Anagrams of: CERUMEN_

• Small portions of starters typical of Turkish and Greek cuisine (equivalent to Spanish tapas or Hawaiian pu pu) often served as a light meal with pita.

• the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

• a female sovereign ruler

• the wife or widow of a king

• something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind

• a competitor who holds a preeminent position

• offensive term for a homosexual man

• one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

• (chess) the most powerful piece

• an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males

• female cat

• promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

• become a queen

• a chewer who makes a munching noise

• (Southern England) friend, acquaintance

• (British army) A comrade; a friendly, low-ranking soldier in the same situation.

• A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable.

• A low or vulgar labourer.

• To scrape together (money, etc.) by mean labour or shifts.

• restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult

• any member of a ship's crew

• a member of a flight crew

• a member of a work crew

• a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand

• Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods.

• Quill

• The flight feather of a bird.

• the chief executive department of the United States government