The state or fact of being quaint; having old-fashioned charm.
quakerbird
quakerbird
noun
the sooty albatross
quakerlike
quakership
qualifiers
qualifiers
noun
plural of qualifier
qualifying
qualifying
noun
A qualification or added condition.
An examination that must be taken in order to qualify.
verb
present participle of qualify
qualimeter
qualimeter
noun
(obsolete) A device once used to estimate the hardness of X-rays
qualminess
qualminess
noun
Quality of being qualmy.
qualmishly
qualmishly
adv
In a qualmish manner.
quandaries
quandaries
noun
plural of quandary
quantified
quantified
adj
(logic) used as a quantifier
measured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quantify
quantifier
quantifier
noun
(computing) A symbol or symbols in a regular expression indicating the number of characters to be matched.
(grammar) A word, such as all or many, that expresses the quantity of a related noun.
(logic) An operator, such as the universal quantifier (written as ∀) or the existential quantifier (∃), used in predicate calculus to indicate the degree that predicate is true for a specified set.
quantifies
quantifies
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quantify
quantitate
quantitate
verb
(transitive) To measure the quantity of, especially with high accuracy and taking uncertainty into account, as in quantitative analysis.
quantitied
quantities
quantities
noun
plural of quantity
quantitive
quantitive
adj
Alternative form of quantitative
quantizing
quantizing
verb
present participle of quantize
quarantine
quarantine
name
(Christainity, obsolete) Alternative letter-case form of Quarantine: the Mount of Temptation where Jesus Christ supposedly fasted for 40 days, Jebel Quruntul near Jericho.
noun
(computing, figurative) An isolation of one program, drive, computer, etc. from the rest of a computer network to limit the damage from a bug, computer virus, etc..
(computing, figurative) The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.
(figurative) A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.
(historical law) The 40-day period during which a widow is entitled to remain in her deceased husband's home while any dower is collected and returned.
(historical) A 40-day period formerly imposed by the French king upon warring nobles during which they were forbidden from exacting revenge or continuing to fight.
(historical) The 40-day period of isolation required after 1448 at Venice's lazaret to avoid renewed outbreaks of the bubonic plague and identical policies in other locations.
(politics, figurative) A blockade of trade, suspension of diplomatic relations, or other action whereby one country seeks to isolate another.
A period of 40 days, particularly
A period, instance, or state of isolation from the general public or from native livestock and flora enacted to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
A place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret.
verb
(figurative, transitive) Synonym of isolate more generally.
(figurative, transitive) Synonym of restrict.
(intransitive) To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.
(intransitive, obsolete) To impose a quarantine, to establish quarantine regulations.
(transitive) To place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
quarreling
quarreling
verb
US standard spelling of quarrelling.
quarriable
quarriable
adj
Capable of being quarried.
quartation
quartation
noun
(chemistry, archaic) The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold.
quartering
quartering
adj
(by extension, aviation, of wind) Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
(engineering) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
(nautical) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
noun
(architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
(heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
(heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
(historical) The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
(hunting) Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quatering' the field.
A division into four parts.
A point on an arch calculated by measuring one quarter of the height along a line from the peak to the outer edge on the ground.
The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
verb
present participle of quarter
quartzitic
quartzitic
adj
Of, relating to, or containing quartzite.
quartzsite
quasiorder
quasiorder
noun
(set theory) A preorder.
quassation
quassation
noun
(archaic) A shaking or agitation.
quassative
quassative
adj
shaking; trembling
quaternion
quaternion
noun
(mathematics) A type of four-dimensional hypercomplex number consisting of a real part and three imaginary parts (real multiples of distinct, independent square roots of −1 denoted by i, j and k); commonly used in vector mathematics and as an alternative to matrix algebra in calculating the rotation of three-dimensional objects.
A group or set of four people or things.
A word of four syllables.
quaternity
quaternity
noun
(countable) A group or set of four.
(uncountable) The state of being four.
quatorzain
quatorzain
noun
A poem or stanza consisting of fourteen lines.
quatrefoil
quatrefoil
noun
(architecture) A symmetrical shape that forms the overall outline of four partially-overlapping circles of the same diameter.
(heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf with four lobes.
queachiest
queasiness
queasiness
noun
Psychological discomfort at the prospect of having to deal with a particular issue.
The state of being queasy; nausea.
questorial
questorial
adj
Alternative form of quaestorial
quickhatch
quickhatch
noun
(Canada) The wolverine.
quicksands
quicksands
noun
plural of quicksand
quicksandy
quicksandy
adj
quicksandlike
quickwater
quickwater
noun
(canoeing) Water with limited currents or rapids, less turbulent than white water.
quiddative
quiddative
adj
(philosophy) Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing.
quiinaceae
quillbacks
quillbacks
noun
plural of quillback
quinacrine
quinacrine
noun
A drug with various applications, including as an antimalarial, having the chemical formula C₂₃H₃₀ClN₃O
quinaldine
quinaldine
noun
(organic chemistry) An oily liquid, α-methylquinoline, derived from coal tar, used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and as a sedative for fish.
quinamicin
quinamidin
quinanarii
quinaquina
quinaquina
noun
cinchona bark, quinquina
quinatoxin
quinazolin
quinazolyl
quindecima
quindecima
noun
(music) The interval of a fifteenth, or double octave.
quinizarin
quinizarin
noun
(chemistry, archaic) A yellow crystalline substance produced artificially and isomeric with alizarin.
quinnipiac
quinoxalin
quinoxalyl
quintadena
quintadena
noun
An organ stop yielding a tone one-twelfth above the digital struck.
quintadene
quintilian
quirinalia
quisqualis
quitclaims
quitclaims
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quitclaim
quittances
quittances
noun
plural of quittance
quiverleaf
quiverleaf
noun
quaking aspen
quixotical
quixotical
adj
quixotic
quizmaster
quizmaster
noun
A person who poses questions to contestants on a quiz show.
quotations
quotations
noun
plural of quotation
quotennial
radiopaque
radiopaque
adj
impenetrable to X-rays and other radiation
rainsquall
rainsquall
noun
A rainstorm.
reacquaint
reacquaint
verb
To acquaint again; to reintroduce or refamiliarise.
reacquired
reacquired
verb
simple past tense and past participle of reacquire
reacquires
reacquires
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reacquire
reliquaire
reliquaire
noun
reliquary (container)
requiescat
requiescat
noun
A prayer for the peaceful repose of the soul of a dead person
requirable
requirable
adj
Capable of being required.
requitable
requitable
adj
That may be requited.
semiopaque
semiopaque
adj
Partially opaque.
semiquaver
semiquaver
noun
(music) A sixteenth note, drawn as a crotchet with two tails.
semisquare
semisquare
noun
(astrology) An aspect made by two planets when they are 45 degrees apart from each other.
(geometry) A right isocoles triangle, or such figure of which two form a square.
sequacious
sequacious
adj
(Of musical notes or poetic feet) Following neatly or smoothly.
(Of objects, obsolete) Likely to follow or yield to physical pressure; easily shaped or molded.
(Of people) Likely to follow, conform, or yield to others, especially showing unthinking adherence to others' ideas; easily led.
(Of thought) Following logically or in an unvarying and orderly procession, tending in a single intellectual direction.
sequatchie
sequential
sequential
adj
(grammar, of a verb and adjective form in Korean) Expressing succession of events.
(programming) Executed as a sequence of instructions, without concurrency or parallelism.
Succeeding or following in order.
sesquinona
sesquisalt
sesquisalt
noun
(chemistry) A salt derived from a sesquioxide base, or made up on the proportions of a sesqui compound.
siliquaria
sinarquism
sinarquist
snoqualmie
snoquamish
squabbiest
squabbling
squabbling
noun
A petty argument or conflict.
verb
present participle of squabble
squalidest
squalidest
adj
superlative form of squalid: most squalid
squalidity
squalidity
noun
The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.
squaliform
squaliform
adj
Shaped like a shark
noun
Any shark of the order Squaliformes
squalliest
squalliest
adj
superlative form of squally: most squally
squaloidei
squamatine
squamation
squamation
noun
(pathology, dermatology, countable) A scaly growth on the skin.
(zoology, countable) A particular arrangement of scales; a special mode or form of squamation.
(zoology, uncountable) The condition or character of being covered with scales.
squamiform
squamiform
adj
Having the shape or structure of a scale.
squamosity
squamosity
noun
The quality of being squamose.
squarelike
squarelike
adj
Rectangular.
Resembling a square.
squaretail
squaretail
noun
A perciform fish of the genus Tetragonurus, found in tropical and subtropical oceans.
The brook trout, a fish of the species Salvelinus fontinalis, found in North America.