| CLEANSE | • cleanse v. (Transitive) To free from dirt; to clean, to purify. • cleanse v. (Transitive) To spiritually purify; to free from guilt or sin; to purge. • cleanse v. (Transitive) To remove (something seen as unpleasant) from a person, place, or thing. |
| DEFENSE | • defense n. The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury. • defense n. Anything employed to oppose attack(s). • defense n. An argument in support or justification of something. |
| EXPANSE | • expanse n. A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky, or land. • expanse n. An amount of spread or stretch. • EXPANSE n. a wide area or extent. |
| EXPENSE | • expense n. A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds. • expense n. The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated. • expense n. (Obsolete) Loss. |
| EXTENSE | • extense n. (Obsolete) extent; expanse. • extense adj. (Obsolete) Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise. • EXTENSE n. (obsolete) an extent. |
| IMMENSE | • immense adj. Huge, gigantic, very large. • immense adj. (Colloquial) Supremely good. • immense adj. (Colloquial) Major; to a great degree. |
| INCENSE | • incense n. A perfume used in the rites of various religions. • incense n. (Figurative) Homage; adulation. • incense v. (Transitive) To anger or infuriate. |
| INTENSE | • intense adj. Strained; tightly drawn. • intense adj. Strict, very close or earnest. • intense adj. Extreme in degree; excessive. |
| LICENSE | • license n. A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit. • license n. The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software. • license n. Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech). |
| OFFENSE | • offense n. The act of offending. • offense n. The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure. • offense n. (Team sports) A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted with defense. |
| RECENSE | • recense v. (Obsolete, transitive) To review; to revise. • RECENSE v. to revise critically. |
| SCHANSE | • SCHANSE n. (South African) a heap of stones used as protection against rifle-fire, also SCHANTZE, SCHANZE. |
| UNSENSE | • unsense n. Lack or absence of sense; senselessness; nonsense. • unsense v. (Transitive) To remove or deprive of the senses; cause to be insensible. • UNSENSE v. to deprive of sense. |