| phylloquinone | (noun) a form of vitamin K, based on 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone, with a 3-phytyl substituent | Synonyms: phytonadione, vitamin K1 |
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| physique | (noun) constitution of the human body | Synonyms: body-build, build, habitus |
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| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, shape, soma |
| picaresque | (adjective) involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction | - |
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| picturesque | (adjective) suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture | - |
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| (adjective) strikingly expressive | - |
| picturesquely | (adverb) in a picturesque manner | - |
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| picturesqueness | (noun) visually vivid and pleasing | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid | - |
| piquance | (noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: nip, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest |
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| (noun) the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting | Synonyms: piquancy, piquantness |
| piquancy | (noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: nip, piquance, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest |
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| (noun) the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting | Synonyms: piquance, piquantness |
| piquant | (adjective) attracting or delighting | Synonyms: engaging |
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| (adjective) engagingly stimulating or provocative | Synonyms: salty |
| (adjective) having an agreeably pungent taste | Synonyms: savory, savoury, zesty |
| piquantly | (adverb) with strong spices; in a spicy manner | Synonyms: spicily |
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| piquantness | (noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: nip, piquance, piquancy, tang, tanginess, zest |
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| (noun) the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting | Synonyms: piquance, piquancy |
| pique | (noun) tightly woven fabric with raised cords | - |
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| (noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: irritation, temper |
| (verb) cause to feel resentment or indignation | Synonyms: offend |
| piquet | (noun) a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards | - |
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| (noun) a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake | Synonyms: picket |
| plaque | (noun) a memorial made of brass | Synonyms: brass, memorial tablet |
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| (noun) (pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body | - |
| plastique | (noun) an explosive material that is easily molded around the object it is intended to destroy | Synonyms: plastic explosive |
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| prerequisite | (adjective) required as a prior condition or course of study | - |
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| (noun) something that is required in advance | Synonyms: requirement |
| primaquine | (noun) synthetic antimalarial drug | - |
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| propinquity | (noun) the property of being close together | Synonyms: proximity |
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| pulque | (noun) fermented Mexican drink from juice of various agave plants especially the maguey | - |
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| q | (noun) the 17th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: Q |
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| qabala | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabalah |
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| qabalah | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala |
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| qabalistic | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, sibylline |
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| qadi | (noun) an Islamic judge | - |
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| qat | (noun) the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant | Synonyms: African tea, Arabian tea, cat, kat, khat, quat |
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| qepiq | (noun) 100 qepiq equal 1 manat in Azerbaijan | - |
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| qi | (noun) the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health | Synonyms: ch'i, chi, ki |
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| qibla | (noun) the direction of the Kaaba toward which Muslims turn for their daily prayers | - |
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| qindarka | (noun) 100 qindarka equal 1 lek in Albania | Synonyms: qintar |
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| qintar | (noun) 100 qindarka equal 1 lek in Albania | Synonyms: qindarka |
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| qoph | (noun) the 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| quack | (adjective) medically unqualified | - |
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| (noun) the harsh sound of a duck | - |
| (noun) an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice | - |
| (verb) act as a medical quack or a charlatan | - |
| (verb) utter quacking noises | - |
| quackery | (noun) medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings | Synonyms: empiricism |
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| (noun) the dishonesty of a charlatan | Synonyms: charlatanism |
| quackgrass | (noun) European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed | Synonyms: Agropyron repens, couch grass, dog grass, quack grass, quick grass, witch grass, witchgrass |
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| quad | (noun) a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings | Synonyms: quadrangle |
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| (noun) (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences | Synonyms: space |
| (noun) a muscle of the thigh that extends the leg | Synonyms: musculus quadriceps femoris, quadriceps, quadriceps femoris |
| (noun) one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quadruplet |
| quadrangle | (noun) a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings | Synonyms: quad |
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| (noun) a four-sided polygon | Synonyms: quadrilateral, tetragon |
| quadrangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a quadrangle | - |
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| quadrant | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies | - |
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| (noun) the area enclosed by two perpendicular radii of a circle | - |
| (noun) any of the four areas into which a plane is divided by two orthogonal coordinate axes | - |
| (noun) a quarter of the circumference of a circle | Synonyms: quarter-circle |
| quadrantanopia | (noun) blindness in one fourth of the visual field | - |
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| quadraphonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadrasonic, quadriphonic, quadrisonic |
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| quadraphony | (noun) a stereophonic sound recording or reproducing system using four separate channels | Synonyms: quadraphonic system, quadriphonic system |
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| quadrasonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadraphonic, quadriphonic, quadrisonic |
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| quadrate | (adjective) having four sides and four angles | - |
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| (noun) a square-shaped object | - |
| (noun) a cubelike object | - |
| quadratic | (adjective) involving the second and no higher power of a quantity or degree | - |
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| (noun) a polynomial of the second degree | Synonyms: quadratic polynomial |
| (noun) an equation in which the highest power of an unknown quantity is a square | Synonyms: quadratic equation |
| quadratics | (noun) a branch of algebra dealing with quadratic equations | - |
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| quadrature | (noun) the construction of a square having the same area as some other figure | - |
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| quadrennium | (noun) a period of four years | - |
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| quadric | (noun) a curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree | Synonyms: quadric surface |
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| quadriceps | (noun) a muscle of the thigh that extends the leg | Synonyms: musculus quadriceps femoris, quad, quadriceps femoris |
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| quadrilateral | (adjective) having four sides | Synonyms: four-sided |
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| (noun) a four-sided polygon | Synonyms: quadrangle, tetragon |
| quadrille | (noun) a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples | - |
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| (noun) music for dancing the quadrille | - |
| quadrillion | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 15 zeros | - |
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| (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 24 zeros in the UK | - |
| quadrillionth | (adjective) the ordinal number of one quadrillion in counting order | - |
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| (noun) one part in a quadrillion equal parts | Synonyms: one-quadrillionth |
| quadripara | (noun) (obstetrics) woman who has given birth to a viable infant in each of four pregnancies | - |
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| quadripartite | (adjective) involving four parties | Synonyms: four-party |
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| quadriphonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadraphonic, quadrasonic, quadrisonic |
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| quadriplegia | (noun) paralysis of both arms and both legs | - |
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| quadriplegic | (noun) a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs | - |
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| quadrisonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadraphonic, quadrasonic, quadriphonic |
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| quadrivium | (noun) (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy | - |
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| quadroon | (noun) an offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter black | - |
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| quadrumvirate | (noun) a group of four men | - |
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| quadruped | (adjective) having four feet | Synonyms: four-footed, quadrupedal |
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| (noun) an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking | - |
| quadrupedal | (adjective) having four feet | Synonyms: four-footed, quadruped |
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| quadruple | (adjective) four times as great or many | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold |
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| (adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruplex, quadruplicate |
| (noun) a quantity that is four times as great as another | - |
| (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruplet, quartet, quartette |
| (verb) increase fourfold | - |
| quadruplet | (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruple, quartet, quartette |
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| (noun) one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quad |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
| quadruplex | (adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruple, quadruplicate |
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| quadruplicate | (adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruple, quadruplex |
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| (noun) any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly | - |
| (verb) reproduce fourfold | - |
| quadrupling | (noun) increase by a factor of four | - |
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| quaestor | (noun) any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration) | - |
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| quaff | (noun) a hearty draft | - |
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| (verb) to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught | Synonyms: gulp, swig |
| quaffer | (noun) a person who drinks heartily | - |
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| quag | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, morass, quagmire, slack |
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| quagga | (noun) mammal of South Africa that resembled a zebra; extinct since late 19th century | Synonyms: Equus quagga |
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| quaggy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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| quagmire | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, morass, quag, slack |
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| quahaug | (noun) an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians | Synonyms: hard-shell clam, hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, quahog, round clam, Venus mercenaria |
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| (noun) Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes | Synonyms: hard-shell clam, quahog, round clam |
| quahog | (noun) an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians | Synonyms: hard-shell clam, hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, quahaug, round clam, Venus mercenaria |
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| (noun) Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes | Synonyms: hard-shell clam, quahaug, round clam |
| quail | (noun) small gallinaceous game birds | - |
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| (noun) flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised | - |
| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
| quaint | (adjective) attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic) | Synonyms: old-time, olde worlde |
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| (adjective) strange in an interesting or pleasing way | - |
| (adjective) very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance | - |
| quaintly | (adverb) in a quaint old-fashioned manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a strange but not unpleasant manner | - |
| quaintness | (noun) strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned | - |
| quake | (noun) shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity | Synonyms: earthquake, seism, temblor |
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| (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: palpitate, quiver |
| (verb) shake with seismic vibrations | Synonyms: tremor |
| quaker | (noun) one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear | Synonyms: trembler |
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| qualification | (noun) the act of modifying or changing the strength of some idea | - |
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| (noun) an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something | Synonyms: making |
| (noun) a statement that limits or restricts some claim | Synonyms: reservation |
| qualified | (adjective) meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task | - |
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| (adjective) limited or restricted; not absolute | - |
| (adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependant, dependent |
| (adjective) restricted in meaning; (as e.g. `man' in `a tall man') | Synonyms: restricted |
| (adjective) holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill | Synonyms: certified |
| qualifier | (noun) a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb | Synonyms: modifier |
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| (noun) a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition | - |
| qualify | (verb) make fit or prepared | Synonyms: dispose |
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| (verb) add a modifier to a constituent | Synonyms: modify |
| (verb) make more specific | - |
| (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, specify, stipulate |
| (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterise, characterize |
| (verb) pronounce fit or able | - |
| (verb) prove capable or fit; meet requirements | Synonyms: measure up |
| qualifying | (noun) success in satisfying a test or requirement | Synonyms: pass, passing |
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| (noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: limiting, modification |
| qualitative | (adjective) involving distinctions based on qualities | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving comparisons based on qualities | - |
| qualitatively | (adverb) in a qualitative manner | - |
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| quality | (adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: choice, prime, prize, select |
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| (adjective) of high social status | - |
| (noun) an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone | - |
| (noun) (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | Synonyms: timber, timbre, tone |
| (noun) a degree or grade of excellence or worth | Synonyms: caliber, calibre |
| (noun) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something | Synonyms: character, lineament |
| (noun) high social status | - |
| qualm | (noun) uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety) | Synonyms: misgiving, scruple |
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| (noun) a mild state of nausea | Synonyms: queasiness, squeamishness |
| quamash | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camash, camass, camosh |
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| quandang | (noun) red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam | Synonyms: native peach, quandong, quantong |
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| (noun) Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed | Synonyms: Eucarya acuminata, Fusanus acuminatus, quandong, quandong tree |
| quandary | (noun) state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options | Synonyms: dilemma |
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| (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: plight, predicament |
| quandong | (noun) red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam | Synonyms: native peach, quandang, quantong |
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| (noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit | Synonyms: blue fig, Brisbane quandong, Elaeocarpus grandis, quandong tree, silver quandong tree |
| (noun) the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree | Synonyms: blue fig |
| (noun) Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed | Synonyms: Eucarya acuminata, Fusanus acuminatus, quandang, quandong tree |
| quango | (noun) a quasi nongovernmental organization; an organization that is financed by the government yet acts independently of the government | Synonyms: quasi-NGO |
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| quantal | (adjective) of or relating to a quantum or capable of existing in only one of two states | Synonyms: quantized |
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| quantic | (noun) a homogeneous polynomial having at least two variables | - |
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