A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged
braque
brique
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.
clercq
jerque
jerque
verb
(UK, historical, transitive) To search (a ship) for unentered goods.
liquer
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.
piqure
quader
quader
verb
To quadrate
quaere
quaere
noun
(archaic) A question or query.
verb
(archaic) To ask or query; used imperatively to introduce a question or signify doubt.
quaker
quaker
noun
(entomology) Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Pithecops.
Quaker
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.
queers
queers
noun
plural of queer
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of queer
(computing) A process, etc. that places data items on a queue.
One who queues; a person waiting in line.
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
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.
quoter
quoter
noun
Someone who quotes.
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.
seqrch
square
square
adj
(cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
(nautical) Forming right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
(of box-shaped objects such as buildings or metal frames) Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not racked or leaning.
Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
Honest; straightforward; fair.
Hypernyms: rectangular, polygonal
Satisfied; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict.
Shaped like a square (the polygon).
Solid, decent, substantial.
Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
adv
Directly.
noun
(1950s slang) A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends: still sometimes used in modern terminology.
(Britain) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
(Canada, US) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
(academia) A mortarboard.
(archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
(astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
(brewing) A vat used for fermentation.
(colloquial, US) Ellipsis of square meal.
(cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
(dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
(figuratively, obsolete) A true measure, standard, or pattern.
(geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
(mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
(military formation) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
(often in street names or addresses) A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
(printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
(real estate) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
(roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
(slang) Cigarette.
(slang, MLE) A well-defined core of a human body, a flat section from the fundament to the thoracic diaphragm.
A cell in a grid.
A square piece, part, or surface.
An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
verb
(archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
(astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.
(nautical) To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
(obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
(rowing) To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
(soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
(transitive) To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
(transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:
(transitive, geometry) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
(transitive, geometry) To tile (completely fill) with squares.
(transitive, intransitive) To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
(transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
To form with four sides and four right angles.
To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
squier
squier
noun
Obsolete form of square.
squire
squire
noun
(UK, colloquial) Term of address to a male equal.
(historical) A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.
(obsolete) A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
A male attendant on a great personage.
A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
verb
(transitive) To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection.
(transitive) To attend as a squire.
torque
torque
noun
(physics, mechanics) A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton metre or Nm; imperial unit pound-foot or lb·ft, not to be confused with the foot pound-force, commonly "foot-pound", a unit of work or energy)
A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples.
verb
(physics, mechanics) To make something rotate about an axis by imparting torque to it.