| 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 |