| marquee | (noun) permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc. | Synonyms: marquise |
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| (noun) large and often sumptuous tent | Synonyms: pavilion |
| queen | (noun) the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs | - |
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| (noun) an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males | Synonyms: queen mole rat |
| (noun) female cat | Synonyms: tabby |
| (noun) (chess) the most powerful piece | - |
| (noun) one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen | - |
| (noun) a female sovereign ruler | Synonyms: female monarch, queen regnant |
| (noun) the wife or widow of a king | - |
| (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queer |
| (noun) something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind | - |
| (noun) a female competitor who holds a preeminent position | - |
| (verb) become a queen | - |
| (verb) promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess | - |
| queenfish | (noun) silvery and bluish drumfish of shallow California coastal waters | Synonyms: Seriphus politus, white croaker |
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| queenlike | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen | Synonyms: queenly |
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| queenly | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen | Synonyms: queenlike |
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| queer | (adjective) homosexual or arousing homosexual desires | Synonyms: gay, homophile |
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| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, rum, rummy, singular |
| (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen |
| (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, expose, peril, scupper |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| queerly | (adverb) in a questionably unusual manner | Synonyms: fishily |
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| (adverb) in a strange manner | Synonyms: funnily, oddly, strangely |
| queerness | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, quirk, quirkiness |
| squeegee | (noun) T-shaped cleaning implement with a rubber edge across the top; drawn across a surface to remove water (as in washing windows) | - |
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| (verb) wipe with a squeegee | - |
| squeezability | (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: compressibility, sponginess |
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| squeezable | (adjective) capable of being easily compressed | Synonyms: compressible |
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| squeeze | (noun) the act of gripping and pressing firmly | Synonyms: squeezing |
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| (noun) an aggressive attempt to compel acquiescence by the concentration or manipulation of power | Synonyms: power play, squeeze play |
| (noun) a tight or amorous embrace | Synonyms: clinch, hug |
| (noun) the act of forcing yourself (or being forced) into or through a restricted space | - |
| (noun) a twisting squeeze | Synonyms: wring |
| (noun) (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend | - |
| (noun) a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer | - |
| (noun) a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest rates are high | Synonyms: credit crunch, liquidity crisis |
| (verb) press firmly | - |
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, contract, press |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, tweet, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space | Synonyms: force, wedge |
| (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: bosom, embrace, hug |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, mash, squash, squelch |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: shove, stuff, thrust |
| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: extort, gouge, rack, wring |
| (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, force, hale, pressure |
| squeezer | (noun) a kitchen utensil for squeezing juice from fruit | - |
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| squeezing | (noun) the act of gripping and pressing firmly | Synonyms: squeeze |
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