Anagrams of: PUMICES__

• An unpleasant or disgusting (scuzzy) person

• an examination consisting of a few short questions

• examine someone's knowledge of something

• Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

• Plants used in making a quickset hedge

• The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.

• Quitchgrass.

• A fast bowler.

• To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.

• To quicken.

• A stake driven into the ground.

• A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

• A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

• One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

• (sometimes figurative) A sentry.

• A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

• The card game piquet.

• a tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables)

• a member of the Mayan people of south central Guatemala

• the Mayan language spoken by the Quiche

• any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)

• with little or no delay

• accomplished rapidly and without delay

• hurried and brief

• moving quickly and lightly

• apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity

• performed with little or no delay

• easily aroused or excited

• a tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables)

• a member of the Mayan people of south central Guatemala

• the Mayan language spoken by the Quiche

• overturn accidentally

• (chiefly Britain) The face.