6-letter words that end in se
- grosse — Obsolete spelling of gross.
- grouse — any of numerous gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae. Compare black grouse, capercaillie, ruffed grouse, spruce grouse.
- growse — (UK, dialect, obsolete) To shiver; to have chills.
- gyrase — a bacterial enzyme that causes supercoiling of DNA.
- gyrose — marked with wavy lines.
- hamose — (botany) Having the end hooked or curved.
- hausse — (military, historical) A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm or cannon.
- hearse — a vehicle for conveying a dead person to the place of burial.
- hexose — any of a class of sugars containing six atoms of carbon, including glucose and fructose.
- hoarse — having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky: the hoarse voice of the auctioneer.
- i-case — Integrated CASE. Another term for an IPSE.
- illuse — to treat badly, unjustly, cruelly, etc.
- impose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- in use — current, extant
- incase — encase.
- incise — to cut into; cut marks, figures, etc., upon.
- incuse — hammered or stamped in, as a figure on a coin.
- infuse — to introduce, as if by pouring; cause to penetrate; instill (usually followed by into): The energetic new principal infused new life into the school.
- intuse — a contusion or bruise
- iodise — (British) alternative spelling of iodize.
- ionise — to separate or change into ions.
- jocose — given to or characterized by joking; jesting; humorous; playful: a jocose and amusing manner.
- ketose — a monosaccharide that contains a ketone group.
- ki tse — 12th-century b.c., legendary Chinese founder of Korea.
- kinase — a transferase that catalyzes the phosphorylation of a substrate by ATP.
- laipse — to beat soundly
- laisse — A section of verse concerning a single theme; tirade.
- lanose — lanate.
- lhotse — a mountain peak in the Himalayas, on the Nepal-Tibet border: fourth highest peak in the world. 27,890 feet (8501 meters).
- liaise — to form a liaison.
- ligase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the joining of two molecules by formation of a covalent bond accompanied by the hydrolysis of ATP.
- lipase — any of a class of enzymes that break down fats, produced by the liver, pancreas, and other digestive organs or by certain plants.
- lobose — having broad, thick pseudopodia, as certain ameboid protozoans.
- louise — an opera (1900) by Gustave Charpentier.
- lutose — covered with a powdery substance resembling mud, as certain insects.
- mabuse — Jan [Flemish yahn] /Flemish yɑn/ (Show IPA), (Jan Gossaert or Gossart) 1478?–1533? Flemish painter.
- merese — (on a stemmed glass) a flat, sharp-edged knop joining the stem to the bowl or foot.
- merise — Methode d'Etude et de Realisation Informatique pour les Systemes d'Enteprise. A software engineering method popular in France; many IPSEs are based on it.
- misuse — wrong or improper use; misapplication.
- mo-tse — (Mo Ti) flourished 5th century b.c, Chinese philosopher.
- molise — a region of S central Italy, the second smallest of the regions: separated from Abruzzi e Molise in 1965. Capital: Campobasso. Pop: 321 047 (2003 est). Area: 4438 sq km (1731 sq miles)
- morose — gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- mousse — Cookery. a sweetened dessert with whipped cream as a base, often stabilized with gelatin and chilled in a mold: chocolate mousse. an aspic, unsweetened and containing meat, vegetables, or fish: salmon mousse.
- mutase — (biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the shifting of a functional group from one position to another within the same molecule.
- mycose — Trehalose.
- naoise — the husband of Deirdre and a nephew of Conchobar, by whom he was treacherously killed.
- neisse — a river in N Europe, flowing N from the NW Czech Republic along part of the boundary between Germany and Poland to the Oder River. 145 miles (233 km) long.
- nivose — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the fourth month of the year, extending from December 21 to January 19.
- nodose — having nodes.
- nonuse — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.