| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |