(music) A thirty-second note, drawn as a crotchet with three tails.
desquamatory
desquamatory
adj
(surgery) Relating to the removal of the laminae of exfoliated bones.
disequilibrium
disequilibrium
noun
The loss of equilibrium or stability, especially due to an imbalance of forces.
disequilibriums
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
prosequendum
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.
rembrandtesque
rembrandtesque
Adjective
Resembling or similar to the effects and/or techniques of Rembrandt van Rijn, especially in chiaroscuro.
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.
squadrism
squadrism
noun
(historical) A policy of violence by squads of Fascists in Italy after the First World War.
squamosoimbricated
squamosoradiate
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.
squiredom
squiredom
noun
The rank of squire, or the period of being a squire.