To attend a banquet or banquets (particularly as a frequent or habitual activity).
banqueters
banqueters
noun
plural of banqueter
brontesque
cinquanter
critiquing
critiquing
verb
present participle of critique
croqueting
croqueting
verb
present participle of croquet
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.
equiparant
frequented
frequented
verb
simple past tense and past participle of frequent
frequenter
frequenter
adj
(rare) comparative form of frequent: more frequent
noun
A person who frequents; a regular visitor.
frequently
frequently
adv
(mathematics, of a sequence) For infinitely many terms of the sequence.
At frequent intervals.
greenquist
infrequent
infrequent
adj
Not frequent; not happening frequently.
inquisitor
inquisitor
noun
(historical) An official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition.
A person who inquires, especially searchingly or ruthlessly.
intranquil
martinique
martinique
Proper noun
An island in the Caribbean, an overseas department of France. Official name: Department of Martinique.
negqtiator
parqueting
parqueting
verb
present participle of parquet
prequoting
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
quadrating
quadrating
verb
present participle of quadrate
quakertown
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.
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.
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
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.
quatorzain
quatorzain
noun
A poem or stanza consisting of fourteen lines.
queencraft
queencraft
noun
Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen; kingcraft as practised by a female sovereign.
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.
quernstone
quernstone
noun
Either of a pair of stones used for grinding material by hand.
questioner
questioner
noun
A person who asks questions, or who conducts an official enquiry.
quickthorn
quickthorn
noun
The may-tree, any species of Crataegus or the species Crataegus monogyna.
quincewort
quincewort
Noun
squinancywort
quiniretin
quiniretin
noun
(organic chemistry, archaic) A brown flocculent form of quinine.
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
quinteroon
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
requesting
requesting
verb
present participle of request
requestion
requestion
verb
To question again.
rosenquist
sinarquist
tarquinish
techniquer
terraquean
terraquean
adj
(obsolete) terraqueous
tourniquet
tourniquet
noun
(medicine) A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
(obsolete) A turnstile.
Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
tranquiler
tranquillo
tranquilly
tranquilly
adv
In a tranquil manner.
triquinate
triquinoyl
underquote
underquote
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To give a quotation that is too low, or is lower than that offered by others
unfrequent
unfrequent
adj
Not frequent; not common; not happening often; infrequent.
verb
(transitive) To stop frequenting; cease to frequent.
unrequital
unrequited
unrequited
adj
Unanswered; not returned; not reciprocated; not repaid.