5-letter words that end in se
- feese — (obsolete) The short run before a leap; a run-up.
- fesse — an ordinary in the form of a broad horizontal band across the middle of an escutcheon.
- fosse — Robert Louis ("Bob") 1927–87, U.S. dancer, choreographer, and theater and film director.
- fouse — Ready, eager, prompt, quick, striving forward, inclined to, willing.
- frise — a rug or upholstery fabric having the pile in uncut loops or in a combination of cut and uncut loops.
- gause — Obsolete spelling of gauze.
- geese — a plural of goose.
- gemse — chamois (def 1).
- goose — any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
- gorse — any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.
- gosse — Sir Edmund William, 1849–1928, English poet, biographer, and critic.
- grise — (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
- guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- gypse — Obsolete form of gypsum.
- halse — to hug or to embrace
- hanse — Hansa.
- harse — Eye dialect of horse.
- hawse — the part of a bow where the hawseholes are located.
- herse — A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes, hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered to impede the advance of an enemy.
- hesse — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, German novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1946.
- heyse — Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- hoise — to hoist.
- hoose — (Geordie, and, Scotland) house.
- horse — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- hulse — Russell Alan, born 1950, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1993.
- jesse — the father of David. I Sam. 16.
- lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- lease — a system for keeping the warp in position and under control by alternately crossing the warp yarn over and under the lease rods.
- leese — (obsolete) To lose.
- lefse — a round Norwegian flatbread resembling a tortilla, made with mashed potatoes and flour.
- lense — Misspelling of lens.
- lesse — Archaic form of less.
- liase — Misspelling of liaise.
- lisse — a fine, filmy, lightly crinkled gauze fabric used in strips for making ruching or for finishing garments.
- loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- louse — any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
- lowse — loose
- lyase — any of various enzymes, as decarboxylase, that catalyze reactions involving the formation of or addition to a double bond.
- maise — a measure of herring
- manse — the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- marse — (used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- masse — a stroke made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held almost or quite perpendicular to the table.
- mease — (UK, dialect, dated) five hundred.
- meese — (chiefly, humorous) Plural form of moose.
- mense — propriety; discretion.
- merse — low level ground by a river or shore, often alluvial and fertile
- meuse — Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- moose — a large, long-headed mammal, Alces alces, of the deer family, having circumpolar distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, the male of which has enormous palmate antlers.
- morse — Jedidiah [jed-i-dahy-uh] /ˌdʒɛd ɪˈdaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1761–1826, U.S. geographer and Congregational clergyman (father of Samuel F. B. Morse).