Alternative form of bank (“underwriter or controller of a card game”)
barque
barque
noun
(archaic) Any small sailing vessel.
A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged
basque
basque
noun
A woman's close-fitting bodice, underbodice, or corset having such a feature.
The part of a waistcoat etc. extending below the waist.
bisque
bisque
adj
Of a pale pinkish brown colour.
noun
(British parliament) Permission for an MP to be absent from a vote, granted by the whips when the absence is not likely to affect the outcome.
(ceramics) A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit.
(chiefly BBC, historical) A day's leave an employee may take without warning or reason and not be counted as annual leave.
(sports) An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.
A free point in a handicap real tennis match.
A free turn in a handicap croquet match.
A pale pinkish brown colour.
A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables.
verb
(transitive) To prepare ceramics in the bisque style.
bosque
bosque
noun
(Southwestern US) A gallery forest found growing along a river bank or on the flood plain of a watercourse.
Rare spelling of bosk.
braque
brique
caique
caique
noun
(nautical) A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling.
Any of four (previously two) species of parrot in the genus Pionites.
calque
calque
noun
(linguistics, translation studies) A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
verb
(linguistics, translation studies) To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.
caquet
casque
casque
noun
A hard structure on the head of some birds, such as the hornbill or cassowary.
A helmet.
cheque
cheque
noun
(Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, UK) A draft directing a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
Sometimes abbreviations are used (which would be explained on the statement) and only the last three figures of the cheque number may be given. ‘Sundries’ are cash or cheques paid into the account.
The daily cheque clearings began around 1770 when bank clerks met at the Five Bells (a tavern in Lombard Street in the City of London) to exchange all their cheques in one place and settle the balances in cash.
You can avoid dealing with paper cheques — written or printed — by paying your bills online.
chequy
chequy
adj
(heraldry) Chequered.
cinque
cinque
noun
(dice games, card games, dominoes) A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips.
cirque
cirque
noun
(dated or literary) Something in the shape of a circle or ring, such as a Roman circus.
(geology) A curved depression in a mountainside with steep walls, forming the end of a valley.
claque
claque
noun
(collective) A group of people hired to attend a performance and to either applaud or boo.
A group of fawning admirers.
A group of people who pre-arrange among themselves to express strong support for an idea, so as to give the false impression of a wider consensus.
clercq
clique
clique
noun
(Internet) A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.
(graph theory) A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.
A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.
verb
(intransitive) To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot.
cloque
cloque
noun
A fabric with an embossed design
coquet
coquet
noun
(obsolete) A flirtatious male.
A flirtatious female; a coquette.
verb
To act as a flirt or coquet.
To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint; to lead on.
To waste time; to dally.
equals
equals
noun
The symbol =
plural of equal
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of equal
equant
equant
adj
Having comparable measurements in all directions; equidimensional.
noun
(obsolete, astronomy) The center of a planetary epicycle.
equate
equate
noun
(programming) A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value.
verb
(transitive) To consider equal or equivalent.
(transitive, mathematics) To set as equal.
equine
equine
adj
Of or relating to a horse or horses.
Of or relating to any member or members of the genus Equus.
noun
Any horse or horse-like animal, especially one of the genus Equus.
equips
equips
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of equip
equipt
equipt
noun
Abbreviation of equipment.
verb
Archaic spelling of equipped.
equity
equity
noun
(accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from assets.
(business) Ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business.
(law) A right which accrues to a party in a transaction because of the nature of the transaction itself, and which is exercisable upon a change of circumstances or conditions; in other words, an equitable claim.
(law) The power of a court of law having extra-statutory discretion, to decide legal matters and to provide legal relief apart from, though not in violation of, the prevailing legal code; in some cases, a court "sitting in equity" may provide relief to a complainant should the code be found either inapplicable or insufficient to do so.
(law, England) The body of law which was developed in the English Court of Chancery, which Court had extra-statutory discretion, and is now administered alongside the common law of Britain.
(law, finance) Value of property minus liens or other encumbrances.
(nonstandard) Equality
(poker) A player's expected share of the pot.
Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right".
equoid
equoid
noun
Any odd-toed ungulate of the superfamily Equoidea
eveque
exequy
exequy
noun
(obsolete, now only in plural) Funeral rites.
fiques
fosque
fouque
guaque
inique
jaques
jequie
jerque
jerque
verb
(UK, historical, transitive) To search (a ship) for unentered goods.
jonque
jonque
noun
A canary that is of a single color with no dark feathers.
laquei
laquey
lasque
liquer
liquet
manque
manque
adj
(postpositive) unable to fully realise one's ambitions; would-be
marque
marque
noun
A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model).
A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque.
A ship commissioned for making captures.
masque
masque
noun
(historical, in 16th- and 17th-century England and Europe) A dramatic performance, often performed at court as a royal entertainment, consisting of dancing, dialogue, pantomime and song.
A facial mask.
A masquerade.
Archaic form of mask.
Words and music written for a masque.
mequon
mosque
mosque
noun
(Islam) A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid.
naique
naique
noun
Archaic form of naik.
opaque
opaque
adj
(computing) Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.
(figuratively) Obtuse, stupid.
(figuratively) Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of.
Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
noun
(obsolete, poetic) An area of darkness; a place or region with no light.
Something which is opaque rather than translucent.
verb
(transitive) To make, render (more) opaque.
paquet
pequea
pequot
pequot
Noun
A member of a tribe of Native Americans who historically inhabited eastern Connecticut and spoke a variety of Mohegan-Pequot.
Proper noun
This tribe.
The variety of Mohegan-Pequot spoken by this tribe.
piqued
piqued
adj
Annoyed, usually mildly and temporarily, especially by an offense to one's pride or honor.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pique
piques
piques
noun
plural of pique
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pique
piquet
piquet
noun
(card games) A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.
(military) Archaic form of picket.
piqure
plaque
plaque
noun
(countable) A piece of flat metal with writing on it, attached to a building, monument, or other structure to remind people of a person or an event.
(countable) A small card representing an amount of money, used for betting in casinos; a sort of gaming chip.
(countable) Any flat, thin piece of clay, ivory, metal, etc., used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a dish, plate, slab, etc., hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn by a person, such as a brooch.
(countable, biology) A clearing in a bacterial lawn caused by a virus.
(countable, music) In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system: any flat, thin musical instrument.
(countable, pathology) A broad patch of abnormal tissue distinguishable from surrounding tissue, especially a broad papule (“inflamed, irritated patch”) on the skin.
(countable, uncountable, pathology) An abnormal accumulation of material in or on an organ of the body, often associated with disease.
(countable, uncountable, pathology) An accumulation in artery walls made up of macrophage cells and debris containing lipids, (cholesterol and fatty acids), calcium, and connective tissue; an atheroma.
(uncountable, dentistry) An accumulation of biofilm, or bacteria, on teeth, which may develop into dental calculus (tartar).
pulque
pulque
noun
A milk-colored, somewhat viscous Mexican alcoholic drink made from the fermented sap of certain agave plants.
quader
quader
verb
To quadrate
quadle
quaere
quaere
noun
(archaic) A question or query.
verb
(archaic) To ask or query; used imperatively to introduce a question or signify doubt.
quaife
quaked
quaked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quake
quaker
quaker
noun
(entomology) Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Pithecops.
Quaker
quakes
quakes
noun
plural of quake
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quake
quarle
quarte
quarte
noun
(fencing) The fourth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at neck height, the palm of the hand facing upwards.
quatre
quatre
noun
(archaic, dice games, card games, dominoes) A card, die, or domino with four spots or pips.
quaver
quaver
noun
(music) an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.
A trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing.
A trembling shake.
verb
(intransitive) To use the voice in a trembling manner, as in speaking or singing.
(transitive) To utter quaveringly.
To shake in a trembling manner.
quayed
quayed
adj
Furnished with a quay.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quay
queach
queach
noun
(archaic) A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
queans
queans
noun
plural of quean
quease
queasy
queasy
adj
Easily troubled; squeamish.
Experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach.
queazy
queazy
adj
Alternative spelling of queasy
quebec
quebec
noun
(international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Quebec from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
quedly
queena
queens
queens
noun
(poker slang) A pair of queens.
plural of queen
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of queen
queers
queers
noun
plural of queer
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of queer
(dialect, intransitive) To make a squelching sound.
(transitive) To squelch; to eliminate.
quelea
quelea
noun
The African weaverbird (genus Quelea).
quells
quells
noun
plural of quell
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quell
quelme
quemoy
quemoy
Proper noun
a small archipelago, also known as Kinmen, in southern China
quenby
quench
quench
noun
(physics) A rapid change of the parameters of a physical system.
(physics) The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.
The act of quenching something; the fact of being quenched.
verb
(transitive) To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light).
(transitive) To satisfy, especially a literal or figurative thirst.
(transitive, chemistry) To terminate or greatly diminish (a chemical reaction) by destroying or deforming the remaining reagents.
(transitive, metallurgy) To cool rapidly by direct contact with liquid coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.
(transitive, physics) To rapidly change the parameters of a physical system.
(transitive, physics) To rapidly terminate the operation of a superconducting electromagnet by causing part or all of the magnet's windings to enter the normal, resistive state.
quenda
quenda
noun
A short-nosed bandicoot found mostly in southern Australia, Isoodon obesulus.
quenna
queres
querns
querns
noun
plural of quern
querre
quesal
quesal
noun
Archaic form of quetzal (the bird).
questa
quests
quests
noun
plural of quest
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quest
quetch
quetch
verb
Alternative form of quitch
quethe
quethe
verb
(obsolete except in past tense quoth) To say or declare.
quetta
quetta
Proper noun
A city in the Balochistan Province of Pakistan and capital of the district by that name.
queued
queued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of queue
queuer
queuer
noun
(computing) A process, etc. that places data items on a queue.
One who queues; a person waiting in line.
queues
queues
noun
plural of queue
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of queue
quezal
quezal
noun
Archaic form of quetzal. (the bird)
quezon
quiche
quiche
adj
(slang) Extremely appealing to look at; sexually alluring.
noun
A pie made primarily of eggs and cream in a pastry crust. Other ingredients such as chopped meat or vegetables are often added to the eggs before the quiche is baked.
quidae
quidde
quieta
quieti
quiets
quiets
noun
plural of quiet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quiet
quiles
quilez
quince
quince
noun
(informal) Short for quinceañera.
A soft yellow colour, like that of a quince.
The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia.
The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.
quinet
quinse
quinte
quinte
noun
(fencing) The fifth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at knee height.
quinze
quinze
noun
An old French card game of Spanish origin, players attempting to make fifteen points.
quippe
quired
quired
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quire
quires
quires
noun
plural of quire
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quire
quisle
quisle
verb
To collaborate with an (occupying) enemy power; be a quisling.
quiver
quiver
adj
(archaic) Nimble, active.
noun
(figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
(mathematics) A multidigraph.
(obsolete) A vulva.
(obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
(weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
verb
(intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion.
quogue
quoted
quoted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quote
quotee
quotee
noun
Somebody whose words are being quoted.
quoter
quoter
noun
Someone who quotes.
quotes
quotes
noun
Quotation marks.
plural of quote
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quote
qwerty
qwerty
adj
Alternative letter-case form of QWERTY.
raquel
raquel
Proper noun
name borrowed from
raquet
raquet
noun
Misspelling of racquet.
rauque
requin
requin
noun
(dated) The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias).
requit
requit
verb
Obsolete form of requite.
requiz
requiz
verb
(transitive) To quiz or interrogate again.
risque
risque
adj
(US) Alternative form of risqué
noun
Obsolete spelling of risk
roquer
roques
roquet
roquet
noun
In croquet, the act of hitting another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken.
verb
In croquet, to hit another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken.
sacque
sacque
noun
Alternative spelling of sack (“a short, loose-fitting garment for women and children”)
secque
seqrch
sequan
sequel
sequel
noun
(Scotland, historical) Thirlage.
(dated) The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.
(mathematics) The remainder of the text; what follows. Used exclusively in the set phrase "in the sequel".
(narratology) A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.