| Q: | the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet has but one sound that of k and is always followed by u the two letters together being sounded like kw except in some words in which the u is silent See Guide to Pronunciation cw being used instead of qu as in cwic quick cwen queen The name kku which is from the Latin name of the same letter its form is from the Latin which derived it through a Greek alphabet from the Phoenician the ultimate origin being Egyptian |
| QC: | Quality control |
| QCD: | Quantum chromodynamics |
| QED: | Quantum electrodynamics |
| QED: | Which was demonstrated a phrase used after the conclusion of some line of reasoning especially in mathematical or logical proofs |
| Qua: | In so far as in the capacity or character of as |
| Quab: | An unfledged bird hence something immature or unfinished |
| Quab: | See Quob v i |
| Quabird: | The American night heron See under Night |
| Quacha: | The quagga |
| Quack: | The cry of the duck or a sound in imitation of it a hoarse quacking noise |
| Quack: | Pertaining to or characterized by boasting and pretension used by quacks pretending to cure diseases as a quack medicine a quack doctor |
| Quackery: | The acts arts or boastful pretensions of a quack false pretensions to any art empiricism |
| Quackgrass: | See Quitch grass |
| Quackish: | Like a quack boasting characterized by quackery |
| Quackism: | Quackery |
| Quackle: | To suffocate to choke |
| Quacksalver: | One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves or of the efficacy of his prescriptions a charlatan a quack a mountebank |
| Quad: | Evil bad baffling as a quade wind |
| Quad: | A quadrat |
| Quad: | A quadrangle hence a prison |
| Quadra: | The plinth or lowest member of any pedestal podium water table or the like |
| Quadrable: | That may be sqyared or reduced to an equivalent square said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly found and expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms |
| Quadragenarious: | Consisting of forty forty years old |
| Quadragene: | An indulgence of forty days corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance |
| Quadragesima: | The forty days of fast preceding Easter Lent |
| Quadragesimal: | Belonging to Lent used in Lent Lenten |
| Quadragesimals: | Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on MidLent Sunday |
| Quadrangular: | Having four angles and consequently four sides tetragonal |
| Quadrans: | A fourth part of the coin called an as See 3d As 2 |
| Quadrant: | The fourth part the quarter |
| Quadrantal: | Of or pertaining to a quadrant also included in the fourth part of a circle as quadrantal space |
| Quadrantal: | A cubical vessel containing a Roman cubic foot each side being a Roman square foot used as a measure |
| Quadrat: | A block of type metal lower than the letters used in spacing and in blank lines |
| Quadrate: | Having four equal sides the opposite sides parallel and four right angles square |
| Quadrate: | A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles a square hence figuratively anything having the outline of a square |
| Quadrate: | To square to agree to suit to correspond followed by with |
| Quadrate: | To adjust a gun on its carriage also to train a gun for horizontal firing |
| Quadratics: | That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations |
| Quadratojugal: | Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones |
| Quadratrix: | A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves as the quadratrix of Dinostratus or of Tschirnhausen |
| Quadrature: | The act of squaring the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure as the quadrature of a circle the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line as by a curve two ordinates and the axis of abscissas |
| Quadrel: | A square piece of turf or peat |
| Quadrennial: | Comprising four years as a quadrennial period |
| Quadrennially: | Once in four years |
| Quadrennium: | A space or period of four years |
| Quadri: | A combining form meaning four four times fourfold as quadricapsular having four capsules |
| Quadribasic: | Same as Tetrabasic |
| Quadrible: | Quadrable |
| Quadric: | Of or pertaining to the second degree |
| Quadric: | A quantic of the second degree See Quantic |
| Quadricapsular: | Having four capsules |
| Quadriceps: | The great extensor muscle of the knee divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee |
| Quadricipital: | Of or pertaining to the quadriceps |
| Quadricorn: | Any quadricornous animal |
| Quadricornous: | Having four horns or hornlike organs as a quadricornous beetle |
| Quadricostate: | Having four ribs |
| Quadridentate: | Having four teeth as a quadridentate leaf |
| Quadriennial: | Same as Quadrennial |
| Quadrifarious: | Arranged in four rows or ranks as quadrifarious leaves |
| Quadrifid: | Divided or deeply cleft into four parts as a quadrifid perianth a quadrifid leaf |
| Quadrifoil: | Fourleaved having the leaves in whorls of four |
| Quadrifurcated: | Having four forks or branches |
| Quadriga: | A car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast |
| Quadrigeminal: | Fourfold having four similar parts or two pairs of similar parts |
| Quadrigenarious: | Consisting of four hundred |
| Quadrijugate: | Same as Quadrijugous |
| Quadrijugous: | Pinnate with four pairs of leaflets as a quadrijugous leaf |
| Quadrilateral: | Having four sides and consequently four angles quadrangular |
| Quadrilateral: | A plane figure having four sides and consequently four angles a quadrangular figure any figure formed by four lines |
| Quadrilateralness: | The property of being quadrilateral |
| Quadriliteral: | Consisting of four letters |
| Quadrill: | Marked with squares generally by thin lines crossing at right angles and at equal intervals as quadrill paper or plotting paper |
| Quadrille: | A dance having five figures in common time four couples of dancers being in each set |
| Quadrille: | A game played by four persons with forty cards being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens nines and eights are discarded |
| Quadrillion: | According to the French notation which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed according to the English notation the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power or the number represented by a unit with twentyfour ciphers annexed See the Note under Numeration |
| Quadrilobate: | Having four lobes as a quadrilobate leaf |
| Quadrilocular: | Having four cells or cavities as a quadrilocular heart |
| Quadrin: | A small piece of money in value about a farthing or a half cent |
| Quadrinodal: | Possessing four nodes as quadrinodal curves |
| Quadrinomial: | A polynomial of four terms connected by the signs plus or minus |
| Quadrinomical: | Quadrinomial |
| Quadrinominal: | Quadrinomial |
| Quadripartite: | Divided into four parts |
| Quadripartitely: | In four parts |
| Quadripartition: | A division or distribution by four or into four parts also a taking the fourth part of any quantity or number |
| Quadripennate: | Having four wings said of insects |
| Quadriphyllous: | Having four leaves quadrifoliate |
| Quadrireme: | A galley with four banks of oars or rowers |
| Quadrisection: | A subdivision into four parts |
| Quadrisulcate: | Having four hoofs as a quadrisulcate foot a quadrisulcate animal |
| Quadrisyllabic: | Having four syllables of or pertaining to quadrisyllables as a quadrisyllabic word |
| Quadrisyllable: | A word consisting of four syllables |
| Quadrivalence: | The quality or state of being quadrivalent tetravalence |
| Quadrivalent: | Having a valence of four capable of combining with being replaced by or compared with four monad atoms tetravalent said of certain atoms and radicals thus carbon and silicon are quadrivalent elements |
| Quadrivalve: | Dehiscent into four similar parts fourvalved as a quadrivalve pericarp |
| Quadrivalve: | A door shutter or the like having four folds |
| Quadrivalvular: | Having four valves quadrivalve |
| Quadrivial: | Having four ways meeting in a point |
| Quadrivial: | One of the four bdliberal artsb8 making up the quadrivium |
| Quadrivium: | The four bdliberal artsb8 arithmetic music geometry and astronomy so called by the schoolmen See Trivium |
| Quadroon: | The offspring of a mulatto and a white person a person quarterblooded |
| Quadroxide: | A tetroxide |
| Quadrumana: | A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana which last included man alone |
| Quadrumane: | One of the Quadrumana |
| Quadrumanous: | Having four hands of or pertaining to the Quadrumana |
| Quadruped: | Having four feet |
| Quadruped: | An animal having four feet as most mammals and reptiles often restricted to the mammals |
| Quadrupedal: | Having four feet of or pertaining to a quadruped |
| Quadruplane: | An airplane with four superposed main supporting surfaces Contrasted with triplane biplane and monoplane They are now used only for hobbyist or historical activities |
| Quadruple: | Fourfold as to make quadruple restitution a quadruple alliance |
| Quadruple: | four times the sum or number a fourfold amount as to receive to quadruple of the amount in damages |
| Quadruple: | To multiply by four to increase fourfold to double to double twice |
| Quadruple: | To be multiplied by four to increase fourfold to become four times as much |
| Quadruplet: | A collection or combination of four of a kind |
| Quadruplex: | Fourfold folded or doubled twice |
| Quadruplicate: | To make fourfold to double twice to quadruple |
| Quadruplication: | The act of making fourfold a taking four times the simple sum or amount |
| Quadruply: | To a fourfold quantity so as to be or cause to be quadruple as to be quadruply recompensed |
| Qure: | Inquire question see used to signify doubt or to suggest investigation |
| Qustor: | Same as Questor |
| Quaff: | To drink with relish to drink copiously of to swallow in large draughts |
| Quaff: | To drink largely or luxuriously |
| Quaffer: | One who quaffs or drinks largely |
| Quag: | A quagmire |
| Quagga: | A South African wild ass Equus quagga syn Hippotigris quagga The upper parts are reddish brown becoming paler behind and behind and beneath with dark stripes on the face neck and fore part of the body The species became extinct in the late 1800s largely due to excessive hunting |
| Quaggy: | Of the nature of a quagmire yielding or trembling under the foot as soft wet earth spongy boggy |
| Quagmire: | Soft wet miry land which shakes or yields under the feet |
| Quahog: | An American market clam Venus mercenaria It is sold in large quantities and is highly valued as food Called also round clam and hard clam |
| Quaigh: | A small shallow cup or drinking vessel |
| Quail: | To die to perish hence to wither to fade |
| Quail: | To cause to fail in spirit or power to quell to crush to subdue |
| Quail: | To curdle to coagulate as milk |
| Quaily: | The upland plover |
| Quaint: | Prudent wise hence crafty artful wily |
| Quaintise: | Craft subtlety cunning |
| Quaintly: | In a quaint manner |
| Quaintness: | The quality of being quaint |
| Quair: | A quire a book |
| Quake: | To be agitated with quick short motions continually repeated to shake with fear cold etc to shudder to tremble |
| Quake: | To cause to quake |
| Quake: | A tremulous agitation a quick vibratory movement a shudder a quivering |
| Quaker: | One who quakes |
| Quakeress: | A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends |
| Quakerish: | Like or pertaining to a Quaker Quakerlike |
| Quakerism: | The peculiar character manners tenets etc of the Quakers |
| Quakerlike: | Like a Quaker |
| Quakerly: | Resembling Quakers Quakerlike Quakerish |
| Quakery: | Quakerism |
| Quaketail: | A wagtail |
| Quakiness: | The state of being quaky liability to quake |
| Quaking: | a n from Quake v |
| Quakingly: | In a quaking manner fearfully |
| Quaky: | Shaky or tremulous quaking |
| Qualifiable: | Capable of being qualified abatable modifiable |
| Qualification: | The act of qualifying or the condition of being qualified |
| Qualificative: | That which qualifies modifies or restricts a qualifying term or statement |
| Qualificator: | An officer whose business it is to examine and prepare causes for trial in the ecclesiastical courts |
| Qualified: | Fitted by accomplishments or endowments |
| Qualifiedly: | In the way of qualification with modification or qualification |
| Qualifiedness: | The state of being qualified |
| Qualifier: | One who or that which qualifies that which modifies reduces tempers or restrains |
| Qualify: | To make such as is required to give added or requisite qualities to to fit as for a place office occupation or character to furnish with the knowledge skill or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose to make capable as of an employment or privilege to supply with legal power or capacity |
| Qualify: | To be or become qualified to be fit as for an office or employment |
| Qualitative: | Relating to quality having the character of quality |
| Qualitied: | Furnished with qualities endowed |
| Quality: | The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others nature or character relatively considered as of goods character sort rank |
| Qualm: | Sickness disease pestilence death |
| Qualmish: | Sick at the stomach affected with nausea or sickly languor inclined to vomit |
| Quamash: | See Camass |
| Quamoclit: | Formerly a genus of plants including the cypress vine Quamoclit vulgaris now called Ipomd2a Quamoclit The genus is now merged in Ipomd2a |
| Quandary: | A state of difficulty or perplexity doubt uncertainty |
| Quandary: | To bring into a state of uncertainty perplexity or difficulty |
| Quandong: | The edible drupaceous fruit of an Australian tree Fusanus acuminatus of the Sandalwood family called also quandang |
| Quandy: | The old squaw |
| Quannet: | A flat file having the handle at one side so as to be used like a plane |
| Quant: | A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud a setting pole |
| Quantic: | A homogeneous algebraic function of two or more variables in general containing only positive integral powers of the variables and called quadric cubic quartic etc according as it is of the second third fourth fifth or a higher degree These are further called binary ternary quaternary etc according as they contain two three four or more variables thus the quantic is a binary cubic |
| Quantification: | Modification by a reference to quantity the introduction of the element of quantity |
| Quantify: | To modify or qualify with respect to quantity to determine fix or express the quantity of to rate |
| Quantitative: | Relating to quantity |
| Quantitive: | Estimable according to quantity quantitative |
| Quantitively: | So as to be measurable by quantity quantitatively |
| Quantivalence: | Valence |
| Quantivalent: | Of or pertaining to quantivalence |
| Quantum: | Quantity amount |
| Quap: | To quaver |
| Quaquaversal: | Turning or dipping in any or every direction |
| Quar: | A quarry |
| Quarantine: | A space of forty days used of Lent |
| Quarantine: | To compel to remain at a distance or in a given place without intercourse when suspected of having contagious disease to put under or in quarantine |
| Quarl: | A medusa or jellyfish |
| Quarrel: | An arrow for a crossbow so named because it commonly had a square head |
| Quarrel: | A breach of concord amity or obligation a falling out a difference a disagreement an antagonism in opinion feeling or conduct esp an angry dispute contest or strife a brawl an altercation as he had a quarrel with his father about expenses |
| Quarrel: | To violate concord or agreement to have a difference to fall out to be or become antagonistic |
| Quarrel: | To quarrel with |
| Quarrel: | One who quarrels or wrangles one who is quarrelsome |
| Quarrelet: | A little quarrel See 1st Quarrel 2 |
| Quarreling: | Engaged in a quarrel apt or disposed to quarrel as quarreling factions a quarreling mood |
| Quarrellous: | Quarrelsome |
| Quarrelsome: | Apt or disposed to quarrel given to brawls and contention easily irritated or provoked to contest irascible choleric |
| Quarried: | Provided with prey |
| Quarrier: | A worker in a stone quarry |
| Quarry: | Same as 1st Quarrel |
| Quarry: | Quadrate square |
| Quarry: | A part of the entrails of the beast taken given to the hounds |
| Quarry: | To secure prey to prey as a vulture or harpy |
| Quarry: | A place cavern or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge or dug from the earth for building or other purposes a stone pit See 5th Mine a |
| Quarry: | To dig or take from a quarry as to quarry marble |
| Quarryfaced: | Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point said of stones |
| Quarryman: | A man who is engaged in quarrying stones a quarrier |
| Quart: | The fourth part a quarter hence a region of the earth |
| Quart: | A measure of capacity both in dry and in liquid measure the fourth part of a gallon the eighth part of a peck two pints |
| Quart: | In cards four successive cards of the same suit Cf Tierce 4 |
| Quartan: | Of or pertaining to the fourth occurring every fourth day reckoning inclusively as a quartan ague or fever |
| Quartan: | An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day reckoning inclusively that is one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days |
| Quartane: | Butane each molecule of which has four carbon atoms |
| Quartation: | The act process or result in the process of parting of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold called also inquartation Compare Parting |
| Quarte: | Same as 2d Carte |
| Quartene: | Same as Butylene |
| Quartenylic: | Pertaining to or designating an acid of the acrylic acid series metameric with crotonic acid and obtained as a colorless liquid so called from having four carbon atoms in the molecule Called also isocrotonic acid |
| Quarter: | One of four equal parts into which anything is divided or is regarded as divided a fourth part or portion as a quarter of a dollar of a pound of a yard of an hour etc |
| Quarter: | To divide into four equal parts |
| Quarter: | To lodge to have a temporary residence |
| Quarter: | To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts or so that a rut shall be between the wheels |
| Quarterage: | A quarterly allowance |
| Quarterdeck: | That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast including the poop deck when there is one |
| Quartered: | Divided into four equal parts or quarters separated into four parts or regions |
| Quarterfoil: | An ornamental foliation having four lobes or foils |
| Quarterhung: | Having trunnions the axes of which lie below the bore said of a cannon |
| Quartering: | Coming from a point well abaft the beam but not directly astern said of waves or any moving object |
| Quartering: | A station |
| Quarterly: | Containing or consisting of a fourth part as quarterly seasons |
| Quarterly: | A periodical work published once a quarter or four times in a year |
| Quarterly: | By quarters once in a quarter of a year as the returns are made quarterly |
| Quartermaster: | An officer whose duty is to provide quarters provisions storage clothing fuel stationery and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops and superintend the supplies |
| Quartern: | A quarter Specifically a The fourth part of a pint a gill b The fourth part of a peck or of a stone 14 ibs |
| Quarteron: | A quarter esp a quarter of a pound or a quarter of a hundred |
| Quarteron: | A quadroon |
| Quarterpace: | A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only See Halfpace |
| Quarterround: | An ovolo |
| Quartersaw: | To saw a log into quarters specif to saw into quarters and then into boards as by cutting alternately from each face of a quarter to secure lumber that will warp relatively little or show the grain advantageously |
| Quarterstaff: | A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle and the other between the middle and the end |
| Quartet: | A composition in four parts each performed by a single voice or instrument |
| Quartic: | Of the fourth degree |
| Quartic: | A quantic of the fourth degree See Quantic |
| Quartile: | Same as Quadrate |
| Quartine: | A supposed fourth integument of an ovule counting from the outside |
| Quarto: | Having four leaves to the sheet of the form or size of a quarto |
| Quarto: | Originally a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper a size leaves in present usage a book of a square or nearly square form and usually of large size |
| Quartridge: | Quarterage |
| Quartz: | A form of silica or silicon dioxide SiO2 occurring in hexagonal crystals which are commonly colorless and transparent but sometimes also yellow brown purple green and of other colors also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency being sometimes opaque |
| Quartziferous: | Consisting chiefly of quartz containing quartz |
| Quartzite: | Massive quartz occurring as a rock a metamorphosed sandstone called also quartz rock |
| Quartzoid: | A form of crystal common with quartz consisting of two sixsided pyramids base to base |
| Quartzose: | Containing or resembling quartz partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz |
| quartzous: | Quarzose |
| Quartzy: | Quartzose |
| Quas: | A kind of beer Same as Quass |
| Quaschi: | The brown coati See Coati |
| Quash: | Same as Squash |
| Quash: | To abate annul overthrow or make void as to quash an indictment |
| Quash: | To beat down or beat in pieces to dash forcibly to crush |
| Quash: | To be shaken or dashed about with noise |
| Quashee: | A negro of the West Indies |
| Quasi: | As if as though as it were in a manner sense or degree having some resemblance to qualified used as an adjective or a prefix with a noun or an adjective as a quasi contract an implied contract an obligation which has arisen from some act as if from a contract a quasi corporation a body that has some but not all of the peculiar attributes of a corporation a quasi argument that which resembles or is used as an argument quasi historical apparently historical seeming to be historical |
| Quasicorporation: | A corporation consisting of a person or body of persons invested with some of the qualities of an artificial person though not expressly incorporated esp the official of certain municipal divisions such as counties schools districts and the towns of some States of the United States certain church officials as a churchwarden etc |
| Quasimodo: | The first Sunday after Easter Low Sunday |
| Quass: | A thin sour beer made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment much used by the Russians Called also kvass |
| Quassation: | The act of shaking or the state of being shaken |
| Quassia: | The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarube as Quassia amara Picrna excelsa and Simaruba amara It is intensely bitter and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer |
| Quassin: | The bitter principle of quassia extracted as a white crystalline substance formerly called quassite |
| Quat: | A pustule |
| Quat: | To satiate to satisfy |
| Quata: | The coaita |
| Quatch: | Squat flat |
| Quatercousin: | A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred |
| Quaternary: | The number four |
| Quaternate: | Composed of or arranged in sets of four quaternary as quaternate leaves |
| Quaternion: | The number four |
| Quaternion: | To divide into quaternions files or companies |
| Quaternity: | The number four |
| Quateron: | See 2d Quarteron |
| Quatorzain: | A poem of fourteen lines a sonnet |
| Quatorze: | The four aces kings queens knaves or tens in the game of piquet so called because quatorze counts as fourteen points |
| Quatrain: | A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately |
| Quatre: | A card die or domino having four spots or pips |
| Quatrefeuille: | Same as Quarterfoil |
| Quattrocento: | The fifteenth century when applied to Italian art or literature as the sculpture of the quattrocento quattrocento style |
| Quatuor: | A quartet applied chiefly to instrumental compositions |
| Quave: | See Quaver |
| Quave: | To quaver |
| Quavemire: | See Quagmire |
| Quaver: | To tremble to vibrate to shake |
| Quaver: | To utter with quavers |
| Quaver: | A shake or rapid and tremulous vibration of the voice or of an instrument of music |
| Quaverer: | One who quavers a warbler |
| Quay: | A mole bank or wharf formed toward the sea or at the side of a harbor river or other navigable water for convenience in loading and unloading vessels |
| Quay: | To furnish with quays |
| Quayage: | Wharfage |
| Quayd: | p p of Quail |
| Que: | A half farthing |
| Queach: | A thick bushy plot a thicket |
| Queach: | To stir to move See Quick v i |
| Queachy: | Yielding or trembling under the feet as moist or boggy ground shaking moving |
| Quean: | A woman a young or unmarried woman a girl |
| Queasily: | In a queasy manner |
| Queasiness: | The state of being queasy nausea qualmishness squeamishness |
| Queasy: | Sick at the stomach affected with nausea inclined to vomit qualmish |
| Quebecgroup: | The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system See the Chart of Geology |
| Quebracho: | A Chilian apocynaceous tree Aspidosperma Quebracho also its bark which is used as a febrifuge and for dyspnwhite quebracho to distinguish it from the red quebracho a Mexican anacardiaceous tree Loxopterygium Lorentzii whose bark is said to have similar properties |
| Quebrith: | Sulphur |
| Quech: | A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacons Essays and probably meaning to stir to move |
| Queen: | The wife of a king |
| Queen: | To act the part of a queen |
| Queen: | To make a queen or other piece at the players discretion of by moving it to the eighth row as to queen a pawn |
| Queencraft: | Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen |
| Queendom: | The dominion condition or character of a queen |
| Queenfish: | A California scinoid food fish Seriphys politus The back is bluish and the sides and belly bright silvery Called also kingfish |
| Queenhood: | The state personality or character of a queen queenliness |
| Queening: | Any one of several kinds of apples as summer queening scarlet queening and early queening An apple called the queening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago |
| Queenliness: | The quality of being queenly the characteristic of a queen stateliness eminence among women in attractions or power |
| Queenly: | Like becoming or suitable to a queen |
| Queenolive: | Properly a kind of superior olive grown in the region of Seville Spain It is large size and oblong shape with a small but long pit it is cured when green keeps well and has a delicate flavor Loosely any olive of similar character |
| Queenpost: | One of two suspending posts in a roof truss or other framed truss of similar form See Kingpost |
| Queenship: | The state rank or dignity of a queen |
| Queenslandnut: | The nut of an Australian tree Macadamia ternifolia It is about an inch in diameter and contains a single round edible seed or sometimes two hemispherical seeds So called from Queensland in Australia |
| Queentruss: | A truss framed with queenposts a queenpost truss |
| Queer: | At variance with what is usual or normal differing in some odd way from what is ordinary odd singular strange whimsical as a queer story or act |
| Queer: | Counterfeit money |
| Queer: | To puzzle |
| Queerish: | Rather queer somewhat singular |
| Queerly: | In a queer or odd manner |
| Queerness: | The quality or state of being queer |
| Queest: | The European ringdove Columba palumbus the cushat |
| Quegh: | A drinking vessel See Quaich |
| Queint: | See Quaint |
| Queint: | imp p p of Quench |
| Queintise: | See Quaintise |
| Quell: | To take the life of to kill |
| Quell: | Murder |
| Queller: | A killer as Jack the Giant Queller |
| Quellio: | A ruff for the neck |
| Quelquechose: | A trifle a kickshaw |
| Queme: | To please |
| Quemeful: | Kindly merciful |
| Quench: | To extinguish to overwhelm to make an end of said of flame and fire of things burning and figuratively of sensations and emotions as to quench flame to quench a candle to quench thirst love hate etc |
| Quench: | To become extinguished to go out to become calm or cool |
| Quenchable: | Capable of being quenched |
| Quencher: | One who or that which quenches |
| Quenchless: | Incapable of being quenched inextinguishable as quenchless fire or fury |
| Quenelle: | A kind of delicate forcemeat commonly poached and used as a dish by itself or for garnishing |
| Quenouilletraining: | A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning |
| Quercitannic: | Pertaining to or designating a tannic acid found in oak bark and extracted as a yellowish brown amorphous substance |
| Quercite: | A white crystalline substance C6H7OH5 found in acorns the fruit of the oak Quercus It has a sweet taste and is regarded as a pentacid alcohol |
| Quercitin: | A yellow crystalline substance occurring quite widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom as in appletree bark horsechestnut leaves etc but originally obtained by the decomposition of quercitrin Called also meletin |
| Quercitrin: | A glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak Quercus as a bitter citronyellow crystalline substance used as a pigment and called quercitron |
| Quercitron: | The yellow inner bark of the Quercus tinctoria the American black oak yellow oak dyers oak or quercitron oak a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern Texas |
| Quercus: | A genus of trees constituted by the oak See Oak |
| Querele: | A complaint to a court See Audita Querela |
| Querent: | A complainant a plaintiff |
| Querent: | An inquirer |
| Querimonious: | Complaining querulous apt to complain |
| Querimony: | A complaint or complaining |
| Querist: | One who inquires or asks questions |
| Querken: | To stifle or choke |
| Querl: | To twirl to turn or wind round to coil as to querl a cord thread or rope |
| Querl: | A coil a twirl as the qwerl of hair on the fore leg of a blooded horse |
| Quern: | A mill for grinding grain the upper stone of which was turned by hand used before the invention of windmills and watermills |
| Querpo: | The inner or body garments taken together See Cuerpo |
| Querquedule: | A teal |
| Querry: | A groom an equerry |
| Querulential: | Querulous |
| Querulous: | Given to quarreling quarrelsome |
| Query: | A question an inquiry to be answered or solved |
| Query: | To ask questions to make inquiry |
| Query: | To put questions about to elicit by questioning to inquire into as to query the items or the amount to query the motive or the fact |
| Quesal: | The longtailed or resplendent trogon Pharomachus mocinno formerly Trogon resplendens native of Southern Mexico and Central America Called also quetzal and golden trogon |
| Quest: | The act of seeking or looking after anything attempt to find or obtain search pursuit as to rove in quest of game of a lost child of property etc |
| Quest: | To search for to examine |
| Quest: | To go on a quest to make a search to go in pursuit to beg |
| Questant: | One who undertakes a quest a seeker |
| Quester: | One who seeks a seeker |
| Question: | The act of asking interrogation inquiry as to examine by question and answer |
| Question: | To ask questions to inquire |
| Question: | To inquire of by asking questions to examine by interrogatories as to question a witness |
| Questionability: | The state or condition of being questionable |
| Questionable: | Admitting of being questioned inviting or seeming to invite inquiry |
| Questionableness: | The quality or state of being questionable doubtful or suspicious |
| Questionably: | In a questionable manner |
| Questionary: | Inquiring asking questions testing |
| Questionary: | One who makes it his business to seek after relics and carry them about for sale |
| Questioner: | One who asks questions an inquirer |
| Questionist: | A questioner an inquirer |
| Questionless: | Unquestioning incurious |
| questionless: | Beyond a question or doubt doubtless certainly |
| questionnaire: | same as Questionary |
| Questman: | One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters esp of abuses of weights and measures |
| Questmonger: | One who lays informations and encourages petty lawsuits |
| Questor: | An officer who had the management of the public treasure a receiver of taxes tribute etc treasurer of state |
| Questorship: | The office or the term of office of a questor |
| Questrist: | A seeker a pursuer |
| Questuary: | Studious of profit |
| Questuary: | One employed to collect profits |
| Quet: | The common guillemot |
| Queue: | A taillike appendage of hair a pigtail |
| Queue: | To fasten as hair in a queue |
| Quey: | A heifer |
| Quib: | A quip a gibe |
| Quibble: | A shift or turn from the point in question a trifling or evasive distinction an evasion a cavil |
| Quibble: | To evade the point in question by artifice play upon words caviling or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point to trifle in argument or discourse to equivocate |
| Quibbler: | One who quibbles a caviler also a punster |
| Quibblingly: | Triflingly evasively |
| Quica: | A small South American opossum Didelphys quica native of Guiana and Brazil It feeds upon insects small birds and fruit |
| Quice: | See Queest |
| Quich: | To stir |
| Quichuan: | Designating or pertaining to a linguistic stock of South American Indians including the majority of the civilized tribes of the ancient Peruvian Empire with some wild tribes never subjugated by the Incas Most of these Indians are short but heavy and strong They are brachycephalic and of remarkably low cranial capacity Nevertheless they represent one of the highest of native American civilizations characterized by agricultural military and administrative skill rather than by science or literature although they were adept potters weavers and goldsmiths and preserved by the aid of the mnemonic quipu a body of legendary lore in part written down since the introduction of writing |
| Quick: | Alive living animate opposed to dead or inanimate |
| Quick: | In a quick manner quickly promptly rapidly with haste speedily without delay as run quick get back quick |
| Quick: | That which is quick or alive a living animal or plant especially the hawthorn or other plants used in making a living hedge |
| Quick: | To revive to quicken to be or become alive |
| Quickbeam: | See Quicken tree |
| Quicken: | To make alive to vivify to revive or resuscitate as from death or an inanimate state hence to excite to stimulate to incite |
| Quicken: | To come to life to become alive to become vivified or enlivened hence to exhibit signs of life to move as the fetus in the womb |
| Quickener: | One who or that which quickens |
| Quickening: | The act or process of making or of becoming quick |
| Quickens: | Quitch grass |
| Quickentree: | The European rowan tree called also quickbeam and quickenbeam See Rowan tree |
| Quickhatch: | The wolverine |
| Quicklime: | Calcium oxide unslacked lime so called because when wet it develops great heat See 4th Lime 2 |
| Quickly: | Speedily with haste or celerity soon without delay quick |
| Quickness: | The condition or quality of being quick or living life |
| Quicksand: | Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure especially a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts and very dangerous from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it |
| Quickscented: | Acute of smell |
| Quickset: | A living plant set to grow esp when set for a hedge specifically the hawthorn |
| Quickset: | Made of quickset |
| Quickset: | To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge as to quickset a ditch |
| Quicksighted: | Having quick sight or acute discernment quick to see or to discern |
| Quicksilver: | The metal mercury so called from its resemblance to liquid silver |
| Quicksilvered: | Overlaid with quicksilver or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil |
| Quicksilvering: | The mercury and foil on the back of a lookingglass |
| Quickstep: | A lively spirited march also a lively style of dancing |
| Quickwitted: | Having ready wit |
| Quickwittedness: | Readiness of wit |
| Quickwork: | All the submerged section of a vessels planking |
| Quid: | A portion suitable to be chewed a cud as a quid of tobacco |
| Quid: | An English coin a sovereign |
| Quid: | To drop from the mouth as food when partially chewed said of horses |
| Quidam: | Somebody one unknown |
| Quiddany: | A confection of quinces in consistency between a sirup and marmalade |
| Quiddative: | Constituting or containing the essence of a thing quidditative |
| Quiddit: | A subtilty an equivocation |
| Quidditative: | Quiddative |
| Quiddity: | The essence nature or distinctive peculiarity of a thing that which answers the question Quid est or What is it |
| Quiddle: | To spend time in trifling employments or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner to dawdle |
| Quiddle: | One who wastes his energy about trifles |
| Quidnunc: | One who is curious to know everything that passes one who knows or pretends to know all that is going on |
| Quiesce: | To be silent as a letter to have no sound |
| Quiescence: | The state or quality of being quiescent |
| Quiescent: | Being in a state of repose at rest still not moving as a quiescent body or fluid |
| Quiescent: | A silent letter |
| Quiescently: | In a quiescent manner |
| Quiet: | In a state of rest or calm without stir motion or agitation still as a quiet sea quiet air |
| Quiet: | To stop motion in to still to reduce to a state of rest or of silence |
| Quiet: | To become still silent or calm often with down as be soon quieted down |
| Quietage: | Quietness |
| Quieter: | One who or that which quiets |
| Quietism: | Peace or tranquillity of mind calmness indifference apathy dispassion indisturbance inaction |
| Quietist: | One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos a Spanish priest living in Rome See Quietism |
| Quietistic: | Of or pertaining to the Quietists or to Quietism |
| Quietly: | In a quiet state or manner without motion in a state of rest as to lie or sit quietly |
| Quietness: | The quality or state of being quiet freedom from noise agitation disturbance or excitement stillness tranquillity calmness |
| Quietsome: | Calm still |
| Quietude: | Rest repose quiet tranquillity |
| Quietus: | Final discharge or acquittance as from debt or obligation that which silences claims Fig rest death |
| Quill: | One of the large feathers of a birds wing or one of the rectrices of the tail also the stock of such a feather |
| Quill: | To plaint in small cylindrical ridges called quillings as to quill a ruffle |
| Quillaiabark: | The bark of a rosaceous tree Quillaja Saponaria native of Chile The bark is finely laminated and very heavy with alkaline substances and is used commonly by the Chileans instead of soap Also called soap bark |
| Quillback: | An American freshwater fish Ictiobus cyprinus syn Carpiodes cyprinus called also carp sucker sailfish spearfish and skimback |
| Quilled: | Furnished with quills also shaped like quills |
| Quillet: | Subtilty nicety quibble |
| Quilling: | A band of linen muslin or the like fluted folded or plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills |
| Quillwort: | Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated fourtubed rushlike leaves rising from a corm and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases There are about seventeen American species usually growing in the mud under still shallow water So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves |
| Quilt: | Anything that is quilted esp a quilted bed cover or a skirt worn by women any cover or garment made by putting wool cotton etc between two cloths and stitching them together also any outer bed cover |
| Quilt: | To stitch or sew together at frequent intervals in order to confine in place the several layers of cloth and wadding of which a garment comforter etc may be made as to quilt a coat |
| Quilter: | One who or that which quilts |
| Quilting: | The act of stitching or running in patterns as in making a quilt |
| Quin: | A European scallop Pecten opercularis used as food |
| Quinaldine: | A colorless liquid of a slightly pungent odor C9H6NCH3 first obtained as a condensation product of aldehyde and aniline and regarded as a derivative of quinoline called also methyl quinoline |
| Quinary: | Consisting of five arranged by fives |
| Quinate: | Growing in sets of five said especially of leaves composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole |
| Quinate: | A salt of quinic acid |
| Quinazol: | A complex nitrogenous base related to cinnoline |
| Quince: | The fruit of a shrub Cydonia vulgaris belonging to the same tribe as the apple It somewhat resembles an apple but differs in having many seeds in each carpel It has hard flesh of high flavor but very acid and is largely used for marmalade jelly and preserves |
| Quincewort: | The squinancy Called also quinsywort |
| Quinch: | To stir to wince |
| Quincuncially: | In the manner or order of a quincunx |
| Quincunx: | An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle one being placed at each corner and one in the middle especially such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely so as to form a regular group with rows running in various directions |
| Quindecagon: | A plane figure with fifteen angles and consequently fifteen sides |
| Quindecemvir: | One of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books |
| Quindecemvirate: | The body or office of the quindecemviri |
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