(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.
braque
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
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.
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.
faquir
faquir
noun
Obsolete spelling of fakir
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
jacqui
jacqui
Proper noun
A diminutive of the female given name Jacqueline and of its variant spellings.
jaques
laquei
laquey
lasque
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.
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.
naquin
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
piquia
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).
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.
(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)
quiapo
quidae
quidam
quidam
noun
A nobody; a person of no importance.
quieta
quiina
quinas
quinia
quinia
noun
(chemistry, archaic) quinine
quinoa
quinoa
noun
A goosefoot (Chenopodium quinoa) native to the Andes and cultivated for its edible seeds.
The high-protein dried fruits and seeds of this plant, used as a food staple and ground into flour.
quinta
quinta
noun
A country house in Madeira.
quinua
qumran
quokka
quokka
noun
A cat-sized marsupial, Setonix brachyurus, of southwestern Australia.
quotas
quotas
noun
plural of quota
quotha
quotha
intj
(archaic) Forsooth; indeed.
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”)
sauqui
sauqui
noun
Archaic form of sockeye (“type of salmon”).
sequan
squabs
squabs
noun
plural of squab
squads
squads
noun
plural of squad
squail
squail
noun
A disc or counter used in the game of squails.
verb
(intransitive, historical) To throw weighted sticks at small animals.
To throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly.
squali
squall
squall
noun
(meteorology) A squall line, multicell line, or part of a squall line.
(often nautical) A sudden storm, as found in a squall line.
A loud cry or wail.
verb
To cry or wail loudly.
squalm
squama
squama
noun
(botany) Any scaly bracted leaf.
(botany) The bract of a deciduous spike.
(entomology) A calypter.
(medicine) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium.
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.
squamy
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.
squark
squark
noun
(physics) A hypothetical supersymmetric counterpart to a quark, having a spin of zero instead of one-half.
squary
squary
adj
(UK, dialect) neat and compact
squash
squash
noun
(Britain) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
(biology) A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
(botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
(cooking) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
(obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
(obsolete, countable) Muskrat.
(obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
(obsolete, countable, derogatory) Something unripe or soft.
(slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
(uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.