| aliquant | (noun) an integer that is not an exact divisor of some quantity | Synonyms: aliquant part |
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| aquanaut | (noun) an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder | Synonyms: skin-diver |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research | Synonyms: oceanaut |
| clinquant | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: tinseled, tinselly |
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| continuance | (noun) the act of continuing an activity without interruption | Synonyms: continuation |
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| (noun) the property of enduring or continuing in time | Synonyms: duration |
| (noun) the period of time during which something continues | Synonyms: duration |
| continuant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: fricative, sibilant, spirant, strident |
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| (noun) consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract | Synonyms: continuant consonant |
| deoxyguanosine | (noun) a nucleoside component of DNA; composed of guanine and deoxyribose | Synonyms: guanosine |
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| discontinuance | (noun) the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | Synonyms: discontinuation |
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| ensuant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| equanimity | (noun) steadiness of mind under stress | Synonyms: calm, calmness, composure |
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| equanimous | (adjective) in full control of your faculties | Synonyms: collected, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed |
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| evacuant | (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: cathartic, purgative |
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| gargantuan | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: elephantine, giant, jumbo |
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| guan | (noun) any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food | - |
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| guanabana | (noun) large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples | Synonyms: soursop |
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| guanabenz | (noun) antihypertensive drug (trade name Wytensin) that reduces blood pressure by its effect on the central nervous system | Synonyms: Wytensin |
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| guanaco | (noun) wild llama | Synonyms: Lama guanicoe |
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| guanine | (noun) a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine | Synonyms: G |
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| guano | (noun) the excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer | - |
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| guanosine | (noun) a nucleoside component of DNA; composed of guanine and deoxyribose | Synonyms: deoxyguanosine |
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| iguana | (noun) large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America | Synonyms: common iguana, Iguana iguana |
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| iguanid | (noun) lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands; typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males | Synonyms: iguanid lizard |
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| iguanodon | (noun) massive herbivorous bipedal dinosaur with a long heavy tail; common in Europe and northern Africa; early Cretaceous period | - |
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| issuance | (noun) the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity) | Synonyms: issue, issuing |
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| mahuang | (noun) Chinese ephedra yielding ephedrine | Synonyms: Ephedra sinica |
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| marihuana | (noun) the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect | Synonyms: cannabis, ganja, marijuana |
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| (noun) a strong-smelling plant whose dried leaves can be smoked for a pleasant effect or pain reduction | Synonyms: Cannabis sativa, ganja, marijuana |
| marijuana | (noun) the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect | Synonyms: cannabis, ganja, marihuana |
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| (noun) a strong-smelling plant whose dried leaves can be smoked for a pleasant effect or pain reduction | Synonyms: Cannabis sativa, ganja, marihuana |
| nuance | (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, refinement, shade, subtlety |
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| 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 |
| pursuance | (noun) the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion | Synonyms: prosecution |
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| (noun) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | Synonyms: pursuit, quest |
| pursuant | (adjective) (followed by `to') in conformance to or agreement with | - |
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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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| quantifiability | (noun) the quality of being measurable | Synonyms: measurability |
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| quantifiable | (adjective) capable of being quantified | - |
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| quantification | (noun) the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something | - |
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| (noun) a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no') | - |
| quantifier | (noun) (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many') | - |
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| (noun) (logic) a word (such as `some' or `all' or `no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition | Synonyms: logical quantifier |
| quantify | (verb) express as a number or measure or quantity | Synonyms: measure |
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| (verb) use as a quantifier | - |
| quantisation | (noun) the act of dividing into quanta or expressing in terms of quantum theory | Synonyms: quantization |
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| quantise | (verb) apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor | Synonyms: quantize |
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| (verb) approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values | Synonyms: quantize |
| quantitative | (adjective) expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement | - |
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| (adjective) (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables | - |
| (adjective) relating to the measurement of quantity | - |
| quantitatively | (adverb) in a quantitative manner | - |
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| quantity | (noun) how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Synonyms: amount, measure |
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| (noun) an adequate or large amount | - |
| (noun) the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable | - |
| quantization | (noun) the act of dividing into quanta or expressing in terms of quantum theory | Synonyms: quantisation |
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| quantize | (verb) apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor | Synonyms: quantise |
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| (verb) approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values | Synonyms: quantise |
| quantized | (adjective) of or relating to a quantum or capable of existing in only one of two states | Synonyms: quantal |
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| quantong | (noun) red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam | Synonyms: native peach, quandang, quandong |
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| quantum | (noun) (physics) the smallest discrete quantity of some physical property that a system can possess (according to quantum theory) | - |
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| (noun) a discrete amount of something that is analogous to the quantities in quantum theory | - |
| 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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| taguan | (noun) East Indian flying squirrel | Synonyms: flying cat, flying marmot, Petaurista petaurista |
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| taichichuan | (noun) a Chinese system of slow meditative physical exercise designed for relaxation and balance and health | Synonyms: t'ai chi, t'ai chi chuan, tai chi, tai chi chuan, taichi |
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| thioguanine | (noun) an antineoplastic drug used to treat acute leukemias | - |
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| truancy | (noun) failure to attend (especially school) | Synonyms: hooky |
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| truant | (adjective) absent without permission | Synonyms: awol |
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| (noun) one who is absent from school without permission | Synonyms: hooky player |
| (noun) someone who shirks duty | Synonyms: no-show, nonattender |
| yuan | (noun) the basic unit of money in China | Synonyms: kwai |
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