а gated community and oil-processing facilities located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia
acquah
acquit
acquit
verb
(reflexive) To bear or conduct oneself; to perform one's part.
(reflexive) To clear oneself.
(transitive) Followed by of (and formerly by from): to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge.
(transitive) To declare or find innocent or not guilty.
(transitive) To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil.
(transitive, archaic) past participle of acquit.
(transitive, obsolete) To release, to rescue, to set free.
(transitive, obsolete, rare) To pay for; to atone for.
aequor
anaqua
aquage
aquake
aquake
adj
quaking
aquate
aqueus
aquila
aquilo
aquone
aquose
aquose
adj
(obsolete) watery; aqueous
arquit
asquat
asquat
adj
squatting
banque
banque
noun
Alternative form of bank (“underwriter or controller of a card game”)
banquo
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
buqsha
buqsha
noun
(historical) A former currency unit of Yemen.
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.
cauqui
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.
cliquy
cliquy
adj
Alternative spelling of cliquey
cloque
cloque
noun
A fabric with an embossed design
colloq
colloq
adj
Abbreviation of colloquial.
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.
coquin
damqam
diquat
diquat
noun
(organic chemistry) A contact herbicide that produces desiccation and defoliation.
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.
faqirs
faqirs
noun
plural of faqir
faquir
faquir
noun
Obsolete spelling of fakir
fiques
fosque
fouque
fuquay
griqua
griqua
Noun
Any of a subgroup of South Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial black people, originally populating the frontiers of the infant living as seminomadic commandos of mounted gunmen.
guaque
inique
iraqis
jacqui
jacqui
Proper noun
A diminutive of the female given name Jacqueline and of its variant spellings.
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
liquid
liquid
adj
(finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
(finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
(phonology) Belonging to a class of consonants comprised of the laterals and the rhotics, which in many languages behave similarly.
Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
Fluid and transparent.
noun
(phonetics) Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
liquor
liquor
noun
(UK, cooking) A parsley sauce commonly served with traditional pies and mash.
(chiefly US, Canada) Strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation; more broadly, any alcoholic drink.
(obsolete) A drinkable liquid.
(obsolete) A liquid, a fluid.
A liquid in which something has been steeped.
A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).
In process industry, a liquid in which a desired reaction takes place, e.g. pulping liquor is a mixture of chemicals and water which breaks wood into its components, thus facilitating the extraction of cellulose.
verb
(intransitive) To drink liquor, usually to excess.
(obsolete, transitive) To grease.
(transitive) To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess.
loquat
loquat
noun
The Eriobotrya japonica tree.
The fruit of this tree. It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds.
manque
manque
adj
(postpositive) unable to fully realise one's ambitions; would-be
maquis
maquis
noun
(botany) Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub.
(historical) The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere.
maquon
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.
masqat
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
miquon
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.
naquin
nasdaq
nasdaq
Proper noun
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, an electronic stock market.
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.
piquia
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.
qanats
qanats
noun
plural of qanat
qantar
qaranc
qasida
qasida
noun
An Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure.
qindar
qindar
noun
Alternative spelling of qintar
qintar
qintar
noun
(plural: qindarka or qintars) An Albanian coin equal to one hundredth of a lek.
(plural: qintars) A unit of measure, which varies in value depending upon the product measured; for example, a qintar of cotton might be 160 kg of cotton, 50 kg of cotton lint; a qintar of lime, 65 kg.
qiviut
qiviut
noun
The underwool of the Arctic muskox, used as a fibre.
quacks
quacks
noun
plural of quack
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quack
quacky
quacky
adj
(US, of land or a crop) Infested with quackgrass.
(of a voice or sound) That resembles the quack of a duck.
Fraudulent; characterised by or using the methods of quackery.
quader
quader
verb
To quadrate
quadle
quadra
quadra
noun
(architecture) The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.
A fillet, or listel.
A frame enclosing a bas relief.
quaere
quaere
noun
(archaic) A question or query.
verb
(archaic) To ask or query; used imperatively to introduce a question or signify doubt.
quaffs
quaffs
noun
plural of quaff
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quaff
quagga
quagga
noun
A southern-African subspecies of plains zebra, Equus quagga quagga, which went extinct in 1883. The upper parts of the animal were reddish brown, becoming paler behind and beneath, while the face, neck, and fore part of the body were marked by dark stripes.
quaggy
quaggy
adj
Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry.
Soft or flabby (of a person etc.).
quahog
quahog
noun
A similar edible clam found along coasts around the North Atlantic, generally in deeper waters, the ocean quahog, black quahog, mahogany clam or Icelandic cyprine, Arctica islandica
An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria.
The largest size of such an edible clam, generally considered only fit for use in chowders and other clam dishes.
verb
(intransitive) To dig for quahogs.
quaich
quaich
noun
(Scotland, by extension) Any two-handled drinking vessel or trophy.
(Scotland, historical) A traditional shallow, two-handled cup of Scottish origin symbolizing friendship. It was originally used to toast the arrival or departure of a visitor.
quaife
quaigh
quaigh
noun
Alternative spelling of quaich
quails
quails
noun
plural of quail
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quail
quaily
quaily
noun
(obsolete) The upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda), a game bird.
quaint
quaint
adj
(now dialectal) Strange or odd; unusual.
(obsolete) Cleverly made; artfully contrived.
(obsolete) Of a person: cunning, crafty.
(obsolete) Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim.
Pleasingly unusual; especially, having old-fashioned charm.
noun
(archaic) The vulva.
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
qualia
qualia
noun
plural of quale
qually
qualms
qualms
noun
plural of qualm
qualmy
qualmy
adj
queasy; nauseous
quanah
quanah
Proper noun
a city in Texas, USA, and the county seat of Hardeman County.
quando
quandy
quandy
noun
(obsolete) The long-tailed duck.
quango
quango
noun
(UK, government) An organization that, although financed by a government, acts independently of it.
quanta
quanta
noun
plural of quantum
quanti
quants
quants
noun
plural of quant
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quant
quantz
quapaw
quapaw
Noun
Any member of a Native American people who once lived in the Arkansas river valley.
Proper noun
The dialect of Dhegiha spoken by these people.
A town in Oklahoma.
quarks
quarks
noun
plural of quark
quarle
quarry
quarry
noun
(countable) An object of search or pursuit.
(mining) A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.
(uncountable) An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
(uncountable, obsolete) A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.
verb
(figuratively, transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
(transitive) To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
quarta
quarta
noun
(historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of dry measure, equal to 3.2–4.8 L in different 19th-century contexts.
(historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 115 g.
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.
quarto
quarto
noun
(UK) Quarto writing paper (10 inches x 8 inches)
(paper) A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5" or 190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting one of several standard sizes of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25" or 381-508 x 508-635 mm) twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides).
(printing) A book size, corresponding to the paper size.
quarts
quarts
noun
plural of quart
quartz
quartz
noun
(mineralogy) The most abundant mineral on the earth's surface, of chemical composition silicon dioxide, SiO₂. It occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous. Found in every environment.
quasar
quasar
noun
(astronomy) An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and (putatively) the most distant objects in the universe.
quashi
quashy
quashy
adj
slushy; mushy
quasky
quatch
quatre
quatre
noun
(archaic, dice games, card games, dominoes) A card, die, or domino with four spots or pips.
quatty
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.