| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| quibble | noun | A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil., A pun; a low conceit., To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate., To pun; to practice punning. |
| quicken | adjective | To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite., To make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken one’s steps or thoughts; to quicken one’s departure or speed., To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced., To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb., To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened. |
| quickly | adverb | Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick. |
| quiddit | noun | A subtilty; an equivocation. |
| quiddle | verb i. | To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle., Alt. of Quiddler |
| quiesce | adjective & noun | To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound. |
| quieted | imp. & past participle | of Quiet |
| quieter | noun | One who, or that which, quiets. |
| quietly | adverb | In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly., Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly., Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion; patiently; as, to submit quietly to unavoidable evils., Noiselessly; silently; without remark or violent movement; in a manner to attract little or no observation; as, he quietly left the room. |
| quietus | adjective | Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death. |
| quilled | imp. & past participle | of Quill, Furnished with quills; also, shaped like quills. |
| quillet | noun | Subtilty; nicety; quibble. |
| quilted | imp. & past participle | of Quilt |
| quilter | noun | One who, or that which, quilts. |
| quinary | adjective | Consisting of five; arranged by fives. |
| quiname | adjective | Growing in sets of five; — said especially of leaves composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole. |
| quinate | noun | A salt of quinic acid. |
| quindem | noun | A fifteenth part. |
| quinine | noun | An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc. |
| quinism | noun | See Cinchonism. |
| quinnat | noun | The California salmon (Oncorhynchus choicha); — called also chouicha, king salmon, chinnook salmon, and Sacramento salmon. It is of great commercial importance. |
| quinone | noun | A crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type. |
| quinoyl | noun | A radical of which quinone is the hydride, analogous to phenyl. |
| quintal | noun | A hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds, according to the scale used. Cf. Cental., A metric measure of weight, being 100,000 grams, or 100 kilograms, equal to 220.46 pounds avoirdupois. |
| quintan | adjective | Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever., An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days. |
| quintel | noun | See Quintain. |
| quintet | noun | Alt. of Quintette |
| quintic | adjective | Of the fifth degree or order., A quantic of the fifth degree. See Quantic. |
| quintin | noun | See Quintain. |
| quipped | imp. & past participle | of Quip |
| quirite | noun | One of the Quirites. |
| quirked | adjective | Having, or formed with, a quirk or quirks. |
| quitted | of Quit | |
| quittal | noun | Return; requital; quittance. |
| quitter | noun | One who quits., A deliverer. |
| quittor | noun | A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse’s foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone. |
| quizzed | imp. & past participle | of Quiz |
| quizzer | noun | One who quizzes; a quiz. |