| absquatulate | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| arabesque | (noun) an ornament that interlaces simulated foliage in an intricate design | - |
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| (noun) position in which the dancer has one leg raised behind and arms outstretched in a conventional pose | - |
| arboresque | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| asquint | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, askant, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| bisque | (noun) a thick cream soup made from shellfish | - |
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| brusque | (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, curt, short |
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| brusquely | (adverb) in a blunt direct manner | Synonyms: bluffly, bluntly, flat out, roundly |
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| brusqueness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, curtness, gruffness, shortness |
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| burlesque | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a burlesque | - |
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| (noun) a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease) | - |
| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
| (verb) make a parody of | Synonyms: parody, spoof |
| casque | (noun) (15-16th century) any armor for the head; usually ornate without a visor | - |
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| casquet | (noun) a light open casque without a visor or beaver | Synonyms: casquetel |
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| casquetel | (noun) a light open casque without a visor or beaver | Synonyms: casquet |
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| churrigueresque | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresco |
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| desquamate | (verb) peel off in scales | Synonyms: peel off |
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| desquamation | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: peeling, shedding |
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| diddlysquat | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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| disqualification | (noun) the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified | - |
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| (noun) unfitness that bars you from participation | - |
| disqualified | (adjective) disqualified by law or rule or provision | - |
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| (adjective) barred from competition for violation of rules | - |
| disqualify | (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: indispose, unfit |
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| (verb) declare unfit | - |
| disqualifying | (adjective) depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified | Synonyms: disabling |
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| disquiet | (noun) the trait of seeming ill at ease | Synonyms: unease, uneasiness |
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| (noun) a feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments | Synonyms: anxiousness |
| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, distract, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
| disquieted | (adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: distressed, disturbed, upset, worried |
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| disquieting | (adjective) causing mental discomfort | - |
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| disquietingly | (adverb) in a disquieting manner | - |
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| disquietude | (noun) feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable | Synonyms: edginess, inquietude, uneasiness |
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| disquisition | (noun) an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion | - |
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| esquire | (noun) (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood | - |
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| foursquare | (adjective) characterized by firm and unwavering conviction | - |
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| (noun) (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon | Synonyms: square |
| (adverb) with firmness and conviction; without compromise | Synonyms: squarely, straightforwardly |
| (adverb) in a square position | - |
| grotesque | (adjective) ludicrously odd | Synonyms: antic, fantastic, fantastical |
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| (adjective) distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous | Synonyms: monstrous |
| (noun) art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants | - |
| grotesquely | (adverb) in a grotesque manner | Synonyms: monstrously |
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| grotesqueness | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesquerie, grotesquery |
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| grotesquerie | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquery |
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| grotesquery | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquerie |
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| kafkaesque | (adjective) characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger | - |
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| masque | (noun) a party of guests wearing costumes and masks | Synonyms: mask, masquerade, masquerade party |
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| masquer | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masker, masquerader |
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| masquerade | (noun) making a false outward show | Synonyms: charade |
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| (noun) a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party | Synonyms: fancy dress, masquerade costume |
| (noun) a party of guests wearing costumes and masks | Synonyms: mask, masque, masquerade party |
| (verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not | - |
| (verb) take part in a masquerade | - |
| masquerader | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masker, masquer |
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| mesquit | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquite |
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| mesquite | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquit |
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| misquotation | (noun) an incorrect quotation | Synonyms: misquote |
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| misquote | (noun) an incorrect quotation | Synonyms: misquotation |
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| (verb) quote incorrectly | - |
| mosque | (noun) (Islam) a Muslim place of worship that usually has a minaret | - |
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| mosquito | (noun) two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals | - |
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| mosquitofish | (noun) silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control | Synonyms: Gambusia affinis |
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| musquash | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: muskrat, Ondatra zibethica |
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| odalisque | (noun) a woman slave in a harem | - |
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| pasqueflower | (noun) any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone | Synonyms: pasque flower |
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| pasquinade | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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| 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 | - |
| risque | (adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, spicy |
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| sculpturesque | (adjective) resembling sculpture | Synonyms: modeled, modelled, sculptural, sculptured |
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| sesquicentennial | (noun) the 150th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | - |
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| sesquipedalia | (noun) a very long word (a foot and a half long) | Synonyms: sesquipedalian |
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| sesquipedalian | (adjective) (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables | Synonyms: polysyllabic |
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| (adjective) given to the overuse of long words | - |
| (noun) a very long word (a foot and a half long) | Synonyms: sesquipedalia |
| sesquipedality | (noun) using long words | - |
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| squab | (adjective) short and fat | Synonyms: squabby |
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| (noun) an unfledged pigeon | - |
| (noun) a soft padded sofa | - |
| (noun) flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled | Synonyms: dove |
| squabble | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, tiff |
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| (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, niggle, pettifog, quibble |
| squabbler | (noun) someone who quarrels about a small matter | - |
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| squabby | (adjective) short and fat | Synonyms: squab |
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| squad | (noun) a cooperative unit (especially in sports) | Synonyms: team |
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| (noun) a smallest army unit | - |
| (noun) a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime | Synonyms: police squad |
| squadron | (noun) an air force unit larger than a flight and smaller than a group | - |
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| (noun) a cavalry unit consisting of two or more troops and headquarters and supporting arms | - |
| (noun) a naval unit that is detached from the fleet for a particular task | - |
| squalid | (adjective) foul and run-down and repulsive | Synonyms: flyblown, sordid |
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| (adjective) morally degraded | Synonyms: seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid |
| squalidly | (adverb) in a sordid or squalid way | Synonyms: sordidly |
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| squalidness | (noun) sordid dirtiness | Synonyms: sordidness, squalor |
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| squall | (noun) sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation | - |
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| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, yell |
| (verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: waul, wawl |
| (verb) blow in a squall | - |
| squalling | (adjective) characterized by short periods of noisy commotion | Synonyms: squally |
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| squally | (adjective) characterized by brief periods of violent wind or rain | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by short periods of noisy commotion | Synonyms: squalling |
| squalor | (noun) sordid dirtiness | Synonyms: sordidness, squalidness |
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| squama | (noun) a protective structure resembling a scale | - |
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| squamule | (noun) a minute scale | - |
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| squamulose | (adjective) covered with tiny scales | - |
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| squander | (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, ware, waste |
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| (verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: blow, waste |
| squandered | (adjective) not used to good advantage | Synonyms: wasted |
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| squanderer | (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, profligate |
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| squandering | (noun) spending resources lavishly and wastefully | - |
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| squandermania | (noun) prodigious squandering (usually by a government) | - |
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| square | (adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by honesty and fairness | Synonyms: straight |
| (adjective) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned | Synonyms: straight |
| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: straight, straightforward |
| (adjective) leaving no balance | - |
| (adjective) providing abundant nourishment | Synonyms: hearty, satisfying, solid, substantial |
| (noun) a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles | - |
| (noun) any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles | - |
| (noun) an open area at the meeting of two or more streets | Synonyms: public square |
| (noun) a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views | Synonyms: square toes |
| (noun) someone who doesn't understand what is going on | Synonyms: lame |
| (noun) the product of two equal terms | Synonyms: second power |
| (noun) (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon | Synonyms: foursquare |
| (noun) something approximating the shape of a square | - |
| (adverb) in a straight direct way | Synonyms: squarely |
| (adverb) firmly and solidly | Synonyms: squarely |
| (adverb) in a square shape | Synonyms: squarely |
| (verb) make square | Synonyms: square up |
| (verb) raise to the second power | - |
| (verb) turn the oar, while rowing | Synonyms: feather |
| (verb) turn the paddle; in canoeing | Synonyms: feather |
| (verb) position so as to be square | - |
| (verb) pay someone and settle a debt | - |
| (verb) be compatible with | - |
| (verb) cause to match, as of ideas or acts | - |
| squared | (adjective) having been made square | - |
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| squarely | (adverb) with firmness and conviction; without compromise | Synonyms: foursquare, straightforwardly |
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| (adverb) firmly and solidly | Synonyms: square |
| (adverb) in a square shape | Synonyms: square |
| (adverb) directly and without evasion; not roundabout | Synonyms: forthright, forthrightly |
| (adverb) in a straight direct way | Synonyms: square |
| squareness | (noun) the property of being shaped like a square | - |
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| squaretail | (noun) sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters | - |
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| squarish | (adjective) somewhat square in appearance or form | - |
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| squark | (noun) a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1 | Synonyms: strange quark |
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| squash | (noun) a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets | Synonyms: squash rackets, squash racquets |
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| (noun) edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable | - |
| (noun) any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits | Synonyms: squash vine |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, mash, squeeze, squelch |
| squashed | (adjective) that has been violently compressed | - |
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| squashy | (adjective) like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness | Synonyms: pulpy |
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| (adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | Synonyms: spongelike, spongy, squishy |
| (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, swampy, waterlogged |
| squat | (adjective) having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground | Synonyms: underslung |
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| (adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature | Synonyms: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squatty, stumpy |
| (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels | Synonyms: squatting |
| (noun) exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles | Synonyms: knee bend, squatting |
| (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit |
| (verb) to perform the squat weightlifting exercise | - |
| (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up |
| (verb) occupy (a dwelling) illegally | - |
| (verb) be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide | - |
| squatness | (noun) the property of being short and broad | Synonyms: stubbiness |
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| squatter | (noun) someone who settles on land without right or title | - |
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| (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: homesteader, nester |
| squattiness | (noun) a short and stout physique | Synonyms: dumpiness |
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| squatting | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels | Synonyms: squat |
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| (noun) exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles | Synonyms: knee bend, squat |
| squatty | (adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature | Synonyms: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, stumpy |
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| squaw | (noun) derogatory terms for an American Indian woman | - |
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| squawbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Rhus trilobata, skunkbush, squaw-bush |
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| squawk | (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, gripe, kick |
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| (noun) the noise of squawking | - |
| (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler |
| (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, skreigh |
| squawker | (noun) the loudspeaker on an intercom or public address system | Synonyms: intercom speaker, squawk box |
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| (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, whiner |