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Word
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Definition
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| qanat
| underground tunnel for carrying irrigation water
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| qasida
| Arabic or Persian elegiac poem
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| qat
| leaves chewed or brewed in tea as a stimulant
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| qigong
| system of Chinese meditational exercises
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| qintar
| Albanian unit of currency
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| qiviut
| wool of the undercoat of a musk-ox
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| qoph
| a Hebrew letter
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| qua
| in the capacity of
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| quab
| to throb; to quiver
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| quab
| something unfinished or immature; unfledged bird
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| quackle
| to choke; to suffocate
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| quacksalver
| one who falsely pretends to knowledge of medicine
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| quad
| unit of energy equal to one quadrillion British thermal units
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| quadra
| square frame; plinth
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| quadrable
| capable of being expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms
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| quadragenarian
| a person between 40 and 49 years of age
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| quadragesimal
| of, like or pertaining to Lent; lasting forty days
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| quadragesimarian
| one who observes Lent
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| quadragintesimal
| forty-fold; having forty parts
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| quadral
| in four parts
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| quadraphonic
| produced by a sound system that employs four signal sources
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| quadrat
| small square block used as a space in printing
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| quadrate
| to make square; to make to agree
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| quadratrix
| a curve by which a circle may be squared
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| quadratura
| wall or ceiling painted with arches and columns in strong perspective
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| quadrel
| square block of brick
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| quadrennial
| lasting four years; occurring once every four years
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| quadrennium
| period of four years
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| quadrifid
| split into four
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| quadrifoliate
| having four leaves
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| quadriga
| two-wheeled carriage drawn by four horses
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| quadrigeminal
| in four similar or equal parts
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| quadrigenarious
| comprising four hundred
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| quadrille
| square dance for four couples; card game for four people
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| quadrilocular
| having four compartments
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| quadrimium
| four-year-old wine; best or oldest wine
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| quadripole
| device having one pair of output terminals and one pair of input terminals
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| quadrireme
| ancient ship with four sets of oars
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| quadrivial
| leading in four directions; concerning a four-way junction
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| quadrivium
| four branches of mathematics in medieval education
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| quadrivoltine
| having four litters in a single year
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| quadroon
| old term for a person of one-quarter black ancestry
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| quadrumanous
| of the primates other than man
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| quadrupedation
| stamping with four feet
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| quaedam
| disparaging term for a woman
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| quaere
| to introduce a question or issue
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| quaeritur
| the question is asked
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| quaesitum
| something sought for; the true value
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| quaestionary
| religious pardoner
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| quaestor
| ancient magistrate; a medieval pardoner
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| quaestuary
| money-making; money-seeking; in business only for profit
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| quagga
| extinct African wild ass like the zebra
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| quagma
| hypothetical matter made up of quarks and gluons
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| quagswag
| to shake to and fro
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| quahog
| type of edible clam
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| quain
| angle; wedge-like corner
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| quale
| quality or property of something; abstract virtue or quality
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| qualificator
| one who prepares ecclesiastical cases for trial
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| qualimeter
| apparatus for measuring penetrating power of X-ray beams
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| qually
| of wine, cloudy or turbid
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| qualtagh
| first person encountered after leaving home on a special day
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| quamoclit
| tropical climbing plant with brilliant flowers
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| quango
| a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization
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| quangocracy
| rule of quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations
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| quannet
| flat file used like a plane
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| quant
| punting or jumping pole with a flat end
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| quantile
| any of a set of equal fractions of a given population
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| quantimeter
| apparatus for measuring quantity of X-rays
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| quantivalence
| chemical valence; ability of atoms to hold other atoms in combination
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| quantometer
| instrument for measuring proportions of elements in metallic samples
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| quantophrenia
| obsessive reliance on statistics and mathematical results
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| quantulate
| to calculate the magnitude of
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| quantulum
| small quantity
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| quantuplicity
| relative magnitude of a quantity
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| quaquadrate
| a sixteenth power
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| quaquaversal
| facing or bending all ways
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| quarender
| dark red apple
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| quaresimal
| Lenten; having the meagreness of Lenten meals
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| quarion
| candle
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| quark
| soft cheese made from skim milk
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| quarkonium
| meson formed of a quark and an anti-quark
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| quarl
| large curved brick or tile used to support melting pot
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| quarred
| soured; clotted
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| quarrelet
| small square
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| quarrenden
| variety of apple
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| quarrion
| Australian parrot like the cockatiel
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| quartan
| a fever recurring every third day
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| quartation
| mixing one part gold with three parts silver prior to purifying it
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| quarter
| unit of weight equal to 28 pounds
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| quarterdeck
| part of ship's deck set aside by captain for ceremonial functions
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| quartering
| sailing nearly before the wind
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| quarterland
| ancient land division on the Isle of Man
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| quarterlight
| small triangular ventilation window in a car
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| quartern
| one quarter of various measures
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| quartic
| a curve or equation of the fourth degree
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| quartinvariant
| an invariant of the fourth degree
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| quartodeciman
| early Christian who celebrated Easter on Passover even if not a Sunday
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| quartziferous
| bearing quartz
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| quasi
| as if; seemingly; in a manner
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| quasquicentennial
| one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary
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| quassation
| act of shaking or being shaken
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| quassia
| tropical tree whose bark is used to make a bitter medicinal product
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| quat
| a pimple; an insignificant person
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| quatch
| a word; a sound
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| quatenus
| in the capacity of; in so far as
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| quatern
| arranged in fours
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| quaternion
| any set of four things; quotient of two vectors expressed quadrinomially
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| quaternitarian
| one who believes that God consists of four parts
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| quaternity
| fourness; any group of four things
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| quatint
| engraving using nitric acid
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| quatorzain
| piece of verse having fourteen lines; a sonnet
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| quatrain
| stanza of four lines of verse
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| quatrayle
| great-great-great grandfather
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| quatrefoil
| four-petalled flower; design or ornament with four flowers or leaves
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| quatridual
| lasting for four days
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| quattrocentism
| style of art of the fifteenth century in Italy
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| quattrocento
| the fifteenth century; Italian art and architecture of that period
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| quatuorvirate
| a body of four men
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| quaviver
| fish otherwise known as the sea-dragon or dragonet
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| quawk
| black-crowned night heron
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| queach
| a thicket
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| quean
| lewd woman; hussy; woman of bad character
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| queem
| protected from the wind
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| queenite
| a queen's partisan
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| queenright
| of a colony of social insects, having a queen
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| quelch
| to squelch
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| quelea
| an African weaver-bird
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| quellio
| a Spanish ruff
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| quena
| vertical bamboo flute used in the Andes
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| quenelle
| poached meat dumpling
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| quenouille
| concerning the training of trees into cone-like shape
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| quercetum
| plantation of oak trees
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| quercine
| of, like or pertaining to oak trees
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| quercitron
| yellowish pigment derived from bark of a variety of oak
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| querencia
| part of a bullfighting arena where the bull makes his stand
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| querent
| one who asks a question
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| querical
| of the nature of queries
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| querimonious
| full of complaints
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| querimony
| complaint
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| querist
| inquirer
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| querken
| to stifle; to suffocate
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| querl
| to twist; to curl
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| quern
| stone mill worked by hand
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| querquedule
| pin-tail duck; a teal
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| quersprung
| in skiing, a jump-turn at right angles
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| querulist
| one who complains
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| querulous
| complaining; peevish
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| quesited
| sought for; asked about
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| questmonger
| one whose occupation is to conduct inquests
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| quetsch
| dark-skinned oval plum; liqueur made from such plums
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| quetzal
| gold and green bird with long tail feathers
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| quevée
| in heraldry, having a tail
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| queyock
| heifer
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| quich
| to stir; to move
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| quicken
| mountain ash tree
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| quickhatch
| wolverine
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| quicklime
| calcium oxide
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| quickset
| formed of living plants arranged in place
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| quicksilver
| old name for mercury
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| quickstep
| fast march-like dance
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| quicquidlibet
| whatever one pleases; anything whatsoever
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| quid
| a cut or wad or something chewable
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| quidam
| a certain person; somebody
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| quiddany
| jelly or thick syrup made from sweetened quince juice
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| quidditative
| quirky; eccentric
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| quiddity
| unique essence; eccentricity
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| quiddle
| a fastidious person
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| quidnunc
| busybody; one keenly interested in gossip
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| quidsworth
| able to be bought for one pound
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| quietation
| the action of quieting a person or persons
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| quietism
| doctrine of enlightenment through mental tranquility
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| quietus
| discharge from life; extinction; death; silencing
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| quiff
| puff or gust of wind
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| quiff
| tuft of hair brushed away from the forehead; oiled lock of hair
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| quillaia
| South American tree whose bark is used to make soap
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| quillet
| subtle point in argument; a quibble
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| quilling
| strip or ribbon gathered into flutings
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| quillon
| arm of the cross-guard of a sword handle
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| quinary
| based on the number five
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| quince
| orange-coloured, pear-shaped fruit
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| quincunx
| five things with four at corners and one in middle
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| quincurion
| leader of five men
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| quindecagon
| plane figure having fifteen sides
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| quindecasyllabic
| having fifteen syllables
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| quingentenary
| five-hundredth anniversary
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| quiniferous
| yielding quinine
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| quinimetry
| measurement of amount of quinine in bark
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| quinism
| pathological state resulting from excessive use of quinine
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| quinnat
| the king salmon
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| quinnet
| wedge
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| quinology
| study of quinine
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| quinquagenarian
| person between the ages of 50 and 59
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| quinquagesimal
| belonging to a set of fifty
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| quinquefarious
| arranged in five rows
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| quinquennium
| period of five years
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| quinquiplicate
| to multiply by five
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| quinsy
| old disease like tonsilitis
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| quintain
| post for tilting with turning cross-piece
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| quintal
| unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms
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| quinternion
| set of five sheets of paper
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| quintessence
| the most essential part or embodiment of something
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| quintic
| of the fifth order or degree
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| quinton
| five-stringed tenor viol
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| quintroon
| old term for someone who is of 1/16 black descent
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| quipu
| knotted cords used as Inca mnemonic device
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| quire
| unit of 24 sheets of paper
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| quire
| twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality
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| quirister
| a chorister
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| quiritary
| in accordance with Roman civil law
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| quiritian
| a Roman citizen
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| quirt
| short-handled riding whip
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| quisby
| an idler; suspicious or odd
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| quisling
| one who aids the enemy; a puppet leader supported by foreign power
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| quisquilious
| made of rubbish
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| quitch
| a kind of wild grass
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| quitclaim
| deed relinquishing a claim, such as a mining title
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| quiteron
| superconducting device similar to a transistor
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| quitrent
| small nominal rent paid to commute feudal service
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| quittance
| release from a debt or obligation; a document expressing such a release
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| quitter
| pus; suppurating discharge
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| quixotic
| extravagantly and romantically chivalrous; idealistic
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| quoad
| with respect to; as regards
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| quod
| prison
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| quoddamodotative
| existing in a certain manner
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| quodlibet
| philosophical argument of disputation; humorous medley
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| quodlibetificate
| to quibble with
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| quoin
| a wedge; salient angle of a building; cornerstone
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| quoit
| heavy flat ring thrown over pin in a game like horseshoes
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| quokka
| short-tailed wallaby
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| quoll
| native cat-like marsupial of Australia
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| quomodocunquize
| to make money in any way possible
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| quondam
| former; sometime; formerly
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| quorate
| having or being a quorum
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| quotatious
| tending to quote; given to quoting
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| quotennial
| yearly
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| quotha
| expression of surprise or contempt
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| quotidian
| everyday; commonplace
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| quotiety
| number; numerical relationship
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| quotition
| a division regarded as a repeated subtraction
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| quotum
| a number considered in its proportion to a larger number
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| quotuple
| what multiple
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| quoz
| absurd person or thing
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