Words Ending: GUES

• the popular taste at a given time

• a current state of general acceptance and use

• a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

• any epidemic disease with a high death rate

• a swarm of insects that attack plants

• any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)

• an annoyance

• cause to suffer a blight

• annoy continually or chronically

• an instrument of punishment formerly used in China for petty criminals; consists of a heavy wooden collar enclosing the neck and arms

• a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation

• a thick and heavy shoe

• dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state

• a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days

• a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement

• an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints

• a funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane

• a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind

• restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind

• a parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly

• a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

• a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

• any long thin projection that is transient

• a manner of speaking

• a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea

• the tongue of certain animals used as meat

• the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot

• metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side

• articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments

• lick or explore with the tongue