Characteristic of Western art music of about the same period.
Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
noun
An ornate, detailed style.
bequote
bequote
verb
(transitive) To quote frequently or much.
bosques
bosques
noun
plural of bosque (rare, 19th-century spelling of bosk)
plural of bosque (riverside woodland)
bosquet
bosquet
noun
Alternative spelling of bosket
bouquet
bouquet
noun
(card games) The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
(cartomancy) The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.
(mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
A bunch of cut flowers.
A compliment or expression of praise.
A decoratively arranged bunch of something.
The heart note of a perfume.
The scent of a particular wine.
bourque
cloques
cloques
noun
plural of cloque
cloquet
coequal
coequal
adj
Equal to each other in size, rank or position.
noun
An equal person or thing.
comique
comique
noun
(dated) A comic actor or singer.
conquer
conquer
verb
(dated) To gain, win, or obtain by effort.
To acquire by force of arms, win in war; to become ruler of; to subjugate.
To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
To overcome an abstract obstacle.
coquets
coquets
noun
plural of coquet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coquet
cosaque
cosaque
noun
(dated) A cracker bonbon.
croquet
croquet
noun
(countable) A croquette.
(countable, games) A shot in this game in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
(uncountable, games) A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).
verb
(transitive, games) To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
docquet
docquet
noun
Archaic form of docket.
equator
equator
noun
(astronomy) A similar great circle on any sphere, especially on a celestial body, or on other reasonably symmetrical three-dimensional body.
(geography, often “the Equator”) An imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere.
The celestial equator.
The midline of any generally spherical object, such as a fruit or vegetable, that has identifiable poles.
equinox
equinox
noun
(also figuratively) The circumstance of a twenty-four hour time period having the day and night of equal length.
(astronomy) A celestial equator (“great circle on the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the Earth's equator (the equatorial plane)”); also, the Earth's equator.
(astronomy) One of the two points in space where the apparent path of the Sun intersects with the equatorial plane of the Earth.
(rare) A gale (“very strong wind”) once thought to occur more frequently around the time of an equinox (sense 1), now known to be a misconception; an equinoctial gale.
One of the two occasions in the year when the length of the day and night are equal, which occurs when the apparent path of the Sun (the ecliptic) intersects with the equatorial plane of the Earth; this happens on a day between March 19 and 21 (spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere), and on another day between September 21 and 24 (autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, and spring in the Southern Hemisphere); hence, the exact time when the intersection occurs.
equison
equison
noun
(archaic) groom, ostler, equerry, jockey
estoque
fouquet
jocoque
jocoque
noun
A dairy product based on fermented milk, typical of Mexican cuisine; strained yogurt.
loquent
monique
monique
Proper noun
name from the French form of Monica.
mosques
mosques
noun
plural of mosque
oblique
oblique
adj
(botany, of branches or roots) Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
(botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
(grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
(grammar, of speech or narration) Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
(music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
Not straightforward; obscure or confusing.
noun
(geometry) An oblique line.
(grammar) The oblique case.
(typography) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
verb
(intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew;
(military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
(transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
obsequy
obsequy
noun
(chiefly in the plural) A funeral rite or service.
The last office for the dead.
opaqued
opaqued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of opaque
opaquer
opaquer
adj
comparative form of opaque: more opaque
opaques
opaques
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of opaque
piquero
piroque
piroque
noun
Alternative form of pirogue (“type of boat”)
queasom
quellio
quellio
noun
(obsolete) A ruff for the neck.
quemado
quenemo
quenton
querido
queston
questor
quinone
quinone
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of a class of aromatic compounds having two carbonyl functional groups in the same six-membered ring.
quiteno
quixote
quixote
Noun
Someone resembling Don Quixote; someone who is chivalrous but unrealistic; an idealist.
quodded
quodded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quod
quoined
quoined
adj
(architecture) Furnished with a quoin.
quoited
quoited
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quoit
quoiter
quoiter
noun
One who plays the game of quoits.
quonset
quonset
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Quonset
quoters
quoters
noun
plural of quoter
quoties
requote
requote
verb
(transitive) To quote again or anew.
roquets
roquets
noun
plural of roquet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of roquet
sequoia
sequoia
noun
Sequoia sempervirens, a coniferous evergreen tree, the only living species of the genus Sequoia.
Sequoiadendron giganteum, a coniferous evergreen tree formerly in the genus Sequoia, now placed in Sequoiadendron.
sequoya
toquets
toquets
noun
plural of toquet
torqued
torqued
adj
Upset; angry.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of torque
torquer
torquer
noun
A magnetic device that generates torque.
torques
torques
noun
(historical) A collar or necklace of twisted metal (often military); torque.
plural of torque
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of torque
unquote
unquote
intj
Used in speech to indicate the end of a quotation.
verb
(transitive, computing) To convert (a quoted expression) back to its original form.