| quarterdeck | (noun) the stern area of a ship's upper deck | - |
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| quarterfinal | (noun) one of the four competitions in an elimination tournament whose winners go on to play in the semifinals | - |
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| quartering | (noun) dividing into four equal parts | - |
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| (noun) living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel) | - |
| (noun) a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages | - |
| quarterlight | (noun) car window consisting of a small pivoted glass vent in the door of a car | - |
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| quarterly | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of a quarter | - |
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| (noun) a periodical that is published every quarter (or four issues per year) | - |
| (adverb) in three month intervals | Synonyms: every quarter |
| (adverb) in diagonally opposed quarters of an escutcheon | - |
| quartermaster | (noun) an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops | - |
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| quartern | (noun) one of four equal parts | Synonyms: fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quarter, twenty-five percent |
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| quarters | (noun) housing available for people to live in | Synonyms: living quarters |
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| quarterstaff | (noun) a long stout staff used as a weapon | - |
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| quartervine | (noun) woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section | Synonyms: Bignonia capreolata, cross vine, quarter-vine, trumpet flower |
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| quartet | (noun) a musical composition for four performers | Synonyms: quartette |
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| (noun) four people considered as a unit | Synonyms: foursome, quartette |
| (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruple, quadruplet, quartette |
| (noun) four performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: quartette |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
| quartette | (noun) a musical composition for four performers | Synonyms: quartet |
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| (noun) four people considered as a unit | Synonyms: foursome, quartet |
| (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruple, quadruplet, quartet |
| (noun) four performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: quartet |
| quartic | (noun) an algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadrate, biquadratic, fourth power |
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| quartile | (noun) (statistics) any of three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts each containing one quarter of the scores | - |
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| quarto | (noun) the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves | Synonyms: 4to |
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| quartz | (noun) a hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities | - |
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| (noun) colorless glass made of almost pure silica | Synonyms: crystal, lechatelierite, quartz glass, vitreous silica |
| quartzite | (noun) hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals | - |
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| quartzose | (adjective) relating to or made of quartz | - |
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| quasar | (noun) a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts | Synonyms: quasi-stellar radio source |
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| quash | (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, reduce, repress, subdue, subjugate |
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| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, void |
| quasi | (adjective) having some resemblance | - |
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| quasiparticle | (noun) a quantum of energy (in a crystal lattice or other system) that has position and momentum and can in some respects be regarded as a particle | - |
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| quassia | (noun) handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark | Synonyms: bitterwood, Quassia amara |
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| (noun) a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma | - |
| quat | (noun) the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant | Synonyms: African tea, Arabian tea, cat, kat, khat, qat |
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| quatercentenary | (noun) the 400th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: quatercentennial |
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| quatercentennial | (noun) the 400th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: quatercentenary |
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| quatern | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
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| quaternary | (adjective) consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four | Synonyms: quaternate |
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| (adjective) coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude | Synonyms: 4th, fourth |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
| quaternate | (adjective) consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four | Synonyms: quaternary |
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| quaternion | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternity, tetrad |
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| quaternity | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, tetrad |
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| quatrain | (noun) a stanza of four lines | - |
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| quattrocento | (noun) the 15th century in Italian art and literature | - |
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| quaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note | Synonyms: eighth note |
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| (noun) a tremulous sound | - |
| (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: trill, warble |
| (verb) give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency | Synonyms: waver |
| quavering | (adjective) (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear | Synonyms: tremulous |
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| quaveringly | (adverb) in an unsteady quavering manner | - |
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| quay | (noun) wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline | - |
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| quayage | (noun) a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay | Synonyms: wharfage |
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| queasily | (adverb) in a queasy manner | - |
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| queasiness | (noun) inability to rest or relax or be still | Synonyms: restlessness, uneasiness |
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| (noun) a mild state of nausea | Synonyms: qualm, squeamishness |
| queasy | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickish |
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| (adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: anxious, nervous, uneasy, unquiet |
| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, sickening, vile |
| 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 |
| quell | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quench, squelch |
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| (verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: appease, stay |
| quelled | (adjective) subdued or overcome | Synonyms: quenched, squelched |
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| quelling | (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, stifling, suppression |
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| quellung | (noun) the swelling of the capsule surrounding a microorganism after reaction with an antibody; the basis of certain tests for identifying microorganisms | Synonyms: quellung reaction |
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| quench | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quell, squelch |
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| (verb) cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid | - |
| (verb) reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance | - |
| (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, assuage, slake |
| (verb) suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device | - |
| (verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, extinguish, snuff out |
| quenched | (adjective) allayed | Synonyms: satisfied, slaked |
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| (adjective) subdued or overcome | Synonyms: quelled, squelched |
| quenching | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinction, extinguishing |
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| quenchless | (adjective) impossible to quench | Synonyms: unquenchable |
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| quercitron | (noun) medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad five-lobed leaves are bristle-tipped | Synonyms: black oak, quercitron oak, Quercus velutina, yellow oak |
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| (noun) a yellow dye made from the bark of the quercitron oak tree | - |
| querier | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, enquirer, inquirer, questioner |
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| quern | (noun) a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand | - |
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| querulous | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: fretful, whiney, whiny |
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| querulously | (adverb) in a peevish manner | Synonyms: fractiously, peevishly |
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| querulousness | (noun) the quality of being given to complaining | - |
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| query | (noun) an instance of questioning | Synonyms: enquiry, inquiry, interrogation, question |
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| (verb) pose a question | Synonyms: question |
| quesadilla | (noun) a tortilla that is filled with cheese and heated | - |
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| quest | (noun) the act of searching for something | Synonyms: seeking |
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| (noun) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | Synonyms: pursuance, pursuit |
| (verb) seek alms, as for religious purposes | - |
| (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, bespeak, call for, request |
| (verb) bark with prolonged noises, of dogs | Synonyms: bay |
| (verb) search the trail of (game) | - |
| (verb) make a search (for) | - |
| quester | (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: searcher, seeker |
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| question | (noun) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness |
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| (noun) an instance of questioning | Synonyms: enquiry, inquiry, interrogation, query |
| (noun) the subject matter at issue | Synonyms: head |
| (noun) a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote | Synonyms: motion |
| (noun) a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply | Synonyms: interrogation, interrogative, interrogative sentence |
| (noun) an informal reference to a marriage proposal | - |
| (verb) pose a question | Synonyms: query |
| (verb) challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of | Synonyms: call into question, oppugn |
| (verb) place in doubt or express doubtful speculation | Synonyms: wonder |
| (verb) pose a series of questions to | Synonyms: interrogate |
| (verb) conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting | Synonyms: interview |
| questionable | (adjective) subject to question | - |
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| (adjective) able to be refuted | Synonyms: confutable, confutative, refutable |
| questionably | (adverb) in a questionable and dubious manner | Synonyms: dubiously |
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| questioner | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier |
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| questioning | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitive, speculative, wondering |
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| (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: doubting, sceptical, skeptical |
| (adjective) perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know) | Synonyms: quizzical |
| (noun) a request for information | Synonyms: inquiring |
| questioningly | (adverb) in a curious and questioning manner | Synonyms: wonderingly |
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| (adverb) in a quizzical and questioning manner | Synonyms: quizzically |
| questionnaire | (noun) a form containing a set of questions; submitted to people to gain statistical information | - |
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| quetch | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, plain, sound off |
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| quetzal | (noun) large trogon of Central America and South America having golden-green and scarlet plumage | Synonyms: quetzal bird |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Guatemala; equal to 100 centavos | - |
| queue | (noun) a braid of hair at the back of the head | - |
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| (noun) (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted | - |
| (noun) a line of people or vehicles waiting for something | Synonyms: waiting line |
| (verb) form a queue, form a line, stand in line | Synonyms: line up, queue up |
| quiaquia | (noun) small fusiform fish of western Atlantic | Synonyms: cigarfish, Decapterus punctatus, round scad |
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| quibble | (noun) an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections | Synonyms: cavil, quiddity |
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| (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, niggle, pettifog, squabble |
| (verb) evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections | - |
| quibbler | (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviler, caviller, pettifogger |
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| quiche | (noun) a tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables) | - |
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| quick | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: agile, nimble, spry |
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| (adjective) easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: warm |
| (adjective) accomplished rapidly and without delay | Synonyms: speedy |
| (adjective) hurried and brief | Synonyms: fast, flying |
| (adjective) apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity | Synonyms: ready |
| (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, prompt, straightaway |
| (noun) any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail) | - |
| (adverb) with little or no delay | Synonyms: promptly, quickly |
| quicken | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) show signs of life | - |
| (verb) give life or energy to | Synonyms: invigorate |
| (verb) move faster | Synonyms: accelerate, speed, speed up |
| (verb) make keen or more acute | Synonyms: whet |
| quickener | (noun) an agent that gives or restores life or vigor | Synonyms: enlivener, invigorator |
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| quickening | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: acceleration, speedup |
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| (noun) the process of showing signs of life | - |
| (noun) the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus | - |
| quicker | (adverb) more quickly | Synonyms: faster |
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| quickest | (adverb) most quickly | Synonyms: fastest |
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| quickie | (noun) hurried repair | Synonyms: band aid, quick fix, quicky |
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| quicklime | (noun) a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide | Synonyms: burnt lime, calcined lime, calcium oxide, calx, fluxing lime, lime, unslaked lime |
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| quickly | (adverb) with speed | Synonyms: apace, chop-chop, in short order, rapidly, speedily |
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| (adverb) with little or no delay | Synonyms: promptly, quick |
| (adverb) without taking pains | Synonyms: cursorily |
| quickness | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: celerity, rapidity, rapidness, speediness |
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| (noun) intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay | Synonyms: mental quickness, quick-wittedness |
| (noun) skillful performance or ability without difficulty | Synonyms: adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility |
| quicksand | (noun) a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down | - |
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| (noun) a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy | - |
| quickset | (adjective) grown from cuttings planted directly in the ground | - |
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| (noun) cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines | - |
| quicksilver | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, fickle, mercurial |
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| (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, mercury |
| quickstep | (noun) a ballroom dance with both quick and slow steps | - |
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| (noun) military march accompanying quick time | - |
| (verb) perform a quickstep | - |
| quicky | (noun) hurried repair | Synonyms: band aid, quick fix, quickie |
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| quid | (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chaw, chew, cud, plug, wad |
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| (noun) something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises | Synonyms: quid pro quo |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence | Synonyms: British pound, British pound sterling, pound, pound sterling |
| quiddity | (noun) the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other | Synonyms: haecceity |
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| (noun) an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections | Synonyms: cavil, quibble |
| quidnunc | (noun) a person who meddles in the affairs of others | Synonyms: busybody, nosey-parker, nosy-parker |
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| quiesce | (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiet, quiet down, quieten |
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| quiescence | (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescency, sleeping |
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| (noun) a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescency |