(historical) The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere.
masqat
masque
masque
noun
(historical, in 16th- and 17th-century England and Europe) A dramatic performance, often performed at court as a royal entertainment, consisting of dancing, dialogue, pantomime and song.
A facial mask.
A masquerade.
Archaic form of mask.
Words and music written for a masque.
mosque
mosque
noun
(Islam) A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid.
qualms
qualms
noun
plural of qualm
sequim
squalm
squama
squama
noun
(botany) Any scaly bracted leaf.
(botany) The bract of a deciduous spike.
(entomology) A calypter.
(medicine) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium.
squame
squame
noun
(anatomy) A bony plate.
(medicine) A flake of dead skin tissue.
(medicine) A squamous (scale-like) cell.
(zoology) The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.
squamy
squeam
squirm
squirm
noun
A twisting, snakelike movement of the body.
verb
To evade a question, an interviewer etc.
To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment.