| aliquant | (noun) an integer that is not an exact divisor of some quantity | Synonyms: aliquant part |
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| clinquant | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: tinseled, tinselly |
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| 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 |
| ensuant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| evacuant | (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: cathartic, purgative |
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| 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 |
| pursuant | (adjective) (followed by `to') in conformance to or agreement with | - |
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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 | - |
| 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 |