An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley
qiana
qiana
Proper noun
A silky material made from nylon fibers.
quant
quant
adj
Short for quantifiable.
Short for quantitative.
noun
(finance) A quantitative analyst.
A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
A vertical shaft used to drive a millstone.
Short for quantifier.
Short for quantity.
verb
(transitive or intransitive) To propel using a quant.
quean
quean
noun
(Scotland) A young woman, a girl; a daughter.
(archaic) A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.
queen
queen
noun
(Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
(LGBT, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
(attributive, originally Canada, US) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
(construction, obsolete) Ellipsis of queen post.
(now chiefly historical) A type of large roofing slate.
(obsolete) A type of flatfish, specifically the lemon sole.
(originally UK) A queen scallop.
(rare) A queen apple.
(slang, originally US) An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
(slang, sometimes derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.
A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
A female monarch.
A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
An adult female cat capable of breeding.
An excellent woman.
Ellipsis of queen olive.
Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
s around the queen (sense 6) of the hive, marked with a pink dot]] A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
verb
(BDSM, slang, transitive, usually of a woman) To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
(beekeeping) To be the queen bee of a colony.
(beekeeping) To provide with a new queen bee.
(chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.
(intransitive, obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to behave imperiously; to queen it.
(transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
quent
quern
quern
noun
A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones.
verb
(transitive) To grind; to use a quern.
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.
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.