| 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 |
| quiescency | (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescence, sleeping |
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| (noun) a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescence |
| quiescent | (adjective) being quiet or still or inactive | - |
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| (adjective) (pathology) causing no symptoms | - |
| (adjective) not active or activated | - |
| (adjective) marked by a state of tranquil repose | - |
| quiet | (adjective) free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity | - |
| (adjective) (of the sun) characterized by a low level of surface phenomena, such as sunspots | - |
| (adjective) (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves | Synonyms: placid, smooth, still, tranquil, unruffled |
| (adjective) in a softened tone | Synonyms: hushed, muted, subdued |
| (adjective) not showy or obtrusive | Synonyms: restrained |
| (noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: placidity, repose, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity |
| (noun) the absence of sound | Synonyms: silence |
| (noun) a period of calm weather | Synonyms: lull |
| (noun) an untroubled state; free from disturbances | Synonyms: tranquility, tranquillity |
| (adverb) with little or no activity or no agitation (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly') | Synonyms: quietly |
| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiesce, quiet down, quieten |
| quieten | (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, shut up, silence, still |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down |
| quietism | (noun) a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God | - |
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| quietist | (noun) a religious mystic who follows quietism | - |
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| quietly | (adverb) with low volume | Synonyms: softly |
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| (adverb) with little or no sound | - |
| (adverb) with little or no activity or no agitation (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly') | Synonyms: quiet |
| (adverb) in a restful manner | Synonyms: restfully |
| quietness | (noun) the property of making no sound | Synonyms: soundlessness |
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| (noun) a state of peace and quiet | Synonyms: quietude, tranquility, tranquillity |
| quietude | (noun) a state of peace and quiet | Synonyms: quietness, tranquility, tranquillity |
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| quietus | (noun) euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) | Synonyms: eternal rest, eternal sleep, rest, sleep |
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| quiff | (noun) a prominent forelock (especially one brushed upward from the forehead) | - |
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| quill | (noun) a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog | - |
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| (noun) the hollow spine of a feather | Synonyms: calamus, shaft |
| (noun) any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird | Synonyms: flight feather, pinion, quill feather |
| (noun) pen made from a bird's feather | Synonyms: quill pen |
| quillwort | (noun) any of several spore-bearing aquatic or marsh plants having short rhizomes and leaves resembling quills; worldwide except Polynesia | - |
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| quilt | (noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comfort, comforter, puff |
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| (verb) create by stitching together | - |
| (verb) stitch or sew together | - |
| quilted | (adjective) made of layers of fabric held together by patterned stitching | - |
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| quilting | (noun) a material used for making a quilt, or a quilted fabric | - |
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| (noun) stitching through layers of fabric and a filling so as to create a design | - |
| quin | (noun) one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quint, quintuplet |
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| quinacrine | (noun) a drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria | Synonyms: Atabrine, mepacrine, quinacrine hydrochloride |
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| quince | (noun) aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves | - |
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| (noun) small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated | Synonyms: Cydonia oblonga, quince bush |
| quincentenary | (adjective) of or relating to a 500th anniversary | Synonyms: quincentennial |
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| (noun) the 500th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: quincentennial |
| quincentennial | (adjective) of or relating to a 500th anniversary | Synonyms: quincentenary |
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| (noun) the 500th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: quincentenary |
| quinidine | (noun) cardiac drug (trade names Quinidex and Quinora) used to treat certain heart arrhythmias | Synonyms: Quinidex, Quinora |
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| quinine | (noun) a bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy | - |
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| quinone | (noun) any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes | Synonyms: benzoquinone |
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| quinquefoliate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having five leaflets | - |
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| quinquennium | (noun) a period of five years | - |
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| quinsy | (noun) a painful pus filled inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues; usually a complication of tonsillitis | Synonyms: peritonsillar abscess |
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| quint | (noun) one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quin, quintuplet |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quintet, quintuplet, V |
| quintal | (noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, centner, cwt, hundredweight, short hundredweight |
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| (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms | - |
| quintessence | (noun) the purest and most concentrated essence of something | - |
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| (noun) the most typical example or representative of a type | - |
| (noun) the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies | Synonyms: ether |
| quintessential | (adjective) representing the perfect example of a class or quality | - |
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| quintet | (noun) a musical composition for five performers | Synonyms: quintette |
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| (noun) five people considered as a unit | Synonyms: fivesome, quintette |
| (noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintette, quintuple, quintuplet |
| (noun) five performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: quintette |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintuplet, V |
| quintette | (noun) a musical composition for five performers | Synonyms: quintet |
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| (noun) five people considered as a unit | Synonyms: fivesome, quintet |
| (noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintuple, quintuplet |
| (noun) five performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: quintet |
| quintillion | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros in the US | - |
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| quintillionth | (adjective) the ordinal number of one quintillion in counting order | - |
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| (noun) one part in a quintillion equal parts | Synonyms: one-quintillionth |
| quintipara | (noun) (obstetrics) woman who has given birth to a viable infant in each of five pregnancies | - |
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| quintuple | (adjective) having five units or components | Synonyms: five-fold, fivefold |
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| (noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette, quintuplet |
| (verb) increase fivefold | - |
| quintuplet | (noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette, quintuple |
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| (noun) one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quin, quint |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, V |
| quintupling | (noun) increasing by a factor of five | - |
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| quip | (noun) witty remark | Synonyms: crack, sally, wisecrack |
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| (noun) a witty saying | Synonyms: epigram |
| (verb) make jokes or quips | Synonyms: gag |
| quipu | (noun) calculator consisting of a cord with attached cords; used by ancient Peruvians for calculating and keeping records | - |
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| quira | (noun) any of several tropical American trees some yielding economically important timber | - |
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| (noun) hard heavy red wood of a quira tree | Synonyms: Panama redwood |
| quire | (noun) a quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets | - |
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| quirk | (noun) a narrow groove beside a beading | - |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, queerness, quirkiness |
| (verb) twist or curve abruptly | - |
| quirkiness | (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, queerness, quirk |
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| quirky | (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, kinky, offbeat, way-out |
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| quirt | (noun) whip with a leather thong at the end | - |
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| quisling | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborationist, collaborator |
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| quislingism | (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaboration, collaborationism |
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| quit | (verb) give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat | Synonyms: chuck up the sponge, drop by the wayside, drop out, fall by the wayside, give up, throw in, throw in the towel |
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| (verb) go away or leave | Synonyms: depart, take leave |
| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, relinquish, renounce |
| (verb) give up or retire from a position | Synonyms: leave office, resign, step down |
| (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, stop |
| quitclaim | (noun) act of transferring a title or right or claim to another | - |
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| (noun) document transferring title or right or claim to another | Synonyms: quitclaim deed |
| quite | (adverb) to the greatest extent; completely | - |
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| (adverb) to a degree (not used with a negative) | Synonyms: rather |
| (adverb) of an unusually noticeable or exceptional or remarkable kind (not used with a negative) | Synonyms: quite a, quite an |
| (adverb) actually or truly or to an extreme | - |
| quits | (adjective) on equal terms by payment or requital | - |
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| quittance | (noun) payment of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: repayment |
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| (noun) a document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt | - |
| quitter | (noun) a person who gives up too easily | - |
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| quiver | (noun) the act of vibrating | Synonyms: quivering, vibration |
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| (noun) case for holding arrows | - |
| (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quivering, shakiness, shaking, trembling, vibration |
| (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: palpitate, quake |
| (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: beat, pulsate |
| (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, flutter, waver |
| quivering | (noun) the act of vibrating | Synonyms: quiver, vibration |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, shakiness, shaking, trembling, vibration |
| quixotic | (adjective) not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic | Synonyms: romantic, wild-eyed |
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| quixotically | (adverb) in a quixotic manner | - |
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| quixotism | (noun) quixotic (romantic and impractical) behavior | Synonyms: knight errantry |
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| quiz | (noun) an examination consisting of a few short questions | - |
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| (verb) examine someone's knowledge of something | Synonyms: test |
| quizmaster | (noun) the host or chairman of a radio or tv quiz show or panel game | Synonyms: question master |
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| quizzer | (noun) someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications | Synonyms: examiner, tester |
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| quizzical | (adjective) perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know) | Synonyms: questioning |
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| (adjective) playfully vexing (especially by ridicule) | Synonyms: mocking, teasing |
| quizzically | (adverb) in a quizzical and questioning manner | Synonyms: questioningly |
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