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10-letter words that end in se

  • nondefense — Unrelated to military defense.
  • nondiverse — Not diverse.
  • nucleobase — (biochemistry) The base of a nucleic acid, such as thymine, uracil, adenine, cytosine and guanine.
  • nude mouse — a virtually hairless mutant laboratory-bred mouse having a major immune system deficiency caused by a lack of T cells, and able to accept grafts of foreign tissue.
  • oast house — a building containing kilns for drying hops, usually having a conical or pyramidal roof
  • oast-house — oast.
  • oligoclase — a kind of plagioclase feldspar occurring commonly in white crystals, sometimes shaded with gray, green, or red.
  • on defense — engaged in an attempt to prevent an opposing team from scoring
  • on impulse — instinctively
  • on offense — engaged in an attempt to score against an opposing team
  • on purpose — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
  • ontologise — Alt form ontologize.
  • open house — a party or reception during which anyone who wishes may visit to share in a celebration, meet a special guest, etc.
  • orthoclase — a common white or pink mineral of the feldspar group, KAlSi 3 O 8 , having two good cleavages at right angles, and found in silica-rich igneous rocks: used in the manufacture of porcelain.
  • outpromise — to promise more than
  • over-abuse — to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority.
  • overblouse — a blouse designed to be worn outside the waistband of a skirt or a pair of slacks.
  • overbrowse — to browse on (vegetation, land, etc) excessively, in a damaging way; overgraze
  • overexpose — to expose too much, as to the sun, cold, or light rays (often used reflexively): Be careful of overexposing yourself to the sun.
  • overimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
  • overpraise — to praise excessively or unduly.
  • pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
  • pale horse — a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible.
  • paraphrase — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
  • parcelwise — bit by bit
  • passphrase — (operating system)   A string of words and characters that you type in to authenticate yourself. Passphrases differ from passwords only in length. Passwords are usually short - six to ten characters. Passphrases are usually much longer - up to 100 characters or more. Modern passphrases were invented by Sigmund N. Porter in 1982. Their greater length makes passphrases more secure. Phil Zimmermann's popular encryption program PGP, for example, requires you to make up a passphrase that you then must enter whenever you sign or decrypt messages.
  • past tense — grammar: verb tense of past actions or states
  • pasteurise — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • patrialise — to make patrial, one with a legal right to enter and stay in the UK
  • penny-wise — greatly concerned with saving small sums of money
  • periphrase — the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
  • peroxidase — any of a class of oxidoreductase enzymes that catalyze the oxidation of a compound by the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide or an organic peroxide.
  • pest house — a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.
  • petroleuse — a female individual who uses petroleum to cause explosions or fires
  • photophase — a phase of light in a cycle of light and dark
  • pied goose — magpie goose.
  • pillowcase — a removable sacklike covering, usually of cotton, drawn over a pillow.
  • pilothouse — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
  • pine mouse — any of a widespread genus of voles, Pitymys, having small ears and a short tail; especially the American forest-dwelling mouse P. pinetorum.
  • pink noise — a random signal within the audible frequency range whose amplitude decreases as frequency increases, maintaining constant audio power per frequency increment.
  • pinocytose — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
  • pizza base — a disc of dough used as a base for a pizza
  • plagiarise — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • plasmolyse — to subject (a cell) to plasmolysis or (of a cell) to undergo plasmolysis
  • play false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
  • play house — to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties
  • ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
  • point-wise — occurring at each point of a given set: pointwise convergence.
  • pole horse — a horse harnessed to the tongue of a vehicle; poler; wheeler.
  • pole house — a timber house built on a steep section and supported by heavy debarked logs in long piles
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