| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| quibbled | imp. & past participle | of Quibble |
| quibbler | noun | One who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster. |
| quickens | noun | Quitch grass. |
| quickset | noun | A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn., Made of quickset., To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge; as, to quickset a ditch. |
| quiddany | noun | A confection of quinces, in consistency between a sirup and marmalade. |
| quiddity | noun | The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it?, A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble. |
| quiddled | imp. & past participle | of Quiddle |
| quiddler | noun | One who wastes his energy about trifles. |
| quidnunc | noun | One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on. |
| quiesced | imp. & past participle | of Quiesce |
| quieting | present participle & vb. noun | of Quiet |
| quietage | noun | Quietness. |
| quietism | noun | Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction., The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes. |
| quietist | noun | One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism. |
| quietude | noun | Rest; repose; quiet; tranquillity. |
| quilling | present participle & vb. noun | of Quill, A band of linen, muslin, or the like, fluted, folded, or plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills., One of the rounded plaits or flutings of such a band. |
| quilting | present participle & vb. noun | of Quilt, The act of stitching or running in patterns, as in making a quilt., A quilting bee. See Bee, 2., The material used for making quilts., A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel. |
| quinazol | noun | A complex nitrogenous base related to cinnoline. |
| quincunx | noun | An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle; especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as to form a regular group with rows running in various directions., The position of planets when distant from each other five signs, or 150¡., A quincuncial arrangement, as of the parts of a flower in aestivation. See Quincuncial, 2. |
| quindism | noun | A fifteenth. |
| quinible | noun | An interval of a fifth; also, a part sung with such intervals. |
| quininic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid obtained as a yellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine. |
| quinogen | noun | A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids. |
| quinovic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline acid obtained from some varieties of cinchona bark. |
| quinovin | noun | An amorphous bitter glucoside derived from cinchona and other barks. Called also quinova bitter, and quinova. |
| quinoxyl | noun | The hypothetical radical of certain quinone derivatives related to rhodizonic acid. |
| quinque- | A combining form meaning five, five times, fivefold; as, quinquefid, five-cleft; quinquedentate, five-toothed. | |
| quintain | noun | An object to be tilted at; — called also quintel. |
| quintile | noun | The aspect of planets when separated the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72¡. |
| quintine | noun | The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. Quartine, and Tercine. |
| quintole | noun | A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of four of the same species. |
| quipping | present participle & vb. noun | of Quip |
| quirites | noun pl. | Roman citizens. |
| quirkish | adjective | Consisting of quirks; resembling a quirk. |
| quirpele | noun | The Indian ferret. |
| quitting | present participle & vb. noun | of Quit |
| quitrent | noun | A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service. |
| quitture | noun | A discharge; an issue. |
| quivered | imp. & past participle | of Quiver, Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver., Sheathed, as in a quiver. |
| qui vive | The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; — used like the English challenge: “Who comes there?” | |
| quixotic | adjective | Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded. |
| quixotry | noun | Quixotism; visionary schemes. |
| quizzing | present participle & vb. noun | of Quiz |
| quizzism | noun | The act or habit of quizzing. |