Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.)
equip
equip
verb
(transitive) To dress up; to array; to clothe.
(transitive) To prepare (someone) with a skill.
(transitive) To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging)
(transitive, gaming) To equip oneself with (an item); to bring (equipment) into active use.
equiv
faqir
faqir
noun
(Islam) A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
fique
fique
noun
A natural fiber, similar to hemp, obtained from the leaves of the plant Furcraea andina and certain other plants of the genus Furcraea.
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
jiqui
noun
A kind of tropical hardwood. Malpighia obovata.
Sabicu.
maqui
maqui
noun
A South American shrub (Aristotelia chilensis) native to the Valdivian temperate rainforest ecoregion of Chile and southern Argentina.
Misspelling of maquis (Mediterranean coastal scrub).
The edible berry of this shrub.
miqra
moqui
piqua
pique
pique
noun
(card games) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
(countable, obsolete) In pique of honour: a matter, a point.
(obsolete) A chigger, chigoe, or jigger (Tunga penetrans), a species of tropical flea.
(pathology, obsolete, rare) Synonym of pica (“a disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances”)
(sewing) Alternative form of piqué (“a kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk”)
(uncountable) Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.
(uncountable) Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.
verb
(obsolete, rare) To express jealousy, resentment, etc. at someone; to become angry or annoyed.
(reflexive) To pride (oneself) on something.
(reflexive, obsolete) To excite or stimulate (oneself).
(transitive, intransitive, card games, archaic or obsolete) To score a pique against (someone).
To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).
To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.
To take pride in.
To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
qaids
qaids
noun
plural of qaid
qiana
qiana
Proper noun
A silky material made from nylon fibers.
qibla
qibla
noun
(Islam) The direction in which Muslims face while praying, currently determined as the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca.
qishm
qiyas
qiyas
noun
(Islam) The use of analogy as precedent in Shari'a jurisprudence.
quadi
quadi
Noun
An ancient Germanic people who lived in Moravia
quail
quail
noun
(obsolete) A prostitute, so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
(uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
verb
(intransitive) Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.
(intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.
(intransitive) To waste away; to fade, to wither.
(obsolete) To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.
(transitive, now rare) To daunt or frighten (someone).
quais
quasi
quasi
adj
Resembling or having a likeness to something.
queri
quica
quica
noun
A small opossum, Didelphis quica, from Guiana and Brazil
quick
quick
adj
(archaic) Alive, living.
(mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
(now rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
Burning, flammable, fiery.
Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
Of water: flowing.
adv
Answer quickly.
Quickly, in a quick manner.
noun
(cricket) A fast bowler.
Plants used in making a quickset hedge
Quitchgrass.
Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
verb
(transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
(transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken.
quids
quids
noun
plural of quid
quiet
quiet
adj
(software) Requiring little or no interaction.
Having little motion or activity; calm.
Not busy, of low quantity.
Not showy; undemonstrative.
Not talking much or not talking loudly; reserved.
With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.
intj
Be quiet.
noun
The absence of disturbance or trouble; peace, security.
The absence of movement; stillness, tranquility.
The absence of sound; quietness.
verb
(intransitive) To become quiet or calm.
(transitive) To cause (someone or something) to become quiet.
quiff
quiff
noun
(British dialect) A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke.
(UK) A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s.
(regional, slang) A trick or ploy; a stratagem.
(slang) A young girl, especially as promiscuous; a prostitute.
(slang) The vulva or vagina.
verb
(UK) To arrange (the hair) in such a manner.
quila
quill
quill
noun
(by extension) Any pen.
(music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
(music) The tube of a musical instrument.
A pen made from a feather.
A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
The pen of a squid.
verb
(US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
(figuratively) To write.
To decorate with quillwork.
To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
To pierce or be pierced with quills.
quilt
quilt
noun
A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.
A quilted skirt worn by women.
A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.
verb
(UK, slang, obsolete) To beat or thrash.
To construct a quilt.
To construct something, such as clothing, using the same technique.
quina
quina
noun
(archaic) quinine
quink
quink
noun
(physics) 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
quins
noun
plural of quin
quint
quint
noun
(US, informal) a quin or quintuplet.
(card games) In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker
(fencing) quinte; the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.
(firefighting) A vehicle used by firefighters that combines the capabilities of a fire engine and a fire truck, having the ability to provide vertical access as well as pump water to fight a fire.
(music) An interval of one fifth.
(music) The E string of a violin.
quipo
quipo
noun
Alternative spelling of quipu
quips
quips
noun
plural of quip
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quip
quipu
quipu
noun
A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords.
quira
quira
noun
The tough wood of Platymiscium pinnatum.
quire
quire
noun
(archaic) A choir.
(bookbinding) 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.
One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse.
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.
verb
(bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
quirk
quirk
noun
(archaic) A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge.
(architecture) An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a moulding and a soffit.
An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone.
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To use verbal tricks or quibbles.
(transitive, architecture) To furnish with a quirk or channel.
(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) move with a wry jerk.
Alternative form of querk
quirl
quirl
verb
(chiefly dialectal, Southern US, Midland US) To curl or twirl, or twist or coil (up).
quirt
quirt
noun
A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
verb
To strike with a quirt.
quist
quist
noun
(UK Midlands) The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.
quita
quite
quite
adv
(especially Britain) To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather.
(now rare) With prepositional or adverbial phrases.
Before a noun preceded by an indefinite article; now often with ironic implications that the noun in question is particularly noteworthy or remarkable.
Before a noun preceded by the definite article.
Coming before the definite article and an attributive superlative.
Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.)
Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions.
With adverbs of manner.
With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc.
With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs.
With predicative adjectives.
With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.
With verbs, especially past participles.
intj
(chiefly UK) Indicates agreement; exactly so.
noun
(bullfighting) A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull.
quito
quits
quits
adj
(colloquial, Britain) On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.
noun
plural of quit
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quit
quitt
quitu
qulin
qulin
Proper noun
A city/town in Missouri.
quoin
quoin
noun
(firearms) A wedge of wood or iron put under the breech of heavy guns or the muzzle of siege-mortars to raise them to the proper level.
(horticulture) A number of apple varieties with a distinctive ribbed appearance, like corners of a coin.
(obsolete, nautical) A form of wedge used to prevent casks from moving
(printing, historical) 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.
Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks.
verb
(transitive) To wedge or steady with quoins.
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.
An ancient burial mound, synonymous with dolmen.
The discus used in ancient sports.
The flat stone covering a cromlech.
verb
(intransitive) To play quoits.
(transitive) To throw like quoit.
qurti
rafiq
risqu
squib
squib
noun
(US) Any small firecracker sold to the general public, usually in special clusters designed to explode in series after a single master fuse is lit.
(archaic except in idioms) An unimportant, paltry, or mean-spirited person.
(automotive) The heating element used to set off the sodium azide pellets in a vehicle's airbag.
(dated) A short piece of witty writing; a lampoon.
(dated) A writer of lampoons.
(film, theater) In special effects, a small explosive used to replicate a bullet hitting a surface.
(firearms) A malfunction in which the fired projectile does not have enough force behind it to exit the barrel, and thus becomes stuck.
(graphic design) A sketched concept or visual solution, usually very quick and not too detailed.
(law) In a legal casebook, a short summary of a legal action placed between more extensively quoted cases.
(linguistics) 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.
(military) A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode.
(mining) A kind of slow match or safety fuse.
A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc.
verb
(colloquial, dated, transitive, intransitive) To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute.
To make a sound like a small explosion.
squid
squid
noun
(UK, slang, humorous, rare) A quid; one pound sterling.
(US, military, slang, mildly derogatory) A sailor in the Navy.
(slang, motorcycling, derogatory) A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear.
A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles
verb
(fishing) To fish with the kind of hook called a squid.
(parachuting) To cause squidding (an improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth).
squin
squit
squit
noun
(Norfolk, uncountable) Nonsense; amusing stories.
(derogatory, informal, countable) A person of low status.
verb
(transitive, Internet) To disconnect (an IRC server) from a network.