Alternative form of bank (“underwriter or controller of a card game”)
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.
braque
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.
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.
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.
guaque
jaques
laquei
laquey
lasque
manque
manque
adj
(postpositive) unable to fully realise one's ambitions; would-be
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.
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.
naique
naique
noun
Archaic form of naik.
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
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).
quader
quader
verb
To quadrate
quadle
quaere
quaere
noun
(archaic) A question or query.
verb
(archaic) To ask or query; used imperatively to introduce a question or signify doubt.
quaife
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
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.
quayed
quayed
adj
Furnished with a quay.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quay
queach
queach
noun
(archaic) A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
queans
queans
noun
plural of quean
quease
queasy
queasy
adj
Easily troubled; squeamish.
Experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach.
queazy
queazy
adj
Alternative spelling of queasy
queena
quelea
quelea
noun
The African weaverbird (genus Quelea).
quenda
quenda
noun
A short-nosed bandicoot found mostly in southern Australia, Isoodon obesulus.
quenna
quesal
quesal
noun
Archaic form of quetzal (the bird).
questa
quetta
quetta
Proper noun
A city in the Balochistan Province of Pakistan and capital of the district by that name.
quezal
quezal
noun
Archaic form of quetzal. (the bird)
quidae
quieta
raquel
raquel
Proper noun
name borrowed from
raquet
raquet
noun
Misspelling of racquet.
rauque
sacque
sacque
noun
Alternative spelling of sack (“a short, loose-fitting garment for women and children”)
sequan
squame
squame
noun
(anatomy) A bony plate.
(medicine) A flake of dead skin tissue.
(medicine) A squamous (scale-like) cell.
(zoology) The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.
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.
squeak
squeak
noun
(countable) A short, high-pitched sound, as of two objects rubbing together, or the sounds made by mice and other small animals.
(countable, slang) A narrow squeak.
(uncountable, games) A card game similar to group solitaire.
verb
(intransitive) To emit a short, high-pitched sound.
(intransitive, games) To empty the pile of 13 cards a player deals to oneself in the card game of the same name.
(intransitive, informal) To win or progress by a narrow margin.
(intransitive, slang) To inform, to squeal.
(transitive) To speak or sound in a high-pitched manner.
squeal
squeal
noun
A high-pitched sound, such as the scream of a child or a female person, or noisy worn-down brake pads.
The cry of a pig.
verb
(intransitive, slang) To give sensitive information about someone to a third party; to rat on someone.
(of an object) To make a squealing noise.
(transitive, intransitive) To scream with a shrill, prolonged sound.