13-letter words that end in se
- fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
- freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
- functionalise — to make functional.
- galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
- galerie house — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
- genital phase — the final stage of psychosexual development, in which a person achieves an affectionate, mature relationship with a sexual partner.
- girl's blouse — used to refer to a man who is not behaving in a very strong or masculine way
- glucochlorose — chloralose.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- goat's cheese — cheese made from goat's milk
- governmentese — complicated or obscurantist language thought to be characteristic of government bureaucratic statements; officialese.
- halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
- happy release — liberation, esp by death, from an unpleasant condition
- harness horse — a horse used for pulling vehicles.
- harvest mouse — an Old World field mouse, Micromys minutus, that builds a spherical nest among the stems of grains and other plants.
- heart disease — any condition of the heart that impairs its functioning.
- hemicellulose — any of a group of gummy polysaccharides, intermediate in complexity between sugar and cellulose, that hydrolyze to monosaccharides more readily than cellulose.
- hire purchase — buying sth by instalments
- hire-purchase — a system of payment for a commodity in regular installments while using it.
- holyroodhouse — a royal palace in Edinburgh in Scotland: official residence of the Queen when in Scotland; begun in 1501 by James IV of Scotland; scene of the murder of David Rizzio in 1566
- honors course — a course in a university or college consisting largely of independent research terminating in a dissertation or a comprehensive examination, and earning for the student who passes it a degree with distinction.
- hospital case — a patient that is being, or needs to be, treated in a hospital
- hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
- if you please — expressing mild outrage
- immaterialise — Alt form immaterialize.
- impersonalise — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- individualise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of individualize.
- industrialise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of industrialize.
- irrationalise — Alt form irrationalize.
- issuing house — a financial institution that engages in finding capital for established companies or for private firms wishing to convert to public companies, by issuing shares on their behalf
- johnson noise — thermal background noise in a radio receiver
- jumping mouse — any of several primitive, mouselike rodents of the family Zapodidae, having long hind legs, common in the woodlands of Europe, Asia, and North America.
- kenwood house — a 17th-century mansion on Hampstead Heath in London: remodelled and decorated by Robert Adam: contains the Iveagh bequest, a noted art collection
- knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
- leonine verse — a form of verse, based upon an earlier Latin form, with a rhyme scheme that requires the last word in a line to rhyme with the word just before a caesura or with a word near the middle of the line.
- levy en masse — the conscription of the civilian population in large numbers in the face of impending invasion
- liberty horse — (in a circus) a riderless horse that performs movements to verbal commands
- lodging house — a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.
- lunar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- major premise — Logic. an argument the conclusion of which is supported by two premises, of which one (major premise) contains the term (major term) that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other (minor premise) contains the term (minor term) that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term (middle term) that is excluded from the conclusion. A typical form is “All A is C; all B is A; therefore all B is C.”.
- major release — (programming) A release of a piece of software which is not merely a revision or a bug fix release but which contains substantial changes (e.g., an overhaul of the interface, change in compatibility). Traditionally, major releases are numbered as X.0; for example, WordPerfect 6.0 is a major release, significantly different from any previous version; whereas WordPerfect 6.1 has only minor changes, and is, thus, only a revision. See also major delivery.
- manicure case — a case for holding small tools designed to care for the fingernails
- mansion house — the residence of the Lord Mayor of London
- margaret rose — 1930–2002, English princess (daughter of George VI; sister of Elizabeth II).
- meeting house — a house or building for religious worship.
- meeting-house — a house or building for religious worship.
- middle course — an option or alternative between more extreme alternatives
- military base — a facility for the storage of military equipment and the training of soldiers
- milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.