A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged
braque
brique
cirque
cirque
noun
(dated or literary) Something in the shape of a circle or ring, such as a Roman circus.
(geology) A curved depression in a mountainside with steep walls, forming the end of a valley.
clercq
faqirs
faqirs
noun
plural of faqir
faquir
faquir
noun
Obsolete spelling of fakir
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.
iraqis
jerque
jerque
verb
(UK, historical, transitive) To search (a ship) for unentered goods.
liquer
liquor
liquor
noun
(UK, cooking) A parsley sauce commonly served with traditional pies and mash.
(chiefly US, Canada) Strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation; more broadly, any alcoholic drink.
(obsolete) A drinkable liquid.
(obsolete) A liquid, a fluid.
A liquid in which something has been steeped.
A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).
In process industry, a liquid in which a desired reaction takes place, e.g. pulping liquor is a mixture of chemicals and water which breaks wood into its components, thus facilitating the extraction of cellulose.
verb
(intransitive) To drink liquor, usually to excess.
(obsolete, transitive) To grease.
(transitive) To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess.
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.
piqure
qantar
qaranc
qindar
qindar
noun
Alternative spelling of qintar
qintar
qintar
noun
(plural: qindarka or qintars) An Albanian coin equal to one hundredth of a lek.
(plural: qintars) A unit of measure, which varies in value depending upon the product measured; for example, a qintar of cotton might be 160 kg of cotton, 50 kg of cotton lint; a qintar of lime, 65 kg.
quader
quader
verb
To quadrate
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.
quaker
quaker
noun
(entomology) Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Pithecops.
Quaker
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.
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.
queers
queers
noun
plural of queer
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of queer
(computing) A process, etc. that places data items on a queue.
One who queues; a person waiting in line.
quired
quired
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quire
quires
quires
noun
plural of quire
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quire
quirks
quirks
noun
plural of quirk
quirky
quirky
adj
Given to quirks or idiosyncrasies; strange in a somewhat silly, awkward manner, potentially cute.
quirts
quirts
noun
plural of quirt
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quirt
quiver
quiver
adj
(archaic) Nimble, active.
noun
(figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
(mathematics) A multidigraph.
(obsolete) A vulva.
(obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
(weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
verb
(intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion.
qumran
quorum
quorum
noun
A selected body of persons.
The minimum number of members required for a group to officially conduct business and to cast votes, often but not necessarily a majority or supermajority.
quoter
quoter
noun
Someone who quotes.
qurush
qwerty
qwerty
adj
Alternative letter-case form of QWERTY.
raquel
raquel
Proper noun
name borrowed from
raquet
raquet
noun
Misspelling of racquet.
rauque
requin
requin
noun
(dated) The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias).
requit
requit
verb
Obsolete form of requite.
requiz
requiz
verb
(transitive) To quiz or interrogate again.
risque
risque
adj
(US) Alternative form of risqué
noun
Obsolete spelling of risk
roquer
roques
roquet
roquet
noun
In croquet, the act of hitting another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken.
verb
In croquet, to hit another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken.
seqrch
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
squier
squier
noun
Obsolete form of square.
squire
squire
noun
(UK, colloquial) Term of address to a male equal.
(historical) A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.
(obsolete) A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
A male attendant on a great personage.
A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
verb
(transitive) To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection.
(transitive) To attend as a squire.
squirk
squirl
squirl
noun
(US, dialect) A squirrel.
A flourish in handwriting.
squirm
squirm
noun
A twisting, snakelike movement of the body.
verb
To evade a question, an interviewer etc.
To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment.
To twist one's body with snakelike motions.
squirr
squirr
verb
Alternative form of squir
squirt
squirt
noun
(UK, US, Australia, slang) A small child.
(hydrodynamics) The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.
(informal) An act of urination.
(kayaking) A maneuver in which the boat is forced into a nearly vertical position.
(slang) An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper.
(slang, vulgar, uncountable) Female ejaculate.
A burst of noise.
A small, quick stream; a jet.
An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
verb
(intransitive, of a liquid) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
(intransitive, slang, vulgar, of a female) To ejaculate.
(kayaking) To forcefully maneuver against the current so that the end of the boat is forced nearly vertical.
(transitive) To hit with a rapid stream of liquid.
(transitive, by extension) To emit, eject or excrete (something).
(transitive, figuratively, obsolete) To throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
(transitive, of a liquid) To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
tariqa
tariqa
noun
(Islam) a Sufi method of discipline, meditation and mystical insight, or a religious order based on this.
torque
torque
noun
(physics, mechanics) A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton metre or Nm; imperial unit pound-foot or lb·ft, not to be confused with the foot pound-force, commonly "foot-pound", a unit of work or energy)
A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples.
verb
(physics, mechanics) To make something rotate about an axis by imparting torque to it.