Anagrams of: UENCES_

• a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.

• a note explaining an absence

• a poor example

• accept an excuse for

• grant exemption or release to

• serve as a reason or cause or justification of

• defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning

• ask for permission to be released from an engagement

• excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with

• a borough of New York City, it is the easternmost, largest in area, and second-largest in population of New York City's five boroughs

• 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

• the chief executive department of the United States government

• the chief executive department of the United States government

• the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet

• the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet

• the means of connection between things linked in series

• a connected series or group

• deprive of sex or sexual powers

• remove the qualities typical of one's sex

• make infertile

• A street market, particularly in Arabic- and Somali-speaking countries; a place where people buy and sell goods.