| CIRCUMMURES | • circummures v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circummure. • CIRCUMMURE v. (Shakespeare) to wall round. |
| COMMUNIQUES | • communiques n. Misspelling of communiqués. • communiqués n. Plural of communiqué. • COMMUNIQUE n. (French) an official communication; esp. an official statement reporting on a meeting, conference etc. |
| COMPLUVIUMS | • COMPLUVIUM n. (Latin) a space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern. |
| FUMATORIUMS | • fumatoriums n. Plural of fumatorium. • FUMATORIUM n. (Latin) a place for smoking or fumigation, also FUMATORY. |
| FUNAMBULISM | • funambulism n. The art of walking on a tightrope or a slack-rope. • FUNAMBULISM n. tightrope walking. |
| GUMMIFEROUS | • gummiferous adj. That produces gum (or latex etc). • GUMMIFEROUS adj. producing gum. |
| INDUMENTUMS | • INDUMENTUM n. (Latin) a total body covering of hair, fur or feathers. |
| MUGWUMPISMS | • mugwumpisms n. Plural of mugwumpism. • MUGWUMPISM n. being a mugwump. |
| MULTANIMOUS | • multanimous adj. Having many minds or aspects; many-sided. • MULTANIMOUS adj. having a many-sided mind. |
| MULTICAMPUS | • multicampus adj. Of or pertaining to more than one campus. • MULTICAMPUS adj. having many campuses. |
| MUMPSIMUSES | • mumpsimuses n. Plural of mumpsimus. • MUMPSIMUS n. an erroneous word or spelling that, through long usage, has become absorbed into the language; an incorrect manuscript reading blindly adhered to by some scholar. |
| MUSCATORIUM | • muscatorium n. Synonym of flabellum (“fan used in religious ceremonies”). • MUSCATORIUM n. (Latin) a flabellum, a fan; esp. the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers. |
| SIMULACRUMS | • simulacrums n. Plural of simulacrum. • SIMULACRUM n. (Latin) an image, a semblance, also SIMULACRE. |
| SUBMINIMUMS | • subminimums n. Plural of subminimum. |
| SUBOPTIMUMS | • suboptimums n. Plural of suboptimum. • SUBOPTIMUM n. something that is less than optimal. |
| SUMPSIMUSES | • SUMPSIMUS n. (Latin) a correct expression that replaces a popular but wrong one. |
| UNIMMUNISED | • unimmunised adj. Alternative form of unimmunized. • UNIMMUNISED adj. not immunised, also UNIMMUNIZED. |