13-letter words that end in se
- roger-ducasse — Jean Jules Amable [zhahn zhyl a-ma-bluh] /ʒɑ̃ ʒül aˈma blə/ (Show IPA), 1873–1954, French composer.
- rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
- ruffed grouse — a North American grouse, Bonasa umbellus, having a tuft of black feathers on each side of the neck.
- russel crouse — Russel, 1893–1966, U.S. dramatist.
- satanic abuse — sexual abuse (esp of children), killing, or violent acts considered to be carried out as part of satanic worship rituals
- saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
- seaplane base — a base for seaplanes
- seine-et-oise — a former department in N France.
- self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- semi-comatose — a light coma from which a person can be roused.
- serum disease — a generalized allergic reaction to a foreign serum or drug, characterized by fever, skin rash, enlarged lymph nodes, and painful joints.
- shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
- sino-japanese — having to do with both China and Japan
- society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
- solar 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.
- solvent abuse — Solvent abuse is the dangerous practice of breathing in the gases from substances such as glue in order to feel as if you are drunk.
- spruce grouse — a grouse, Canachites canadensis, of coniferous forests of northern North America, that feeds on evergreen buds and needles.
- standard rose — a rose which has a long stem
- station house — a police station or fire station.
- streptokinase — an enzyme used to dissolve blood clots.
- string course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- student nurse — a person who is training to be a nurse at a nursing school or hospital.
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
- sunset clause — time limit written into a law
- super-intense — existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree: intense heat.
- surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
- survey course — an introductory course of study that provides a general view of an academic subject.
- terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
- the big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
- thermal noise — a wide spectrum of electromagnetic noise appearing in electronic circuits and devices as a result of the temperature-dependent random motions of electrons and other charge carriers.
- thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- timed-release — sustained-release.
- to be precise — You say 'to be precise' to indicate that you are giving more detailed or accurate information than you have just given.
- to keep house — If you keep house, you do the cleaning and cooking for your household, and do not go out to work.
- toll traverse — a payment made for the right to cross privately owned property.
- topoisomerase — any of a class of enzymes that control the coiling of DNA molecules
- total eclipse — an eclipse in which the surface of the eclipsed body is completely obscured.
- total impulse — a measure of the maximum momentum that a given reaction engine and fuel supply can impart to a vehicle.
- trained nurse — graduate nurse.
- transcriptase — RNA polymerase.
- trinity house — an association that provides lighthouses, buoys, etc, around the British coast
- wage increase — the amount by which a salary is increased
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- weather house — a model house with two human figures, one that comes out to foretell bad weather and the other to foretell good weather
- widow's cruse — an inexhaustible supply of something: in allusion to the miracle of the cruse of oil in I Kings 17:10–16 and II Kings 4:1–7.
- willing horse — a person prepared to work hard
- willow grouse — a N European grouse, Lagopus lagopus, with a reddish-brown plumage and white wings: now regarded as the same species as the red grouse (L. lagopus scoticus) of Britain
- without cease — without stopping; incessantly