| AMUSED | • amused v. Simple past tense and past participle of amuse. • amused adj. Pleasurably entertained. • amused adj. Displaying amusement. |
| AMUSER | • amuser n. Someone who amuses. • amuser n. (Obsolete) One who diverts attention, usually to distract or bewilder, often for fraudulent purposes;… • amuser n. (Historical, early 19th century) One of a class of rogues who carry snuff or dust in their pockets… |
| AMUSES | • amuses v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amuse. • AMUSE v. to entertain. |
| ASSUME | • assume v. To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof. • assume v. To take on a position, duty or form. • assume v. To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate. |
| EMPUSA | • empusa n. (Mythology) In Ancient Greek mythology, a kind of spectre sent by Hecate to guard roads and devour travellers. • Empusa prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Empusidae – mantises. • EMPUSA n. (Greek) a phantom or specter sent by Hecate, also EMPUSE. |
| MASQUE | • masque n. (Historical, in 16th- and 17th-century England and Europe) A dramatic performance, often performed at… • masque n. Words and music written for a masque. • masque n. A masquerade. |
| MAUVES | • mauves n. Plural of mauve. • MAUVE n. a purple colour. |
| MEATUS | • meatus n. (Anatomy) A tubular opening or passage leading to the interior of the body. • meatus n. (Anatomy) Ellipsis of acoustic meatus, the passage leading into the ear. • MEATUS n. (Latin) a natural body passage. |
| MEDUSA | • medusa n. A jellyfish; specifically (zoology), a non-polyp form of individual cnidarians, consisting of a gelatinous… • Medusa prop.n. (Greek mythology) The youngest and only mortal of the three gorgon sisters, killed by Perseus. • Medusa prop.n. (Archaic) A taxonomic genus within the phylum Cnidaria – diverse jellyfishes, now assigned to numerous other genera. |
| MUSCAE | • muscae n. Plural of musca. • Muscae prop.n. (Astronomy) genitive of Musca used when naming stars, such as α Muscae. • MUSCA n. (Latin) a genus of dipterous insects, including the common housefly. |
| MUTASE | • mutase n. (Biochemistry) An isomerase that catalyzes the shifting of a functional group from one position to another… • MUTASE n. any of various enzymes that catalyze molecular rearrangements. |
| SQUAME | • squame n. (Zoology) The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean. • squame n. (Medicine) A flake of dead skin tissue. • squame n. (Medicine) A squamous (scale-like) cell. |
| SUMMAE | • summae n. Plural of summa. • SUMMA n. (Latin) a comprehensive work covering a specific subject. |
| ULEMAS | • ulemas n. Plural of ulema. • ULEMA n. (Arabic) the body of professional theologians, expounders of the law, in a Muslim country, also ULAMA. |
| UNSEAM | • unseam v. (Transitive) To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut open. • UNSEAM v. to open the seams of. |