| acquirable | (adjective) capable of being acquired | - |
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| acquire | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: develop, get, grow, produce |
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| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: adopt, assume, take, take on |
| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: develop, evolve |
| (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: larn, learn |
| (verb) come into the possession of something concrete or abstract | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) win something through one's efforts | Synonyms: gain, win |
| (verb) locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar | - |
| acquired | (adjective) gotten through environmental forces | - |
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| acquirement | (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquisition, attainment, skill |
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| acquirer | (noun) a corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock | - |
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| (noun) the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card | - |
| (noun) a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee | Synonyms: merchant bank |
| (noun) a person who acquires something (usually permanently) | - |
| acquiring | (noun) the act of acquiring something | Synonyms: getting |
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| daiquiri | (noun) a cocktail made with rum and lime or lemon juice | Synonyms: rum cocktail |
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| enquire | (verb) have a wish or desire to know something | Synonyms: inquire, wonder |
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| (verb) address a question to and expect an answer from | Synonyms: ask, inquire |
| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: inquire, investigate |
| enquirer | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, inquirer, querier, questioner |
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| enquiringly | (adverb) in an inquiring manner | Synonyms: inquiringly |
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| enquiry | (noun) a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest | Synonyms: inquiry |
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| (noun) a search for knowledge | Synonyms: inquiry, research |
| (noun) an instance of questioning | Synonyms: inquiry, interrogation, query, question |
| esquire | (noun) (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood | - |
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| faquir | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakeer, fakir, faqir |
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| inquire | (verb) have a wish or desire to know something | Synonyms: enquire, wonder |
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| (verb) address a question to and expect an answer from | Synonyms: ask, enquire |
| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: enquire, investigate |
| inquirer | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, enquirer, querier, questioner |
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| inquiring | (adjective) given to inquiry | - |
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| (noun) a request for information | Synonyms: questioning |
| inquiringly | (adverb) in an inquiring manner | Synonyms: enquiringly |
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| inquiry | (noun) a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest | Synonyms: enquiry |
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| (noun) a search for knowledge | Synonyms: enquiry, research |
| (noun) an instance of questioning | Synonyms: enquiry, interrogation, query, question |
| quira | (noun) any of several tropical American trees some yielding economically important timber | - |
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| (noun) hard heavy red wood of a quira tree | Synonyms: Panama redwood |
| quire | (noun) a quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets | - |
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| quirk | (noun) a narrow groove beside a beading | - |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, queerness, quirkiness |
| (verb) twist or curve abruptly | - |
| quirkiness | (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, queerness, quirk |
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| quirky | (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, kinky, offbeat, way-out |
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| quirt | (noun) whip with a leather thong at the end | - |
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| require | (verb) make someone do something | Synonyms: command |
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| (verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: ask, expect |
| (verb) have need of | Synonyms: need, want |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, take |
| required | (adjective) necessary for relief or supply | Synonyms: needed, needful, requisite |
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| (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: compulsory, mandatory |
| requirement | (noun) something that is required in advance | Synonyms: prerequisite |
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| (noun) required activity | Synonyms: demand |
| (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, necessity, requisite |
| squire | (noun) an English country landowner | - |
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| (noun) young nobleman attendant on a knight | - |
| (noun) a man who attends or escorts a woman | Synonyms: gallant |
| (verb) attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire | - |
| squirearchy | (noun) the gentry who own land (considered as a class) | Synonyms: landed gentry |
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| squirm | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: wiggle, wriggle |
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| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: twist, worm, wrestle, wriggle, writhe |
| squirmer | (noun) one who can't stay still (especially a child) | Synonyms: wiggler, wriggler |
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| squirrel | (noun) a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail | - |
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| (noun) the fur of a squirrel | - |
| squirrelfish | (noun) very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark | - |
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| (noun) similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States | Synonyms: Lagodon rhomboides, pinfish, sailor's-choice |
| squirt | (noun) the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) | Synonyms: jet, spirt, spurt |
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| (noun) someone who is small and insignificant | Synonyms: pip-squeak, small fry |
| (verb) cause to come out in a squirt | Synonyms: eject, force out, squeeze out |
| (verb) wet with a spurt of liquid | Synonyms: spurt |
| squirter | (noun) plaything consisting of a toy pistol that squirts water | Synonyms: squirt gun, water gun, water pistol |
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| squirting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spouting, spurting |
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| uninquiring | (adjective) not inquiring | Synonyms: uninquisitive |
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| (adjective) deficient in curiosity | Synonyms: uninquisitive |