In a state of excitement, trepidation or agitation; quivering.
carnivalesque
carnivalesque
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a carnival.
chivalresque
chivalresque
adj
Characteristic of chivalry
counterequivalent
demiquaver
demiquaver
noun
(music) A semiquaver, a sixteenth note.
demisemiquaver
demisemiquaver
noun
(music) A thirty-second note, drawn as a crotchet with three tails.
earthquave
equilibrative
equilibrative
adj
That equilibrates
equinovarus
equinovarus
noun
talipes equinovarus; clubfoot
equivaluer
equivalvular
equivalvular
adj
(zoology) equivalve
equivocator
equivocator
noun
agent noun of equivocate; one who equivocates.
equivocators
equivocators
noun
plural of equivocator
equivocatory
equivocatory
adj
Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
frequentative
frequentative
adj
(grammar) Serving to express repetition of an action.
noun
(grammar) Any of a subclass of imperfective verbs that denote a repeated action, no longer productive in English, but found in e.g. Finnish, Latin, Russian, and Turkish.
guadalquivir
hemidemisemiquaver
hemidemisemiquaver
noun
(music) A sixty-fourth note, drawn as a crotchet with four tails.
inequivalvular
inequivalvular
adj
(zoology) Having unequal valves; inequivalve.
ovatoquadrangular
overequal
overqualification
overqualification
noun
The quality of being overqualified.
overqualified
overqualified
adj
Having too many qualifications to be deemed appropriate for a (usually unskilled) job.
overqualify
overqualify
verb
(transitive) To give excessive academic qualifications to.
(transitive) To modify, restrict or moderate (a statement, etc.) excessively.
overqualifying
overqualifying
verb
present participle of overqualify
overquantity
overquantity
noun
An excessive quantity; surplus.
overquarter
oversqueak
oversqueamish
oversqueamish
adj
Excessively squeamish.
oversqueamishly
oversqueamishness
oversqueamishness
noun
The quality of being oversqueamish.
preacquisitive
preacquisitively
preacquisitiveness
provoquant
quacksalver
quacksalver
noun
(archaic) One falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills, especially one who dispenses potions, ointments, etc., supposedly having curative powers; a quack.
quacksalvers
quacksalvers
noun
plural of quacksalver
quadricovariant
quadricovariant
noun
(mathematics) a covariant of degree 4
quadriderivative
quadrivalence
quadrivalence
noun
The condition of being quadrivalent.
quadrivalency
quadrivalency
noun
Synonym of quadrivalence
quadrivalent
quadrivalent
adj
(chemistry) Having a valence of four
(graph theory) Said of a graph: that all of its vertices have degree four.
(of a vaccine) Protecting against four different (usually flu) viruses.
noun
(genetics) Any quadrivalent chromosome
quadrivalently
quadrivalently
adv
In a quadrivalent manner.
quadrivalve
quadrivalve
adj
(botany) dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved
noun
(architecture) A door, shutter, etc. with four folds.
quadrivalvular
quadrivalvular
adj
Having or pertaining to four valves.
quadrivia
quadrivia
noun
plural of quadrivium
quadrivial
quadrivial
adj
Having four ways meeting in a point.
noun
Any of the four "liberal arts" making up the quadrivium.
quadrivious
quadrivious
adj
(rare) In four directions; four ways.
quadrivium
quadrivium
noun
(education, historical) The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music.
quadrivoltine
quadrivoltine
adj
Having four broods or litters in one year.
quadrumvir
quadrumvir
noun
Synonym of quattuorvir.
quadrumvirate
quadrumvirate
noun
Synonym of quattuorvirate.
quadrumvirs
quaquaversal
quaquaversal
adj
(astronomy) Dipping towards a center in all directions.
Going off in all directions from the center.
quaquaversally
quaquaversally
adv
In a quaquaversal way.
quarryville
quarterstaves
quatuorvirate
quatuorvirate
noun
Misspelling of quattuorvirate.
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.
quavered
quavered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quaver
quaverer
quaverer
noun
One who quavers.
quaverers
quaverers
noun
plural of quaverer
quavering
quavering
adj
Trembling, or prone to trembling and shaking.
noun
The act of something that quavers.
verb
present participle of quaver
quaveringly
quaveringly
adv
In a quavering manner; tremulously.
quaverous
quaverous
adj
quavery
quavers
quavers
noun
plural of quaver
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quaver
quavery
quavery
adj
Apt to quaver; shaky, trembling.
quaverymavery
quaviver
quindecemvirate
quindecemvirate
noun
Alternative form of quindecimvirate.
quinquenerval
quinquevalvular
quinquevalvular
adj
Alternative form of quinquevalve
quinqueverbal
quinqueverbial
quinquevirate
quinquevirate
noun
An official group of five people, especially a council of five men sharing office or rule.
quiverleaf
quiverleaf
noun
quaking aspen
quivira
requitative
semiquaver
semiquaver
noun
(music) A sixteenth note, drawn as a crotchet with two tails.
semiquavers
semiquavers
noun
plural of semiquaver
superequivalent
supraquantivalence
supraquantivalent
unfrequentative
unquavering
unquavering
adj
Not quavering.
vanquisher
vanquisher
noun
Someone who vanquishes; a conqueror.
vanquishers
vanquishers
noun
plural of vanquisher
vaquero
vaquero
noun
(Southwestern US) A cowboy; a herdsman.
vaqueros
vaqueros
noun
plural of vaquero
ventriloqual
ventriloqual
adj
Relating to ventriloquism.
ventriloqually
ventriloquial
ventriloquial
adj
Of bird vocalisations, sounding as though emanating from a location other than where the vocalising bird is.
Of or relating to ventriloquy.
Spoken to oneself.
ventriloquially
ventriloquially
adv
By means of ventriloquism.
vigesimoquarto
violaquercitrin
violaquercitrin
noun
(chemistry) A yellow crystalline glucoside obtained from the pansy (Viola tricolor) and decomposable into glucose and quercitrin.