11-letter words that end in se
- golden rose — a gold, bejeweled ornament in the form of a rose or spray of roses, blessed and presented by the pope in recognition of service to the Holy See.
- golf course — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
- gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
- grind house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grind-house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- guelderrose — snowball (sense 2)
- guest house — small hotel
- gum disease — dental infection
- hard cheese — an unpleasant, difficult, or adverse situation: It's hard cheese for the unskilled worker these days.
- heathenesse — (obsolete) heathendom.
- hicky-horse — a seesaw.
- hierarchise — to arrange in a hierarchy.
- histaminase — an enzyme that catalyzes the decomposition of histamine, used in treating allergies.
- historicise — to interpret something as a product of historical development.
- hobby-horse — You describe a subject or idea as your hobby-horse if you have strong feelings on it and like talking about it whenever you have the opportunity.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- honey mouse — a small agile Australian marsupial, Tarsipes spenserae, having dark-striped pale brown fur, a long prehensile tail, and a very long snout and tongue with which it feeds on honey, pollen, and insects: family Phalangeridae
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- horse sense — common sense.
- hospitalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hospitalize.
- house mouse — a brownish-gray Old World mouse, Mus musculus, now common in the U.S. in or near houses.
- hydrogenase — an enzyme in certain microorganisms that speeds up the reversible oxidation of hydrogen
- hydroxylase — any enzyme that catalyzes the introduction of a hydroxyl group into a substance.
- hyperbolise — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hypostatise — to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality.
- hypothenuse — hypotenuse.
- hypothesise — to form a hypothesis.
- ill at ease — of unsound physical or mental health; unwell; sick: She felt ill, so her teacher sent her to the nurse.
- immortalise — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- imperialise — Alt form imperialize.
- in any case — an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something: Sailing in such a storm was a case of poor judgment.
- incentivise — (transitive, British spelling) To provide with an incentive. (from 20th c.).
- indochinese — of or relating to Indochina or its inhabitants.
- infructuose — Not yielding fruit.
- intercourse — dealings or communication between individuals, groups, countries, etc.
- internalise — to incorporate (the cultural values, mores, motives, etc., of another or of a group), as through learning, socialization, or identification.
- intersperse — to scatter here and there or place at intervals among other things: to intersperse flowers among shrubs.
- it's no use — If you say it's no use, you mean that you have failed to do something and realize that it is useless to continue trying because it is impossible.
- jack cheese — a mild, moist cheddar, made from whole, skimmed, or partially skimmed milk: first made in Monterey County, California.
- joined case — a trial combining multiple related claims, etc
- ketopentose — (carbohydrate) A pentose that is also a ketose.
- ketotetrose — (carbohydrate) Any ketose having four carbon atoms.
- kettle base — a bombé base to a piece of furniture.
- konrad zuse — (person) The designer of the first programming language, Plankalkül, and the first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany.
- lazar house — (formerly) a hospital for persons with infectious diseases, esp leprosy
- lecithinase — An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of lecithin.
- lentiginose — (botany) Bearing numerous dots resembling freckles.
- leper house — a hospital for lepers; leprosarium.
- lethal dose — the amount of a drug or other agent that if administered to an animal or human will prove fatal
- levoglucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.