(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.
pirquetted
pirquetter
piscataqua
prequoting
prerequest
proaquatic
provoquant
quadrantal
quadrantal
adj
(geometry) Of or relating to a quadrant, or included in the fourth part of a circle.
noun
An ancient Roman unit of measure for liquids.
cube
quadrantes
quadrantes
noun
plural of quadrans
quadrantid
quadrantid
Noun
Any of the meteors in a January meteor shower whose radiant is inside the constellation Boötes.
quadrantly
quadrantly
adv
squarely
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.
quadrature
quadrature
noun
(art) A painting painted on a wooden panel.
(astronomy) A situation in which the directions of two celestial bodies (or a celestial body and the Sun) form a right-angle from the perspective of the observer.
(mathematics) The act or process of constructing a square that has the same area as a given plane figure, or of computing that area.
(mathematics, mathematical analysis) The act or process of solving an indefinite integral by symbolic means.
(mathematics, numerical analysis) The calculation of a definite integral by numerical means.
(physics) The condition in which the phase angle between two alternating quantities is 90°.
The process of making something square; squaring.
quadrigate
quadrigati
quadrigati
noun
plural of quadrigatus
quadrisect
quadrisect
verb
(transitive) To divide into four parts.
quadruplet
quadruplet
noun
(music) A tuplet of four notes.
A cycle for carrying four riders, arranged so that all the riders can assist in the propulsion.
A sequence of four elements.
One of a group of four, particularly one of four babies born from the same mother during the same birth.
quaestuary
quaestuary
adj
Relating to or concerned with gain; engaged in moneymaking.
The state or fact of being quaint; having old-fashioned charm.
quakertown
qualimeter
qualimeter
noun
(obsolete) A device once used to estimate the hardness of X-rays
quantified
quantified
adj
(logic) used as a quantifier
measured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quantify
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.
quantifies
quantifies
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quantify
quantitate
quantitate
verb
(transitive) To measure the quantity of, especially with high accuracy and taking uncertainty into account, as in quantitative analysis.
quantitied
quantities
quantities
noun
plural of quantity
quantitive
quantitive
adj
Alternative form of quantitative
quantizing
quantizing
verb
present participle of quantize
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.
quarentene
quarentene
noun
Obsolete form of quarantine (“widow's grace period”).
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.
quarterage
quarterage
noun
A quarterly payment or allowance, tax, pension, or wage paid or received.
The provision of quarters (as for troops), or the cost of it.
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
quarterman
quarterman
noun
A foreman in a shipyard
quartermen
quartermen
noun
plural of quarterman
quartersaw
quartersaw
verb
(woodworking) Cut radially (towards the heart of the log), at right angles to the growth rings, for stability or the production of decorative patterns.
quartzitic
quartzitic
adj
Of, relating to, or containing quartzite.
quartzless
quartzless
adj
(mineralogy) Lacking quartz.
quartzsite
quasqueton
quassation
quassation
noun
(archaic) A shaking or agitation.
quassative
quassative
adj
shaking; trembling
quaternary
quaternary
adj
(inorganic chemistry) composed of four elements
(organic chemistry) quaternary ammonium
Of a mathematical expression containing e.g. x⁴
Of fourth rank or order
Relating to or in number base four
noun
(chemistry) A quaternary compound.
(geology) The Quaternary period or the system of deposits laid down during it.
quaternate
quaternate
adj
Composed of, or arranged in, sets of four.
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.
quathlamba
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.
queachiest
queencraft
queencraft
noun
Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen; kingcraft as practised by a female sovereign.
queenliest
queenliest
adj
superlative form of queenly: most queenly
queenright
queenright
adj
(zoology, of colonies of bees, ants, etc.) Having a queen.
queenstown
queenstown
Proper noun
A port town in southern Ireland, now named Cobh.
A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
A town in Maryland.
A ski resort town in New Zealand, situated on Lake Wakatipu.
A neighbourhood in Singapore.
A town/city in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
A town in Tasmania, Australia.
quenselite
quenselite
noun
(mineralogy) A monoclinic-sphenoidal pitch black mineral containing hydrogen, lead, manganese, and oxygen.
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.
quernstone
quernstone
noun
Either of a pair of stones used for grinding material by hand.
questhouse
questingly
questingly
adv
So as to quest; with curiosity, desire to search, etc.
questioned
questioned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of question
questionee
questionee
noun
One who is questioned.
questioner
questioner
noun
A person who asks questions, or who conducts an official enquiry.
questionle
questorial
questorial
adj
Alternative form of quaestorial
quickhatch
quickhatch
noun
(Canada) The wolverine.
quicksteps
quicksteps
noun
plural of quickstep
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quickstep
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.
quiddative
quiddative
adj
(philosophy) Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing.
quiddities
quiddities
noun
plural of quiddity
quietening
quietening
noun
The act of making something quieter.
verb
present participle of quieten
quietistic
quietistic
adj
Of or relating to quietism, a philosophy of passivity and non-involvement.
quinatoxin
quincewort
quincewort
Noun
squinancywort
quiniretin
quiniretin
noun
(organic chemistry, archaic) A brown flocculent form of quinine.
quinnimont
quinometry
quinometry
noun
(archaic) The art of estimating the quantity of quinine in cinchona bark, and in the commercial salts of this alkaloid.
quinsywort
quinsywort
noun
squinancywort
quintadena
quintadena
noun
An organ stop yielding a tone one-twelfth above the digital struck.
quintadene
quintefoil
quinteroon
quintilian
quintupled
quintupled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quintuple
quintuples
quintuples
noun
plural of quintuple
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quintuple
quintuplet
quintuplet
noun
A cycle adapted for five riders, all of whom can assist in the propulsion.
A group of five, particularly (music) a tuplet of five notes to be played in the time for four.
One of a group of five, particularly babies born from the same mother during the same birth.
quisqueite
quisqueite
noun
(mineralogy) A brittle, lustrous black hydrocarbon.
quitclaims
quitclaims
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quitclaim
quittances
quittances
noun
plural of quittance
quixotical
quixotical
adj
quixotic
quixotries
quixotries
noun
plural of quixotry
quizmaster
quizmaster
noun
A person who poses questions to contestants on a quiz show.
quodlibetz
quotations
quotations
noun
plural of quotation
quotennial
quotieties
reacquaint
reacquaint
verb
To acquaint again; to reintroduce or refamiliarise.
reconquest
reconquest
noun
The act or process of conquering something again, such as a territory.
relinquent
relinquent
adj
relinquishing
requesters
requesters
noun
plural of requester
requesting
requesting
verb
present participle of request
requestion
requestion
verb
To question again.
requestors
requestors
noun
plural of requestor
requiescat
requiescat
noun
A prayer for the peaceful repose of the soul of a dead person
requisites
requisites
noun
plural of requisite
requisitor
requisitor
noun
One who makes requisition; especially, one authorized by a requisition to investigate facts.
requitable
requitable
adj
That may be requited.
requiteful
requiteful
adj
(rare, archaic) Tending to requite something; reciprocating.
robotesque
robotesque
adj
Characteristic of robots.
rosenquist
satyresque
satyresque
adj
satyrlike
sequatchie
sequential
sequential
adj
(grammar, of a verb and adjective form in Korean) Expressing succession of events.
(programming) Executed as a sequence of instructions, without concurrency or parallelism.
Succeeding or following in order.
sequesters
sequesters
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sequester
sequestral
sequestral
adj
(medicine) Of or pertaining to a sequestrum.
sequestrum
sequestrum
noun
A fragment of bone or other dead tissue that has separated during necrosis.
sesquisalt
sesquisalt
noun
(chemistry) A salt derived from a sesquioxide base, or made up on the proportions of a sesqui compound.
sinarquist
sobriquets
sobriquets
noun
plural of sobriquet
soubriquet
soubriquet
noun
Alternative spelling of sobriquet
squabbiest
squalidest
squalidest
adj
superlative form of squalid: most squalid
squalidity
squalidity
noun
The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.
squalliest
squalliest
adj
superlative form of squally: most squally
squalodont
squalodont
noun
(zoology) Any of the extinct genus Squalodon of whales.
squamatine
squamation
squamation
noun
(pathology, dermatology, countable) A scaly growth on the skin.
(zoology, countable) A particular arrangement of scales; a special mode or form of squamation.
(zoology, uncountable) The condition or character of being covered with scales.
squamosity
squamosity
noun
The quality of being squamose.
squamulate
squamulate
adj
(zoology) Having small scales; squamulose.
squaretail
squaretail
noun
A perciform fish of the genus Tetragonurus, found in tropical and subtropical oceans.
The brook trout, a fish of the species Salvelinus fontinalis, found in North America.