(Islam) A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
faruq
hdqrs
hdqrs
noun
Abbreviation of headquarters.
iraqi
iraqi
Noun
A person from Iraq or of Iraqi descent.
Adjective
Of, from, or pertaining to Persian Iraq
Of, from, or pertaining to Iraq, or the Iraqi people.
miqra
qatar
quare
quare
adj
(Ireland) (used to suggest emphasis such as "a lot of" or "very" (suggesting an Irish accent).)
(dated, Ireland) queer, strange (suggesting an Irish accent)
quark
quark
noun
(Falkland Islands, informal) The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.
(computing, X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
(physics) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle that forms matter. They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.
A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, eastern, and southeastern Europe as well as the Low Countries, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet.
quarl
quarl
noun
(archaic) A medusa or jellyfish.
A fire-resistant channel for a burner in a boiler or furnace.
quart
quart
noun
(card games) Four successive cards of the same suit.
(obsolete) A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.
queer
queer
adj
(Britain, informal, dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in "to feel queer").
(Britain, slang) Drunk.
(broadly) Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc.
(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Homosexual.
(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Non-heterosexual or Non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
(dated outside Scotland and Ulster) Weird, odd, or different; whimsical.
adv
Queerly.
noun
(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity.
(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
(definite, with "the", informal, archaic) Counterfeit money.
verb
(UK, dialect, dated) To puzzle.
(slang, LGBT, neologism) To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.
(slang, dated) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
(slang, dated) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
(social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
(transitive, dated) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
queri
querl
querl
noun
A twist; curl.
verb
(transitive) To twirl; turn or wind around; coil.
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.
query
query
noun
(computing, databases) A set of instructions passed to a database.
A question mark.
A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
verb
(computing, databases) To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.
(intransitive) To ask a question.
(intransitive, publishing) To send out a query letter.
(transitive) To ask, inquire.
(transitive) To question or call into doubt.
(transitive, Internet) To send a private message to (a user on IRC).
quira
quira
noun
The tough wood of Platymiscium pinnatum.
quire
quire
noun
(archaic) A choir.
(bookbinding) A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.
A book, poem, or pamphlet.
One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse.
One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.
verb
(bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
quirk
quirk
noun
(archaic) A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge.
(architecture) An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a moulding and a soffit.
An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone.
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To use verbal tricks or quibbles.
(transitive, architecture) To furnish with a quirk or channel.
(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) move with a wry jerk.
Alternative form of querk
quirl
quirl
verb
(chiefly dialectal, Southern US, Midland US) To curl or twirl, or twist or coil (up).
quirt
quirt
noun
A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
verb
To strike with a quirt.
quran
qursh
qursh
noun
A monetary unit in Saudi Arabia equivalent to a twentieth of a rial.
qurti
rafiq
risqu
roque
roque
noun
(US) A form of croquet using short-handled mallets, and played on a hard surface.