Phrase Hound found 29 phrases and 12 compound words that contain senses. The most common are listed below. Open senses in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 29
- five sensesThe five major senses in most animals: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
- come to one's sensesTo reawaken after having lost consciousness.
- senses of directionplural of sense of direction: An ability to navigate.
- senses of humorplural of sense of humor: US standard spelling of sense of humour.
- senses of humourplural of sense of humour: A person’s faculty for finding certain things funny.
- assault on the senses
- six sensesThe five senses and the sixth sense; sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch and extrasensory perception.
- spider sensesplural of spider sense; alternative form of Spidey-senses
- spidey sensesplural of spidey sense
- take leave of one's sensesTo go crazy; to stop behaving rationally.
- dress sensesplural of dress sense: One's ability to dress well, to wear clothes that suit them
- moral sensesplural of moral sense: An inner sense that distinguishes right from wrong, functioning as a guide for morally appropriate behavior.
- sixth sensesplural of sixth sense: Extrasensory perception; the ability to sense things by means other than the known bodily senses.
- transferred sensesplural of transferred sense: A (usually looser) meaning of a word or phrase developed from a metaphoric application of its original signification.
- came to one's sensessimple past of come to one's senses
- come back to one's sensesSynonym of come to one's senses: To reawaken after having lost consciousness.
- comes to one's sensesthird-person singular simple present indicative of come to one's senses: To reawaken after having lost consciousness.
- coming to one's sensespresent participle and gerund of come to one's senses
- out of one's sensescrazy, irrational
- recover one's sensesSynonym of come to one's senses: To reawaken after having lost consciousness.
- regain one's sensesSynonym of come to one's senses: To reawaken after having lost consciousness.
- regained one's sensessimple past and past participle of regain one's senses
- regaining one's sensespresent participle and gerund of regain one's senses
- regains one's sensesthird-person singular simple present indicative of regain one's senses: To reawaken after having lost consciousness.
- return to one's sensesSynonym of come to one’s senses.
Compound words 12
- antisensesplural of antisense: The strand of nucleic acid complementary to a strand which codes for an RNA or protein.
- chemosensesplural of chemosense: A chemosensory sense.
- consensesplural of consense: To agree; to form by consensus.
- countersensesplural of countersense: An opposite meaning.
- foresensesthird-person singular simple present indicative of foresense: To perceive or sense in advance.
- Goossensesplural of Goossens: A surname from Dutch.
- missensesplural of missense: A damaged DNA sequence that is meaningful but has an incorrect meaning, with the result that its products do not do what they are supposed to do.
- nonsensesplural of nonsense: Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
- oversensesthird-person singular simple present indicative of oversense: To sense or detect too much, or more than is actually present.
- subsensesplural of subsense: A sense of a word that reflects a part or aspect of a more general (broader) sense.