut butter cup.
• reuse5n. The act of salvaging or in some manner restoring a discarded item to...
• rinse5v. To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
• roose5v. To flatter or praise.
• rouse5v. To cause (something) to be (more) active or to move; to agitate, to...

S

• sasse5n. A sluice or lock, as in a river or canal, to make it more navigable.
• sense5n. Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world...
• souse5n. The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.

T

• tasse5n. A piece of armor for the hips and thighs: one of a set of plates (each...
• tawse8n. A leather strap or thong which is split into (typically three) tails...
• tease5v. To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).
• tense5n. The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or...
• terse5adj. Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point.
• torse5n. A twist of cloth or wreath, typically placed underneath and forming...
• touse5v. To rumple, tousle.

U

• ukase9n. An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a...

V

• verse8n. A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.

W

• whose11det. Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's.
• wisse8v. To show, teach, inform, guide, direct.
• worse8adv. Less skillfully.

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in SE are there?

Word.ws lists 110 five-letter words ending in SE, plus 28 rare ones.

What are common five-letter words ending in SE?

house, close, cause, sense, whose, worse, horse and raise.

Which of the five-letter words ending in SE has the highest letter score?

whose scores 11 points with the standard letter tile values.

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