(medicine) Secreting water; applied to certain glands.
barbequing
barbequing
verb
present participle of barbeque
beliquored
beliquored
adj
Drunken.
biquadrate
biquadrate
noun
(mathematics) The fourth power; the square of a square.
verb
(transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the fourth power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself three times.
borinqueno
briquetted
briquetted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of briquet
simple past tense and past participle of briquette
briquettes
briquettes
noun
plural of briquette
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of briquette
broquineer
brusquerie
brusquerie
noun
Brusqueness; abruptness, bluntness.
caqueterie
caquetoire
chequering
chequering
noun
A chequered pattern.
verb
present participle of chequer
cigaresque
cigaresque
adj
Characteristic of cigars
cinquanter
conquering
conquering
noun
gerund of conquer: an act of conquest.
verb
present participle of conquer
coquetries
coquetries
noun
plural of coquetry
crannequin
critiquing
critiquing
verb
present participle of critique
croqueting
croqueting
verb
present participle of croquet
demiquaver
demiquaver
noun
(music) A semiquaver, a sixteenth note.
disquarter
disquieter
disquieter
noun
One who, or that which, disquiets, or makes uneasy; a disturber.
equalizers
equalizers
noun
plural of equalizer
equatorial
equatorial
adj
(organic chemistry) perpendicular to the plane of a ring
of, near, or relating to the equator
noun
(astronomy) A kind of telescope mounted so as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the Earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed, even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension and declination are known.
equestrial
equestrial
adj
Alternative form of equestrian
equestrian
equestrian
adj
(historical) Of or relating to the ancient Roman class of equites.
Of horseback riding or horseback riders.
noun
(historical) Synonym of eques
One who rides a horse.
equicrural
equicrural
adj
Having legs of equal size; isosceles.
equiformal
equiformal
adj
equiform
equilibria
equilibria
noun
plural of equilibrium
equilibrio
equilibrio
noun
(archaic) equilibrium, balance
equiparant
equiparate
equiparate
verb
(chiefly historical) To perform equiparation; to transfer attributes from one object or concept to another.
(rare) To compare.
equiradial
equiradial
adj
Having equal radii.
equivaluer
equivorous
equivorous
adj
Feeding on horseflesh.
esquiredom
euroaquilo
fouquieria
frederique
gorkiesque
greenquist
harlequina
harlequins
harlequins
noun
plural of harlequin
infrequent
infrequent
adj
Not frequent; not happening frequently.
inquirable
inquirable
adj
Capable of being inquired into; subject or liable to inquisition or inquest.
inquirance
inquirance
noun
(obsolete) Inquiry.
inquirendo
inquirendo
noun
(law) An authority to inquire.
inquisitor
inquisitor
noun
(historical) An official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition.
A person who inquires, especially searchingly or ruthlessly.
intranquil
iroquoians
lacquering
lacquering
noun
An application of lacquer.
verb
present participle of lacquer
lacquerist
lambrequin
lambrequin
noun
(US) A short decorative drapery for a shelf edge or for the top of a window casing; a valance.
(ceramics) A border pattern with draped effect.
(heraldry) A heraldic representation of such an item, typically with one end pendant.
A scarf or other piece of material used as a covering for a helmet.
laquearian
laquearian
adj
(of a gladiator) armed with a noose
liquefiers
liquefiers
noun
plural of liquefier
liqueuring
liqueuring
verb
present participle of liqueur
liquidator
liquidator
noun
Any of the workers involved in cleaning up the Chernobyl disaster
One supporting the political policy of liquidationism; a liquidationist.
One who liquidates.
liquidizer
liquidizer
noun
(Australia, India, UK) A machine to chop or puree food; a blender.
liquifiers
liquifiers
noun
plural of liquifier
liquorless
liquorless
adj
Without liquor.
marinduque
mariquilla
marquisate
marquisate
noun
The state or rank of a marquis.
The territory held by a marquis, margrave or marchioness.
marquisdom
marquisdom
noun
(obsolete) A marquisate.
marquisess
marquisess
Noun
A marchioness.
marquisina
martinique
martinique
Proper noun
An island in the Caribbean, an overseas department of France. Official name: Department of Martinique.
medrinaque
medrinaque
noun
A type of fabric from the Philippines, made from the abaca tree.
negqtiator
outqueried
parciloquy
parqueting
parqueting
verb
present participle of parquet
pasquiller
perquisite
perquisite
noun
(chiefly in the plural) Any monetary or other incidental benefit beyond salary.
A gratuity.
A privilege or possession held or claimed exclusively by a certain person, group or class.
perruquier
perruquier
noun
A maker of perukes or wigs.
picaresque
picaresque
adj
(literature) Characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero.
Of or pertaining to adventurers or rogues.
noun
(literature) A picaresque novel.
pirquetted
pirquetter
preacquire
preacquire
verb
(transitive) To acquire in advance.
prequalify
prequalify
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To qualify or be qualified in advance.
prequoting
prerequire
prerequire
verb
To require beforehand.
primaquine
primaquine
noun
(pharmacology) A synthetic compound derived from quinoline, used as a medication in the treatment of malaria and pneumocystis pneumonia.
proaquatic
proinquiry
quackeries
quackeries
noun
plural of quackery
quadrantid
quadrantid
Noun
Any of the meteors in a January meteor shower whose radiant is inside the constellation Boötes.
quadratics
quadratics
noun
plural of quadratic
quadrating
quadrating
verb
present participle of quadrate
quadratrix
quadratrix
noun
(mathematics) A curve having ordinates which are a measure of the area (or quadrature) of another curve.
quadrennia
quadrennia
noun
plural of quadrennium
quadriceps
quadriceps
noun
(anatomy) A muscle having four heads, especially the large extensor at the front of the thigh.
quadricone
quadricone
noun
(geometry) A quadric cone.
quadricorn
quadricorn
noun
Any quadricornous (four-horned) animal
quadrifoil
quadrifoil
adj
Alternative form of quadrifoliate
quadriform
quadriform
adj
Having four forms, parts or aspects
quadrigate
quadrigati
quadrigati
noun
plural of quadrigatus
quadrilled
quadrilled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quadrille
quadrilles
quadrilles
noun
plural of quadrille
quadrilogy
quadrilogy
noun
(nonstandard) A tetralogy.
quadripole
quadripole
noun
(electronics) An electrical circuit that has two pairs of external terminals.
(physics) four poles disposed in a square fashion.
quadrireme
quadrireme
noun
(history, nautical) a galley with four banks of oars, each rowed by two oarsmen.
quadrisect
quadrisect
verb
(transitive) To divide into four parts.
quadrivial
quadrivial
adj
Having four ways meeting in a point.
noun
Any of the four "liberal arts" making up the quadrivium.
quadrivium
quadrivium
noun
(education, historical) The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music.
quadrumvir
quadrumvir
noun
Synonym of quattuorvir.
quagmirier
quailberry
quailberry
noun
The plant Crossopetalum ilicifolium.
The plant Vaccinium vitis-idaea.
quaileries
quakerbird
quakerbird
noun
the sooty albatross
quakerlike
quakership
qualifiers
qualifiers
noun
plural of qualifier
qualimeter
qualimeter
noun
(obsolete) A device once used to estimate the hardness of X-rays
quandaries
quandaries
noun
plural of quandary
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.
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.
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.
queenright
queenright
adj
(zoology, of colonies of bees, ants, etc.) Having a queen.
quercitrin
quercitrin
noun
A glycoside formed from the flavonoid quercetin and the deoxy sugar rhamnose, a constituent of quercitron dye.
quercitron
quercitron
noun
A yellow dye obtained from the bark of the black oak.
The black oak tree, Quercus velutina, indigenous to North America.
queryingly
queryingly
adv
With, or as, a question or query.
questioner
questioner
noun
A person who asks questions, or who conducts an official enquiry.
questorial
questorial
adj
Alternative form of quaestorial
quicksburg
quickthorn
quickthorn
noun
The may-tree, any species of Crataegus or the species Crataegus monogyna.
quickwater
quickwater
noun
(canoeing) Water with limited currents or rapids, less turbulent than white water.
quinacrine
quinacrine
noun
A drug with various applications, including as an antimalarial, having the chemical formula C₂₃H₃₀ClN₃O
quinanarii
quincewort
quincewort
Noun
squinancywort
quiniretin
quiniretin
noun
(organic chemistry, archaic) A brown flocculent form of quinine.
quinizarin
quinizarin
noun
(chemistry, archaic) A yellow crystalline substance produced artificially and isomeric with alizarin.
quinometry
quinometry
noun
(archaic) The art of estimating the quantity of quinine in cinchona bark, and in the commercial salts of this alkaloid.