A small loop or bow of ribbon used in making hats, boas, etc.
delqa
deqna
equal
equel
eques
eques
Noun
A member of the (Latin: ordo equester), the lower of the two aristocratic classes of Ancient Rome, ranking below the patricians.
equid
equid
Noun
Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.)
equip
equiv
equus
faqir
faqir
Noun
A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
faruq
fique
fouqu
hdqrs
iqbal
iraqi
iraqi
Noun
A person from Iraq or of Iraqi descent.
Adjective
Of, from, or pertaining to Persian Iraq
Of, from, or pertaining to Iraq, or the Iraqi people.
jiqui
khalq
manqu
maqui
miqra
moqui
nuque
nuque
Noun
The nape of the neck.
ocque
paque
piqua
pique
qaids
qanat
qatar
qeshm
qiana
qiana
Proper noun
A silky material made from nylon fibers.
qibla
qibla
Noun
The direction in which Muslims face while praying, currently determined as the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca.
qishm
qiyas
qiyas
Noun
The use of analogy as precedent in Shari'a jurisprudence.
qophs
quack
quack
Noun
The sound made by a duck.
Verb
To make a noise like a duck.
Noun
A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional, especially a doctor of medicine; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
A charlatan.
A doctor.
Verb
To practice or commit quackery.
To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
Adjective
Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.
quadi
quadi
Noun
An ancient Germanic people who lived in Moravia
quads
quads
Noun
quadriceps (thigh muscles)
four of a kind
quaff
quaff
Verb
To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts.
Noun
The act of quaffing, a deep draught.
quags
quail
quais
quake
quake
Noun
A trembling or shaking.
An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.
Verb
To tremble or shake.
To cause to tremble or shake.
quaky
quaky
Adjective
Inclined to quake; tremulous.
quale
qualm
quant
quare
quare
Adjective
queer, strange
quark
quarl
quarl
Noun
A medusa or jellyfish.
Noun
A fire-resistant channel for a burner in a boiler or furnace.
quart
quash
quash
Verb
To defeat forcibly.
To crush or dash to pieces.
To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).
quasi
quass
quass
Verb
to drink deeply; to quaff.
quata
quate
quate
Adjective
quiet
quauk
quave
quave
Verb
To quiver or tremble.
Noun
A shaking; trembling.
quawk
quays
qubba
queak
queal
queal
Verb
To faint away.
quean
quean
Noun
A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.
A young woman, a girl; a daughter.
queen
queer
queer
Adjective
Weird, odd or different; whimsical.
Slightly unwell (mainly into feel queer).
Homosexual.
Not heterosexual: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, etc.
Pertaining to sexual behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual norms, assumptions etc.
Noun
A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
Counterfeit money.
Verb
To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
To puzzle.
To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
Adverb
Queerly.
queet
quegh
quell
quelt
queme
quent
queri
querl
querl
Verb
To twirl; turn or wind around; coil.
Noun
A twist; curl.
quern
query
quest
queue
queys
quica
quick
quick
Adjective
Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
Alive, living.
Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
Of water: flowing.
Burning, flammable, fiery.
Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
productive; not "dead" or barren
Adverb
quickly
with speed
Noun
raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
plants used in making a quickset hedge
The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
quitchgrass
A fast bowler.
Verb
To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
To quicken.
quids
quiet
quiff
quiff
Noun
A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke.
Noun
A trick or ploy; a stratagem.
Noun
A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s.
Verb
To arrange (the hair) in such a manner.
Noun
A young girl, especially as promiscuous; a prostitute.
The vulva or vagina.
quila
quill
quilt
quilt
Noun
A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.
A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.
A quilted skirt worn by women.
Verb
To construct a quilt.
To construct something, such as clothing, using the same technique.
quina
quink
quink
Noun
A hypothetical fundamental particle; a preon.
quinn
quinn
Proper noun
derived from the Ó Coinn "descendant of Chief".
name transferred from the surname.
name occasionally used since the 1990s.
A town/village/thorp in South Dakota.
quins
quint
quipo
quips
quipu
quipu
Noun
A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords.
quira
quire
quire
Noun
One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.
A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.
A book, poem, or pamphlet.
Verb
To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
Noun
A choir.
One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse.
Verb
To sing in concert.
quirk
quirl
quirt
quirt
Noun
A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
Verb
To strike with a quirt.
quist
quita
quite
quito
quits
quits
Adjective
On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.
quitt
quitu
qulin
qulin
Proper noun
A city/town in Missouri.
quoad
quoad
Preposition
With respect to.
quods
quoin
quoin
Noun
Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks.
The keystone of an arch.
A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place.
A form of wedge used to prevent casks from moving
quoit
quoit
Noun
A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.
The flat stone covering a cromlech.
The discus used in ancient sports.
Verb
To play at quoits.
quota
quota
Noun
A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal.
A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity.
quote
quoth
quoth
Verb
past of; said
quott
quran
qursh
qursh
Noun
A monetary unit in Saudi Arabia equivalent to a twentieth of a rial.
qurti
rafiq
risqu
roque
seqed
sequa
seqwl
sercq
sqlds
squab
squab
Noun
A baby pigeon or dove.
The meat of a squab (i.e. a young (domestic) pigeon or dove) used as food.
A baby rook.
A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.
A person of a short, fat figure.
Verb
To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
To furnish with squabs, or cushions.
Adjective
Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
Unfledged; unfeathered.
Adverb
With a heavy fall; plump.
squad
squad
Noun
A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps.
Noun
Sloppy mud.
squam
squam
Noun
An oilskin hat; a southwester.
squat
squat
Adjective
Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
Noun
A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, especially with a barbell resting across the shoulders.
A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a
Something of no value; nothing.
A sudden or crushing fall.
A small vein of ore.
A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
Verb
To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across the shoulders or upper back.
To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.
To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.
Noun
The angel shark (genus
squaw
squaw
Noun
A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman.
squeg
squeg
Verb
To undergo squegging.
squet
squib
squib
Noun
A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode.
A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc.
A kind of slow match or safety fuse.
Any small firecracker sold to the general public. Usually available in special clusters designed to explode in series after a single master fuze is lit.
The heating element used to set off the sodium azide pellets in a vehicle's airbag.
A small explosive used to replicate a bullet hitting a surface.
A short piece of witty writing; a lampoon.
A writer of lampoons.
In a legal casebook, a short summary of a legal action placed between more extensively quoted cases.
A short article, often published in journals, that introduces theoretically problematic empirical data or discusses an overlooked theoretical problem. In contrast to a typical article, a squib need not answer the questions that it poses.
An unimportant, paltry, or mean-spirited person.
A sketched concept or visual solution, usually very quick and not too detailed. A word most commonly used within the Graphic Design industry.
Verb
To make a sound such as a small explosion.
To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute.