charades

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of charade
2. (uncountable)A game in which each player acts out a word or phrase, usually based on puns of each syllable and without speaking, for the others to guess.

   “[…] it looked like a house where they played charades, where there would be long streamers of evergreen and dozens of wreaths of holly at Christmas-time, where there were tearful, happy weddings and great throwings of rice after little brides […]”

verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of charade