(music) A thirty-second note, drawn as a crotchet with three tails.
desquamate
desquamate
verb
(intransitive) To shed or peel.
desquamated
desquamated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of desquamate
desquamates
desquamates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desquamate
desquamating
desquamating
verb
present participle of desquamate
desquamation
desquamation
noun
(medicine) The shedding of the outer layers of the skin.
desquamations
desquamations
noun
plural of desquamation
desquamative
desquamative
adj
Of, relating to, or attended with, desquamation.
desquamatory
desquamatory
adj
(surgery) Relating to the removal of the laminae of exfoliated bones.
dimashq
disequilibrium
disequilibrium
noun
The loss of equilibrium or stability, especially due to an imbalance of forces.
disequilibriums
equidimensional
equidimensional
adj
Having (approximately) the same dimensions.
equisegmented
esquiredom
hemidemisemiquaver
hemidemisemiquaver
noun
(music) A sixty-fourth note, drawn as a crotchet with four tails.
liquidambars
liquidambars
noun
plural of liquidambar
lombardesque
madrigalesque
madrigalesque
adj
(music) Reminiscent of a madrigal.
maquiladoras
maquiladoras
noun
plural of maquiladora
maquisard
maquisard
noun
(historical) A member of a resistance or guerrilla movement, originally and chiefly that of the French during the German occupation of 1940-5.
marquisdom
marquisdom
noun
(obsolete) A marquisate.
masquerade
masquerade
noun
(fandom slang) A cosplay event at which costumed attendees perform skits.
(figuratively) An act of living under false pretenses; a concealment of something by a false or unreal show; a disguise, a pretence; also, a pretentious display.
(figuratively) An assembly of varied, often fanciful, things.
(obsolete) A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask or masque.
(obsolete, rare) A Spanish entertainment or military exercise in which squadrons of horses charge at each other, the riders fighting with bucklers and canes.
An assembly or party of people wearing (usually elaborate or fanciful) masks and costumes, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
The act of wearing a mask or dressing up in a costume for, or as if for, a masquerade ball.
verb
(intransitive) To take part in a masquerade; to assemble in masks and costumes; (loosely) to wear a disguise.
(intransitive, figuratively) To pass off as a different person or a person with qualities that one does not possess; also, to make a pretentious show of being what one is not.
(transitive, rare) To conceal (someone) with, or as if with, a mask; to disguise.
masqueraded
masqueraded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of masquerade
masquerader
masquerader
noun
One who masquerades; a person wearing a mask or disguise.
masqueraders
masqueraders
noun
plural of masquerader
masquerades
masquerades
noun
plural of masquerade
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of masquerade
masquerading
masquerading
noun
The act of one who masquerades.
verb
present participle of masquerade
mastoideosquamous
mdqs
misqualified
misqualified
verb
simple past tense and past participle of misqualify
misquoted
misquoted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of misquote
mosquitocidal
mosquitocidal
adj
Acting as a mosquitocide; fatal to mosquitos.
mosquitocide
mosquitocide
noun
Any substance that kills mosquitos.
musquashweed
nondesquamative
nondesquamative
adj
Not desquamative.
passamaquoddy
passamaquoddy
Noun
A member of an Algonquian people who reside in Maine (US) and New Brunswick (Canada).
Proper noun
The Algonquian language of these people, a dialect of Malecite-Passamaquoddy, still spoken in Maine and New Brunswick.
prosequendum
pseudosquamate
quadragesima
quadragesimal
quadragesimal
adj
(mathematics) Of, related to, or based on the number forty.
Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten
That lasts forty days
quadragintesimal
quadratosquamosal
quadratosquamosal
adj
(anatomy) Both quadrate and squamosal
quadrenniums
quadrigamist
quadrigamist
noun
(rare) Someone who has four spouses at the same time.
quadrigeminous
quadrigeminous
adj
Archaic form of quadrigeminal.
quadrumanous
quadrumanous
adj
Having four feet whose first digits are opposable; applies to all non-human primates.
quadrumvirs
quadrupedism
quartodecimanism
quartodecimanism
Proper noun
The doctrines of the Quartodecimans.
quasimodo
quomodos
quomodos
noun
plural of quomodo
quondamship
quondamship
noun
(obsolete, rare) The property of being former, no longer current.
rembrandtesque
rembrandtesque
Adjective
Resembling or similar to the effects and/or techniques of Rembrandt van Rijn, especially in chiaroscuro.
semiliquid
semiliquid
adj
Somewhat liquid; able to flow or change, but not entirely freely.
noun
Any substance with properties intermediate between those of a solid and a liquid.
semiliquidity
semiliquidity
noun
the state of being a semiliquid.
semiliquids
semiliquids
noun
plural of semiliquid
semiquadrangle
semiquadrantly
semiquadrate
semiquadrate
noun
(astrology) An aspect of the planets when distant from each other by half a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, or one sign and a half.
semiquinquefid
semiquinquefid
adj
Somewhat or partly quinquefid.
sesquipedalianism
sesquipedalianism
noun
(countable) A very long word.
(uncountable) The practice of using long, sometimes obscure, words in speech or writing.
sesquipedalism
sesquipedalism
noun
(rare) Alternative form of sesquipedalianism
squadrism
squadrism
noun
(historical) A policy of violence by squads of Fascists in Italy after the First World War.
squamated
squamated
Adjective
squamose
squamoid
squamoid
adj
Covered with scales; scaly.
Resembling a scale.
squamomastoid
squamosodentated
squamosoimbricated
squamosoradiate
squamosphenoid
squamosphenoidal
squandermania
squandermania
noun
Excessive expenditure by a government on a supposedly prestigious project.
squandermaniac
squandermaniac
noun
A person exhibiting squandermania; a member of government who spends excessive money on a project.
squatterdom
squatterdom
noun
The realm or sphere of squatters.
squawdom
squawdom
noun
The world or sphere of squaws.
squimmidge
squiredom
squiredom
noun
The rank of squire, or the period of being a squire.