3 Letter 15 Letter Countdown Words Containing Q

QAT (12) [noun] A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant. QUA (12) [preposition] As; in the capacity of SUQ (12) [noun] A street market, particularly in Arabic- and Somali-speaking countries; a place where people buy and sell goods.

AQUA (13) [noun] The compound water. | [noun] A shade of colour, usually a mix of blue and green similar to the colour turquoise. | [adjective] Of a greenish-blue colour. QAID (14) QATS (13) [noun] A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant. QOPH (18) QUAD (14) [noun] Four shots of espresso. | [noun] A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once. | [noun] The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume. | [noun] A quadrangle (courtyard). | [noun] A quad bike (from quadricycle) | [noun] A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type. QUAG (14) [noun] Quagmire; marsh; bog. QUAI (13) QUAY (16) [noun] A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf. | [verb] To land or tie up at a quay or similar structure, especially used in the phrase "quay up". QUEY (16) QUID (14) [noun] The inherent nature of something. | [noun] A section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811 (from tertium quid). | [noun] A sovereign or guinea. | [noun] A piece of chewing tobacco. QUIN (13) [noun] A quintuplet. | [noun] A European scallop, Pecten opercularis, used as food. QUIP (15) [noun] A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe. | [verb] To make a quip. | [verb] To taunt; to treat with quips. QUIT (13) [verb] To pay (a debt, fine etc.). | [verb] To repay (someone) for (something). | [verb] To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.). | [noun] Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America. QUIZ (22) [noun] An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing. | [noun] A competition in the answering of questions. | [noun] A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course. QUOD (14) [noun] A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; a prison. | [noun] Confinement in a prison. SUQS (13) [noun] A street market, particularly in Arabic- and Somali-speaking countries; a place where people buy and sell goods.

AQUAE (14) [noun] Plural of aqua, meaning waters or bodies of water, used in Latin phrases and scientific nomenclature. AQUAS (14) [noun] Plural of aqua, referring to water or water-based solutions. | [noun] Plural of aqua, a light bluish-green color. EQUAL (14) [noun] A person or thing of equal status to others. | [noun] State of being equal; equality. | [verb] To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to. EQUID (15) [noun] Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.) EQUIP (16) [verb] To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging) | [verb] To dress up; to array; to clothe. | [verb] To prepare (someone) with a skill. FAQIR (17) [noun] A religious mendicant who owns no personal property. FIQUE (17) MAQUI (16) PIQUE (16) [noun] A feeling of enmity; ill-feeling, animosity; a transient feeling of wounded pride. | [noun] A feeling of irritation or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little thought or consideration. | [noun] Keenly felt desire; a longing. | [noun] In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one. | [noun] A chigger or jigger, Tunga penetrans. | [noun] A durable ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk. QAIDS (15) QANAT (14) [noun] An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley QOPHS (19) QUACK (20) [noun] The sound made by a duck. | [verb] To make a noise like a duck. | [noun] A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional; especially, a doctor of medicine who makes false diagnoses or inappropriate treatment; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine. QUADS (15) [noun] Four shots of espresso. | [noun] A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once. | [noun] The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume. QUAFF (20) [noun] The act of quaffing; a deep draught. | [verb] To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts. QUAGS (15) [noun] Quagmire; marsh; bog. QUAIL (14) [verb] To waste away; to fade, to wither | [verb] To daunt or frighten (someone) | [verb] To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful. | [noun] Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae. | [verb] To curdle or coagulate, as milk does. QUAIS (14) QUAKE (18) [noun] A trembling or shaking. | [noun] An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force. | [verb] To tremble or shake. QUAKY (21) QUALE (14) [noun] An instance of subjective, conscious experience. QUALM (16) [noun] A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc. | [noun] A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness. | [noun] A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now often in negative constructions.) QUANT (14) [noun] A quantitative analyst. | [noun] Short for quantity. | [noun] Short for quantifier. | [noun] A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole. QUARE (14) [adjective] Queer, strange (suggesting an Irish accent) | [adjective] (used to suggest emphasis such as "a lot of" or "very" (suggesting an Irish accent).) QUARK (18) [noun] In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle that forms matter. They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons. | [noun] (X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string. | [noun] A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, and eastern Europe, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet. | [noun] (Falkland Islands) The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax. QUART (14) [noun] A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S. | [noun] Four successive cards of the same suit. | [noun] A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth. QUASH (17) [verb] To defeat decisively. | [verb] To crush or dash to pieces. | [verb] To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.). QUASI (14) [adjective] Resembling or having a likeness to something QUASS (14) QUATE (14) QUAYS (17) [noun] A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf. QUEAN (14) [noun] A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute. | [noun] A young woman, a girl; a daughter. QUEEN (14) [noun] A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria. | [noun] The wife or widow of a king. | [noun] The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. QUEER (14) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity. QUELL (14) [noun] A subduing. | [verb] To subdue, to put down; to silence or force (someone) to submit. | [verb] To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish. | [noun] A source, especially a spring. QUERN (14) [noun] A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones. | [verb] To grind; to use a quern. QUERY (17) [noun] A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK). | [noun] A question mark. | [noun] A set of instructions passed to a database. QUEST (14) [noun] A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission. | [noun] The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit. | [noun] Request; desire; solicitation. QUEUE (14) [noun] An animal's tail. | [noun] A men's hairstyle whose primary attribute is a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China. | [noun] A line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back). QUEYS (17) QUICK (20) [noun] Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails. | [noun] Plants used in making a quickset hedge | [noun] The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling. QUIDS (15) [noun] The inherent nature of something. | [noun] A section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811 (from tertium quid). | [noun] A sovereign or guinea. QUIET (14) [noun] The absence of sound; quietness. | [noun] The absence of movement; stillness, tranquility | [verb] To become quiet, silent, still, tranquil, calm. QUIFF (20) [noun] (British dialect) A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke. | [noun] A trick or ploy; a stratagem. | [noun] A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s. | [noun] A young girl, especially as promiscuous; a prostitute. QUILL (14) [noun] The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs. | [noun] A pen made from a feather. | [noun] Any pen. QUILT (14) [noun] A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design. | [noun] A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing. | [noun] A quilted skirt worn by women. QUINS (14) [noun] A quintuplet. | [noun] A European scallop, Pecten opercularis, used as food. QUINT (14) [noun] An interval of one fifth. | [noun] The E string of a violin. | [noun] In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker QUIPS (16) [noun] A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe. | [verb] To make a quip. | [verb] To taunt; to treat with quips. QUIPU (16) [noun] A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords. QUIRE (14) [noun] One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold. | [noun] A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures. | [noun] A book, poem, or pamphlet. | [noun] A choir. QUIRK (18) [noun] An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone | [noun] An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a moulding and a soffit | [noun] A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge. QUIRT (14) [noun] A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide. | [verb] To strike with a quirt. QUITE (14) [adverb] (heading) To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely. | [adverb] (heading) In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually. | [adverb] To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather. | [noun] A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull. QUITS (14) [verb] To pay (a debt, fine etc.). | [verb] To repay (someone) for (something). | [verb] To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.). | [noun] Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America. QUODS (15) QUOIN (14) [noun] Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks. | [noun] The keystone of an arch. | [noun] A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place. QUOIT (14) [noun] A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits. | [noun] A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits. | [noun] The flat stone covering a cromlech. QUOTA (14) [noun] A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. | [noun] A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal. | [noun] A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity. QUOTE (14) [noun] A quotation; a statement attributed to a person. | [noun] A quotation mark. | [noun] A summary of work to be done with a set price. QUOTH (17) [verb] To say or declare. | [verb] (defective, modal, auxiliary) to say QURSH (17) [noun] A monetary unit in Saudi Arabia equivalent to a twentieth of a rial. ROQUE (14) [noun] A form of croquet using short-handled mallets, and played on a hard surface SQUAB (16) [noun] (sometimes attributive) A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken. | [noun] The meat of such a baby bird used as food. | [noun] A baby rook. SQUAD (15) [noun] A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members. | [noun] One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps. | [verb] To act as part of, or on behalf of, a squad. | [noun] Sloppy mud. SQUAT (14) [noun] Nothing; nothing whatsoever. | [noun] A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet. | [noun] (exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee. | [noun] The angel shark (genus Squatina). SQUAW (17) [noun] A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman. SQUEG (15) SQUIB (16) [noun] A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode. | [noun] A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc. | [noun] A kind of slow match or safety fuse. SQUID (15) [noun] Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles | [noun] A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid. | [noun] (mildly) A sailor in the Navy. | [noun] A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear. TOQUE (14) [noun] A type of hat with no brim. | [noun] (specifically) A tall white hat with no brim of the sort worn by chefs | [noun] (by extension) A chef. | [noun] A knitted hat, usually conical but of varying shape, often woollen, and sometimes topped by a pom-pom or tassel. | [noun] A rhythm used in Latin music, especially Cuban religious rituals. TRANQ (14) [noun] A tranquilizer. | [verb] To tranquilize. TUQUE (14) [noun] A knitted hat, usually conical but of varying shape, often woollen, and sometimes topped by a pom-pom or tassel. | [noun] A watch cap. UMIAQ (16) USQUE (14)

ACQUIT (17) [verb] To declare or find innocent or not guilty. | [verb] To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil. | [verb] Followed by of (and formerly by from): to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge. BARQUE (17) [noun] A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged | [noun] Any small sailing vessel | [noun] A sailing vessel or boat of any kind BASQUE (17) [noun] The part of a waistcoat etc. extending below the waist. | [noun] A woman's close-fitting bodice, underbodice, or corset having such a feature. BISQUE (17) [noun] A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables. | [noun] A pale pinkish brown colour. | [noun] A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit. | [noun] An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed. BOSQUE (17) [noun] A thicket or small woods, especially in Spain or Spanish America. BUQSHA (20) [noun] A monetary unit of Yemen, equal to one twentieth of a rial. CAIQUE (17) [noun] A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling. | [noun] Any of four (previously two) species of parrot in the genus Pionites. CALQUE (17) [noun] A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language. | [verb] To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts. CASQUE (17) [noun] A helmet. | [noun] A hard structure on the head of some birds, such as the hornbill or cassowary. CHEQUE (20) [noun] A draft directing a bank to pay money to a named person or entity. CINQUE (17) [noun] A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips. CIRQUE (17) [noun] A curved depression in a mountainside with steep walls, forming the end of a valley. | [noun] Something in the shape of a circle or ring, such as a Roman circus. CLAQUE (17) [noun] A group of people hired to attend a performance and to either applaud or boo. | [noun] A group of people who pre-arrange among themselves to express strong support for an idea, so as to give the false impression of a wider consensus. | [noun] A group of fawning admirers. CLIQUE (17) [noun] A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal. | [noun] A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph. | [noun] A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner. CLIQUY (20) CLOQUE (17) [noun] A fabric with an embossed design. COQUET (17) [noun] A flirtatious female; a coquette. | [noun] A flirtatious male. | [verb] To act as a flirt or coquet. DIQUAT (16) [noun] A contact herbicide that produces desiccation and defoliation. EQUALS (15) [noun] A person or thing of equal status to others. | [noun] State of being equal; equality. | [verb] To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to. EQUATE (15) [noun] A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value. | [verb] To consider equal or equivalent. | [verb] To set as equal. EQUIDS (16) [noun] Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.) EQUINE (15) [noun] Any horse or horse-like animal, especially one of the genus Equus. | [adjective] Of or relating to a horse or horses. | [adjective] Of or relating to any member or members of the genus Equus. EQUIPS (17) [verb] To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging) | [verb] To dress up; to array; to clothe. | [verb] To prepare (someone) with a skill. EQUITY (18) [noun] Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right". | [noun] Various related senses originating with the Court of Chancery in late Medieval England | [noun] Various senses related to net value EXEQUY (25) [noun] (now only in plural) Funeral rites. FAQIRS (18) [noun] A religious mendicant who owns no personal property. FAQUIR (18) [noun] A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms. | [noun] (Hindu) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. | [noun] Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature. FIQUES (18) LIQUID (16) [noun] A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid. | [noun] A class of consonant sounds that includes l and r. | [adjective] Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure. LIQUOR (15) [noun] A liquid, a fluid. | [noun] A drinkable liquid. | [noun] A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both). LOQUAT (15) [noun] The Eriobotrya japonica tree. | [noun] The fruit of this tree. It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. MANQUE (17) [adjective] Unable to fully realise one's ambitions; would-be MAQUIS (17) [noun] Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub. | [noun] The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere. MARQUE (17) [noun] A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque. | [noun] A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model). | [noun] A ship commissioned for making captures. MASQUE (17) MOSQUE (17) [noun] A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid. OPAQUE (17) [noun] An area of darkness; a place or region with no light. | [noun] Something which is opaque rather than translucent. | [verb] To make, render (more) opaque. PIQUED (18) [verb] To wound the pride of; to excite to anger. | [verb] To take pride in; to pride oneself on. | [verb] To stimulate (a feeling, emotion); to offend by slighting; to excite (someone) to action by causing resentment or jealousy. PIQUES (17) [noun] A feeling of enmity; ill-feeling, animosity; a transient feeling of wounded pride. | [noun] A feeling of irritation or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little thought or consideration. | [noun] Keenly felt desire; a longing. PIQUET (17) [noun] A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. PLAQUE (17) [noun] Any flat, thin piece of clay, ivory, metal, etc., used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a dish, plate, slab, etc., hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn by a person, such as a brooch. | [noun] A piece of flat metal with writing on it, attached to a building, monument, or other structure to remind people of a person or an event. | [noun] A small card representing an amount of money, used for betting in casinos; a sort of gaming chip. PULQUE (17) [noun] A milk-colored, somewhat viscous Mexican alcoholic drink made from the fermented sap of certain agave plants. QANATS (15) [noun] An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley QINDAR (16) QINTAR (15) [noun] (plural: qindarka or qintars) An Albanian coin equal to one hundredth of a lek. | [noun] (plural: qintars) A unit of measure, which varies in value depending upon the product measured; for example, a qintar of cotton might be 160 kg of cotton, 50 kg of cotton lint; a qintar of lime, 65 kg. QIVIUT (18) QUACKS (21) [noun] The sound made by a duck. | [verb] To make a noise like a duck. | [noun] A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional; especially, a doctor of medicine who makes false diagnoses or inappropriate treatment; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine. QUAERE (15) QUAFFS (21) [noun] The act of quaffing; a deep draught. | [verb] To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts. QUAGGA (17) [noun] A southern-African subspecies of zebra, Equus quagga quagga, which went extinct in 1883. The upper parts of the animal were reddish brown, becoming paler behind and beneath, while the face, neck, and fore part of the body were marked by dark stripes. QUAGGY (20) QUAHOG (19) [noun] An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria. | [noun] A similar edible clam found along coasts around the North Atlantic, generally in deeper waters, the ocean quahog, black quahog, mahogany clam or Icelandic cyprine, Arctica islandica | [verb] To dig for quahogs. QUAICH (20) [noun] A traditional shallow, two-handled cup of Scottish origin symbolizing friendship. It was originally used to toast the arrival or departure of a visitor. | [noun] (by extension) Any two-handled drinking vessel or trophy. QUAIGH (19) [noun] A traditional shallow, two-handled cup of Scottish origin symbolizing friendship. It was originally used to toast the arrival or departure of a visitor. | [noun] (by extension) Any two-handled drinking vessel or trophy. QUAILS (15) [verb] To waste away; to fade, to wither | [verb] To daunt or frighten (someone) | [verb] To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful. QUAINT (15) [adjective] Of a person: cunning, crafty. | [adjective] Cleverly made; artfully contrived. | [adjective] Strange or odd; unusual. | [noun] The vulva. QUAKED (20) [verb] To tremble or shake. | [verb] To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble. QUAKER (19) [noun] Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Pithecops. QUAKES (19) [noun] A trembling or shaking. | [noun] An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force. | [verb] To tremble or shake. QUALIA (15) [noun] An instance of subjective, conscious experience. QUALMS (17) [noun] A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc. | [noun] A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness. | [noun] A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now often in negative constructions.) QUALMY (20) QUANGO (16) [noun] An organization that, although financed by a government, acts independently of it. QUANTA (15) [noun] The total amount of something; quantity. | [noun] The amount or quantity observably present, or available. | [noun] The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon. QUANTS (15) [noun] A quantitative analyst. | [noun] Short for quantity. | [noun] Short for quantifier. QUARKS (19) [noun] In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle that forms matter. They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons. | [noun] (X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string. | [noun] (Falkland Islands) The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax. QUARRY (18) [noun] A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate. | [verb] To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry. | [verb] To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching. | [noun] A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward. | [noun] A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone. QUARTE (15) [noun] The fourth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at neck height, the palm of the hand facing upwards. QUARTO (15) [noun] A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5" or 190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting one of several standard sizes of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25" or 381-508 x 508-635 mm) twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides). | [noun] A book size, corresponding to the paper size. QUARTS (15) [noun] A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S. | [noun] Four successive cards of the same suit. | [noun] A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth. QUARTZ (24) [noun] The most abundant mineral on the earth's surface, of chemical composition silicon dioxide, SiO2. It occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous. Found in every environment. QUASAR (15) [noun] An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and (putatively) the most distant objects in the universe. QUATRE (15) QUAVER (18) [noun] A trembling shake. | [noun] A trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing. | [noun] An eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail. QUEANS (15) [noun] A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute. | [noun] A young woman, a girl; a daughter. QUEASY (18) [adjective] Experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach. | [adjective] Easily troubled; squeamish. QUEAZY (27) QUEENS (15) [noun] A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria. | [noun] The wife or widow of a king. | [noun] The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. QUEERS (15) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity. QUELLS (15) [noun] A subduing. | [verb] To subdue, to put down; to silence or force (someone) to submit. | [verb] To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish. QUENCH (20) [noun] The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state. | [noun] A rapid change of the parameters of a physical system. | [verb] To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst. QUERNS (15) [noun] A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones. QUESTS (15) [noun] A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission. | [noun] The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit. | [noun] Request; desire; solicitation. QUEUED (16) [verb] To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line. | [verb] To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue. | [verb] To add to a queue data structure. QUEUER (15) QUEUES (15) [noun] An animal's tail. | [noun] A men's hairstyle whose primary attribute is a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China. | [noun] A line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back). QUEZAL (24) QUICHE (20) [noun] A pie made primarily of eggs and cream in a pastry crust. Other ingredients such as chopped meat or vegetables are often added to the eggs before the quiche is baked. | [adjective] Extremely appealing to look at; sexually alluring. QUICKS (21) [noun] Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails. | [noun] Plants used in making a quickset hedge | [noun] The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling. QUIETS (15) [noun] The absence of sound; quietness. | [noun] The absence of movement; stillness, tranquility | [verb] To become quiet, silent, still, tranquil, calm. QUIFFS (21) [noun] (British dialect) A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke. | [noun] A trick or ploy; a stratagem. | [noun] A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s. QUILLS (15) [noun] The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs. | [noun] A pen made from a feather. | [noun] Any pen. QUILTS (15) [noun] A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design. | [noun] A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing. | [noun] A quilted skirt worn by women. QUINCE (17) [noun] The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga. | [noun] The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia. | [noun] A soft yellow colour, like that of a quince. QUINIC (17) QUININ (15) QUINOA (15) [noun] A goosefoot (Chenopodium quinoa) native to the Andes and cultivated for its edible seeds. | [noun] The high-protein dried fruits and seeds of this plant, used as a food staple and ground into flour. QUINOL (15) [noun] The diphenol para-dihydroxy benzene, used as a mild reducing agent in photographic developing; isomeric with catechol and resorcinol. QUINSY (18) [noun] A peritonsillar abscess; a painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues, usually a complication of tonsillitis, caused by bacterial infection and often accompanied by fever. QUINTA (15) [noun] A country house in Madeira. QUINTE (15) [noun] The fifth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at knee height. QUINTS (15) [noun] An interval of one fifth. | [noun] The E string of a violin. | [noun] In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker QUIPPU (19) QUIPUS (17) [noun] A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords. QUIRED (16) QUIRES (15) [noun] One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold. | [noun] A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures. | [noun] A book, poem, or pamphlet. QUIRKS (19) [noun] An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone | [noun] An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a moulding and a soffit | [noun] A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge. QUIRKY (22) [adjective] Given to quirks or idiosyncrasies; strange in a somewhat silly, awkward manner, potentially cute. QUIRTS (15) [noun] A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide. | [verb] To strike with a quirt. QUITCH (20) [verb] To shake (something); to stir, move. | [verb] To stir; to move. | [verb] To flinch; shrink. | [noun] Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed) QUIVER (18) [noun] A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun. | [noun] A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons. | [noun] The collective noun for cobras. | [adjective] Nimble, active. | [verb] To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver. QUOHOG (19) QUOINS (15) [noun] Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks. | [noun] The keystone of an arch. | [noun] A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place. QUOITS (15) [noun] A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits. | [noun] A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits. | [noun] The flat stone covering a cromlech. QUOKKA (23) [noun] A cat-sized marsupial, Setonix brachyurus, of southwestern Australia. QUORUM (17) [noun] The minimum number of members required for a group to officially conduct business and to cast votes, often but not necessarily a majority or supermajority. | [noun] A selected body of persons. QUOTAS (15) [noun] A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. | [noun] A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal. | [noun] A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity. QUOTED (16) [verb] To repeat the exact words of (a person). | [verb] To repeat (the exact words of a person). | [verb] To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price. QUOTER (15) QUOTES (15) [noun] A quotation; a statement attributed to a person. | [noun] A quotation mark. | [noun] A summary of work to be done with a set price. QUOTHA (18) QURUSH (18) QWERTY (21) [adjective] Denoting a standard layout of keys on a keyboard for typing, in which the leftmost keys of the top lettered row are Q-W-E-R-T-Y. REQUIN (15) RISQUE (15) [adjective] Suggestive of sexual impropriety; bordering on the indelicate. | [noun] A possible adverse event or outcome | [noun] The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event. ROQUES (15) ROQUET (15) [noun] In croquet, the act of hitting another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken. | [verb] In croquet, to hit another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken. SACQUE (17) SEQUEL (15) [noun] The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath. | [noun] A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own. | [noun] Thirlage. SEQUIN (15) [noun] Any of various small gold coins minted in Italy and Turkey. | [noun] A sparkling spangle used for the decoration of ornate clothing. SHEQEL (18) SQUABS (17) [noun] (sometimes attributive) A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken. | [noun] The meat of such a baby bird used as food. | [noun] A baby rook. SQUADS (16) [noun] A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members. | [noun] One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps. SQUALL (15) [noun] A squall line, multicell line, or part of a squall line. | [noun] A sudden storm, as found in a squall line. | [noun] A loud cry or wail. SQUAMA (17) SQUARE (15) [noun] A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral. | [noun] Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form. | [noun] An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles. SQUASH (18) [noun] A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets. | [noun] A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water. | [noun] A place or a situation where people have limited space to move. | [noun] A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. | [noun] Muskrat. SQUATS (15) [noun] Nothing; nothing whatsoever. | [noun] A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet. | [noun] (exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee. SQUAWK (22) [noun] A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird; a yell, scream, or call. | [noun] A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency signals. | [noun] An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance. SQUAWS (18) [noun] A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman. SQUEAK (19) [noun] A short, high-pitched sound, as of two objects rubbing together, or the calls of small animals. | [noun] (games) A card game similar to group solitaire. | [noun] A narrow squeak. SQUEAL (15) [noun] A high-pitched sound, such as the scream of a child, or noisy worn-down brake pads. | [noun] The cry of a pig. | [verb] To scream with a shrill, prolonged sound. SQUEGS (16) SQUIBS (17) [noun] A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode. | [noun] A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc. | [noun] A kind of slow match or safety fuse. SQUIDS (16) [noun] Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles | [noun] A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid. | [noun] (mildly) A sailor in the Navy. SQUILL (15) [noun] A European bulbous liliaceous plant, of the genus Scilla, used in medicine for its acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties | [noun] A sea onion (Drimia maritima) | [noun] A mantis shrimp, Squilla mantis, from the Mediterranean SQUINT (15) [noun] An expression in which the eyes are partly closed. | [noun] The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus. | [noun] A quick or sideways glance. SQUIRE (15) [noun] A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight. | [noun] A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire. | [noun] A male attendant on a great personage. | [noun] A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure. SQUIRM (17) [noun] A twisting, snakelike movement of the body. | [verb] To twist one's body with snakelike motions. | [verb] To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment. SQUIRT (15) [noun] An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream. | [noun] A small, quick stream; a jet. | [noun] (hydrodynamics) The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source. SQUISH (18) [noun] The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed. | [noun] A political moderate. | [noun] Marmalade. | [noun] A non-romantic and generally non-sexual infatuation with somebody one is not dating, or the object of that infatuation; a platonic crush. SQUUSH (18) TOQUES (15) [noun] A type of hat with no brim. | [noun] (specifically) A tall white hat with no brim of the sort worn by chefs | [noun] (by extension) A chef. TOQUET (15) TORQUE (15) [noun] A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton metre or Nm; imperial unit pound-foot or lb·ft, not to be confused with the foot pound-force, commonly "foot-pound", a unit of work or energy) | [verb] To twist or turn something. | [noun] A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples. TRANQS (15) [noun] A tranquilizer. TUQUES (15) [noun] A knitted hat, usually conical but of varying shape, often woollen, and sometimes topped by a pom-pom or tassel. | [noun] A watch cap. UBIQUE (17) UMIAQS (17) UNIQUE (15) [noun] A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled. | [adjective] Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched. | [adjective] Of a feature, such that only one holder has it. USQUES (15) YANQUI (18) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A citizen of the United States of America, as opposed to a Latin American.

ACEQUIA (18) [noun] An irrigation ditch or canal, especially one used in the southwestern United States and Spanish-speaking regions. ACQUEST (18) [verb] To acquire or obtain, especially through one's own effort or action. ACQUIRE (18) [verb] To get. | [verb] To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own | [verb] To contract. ACQUITS (18) [verb] To declare or find innocent or not guilty. | [verb] To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil. | [verb] Followed by of (and formerly by from): to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge. ALFAQUI (19) [noun] A Muslim legal expert or teacher of Islamic law in North Africa and Spain. ALIQUOT (16) [noun] A portion of a total amount of a solution or suspension. | [verb] To separate a volume of solution or suspension into aliquots. | [adjective] Contained in the whole an integral number of times, a factor or divisor. ANTIQUE (16) [noun] A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle. | [noun] A caricature. | [noun] (often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper. AQUARIA (16) [noun] A tank, often made of glass, for keeping live fish or other aquatic animals. | [noun] A public place where live fish and other aquatic animals are exhibited. AQUATIC (18) [noun] Any aquatic plant. | [adjective] Relating to water; living in or near water, taking place in water. AQUAVIT (19) [noun] A Scandinavian liquor that is about 40% alcohol by volume; distilled from potato or grain mash and flavored with caraway seeds, anise, fennel, dill and other spices and herbs, depending on variety. AQUEOUS (16) [adjective] Consisting mostly of water. AQUIFER (19) [noun] An underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel AQUIVER (19) [adjective] In a state of excitement, trepidation or agitation; quivering. ASQUINT (16) [adjective] Looking sideways, as though warily. | [adverb] With narrowed eyes. BANQUET (18) [noun] A large celebratory meal; a feast. | [noun] A dessert; a course of sweetmeats. | [verb] To participate in a banquet; to feast. BAROQUE (18) [adjective] Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail. | [adjective] Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity. | [adjective] Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque. BARQUES (18) [noun] A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged | [noun] Any small sailing vessel | [noun] A sailing vessel or boat of any kind BASQUES (18) [noun] The part of a waistcoat etc. extending below the waist. | [noun] A woman's close-fitting bodice, underbodice, or corset having such a feature. BEQUEST (18) [noun] The act of bequeathing or leaving by will. | [noun] The transfer of property upon the owner's death according to the will of the deceased. | [noun] That which is left by will; a legacy. | [verb] To give as a bequest; bequeath. BEZIQUE (27) [noun] A trick-taking card game for two players. | [noun] The act of taking certain cards in this game: the queen of spades and jack of diamonds, or (if either of those suits is trumps) the queen of clubs and jack of hearts. BISQUES (18) [noun] A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables. | [noun] A pale pinkish brown colour. | [noun] A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit. BOSQUES (18) [noun] Plural of bosque, a small wooded area or thicket, particularly in southwestern United States terminology referring to dense riparian vegetation along rivers. BOSQUET (18) [noun] A small thicket or clump of trees in a garden or landscape. BOUQUET (18) [noun] A bunch of cut flowers. | [noun] The scent of a particular wine. | [noun] The heart note of a perfume. BRIQUET (18) [noun] A small brick, typically made of charcoal and used for fuel. | [noun] A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving. | [noun] A moulded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material. BRUSQUE (18) [adjective] Rudely abrupt, unfriendly. BUQSHAS (21) CACIQUE (20) [noun] A tribal chief in the Spanish West Indies. | [noun] A local political leader in Latin America. | [noun] Any of a number of tropical blackbirds from Central America and South America, family Icteridae. CAIQUES (18) [noun] A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling. | [noun] Any of four (previously two) species of parrot in the genus Pionites. CALQUED (19) [verb] To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts. CALQUES (18) [noun] A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language. CASQUED (19) [adjective] Wearing or having a casque (a helmet or helmet-like structure). CASQUES (18) [noun] A helmet. | [noun] A hard structure on the head of some birds, such as the hornbill or cassowary. CAZIQUE (27) [noun] A native chief or leader in some Spanish American regions, particularly among indigenous peoples. CHARQUI (21) [noun] Dried strips of meat; jerky. | [noun] A South American method of drying meat in the sun. CHEQUER (21) [noun] One who checks or verifies something. | [noun] One who makes a check mark. | [noun] The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment. CHEQUES (21) [noun] A draft directing a bank to pay money to a named person or entity. CINQUES (18) [noun] A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips. | [noun] (campanology) bell changes rung on eleven bells CIRQUES (18) [noun] A curved depression in a mountainside with steep walls, forming the end of a valley. | [noun] Something in the shape of a circle or ring, such as a Roman circus. CLAQUER (18) CLAQUES (18) [noun] A group of people hired to attend a performance and to either applaud or boo. | [noun] A group of people who pre-arrange among themselves to express strong support for an idea, so as to give the false impression of a wider consensus. | [noun] A group of fawning admirers. CLIQUED (19) [verb] Past tense of clique, meaning to form or associate with a clique or exclusive group. CLIQUES (18) [noun] A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal. | [noun] A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph. | [noun] A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner. CLIQUEY (21) [adjective] Having the characteristics of a clique CLOQUES (18) [noun] Small blisters or puffs in fabric caused by uneven shrinkage or manufacturing defects. | [verb] Third person singular of cloque, meaning to cause such blistering in fabric. COEQUAL (18) [noun] An equal person or thing. | [adjective] Equal to each other in size, rank or position. CONQUER (18) [verb] To defeat in combat; to subjugate. | [verb] To acquire by force of arms, win in war. | [verb] To overcome an abstract obstacle. COQUETS (18) [noun] A flirtatious female; a coquette. | [noun] A flirtatious male. | [verb] To act as a flirt or coquet. COQUINA (18) [noun] Any of several small marine clams, of the species Donax variabilis, common in United States coastal waters. | [noun] A soft form of limestone made of fragments of shells, sometimes used as a building or road paving material. COQUITO (18) [noun] A traditional Puerto Rican alcoholic eggnog made with coconut. CROQUET (18) [noun] (games) A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets). | [noun] (games) A shot in this game in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet. | [noun] A croquette. CROQUIS (18) [noun] A quick and sketchy drawing, often of a live model. Croquis drawings are usually made in a few minutes, after which the model changes pose and another croquis is drawn. CUMQUAT (20) [noun] A small, orange citrus-like fruit which is native to Asia (Citrus japonica, syn. Fortunella japonica). DIQUATS (17) ENQUIRE (16) [verb] To make an enquiry. | [verb] To ask about (something). ENQUIRY (19) [noun] A question. | [noun] Search for truth, information or knowledge. EQUABLE (18) [adjective] Unvarying, calm and steady; constant and uniform. | [adjective] (of temperature) Free from extremes of heat or cold. | [adjective] (of emotions etc) Not easily disturbed; tranquil. EQUABLY (21) EQUALED (17) [verb] To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to. | [verb] To make equivalent to; to cause to match. | [verb] To have as its consequence. EQUALLY (19) [adverb] (manner) In an equal manner; in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; evenly | [adverb] (degree) In equal degree or extent; just as. | [adverb] Used to link two or more coordinate elements EQUATED (17) [verb] To consider equal or equivalent. | [verb] To set as equal. EQUATES (16) [noun] A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value. | [verb] To consider equal or equivalent. | [verb] To set as equal. EQUATOR (16) [noun] (often “the Equator”) An imaginary great circle around the Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere. | [noun] A similar great circle on any sphere, especially on a celestial body, or on other reasonably symmetrical three-dimensional body. | [noun] The midline of any generally spherical object, such as a fruit or vegetable, that has identifiable poles. EQUERRY (19) [noun] An officer responsible for the care and supervision of the horses of a person of rank. | [noun] A personal attendant to a head of state, a member of a royal family, or a national representative. EQUINES (16) [noun] Any horse or horse-like animal, especially one of the genus Equus. EQUINOX (23) [noun] The intersection of the apparent path of the sun in the sky (the ecliptic) with the celestial equator. | [noun] One of the two days on which this intersection occurs each year: (for the Northern hemisphere) March 20 or 21 in the spring and September 22 or 23 in the autumn. EQUITES (16) [noun] A member of the equestrian order (Latin: ordo equester), the lower of the two aristocratic classes of Ancient Rome, ranking below the patricians. ESQUIRE (16) [noun] A lawyer. | [noun] A male member of the gentry ranking below a knight. | [noun] An honorific sometimes placed after a man's name. | [noun] A bearing somewhat resembling a gyron, but extending across the field so that the point touches the opposite edge of the escutcheon. FAQUIRS (19) [noun] A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms. | [noun] (Hindu) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. | [noun] Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature. INQUEST (16) [noun] A formal investigation, often held before a jury, especially one into the cause of a death | [noun] An inquiry, typically into an undesired outcome | [noun] The jury hearing such an inquiry, and the result of the inquiry INQUIET (16) INQUIRE (16) [verb] To ask (about something). | [verb] To make an inquiry or an investigation. | [verb] To call; to name. INQUIRY (19) [noun] The act of inquiring; a seeking of information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning. | [noun] Search for truth, information, or knowledge; examination of facts or principles; research; investigation JONQUIL (23) [noun] A fragrant bulb flower (Narcissus jonquilla), a species of daffodil. | [noun] A shade of yellow. KUMQUAT (22) [noun] A small, orange citrus-like fruit which is native to Asia (Citrus japonica, syn. Fortunella japonica). LACQUER (18) [noun] A glossy, resinous material used as a surface coating; either a natural exudation of certain trees, or a solution of nitrocellulose in alcohol, etc. | [noun] A similar finish, baked onto the inside of cans. | [verb] To apply a lacquer to something or to give something a smooth, glossy finish. LACQUEY (21) [noun] A footman, a liveried male servant. | [noun] A fawning, servile follower. | [verb] To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously. LIQUATE (16) [verb] To separate by fusion, as a more fusible from a less fusible material. | [verb] To melt; to become liquid (liquefy) LIQUEFY (22) [verb] To make into a liquid. | [verb] To become liquid. | [verb] (image manipulation, especially Adobe Photoshop) To distort and warp an image. LIQUEUR (16) [noun] A flavoured alcoholic beverage that is usually very sweet and contains a high percentage of alcohol. Cordials are a type of liqueur manufactured using the infusion process as opposed to the essence and distillation processes. | [verb] To flavor or treat (wine) with a liqueur | [verb] To top up bottles of sparkling wine with a sugar solution LIQUIDS (17) [noun] A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid. | [noun] A class of consonant sounds that includes l and r. LIQUIFY (22) [verb] To make into a liquid. | [verb] To become liquid. | [verb] (image manipulation, especially Adobe Photoshop) To distort and warp an image. LIQUORS (16) [noun] A liquid, a fluid. | [noun] A drinkable liquid. | [noun] A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both). LOQUATS (16) [noun] The Eriobotrya japonica tree. | [noun] The fruit of this tree. It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. MACAQUE (20) [noun] Any of a group of Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae, especially genus Macaca. MARQUEE (18) [noun] A large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment. | [noun] A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it. | [noun] (by generalization) Lights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee. MARQUES (18) [noun] A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque. | [noun] A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model). | [noun] A ship commissioned for making captures. MARQUIS (18) [noun] A nobleman in England, France, and Germany, of a rank next below that of duke, but above a count. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred by letters patent or letters close. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Bassarona. MASQUER (18) [noun] One who appears in disguise at a masquerade. MASQUES (18) MESQUIT (18) MEZQUIT (27) MOSQUES (18) [noun] A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid. OBLIQUE (18) [noun] An oblique line. | [noun] (grammar) The oblique case. | [verb] To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction. OBLOQUY (21) [noun] Abusive language. | [noun] Disgrace. | [noun] A false accusation; malevolent rumors. OBSEQUY (21) [noun] The last office for the dead. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A funeral rite or service. OPAQUED (19) OPAQUER (18) [adjective] Neither reflecting nor emitting light. | [adjective] Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent. | [adjective] Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of OPAQUES (18) [verb] To make, render (more) opaque. OQUASSA (16) PARQUET (18) [noun] A wooden floor made of parquetry. | [noun] The part of a theatre between the orchestra and the parquet circle. | [noun] In some European countries, the branch of the administrative government that handles prosecutions. PASQUIL (18) PERIQUE (18) [noun] A kind of tobacco with medium-sized leaf, small stem, and tough and gummy fiber, raised in Louisiana and cured in its own juices, so as to be very dark in color. It is marketed in tightly wrapped rolls called carottes. PICQUET (20) [noun] A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. | [noun] A stake driven into the ground. | [noun] A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake. PIQUANT (18) [adjective] Causing hurt feelings; scathing, severe. | [adjective] Stimulating to the senses; engaging; charming. | [adjective] Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; tangy. PIQUETS (18) PIQUING (19) [verb] To wound the pride of; to excite to anger. | [verb] To take pride in; to pride oneself on. | [verb] To stimulate (a feeling, emotion); to offend by slighting; to excite (someone) to action by causing resentment or jealousy. PIROQUE (18) PLAQUES (18) [noun] Any flat, thin piece of clay, ivory, metal, etc., used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a dish, plate, slab, etc., hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn by a person, such as a brooch. | [noun] A piece of flat metal with writing on it, attached to a building, monument, or other structure to remind people of a person or an event. | [noun] A small card representing an amount of money, used for betting in casinos; a sort of gaming chip. PREQUEL (18) [noun] In a series of works, an installment that is set chronologically before its predecessor, especially the original narrative or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative work with at least one sequel. PULQUES (18) QINDARS (17) QINTARS (16) [noun] (plural: qindarka or qintars) An Albanian coin equal to one hundredth of a lek. | [noun] (plural: qintars) A unit of measure, which varies in value depending upon the product measured; for example, a qintar of cotton might be 160 kg of cotton, 50 kg of cotton lint; a qintar of lime, 65 kg. QIVIUTS (19) QUACKED (23) [verb] To make a noise like a duck. | [verb] To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine). | [verb] To make vain and loud pretensions. QUADDED (19) QUADRAT (17) [noun] An area of land, marked for studying its plants, animals, soil, natural processes, etc. | [noun] A quad; a blank metal block used to fill space in lines of type. | [noun] A virtual rectangular subdivision of a line or column of hieroglyphs within which a group of hieroglyphs is arranged. QUADRIC (19) [noun] A surface or curve whose shape is defined in terms of a quadratic equation | [adjective] Of or relating to the second degree; quadratic. QUAERES (16) QUAFFED (23) [verb] To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts. QUAFFER (22) QUAGGAS (18) [noun] A southern-African subspecies of zebra, Equus quagga quagga, which went extinct in 1883. The upper parts of the animal were reddish brown, becoming paler behind and beneath, while the face, neck, and fore part of the body were marked by dark stripes. QUAHAUG (20) [noun] An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria. | [noun] A similar edible clam found along coasts around the North Atlantic, generally in deeper waters, the ocean quahog, black quahog, mahogany clam or Icelandic cyprine, Arctica islandica | [verb] To dig for quahogs. QUAHOGS (20) [noun] An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria. | [noun] A similar edible clam found along coasts around the North Atlantic, generally in deeper waters, the ocean quahog, black quahog, mahogany clam or Icelandic cyprine, Arctica islandica QUAICHS (21) QUAIGHS (20) [noun] A traditional shallow, two-handled cup of Scottish origin symbolizing friendship. It was originally used to toast the arrival or departure of a visitor. | [noun] (by extension) Any two-handled drinking vessel or trophy. QUAILED (17) [verb] To waste away; to fade, to wither | [verb] To daunt or frighten (someone) | [verb] To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful. QUAKERS (20) QUAKIER (20) QUAKILY (23) QUAKING (21) [verb] To tremble or shake. | [verb] To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble. | [noun] The action of the verb to quake. QUALIFY (22) [noun] An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice. | [verb] To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities. | [verb] To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task. QUALITY (19) [noun] Level of excellence. | [noun] A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person. | [noun] High social position. (See also the quality.) QUAMASH (21) [noun] Any of the North American flowering plants of the genus Camassia. QUANGOS (17) [noun] An organization that, although financed by a government, acts independently of it. QUANTAL (16) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a quantum | [adjective] Quantized | [adjective] Of a response, being all-or-none QUANTED (17) QUANTIC (18) [noun] A homogeneous polynomial in two or more variables. QUANTUM (18) [noun] The total amount of something; quantity. | [noun] The amount or quantity observably present, or available. | [noun] The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon. QUARREL (16) [noun] A verbal dispute or heated argument. | [noun] A ground of dispute or objection; a complaint. | [noun] An earnest desire or longing. | [noun] A diamond-shaped piece of coloured glass forming part of a stained glass window. QUARTAN (16) [noun] A fever whose symptoms recur every four days. | [adjective] Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms. QUARTER (16) [noun] A fourth part of something. | [noun] Place or position. | [noun] Technical or specialized senses. | [verb] To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels. QUARTES (16) [noun] The fourth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at neck height, the palm of the hand facing upwards. QUARTET (16) [noun] A music composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument. | [noun] The set of four musicians who perform a piece of music together in four parts. | [noun] A group of four singers, usually males, who sings together in four-part harmony. QUARTIC (18) [noun] An algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree. | [noun] A curve describing such an equation or function. | [adjective] Of or relating to the fourth degree QUARTOS (16) [noun] A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5" or 190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting one of several standard sizes of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25" or 381-508 x 508-635 mm) twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides). | [noun] A book size, corresponding to the paper size. QUASARS (16) [noun] An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and (putatively) the most distant objects in the universe. QUASHED (20) [verb] To defeat decisively. | [verb] To crush or dash to pieces. | [verb] To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.). QUASHER (19) QUASHES (19) [verb] To defeat decisively. | [verb] To crush or dash to pieces. | [verb] To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.). QUASSES (16) QUASSIA (16) [noun] Any of several tropic trees, of the genus Quassia, having scarlet flowers. | [noun] The bitter substance quassin extracted from its bark. QUASSIN (16) QUATRES (16) QUAVERS (19) [noun] A trembling shake. | [noun] A trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing. | [noun] An eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail. QUAVERY (22) [adjective] Apt to quaver; shaky, trembling. QUAYAGE (20) QUEENED (17) [verb] To make a queen. | [verb] To act the part of a queen; to queen it. | [verb] To promote a pawn, usually to a queen. QUEENLY (19) [adjective] Having the status, rank or qualities of a queen; regal. | [adverb] In a queenly manner; regally. QUEERED (17) [verb] To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null. | [verb] To puzzle. | [verb] To ridicule; to banter; to rally. QUEERER (16) [adjective] Weird, odd or different; whimsical. | [adjective] Slightly unwell (mainly in "to feel queer"). | [adjective] Drunk. QUEERLY (19) [adverb] In a queer (strange) manner. | [adverb] In a queer way (a way not conforming to conventional heterosexual norms), or in a way consistent with queer theory. QUELLED (17) [verb] To subdue, to put down; to silence or force (someone) to submit. | [verb] To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish. | [verb] To kill. QUELLER (16) QUERIDA (17) [noun] (in Latin-American contexts) darling QUERIED (17) [verb] To ask a question. | [verb] To ask, inquire. | [verb] To question or call into doubt. QUERIER (16) QUERIES (16) [noun] A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK). | [noun] A question mark. | [noun] A set of instructions passed to a database. QUERIST (16) [noun] A person who asks questions. QUESTED (17) [verb] To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job. | [verb] To search for; to examine. | [verb] (of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal. QUESTER (16) QUESTOR (16) QUETZAL (25) [noun] Any trogon of the genus Pharomacrus, especially the resplendent quetzal, Pharomacrus mocinno, which has very long tail feathers and is found in Guatemala and Costa Rica. | [noun] A monetary unit used in Guatemala, equal to 100 centavos. QUEUERS (16) QUEUING (17) [verb] To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line. | [verb] To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue. | [verb] To add to a queue data structure. QUEZALS (25) QUIBBLE (20) [noun] A pun. | [noun] An objection or argument based on an ambiguity of wording or similar trivial circumstance; a minor complaint. | [verb] To complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner. QUICHES (21) [noun] A pie made primarily of eggs and cream in a pastry crust. Other ingredients such as chopped meat or vegetables are often added to the eggs before the quiche is baked. QUICKEN (22) [verb] To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive. | [verb] To come back to life, receive life. | [verb] To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited. | [noun] The European rowan, Sorbus aucuparia. QUICKER (22) [adjective] Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast. | [adjective] Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly. | [adjective] Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent. QUICKIE (22) [noun] Something made or done swiftly. | [noun] (by extension) A brief sexual encounter. | [noun] A fast bowler. QUICKLY (25) [adverb] Rapidly; with speed; fast. | [adverb] Very soon. QUIETED (17) [verb] To become quiet, silent, still, tranquil, calm. | [verb] To cause someone to become quiet. QUIETEN (16) [verb] To make quiet. | [verb] To become quiet. QUIETER (16) [adjective] With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise. | [adjective] Having little motion or activity; calm. | [adjective] Not busy, of low quantity. QUIETLY (19) [adverb] In a quiet manner. QUIETUS (16) [noun] A stillness or pause; something that quiets or represses; removal from activity. | [noun] Death. | [noun] Final settlement (e.g., of a debt). QUILLAI (16) QUILLED (17) [verb] To pierce or be pierced with quills. | [verb] To write. | [verb] To form fabric into small, rounded folds. QUILLET (16) QUILTED (17) [verb] To construct a quilt. | [verb] To construct something, such as clothing, using the same technique. | [adjective] Having the characteristics of a quilt; specifically, having two layers of cloth sewn together, with a layer of padding between them. QUILTER (16) QUINARY (19) [noun] Any of 72 rays associated with the Sun, six for each of the 12 houses of the Zodiac. | [adjective] Of fifth rank or order. | [adjective] Consisting of five things; arranged in fives. QUINATE (16) [adjective] (of a compound leaf) Featuring five leaflets growing from a single point; quinquefoliolate. | [noun] An ester or a salt of quinic acid. QUINCES (18) [noun] The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga. | [noun] The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia. | [noun] A soft yellow colour, like that of a quince. QUINELA (16) QUININA (16) QUININE (16) [noun] A bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water. QUININS (16) QUINNAT (16) QUINOAS (16) QUINOID (17) QUINOLS (16) QUINONE (16) [noun] Any of a class of aromatic compounds having two carbonyl functional groups in the same six-membered ring. QUINTAL (16) [noun] (historical except India) A measure of weight originally equal to a hundred pounds; later, a hundredweight. | [noun] One hundred kilograms. QUINTAN (16) QUINTAR (16) QUINTAS (16) [noun] A country house in Madeira. QUINTES (16) QUINTET (16) [noun] A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians) | [noun] A group of five musicians, fit to play such a piece of music together | [noun] Any group of five members QUINTIC (18) QUINTIN (16) QUIPPED (21) [verb] To make a quip. | [verb] To taunt; to treat with quips. QUIPPER (20) QUIPPUS (20) QUIRING (17) QUIRKED (21) [adjective] Having, or formed with, a quirk. QUIRTED (17) [verb] To strike with a quirt. QUITTED (17) [verb] To pay (a debt, fine etc.). | [verb] To repay (someone) for (something). | [verb] To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.). QUITTER (16) [noun] (now rare outside Jamaica) Matter flowing from a wound or sore; pus. | [noun] A fistulous wound at the top of a horse's foot resulting from bruises, pricks, or neglected corns. | [noun] Scoria of tin. | [noun] One who quits. QUITTOR (16) QUIVERS (19) [noun] A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun. | [noun] A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons. | [noun] The collective noun for cobras. QUIVERY (22) [adjective] Quivering; aquiver QUIXOTE (23) QUIZZED (35) [verb] To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions. | [verb] To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly. | [verb] To question closely, to interrogate. QUIZZER (34) [noun] A person who quizzes or asks questions. | [noun] A person who takes part in a quiz. | [noun] One who chaffs or mocks. QUIZZES (34) [noun] An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing. | [noun] A competition in the answering of questions. | [noun] A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course. QUOHOGS (20) QUOINED (17) [adjective] Furnished with a quoin. QUOITED (17) [verb] To play quoits. | [verb] To throw as with a quoit. QUOKKAS (24) [noun] A cat-sized marsupial, Setonix brachyurus, of southwestern Australia. QUOMODO (19) QUONDAM (19) [adjective] Former; once; at one time. QUORUMS (18) [noun] The minimum number of members required for a group to officially conduct business and to cast votes, often but not necessarily a majority or supermajority. | [noun] A selected body of persons. QUOTERS (16) QUOTING (17) [verb] To repeat the exact words of (a person). | [verb] To repeat (the exact words of a person). | [verb] To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price. QURSHES (19) QWERTYS (22) RACQUET (18) [noun] An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis, or a shuttlecock in badminton. | [verb] To hit with a racquet. | [verb] To play a game that involves using a racquet. REEQUIP (18) [verb] To equip again; to provide with new equipment RELIQUE (16) REQUEST (16) [noun] Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence). | [noun] A formal message requesting something. | [noun] Condition of being sought after. REQUIEM (18) [noun] A mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person. | [noun] A musical composition for such a mass. | [noun] A piece of music composed to honor a dead person. | [noun] A large or dangerous shark, specifically, a member of the family Carcharhinidae. REQUINS (16) REQUIRE (16) [verb] To ask (someone) for something; to request. | [verb] To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively. | [verb] Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. REQUITE (16) [noun] Requital | [verb] To return (usually something figurative) that has been given; to repay; to recompense | [verb] To retaliate. ROQUETS (16) [noun] In croquet, the act of hitting another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken. | [verb] In croquet, to hit another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken. RORQUAL (16) [noun] Any whale of family Balaenopteridae, with longitudinal skin folds running from below the mouth to the navel, allowing the capacity of the mouth to expand greatly when feeding. SACQUES (18) SEQUELA (16) [noun] A disease or condition which is caused by an earlier disease or problem. | [noun] That which follows; an inference or corollary. SEQUELS (16) [noun] The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath. | [noun] A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own. | [noun] Thirlage. SEQUENT (16) [noun] Something that follows in a given sequence. | [noun] A disjunctive set of logical formulae which is partitioned into two subsets; the first subset, called the antecedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as false, and the second subset, called the succedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as true. (The set is written without set brackets and the separation between the two subsets is denoted by a turnstile symbol, which may be read "give(s)".) | [noun] A follower. SEQUINS (16) [noun] Any of various small gold coins minted in Italy and Turkey. | [noun] A sparkling spangle used for the decoration of ornate clothing. SEQUOIA (16) [noun] Sequoiadendron giganteum, a coniferous evergreen tree formerly in the genus Sequoia, now placed in Sequoiadendron. | [noun] Sequoia sempervirens, a coniferous evergreen tree, the only living species of the genus Sequoia. SILIQUA (16) [noun] A weight of four grains; a carat. | [noun] A long dry fruit (seed capsule), length more than twice the width, typical to cruciferous plants and consisting of two fused carpels that separate when ripe. SILIQUE (16) [noun] A long dry fruit (seed capsule), length more than twice the width, typical to cruciferous plants and consisting of two fused carpels that separate when ripe. SQUABBY (23) SQUALID (17) [adjective] Extremely dirty and unpleasant. | [adjective] Showing a contemptible lack of moral standards. | [noun] Any member of the family Squalidae of dogfish sharks. SQUALLS (16) [noun] A squall line, multicell line, or part of a squall line. | [noun] A sudden storm, as found in a squall line. | [noun] A loud cry or wail. SQUALLY (19) [adjective] Characterized by squalls, or sudden violent bursts of wind; gusty. | [adjective] Producing or characteristic of loud wails. | [adjective] Interrupted by unproductive spots, as a field of turnips or grain. SQUALOR (16) [noun] Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty SQUAMAE (18) SQUARED (17) [verb] To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular: | [verb] To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit. | [verb] To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something. SQUARER (16) [adjective] Shaped like a square (the polygon). | [adjective] Forming a right angle, especially at right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced. | [adjective] Of numbers formed by multiplying two equal numbers. SQUARES (16) [noun] A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral. | [noun] Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form. | [noun] An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles. SQUASHY (22) [adjective] Easily squashed when pressed. | [adjective] Resembling a bog or marsh underfoot. SQUATLY (19) SQUATTY (19) SQUAWKS (23) [noun] A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird; a yell, scream, or call. | [noun] A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency signals. | [noun] An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance. SQUEAKS (20) [noun] A short, high-pitched sound, as of two objects rubbing together, or the calls of small animals. | [noun] (games) A card game similar to group solitaire. | [noun] A narrow squeak. SQUEAKY (23) [adjective] Tending to produce a high-pitched sound or squeak. SQUEALS (16) [noun] A high-pitched sound, such as the scream of a child, or noisy worn-down brake pads. | [noun] The cry of a pig. | [verb] To scream with a shrill, prolonged sound. SQUEEZE (25) [noun] A close or tight fit. | [noun] A difficult position. | [noun] A hug or other affectionate grasp. SQUELCH (21) [noun] A squelching sound. | [noun] (radio technology) The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver. | [noun] A heavy blow or fall. SQUIFFY (25) [adjective] Slightly drunk or intoxicated; tipsy | [adjective] Crooked, askew; awry SQUILLA (16) SQUILLS (16) [noun] A European bulbous liliaceous plant, of the genus Scilla, used in medicine for its acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties | [noun] A sea onion (Drimia maritima) | [noun] A mantis shrimp, Squilla mantis, from the Mediterranean SQUINCH (21) [noun] A structure constructed between two adjacent walls to aid in the transition from a polygonal to a circular structure, as when a dome is constructed on top of a square room. | [verb] To scrunch up (one's face, etc.). SQUINNY (19) [verb] To squint. SQUINTS (16) [noun] An expression in which the eyes are partly closed. | [noun] The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus. | [noun] A quick or sideways glance. SQUINTY (19) SQUIRED (17) [verb] To attend as a squire. | [verb] To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection. SQUIRES (16) [noun] A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight. | [noun] A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire. | [noun] A male attendant on a great personage. SQUIRMS (18) [verb] To twist one's body with snakelike motions. | [verb] To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment. | [verb] To evade a question, an interviewer etc. SQUIRMY (21) SQUIRTS (16) [noun] An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream. | [noun] A small, quick stream; a jet. | [noun] (hydrodynamics) The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source. SQUISHY (22) [noun] A squeezable foam toy. | [adjective] (of an object or substance) Yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud. | [adjective] (of a person) Used as a term of endearment. SQUOOSH (19) TEQUILA (16) [noun] An alcoholic liquor distilled from the fermented juice of the Central American century plant Agave tequilana TOQUETS (16) TORQUED (17) [verb] To twist or turn something. | [adjective] Upset; angry. TORQUER (16) TORQUES (16) [noun] A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton metre or Nm; imperial unit pound-foot or lb·ft, not to be confused with the foot pound-force, commonly "foot-pound", a unit of work or energy) | [verb] To twist or turn something. | [noun] A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples. UNEQUAL (16) [noun] One who is not an equal. | [adjective] Not the same. | [adjective] Out of balance. UNIQUER (16) UNIQUES (16) [noun] A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled. UNQUIET (16) [verb] To disturb, disquiet. | [adjective] Uneasy and restless; unable to settle. | [adjective] Causing unease or restlessness. UNQUOTE (16) [verb] To convert (a quoted expression) back to its original form. | [interjection] Used in speech to indicate the end of a quotation. VAQUERO (19) [noun] A cowboy; a herdsman. YANQUIS (19) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A citizen of the United States of America, as opposed to a Latin American.

ACEQUIAS (19) [noun] Irrigation channels or canals, especially those used in the southwestern United States and Spain for distributing water from a river or stream to agricultural fields. ACQUAINT (19) [verb] (followed by with) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar. | [verb] (followed by of or that) To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant. | [verb] To familiarize; to accustom. ACQUESTS (19) [noun] Property or possessions acquired during marriage, as distinguished from those brought into the marriage. | [noun] Plural of acquest, referring to acquisitions or things acquired. ACQUIRED (20) [verb] To get. | [verb] To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own | [verb] To contract. ACQUIRER (19) [noun] One who acquires. | [noun] A bank or financial institution that processes credit card or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant. ACQUIRES (19) [verb] To get. | [verb] To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own | [verb] To contract. ADEQUACY (23) [noun] The quality of being sufficient, adequate or able to meet the needs. ADEQUATE (18) [verb] To equalize; to make adequate. | [verb] To equal. | [adjective] Equal to or fulfilling some requirement. AEQUORIN (17) [noun] A protein found in jellyfish that fluoresces blue-green when bound to calcium ions, used as a biological marker in research. ALFAQUIN (20) ALFAQUIS (20) ALIQUANT (17) ALIQUOTS (17) [noun] A portion of a total amount of a solution or suspension. ANTIQUED (18) [verb] To search or shop for antiques. | [verb] To make an object appear to be an antique in some way. | [verb] To emboss without gilding. ANTIQUER (17) [verb] To make something appear old or antique, typically by applying a finish or treatment to give it an aged appearance. ANTIQUES (17) [noun] A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle. | [noun] A caricature. | [noun] (often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper. APPLIQUE (21) [noun] A decorative design made by cutting pieces of material and applying them to the surface of another for decoration. | [verb] To decorate something in this way AQUACADE (20) [noun] An entertainment consisting of swimmers and divers performing to music AQUANAUT (17) [noun] An underwater explorer. AQUARIAL (17) AQUARIAN (17) [adjective] Of or relating to an aquarium. AQUARIST (17) [noun] A person who maintains an aquarium. AQUARIUM (19) [noun] A tank, often made of glass, for keeping live fish or other aquatic animals. | [noun] A public place where live fish and other aquatic animals are exhibited. AQUATICS (19) [noun] Any aquatic plant. | [noun] Sports involving water. AQUATINT (17) [noun] A form of etching with acid on a plate partially covered with varnish that produces a print somewhat resembling a watercolour. | [noun] An etching or print made using this method. | [verb] To make such etchings. AQUATONE (17) AQUAVITS (20) [noun] A Scandinavian spirit distilled from grain or potatoes and flavored with herbs and spices. AQUEDUCT (20) [noun] An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another. | [noun] A structure carrying water over a river or depression, especially in regards to ancient aqueducts. AQUIFERS (20) [noun] An underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel AQUILINE (17) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of eagles; resembling that of an eagle. ARQUEBUS (19) [verb] To shoot with an arquebus. | [noun] An obsolete matchlock firearm. | [noun] A portable gun, varying in size from a small cannon to a musket. When used in the field it was supported upon a tripod or trestle. BANQUETS (19) [noun] A large celebratory meal; a feast. | [noun] A dessert; a course of sweetmeats. | [verb] To participate in a banquet; to feast. BARBEQUE (21) [noun] A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium. | [noun] A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus. | [noun] Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded. BAROQUES (19) [noun] Plural of baroque, referring to the ornate artistic style of the 17th and 18th centuries. | [adjective] Elaborately ornamental or extravagantly styled things; highly decorative or complex in design. BEDQUILT (20) [noun] A quilt or coverlet for a bed. BELIQUOR (19) BEQUEATH (22) [verb] To give or leave by will; to give by testament. | [verb] To hand down; to transmit. | [verb] To give; to offer; to commit. BEQUESTS (19) [noun] The act of bequeathing or leaving by will. | [noun] The transfer of property upon the owner's death according to the will of the deceased. | [noun] That which is left by will; a legacy. BEZIQUES (28) [noun] Plural of bezique, a card game played with a double deck of cards ranking from 7 upward. | [noun] In the card game bezique, a combination of the queen of spades and jack of diamonds that scores points. BIUNIQUE (19) BOSQUETS (19) [noun] Small wooded areas or thickets, typically in gardens or parks. BOUQUETS (19) [noun] A bunch of cut flowers. | [noun] The scent of a particular wine. | [noun] The heart note of a perfume. BOUTIQUE (19) [noun] A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like. | [noun] A small shop located within a larger one. | [noun] A film production company making only a few movies per year. BRIQUETS (19) [noun] A small brick, typically made of charcoal and used for fuel. | [noun] A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving. | [noun] A moulded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material. BRUSQUER (19) [adjective] More abrupt or rough in manner or speech than usual. CACIQUES (21) [noun] A tribal chief in the Spanish West Indies. | [noun] A local political leader in Latin America. | [noun] Any of a number of tropical blackbirds from Central America and South America, family Icteridae. CALQUING (20) [verb] To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts. | [noun] Loan translation CAZIQUES (28) [noun] Plural of cazique, a Native American chief or leader, particularly among indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and Central/South America. CHAQUETA (22) CHARQUID (23) CHARQUIS (22) [noun] Dried meat cut into strips, prepared by the Incas and other South American peoples. | [noun] Plural of charqui, referring to multiple strips of dried meat. CHEQUERS (22) [noun] One who checks or verifies something. | [noun] One who makes a check mark. | [noun] The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment. CINQUAIN (19) [noun] A five-line poetic form which consists of 2, 4, 6, 8 then 2 syllables. | [noun] A five-line poetic form which consists of 1 noun, 2 adjectives, 3 actions, 4 feeling words, then 1 noun that is the same as top noun CLAQUERS (19) [noun] People who clap, especially members of a group hired to applaud a performance. CLAQUEUR (19) [noun] One of the claque employed to applaud at a theatre. CLIQUIER (19) [adjective] Having the characteristics of a clique CLIQUING (20) CLIQUISH (22) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a clique. | [adjective] Tending to associate with a small and exclusive group. COEQUALS (19) [noun] An equal person or thing. COEQUATE (19) COLLOQUY (22) [noun] A conversation or dialogue. | [noun] A formal conference. | [noun] A church court held by certain Reformed denominations. CONQUERS (19) [verb] To defeat in combat; to subjugate. | [verb] To acquire by force of arms, win in war. | [verb] To overcome an abstract obstacle. CONQUEST (19) [noun] Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy. | [noun] (by extenstion) An act or instance of overcoming an obstacle. | [noun] That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral. CONQUIAN (19) [noun] A card game, a precursor to rummy, played with a deck of cards where players form melds of sequences or sets. COQUETRY (22) [noun] Coquettish behaviour; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing. | [noun] An act constituting such behaviour; an affectation of amorous interest or enticement, especially of a woman directed towards a man. COQUETTE (19) [verb] To act as a flirt or coquet. | [verb] To waste time; to dally. | [verb] To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint; to lead on. COQUILLE (19) [noun] A shell-shaped dish or a scallop shell used for serving food. | [noun] In printing, a defect where a letter is printed backwards or upside down. COQUINAS (19) [noun] Any of several small marine clams, of the species Donax variabilis, common in United States coastal waters. | [noun] A soft form of limestone made of fragments of shells, sometimes used as a building or road paving material. COQUITOS (19) [noun] A traditional Puerto Rican alcoholic eggnog made with coconut. COTQUEAN (19) [noun] A man who busies himself with women's affairs or domestic matters; a man considered effeminate or unmanly. CRITIQUE (19) [noun] The art of criticism. | [noun] An essay in which another piece of work is criticised, reviewed, etc. | [noun] A point made to criticize something. CROQUETS (19) [verb] (games) To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet. CUMQUATS (21) [noun] A small, orange citrus-like fruit which is native to Asia (Citrus japonica, syn. Fortunella japonica). DAIQUIRI (18) [noun] A cocktail of rum, lemon or lime juice and sugar, sometimes with fruit added. DISQUIET (18) [noun] Lack of quiet; absence of tranquility in body or mind | [verb] To make (someone or something) worried or anxious. | [adjective] Deprived of quiet; impatient, restless, uneasy. ELOQUENT (17) [adjective] Fluently persuasive and articulate | [adjective] Effective in expressing meaning by speech ENQUIRED (18) [verb] To make an enquiry. | [verb] To ask about (something). ENQUIRES (17) [verb] To make an enquiry. | [verb] To ask about (something). EQUALING (18) [verb] To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to. | [verb] To make equivalent to; to cause to match. | [verb] To have as its consequence. EQUALISE (17) [verb] To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree. | [verb] To be equal to; to equal, to rival. | [verb] To make the scoreline equal by scoring points. EQUALITY (20) [noun] The fact of being equal. | [noun] The fact of being equal, of having the same value. | [noun] The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences. EQUALIZE (26) [verb] To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree. | [verb] To be equal to; to equal, to rival. | [verb] To make the scoreline equal by scoring points. EQUALLED (18) [verb] To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to. | [verb] To make equivalent to; to cause to match. | [verb] To have as its consequence. EQUATING (18) [verb] To consider equal or equivalent. | [verb] To set as equal. | [noun] The act by which things are equated; the evaluation of things as equivalent. EQUATION (17) [noun] The act or process of equating two or more things, or the state of those things being equal (that is, identical). | [noun] An assertion that two expressions are equal, expressed by writing the two expressions separated by an equal sign; from which one is to determine a particular quantity. | [noun] A small correction to observed values to remove the effects of systematic errors in an observation. EQUATORS (17) [noun] (often “the Equator”) An imaginary great circle around the Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere. | [noun] A similar great circle on any sphere, especially on a celestial body, or on other reasonably symmetrical three-dimensional body. | [noun] The midline of any generally spherical object, such as a fruit or vegetable, that has identifiable poles. EQUINELY (20) EQUINITY (20) EQUIPAGE (20) [noun] Equipment or supplies, especially military ones. | [noun] Military dress; uniform, armour etc. | [noun] A type of horse-drawn carriage. EQUIPPED (22) [verb] To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging) | [verb] To dress up; to array; to clothe. | [verb] To prepare (someone) with a skill. EQUIPPER (21) EQUISETA (17) [noun] The horsetail (plant of genus Equisetum) EQUITANT (17) [adjective] Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback. | [adjective] Overlapping at the base. EQUITIES (17) [noun] Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right". | [noun] Various related senses originating with the Court of Chancery in late Medieval England | [noun] Various senses related to net value EQUIVOKE (24) [noun] A homonym. | [noun] A play on words, a pun. | [noun] Ambiguity or double meaning. ESQUIRED (18) ESQUIRES (17) [noun] A lawyer. | [noun] A male member of the gentry ranking below a knight. | [noun] An honorific sometimes placed after a man's name. EXEQUIAL (24) [adjective] Of or pertaining to funerals; funereal. EXEQUIES (24) [noun] (now only in plural) Funeral rites. FREQUENT (20) [adjective] Done or occurring often; common. | [adjective] Occurring at short intervals. | [adjective] Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent. | [verb] To visit often. HENEQUEN (20) [noun] A tropical American agave, Agave fourcroydes, whose thick, sword-shaped leaves yield a coarse reddish fibre used in making rope etc. | [noun] The fibre from this plant (sometimes mistakenly called sisal, which is from Agave sisalana). HENEQUIN (20) HENIQUEN (20) ILLIQUID (18) [adjective] Lacking liquidity; unable to be converted into cash. INEQUITY (20) [noun] A lack of justice; injustice. | [noun] An unjust act; a disservice. INIQUITY (20) [noun] Deviation from what is right; gross injustice, sin, wickedness. | [noun] An act of great injustice or unfairness; a sinful or wicked act; an unconscionable deed. INQUESTS (17) [noun] A formal investigation, often held before a jury, especially one into the cause of a death | [noun] An inquiry, typically into an undesired outcome | [noun] The jury hearing such an inquiry, and the result of the inquiry INQUIETS (17) INQUIRED (18) [verb] To ask (about something). | [verb] To make an inquiry or an investigation. | [verb] To call; to name. INQUIRER (17) INQUIRES (17) [verb] To ask (about something). | [verb] To make an inquiry or an investigation. | [verb] To call; to name. JACQUARD (27) [noun] Fabric woven on a Jacquard loom. | [noun] Fabric resembling a jacquard, but woven by a different process. | [noun] A Jacquard loom. JONQUILS (24) [noun] A fragrant bulb flower (Narcissus jonquilla), a species of daffodil. | [noun] A shade of yellow. KUMQUATS (23) [noun] A small, orange citrus-like fruit which is native to Asia (Citrus japonica, syn. Fortunella japonica). LACQUERS (19) [noun] A glossy, resinous material used as a surface coating; either a natural exudation of certain trees, or a solution of nitrocellulose in alcohol, etc. | [noun] A similar finish, baked onto the inside of cans. LACQUEYS (22) [noun] A footman, a liveried male servant. | [noun] A fawning, servile follower. LIQUATED (18) [verb] To separate by fusion, as a more fusible from a less fusible material. | [verb] To melt; to become liquid (liquefy) LIQUATES (17) [verb] To separate by fusion, as a more fusible from a less fusible material. | [verb] To melt; to become liquid (liquefy) LIQUEURS (17) [noun] A flavoured alcoholic beverage that is usually very sweet and contains a high percentage of alcohol. Cordials are a type of liqueur manufactured using the infusion process as opposed to the essence and distillation processes. | [verb] To flavor or treat (wine) with a liqueur | [verb] To top up bottles of sparkling wine with a sugar solution LIQUIDLY (21) LIQUORED (18) [verb] To drink liquor, usually to excess. | [verb] To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess. | [verb] To grease. MACAQUES (21) [noun] Any of a group of Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae, especially genus Macaca. MAQUETTE (19) [noun] A preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture. | [verb] To prepare a maquette (of). MARQUEES (19) [noun] A large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment. | [noun] A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it. | [noun] (by generalization) Lights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee. MARQUESS (19) [noun] A title of nobility for a man ranking beneath a duke and above an earl. MARQUISE (19) [noun] A marchioness, especially one who is French. | [noun] A marquee. | [noun] (jewelry) An oval cut diamond with pointed ends. MASQUERS (19) [noun] One who appears in disguise at a masquerade. MESQUITE (19) [noun] Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Prosopis found in North America, and used as forage, which have long, beige seed/bean pods which may be dried and ground into a sweet, nutty flour. | [noun] The wood of these trees, used for smoking food, or charcoal made from this wood. | [noun] Country or land dominated by mesquite trees. MESQUITS (19) MEZQUITE (28) MEZQUITS (28) MIQUELET (19) MISQUOTE (19) [noun] An incorrect recitation of a quote. | [noun] An incorrect recording of a quote. | [verb] To incorrectly recite a quote. MOQUETTE (19) [noun] A kind of fabric with a thick pile used for carpeting or to upholster seating etc. | [noun] An article covered in such material. MORESQUE (19) MOSQUITO (19) [noun] A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria and yellow fever. | [verb] To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course. MUSQUASH (22) [noun] The muskrat, Ondatra zibethicus. MYSTIQUE (22) [noun] An aura of heightened interest, meaning or mystery surrounding a person or thing. NONEQUAL (17) NONQUOTA (17) OBLIQUED (20) OBLIQUES (19) [noun] An oblique line. | [noun] (grammar) The oblique case. | [noun] A slashing action or motion, particularly: OLDSQUAW (21) [noun] Clangula hyemalis, the long-tailed duck, a medium-sized seaduck. OPAQUELY (22) OPAQUEST (19) [adjective] Neither reflecting nor emitting light. | [adjective] Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent. | [adjective] Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of OPAQUING (20) OQUASSAS (17) OUTQUOTE (17) PARAQUAT (19) [noun] A poisonous yellow herbicide derived from bipyridine PARAQUET (19) PAROQUET (19) PARQUETS (19) [verb] To lay or fit such a floor. PASQUILS (19) PERIQUES (19) PHYSIQUE (25) [noun] The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person. | [noun] The trained muscular structure of a person's body. PICQUETS (21) [noun] A stake driven into the ground. | [noun] A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake. | [noun] A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls. PIQUANCE (21) PIQUANCY (24) [noun] The degree to which something is piquant, stimulating or exciting. PIROQUES (19) POSTIQUE (19) PRATIQUE (19) [noun] Permission to use a port given to a ship after compliance with quarantine or on conviction that she is free of contagious disease. | [noun] Practice; habits. PREQUELS (19) [noun] In a series of works, an installment that is set chronologically before its predecessor, especially the original narrative or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative work with at least one sequel. QINDARKA (22) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Albanian lek QUAALUDE (18) [noun] A dose of this drug, sometimes taken recreationally. QUACKERY (26) [noun] The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud. | [noun] An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine. QUACKING (24) [verb] To make a noise like a duck. | [verb] To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine). | [verb] To make vain and loud pretensions. QUACKISH (26) QUACKISM (25) QUADDING (20) QUADPLEX (27) [noun] A building divided into four separate residences or commercial premises QUADRANS (18) QUADRANT (18) [noun] One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines. | [noun] One of the four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis. | [noun] One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°. QUADRATE (18) [noun] A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square. | [noun] An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. | [noun] The quadrate bone. QUADRATS (18) [noun] An area of land, marked for studying its plants, animals, soil, natural processes, etc. | [noun] A quad; a blank metal block used to fill space in lines of type. | [noun] A virtual rectangular subdivision of a line or column of hieroglyphs within which a group of hieroglyphs is arranged. QUADRICS (20) [noun] A surface or curve whose shape is defined in terms of a quadratic equation QUADRIGA (19) QUADROON (18) [noun] A person of three-fourths Caucasian descent and one fourth African descent. | [noun] A person of three-quarters Aboriginal descent and one quarter Caucasian descent; a person of one quarter Aboriginal descent. | [adjective] Having three-fourths Caucasian descent and one-fourth African descent. QUAESTOR (17) [noun] An Ancient Roman official responsible for public revenue and other financial affairs. | [noun] The Quaestor sacri palatii of the late Roman Empire and Byzantium; first generally a legislator, then judicial official, and eventually an honorary title by the 14th century. | [noun] In the Middle Ages, an officer who announced indulgences. QUAFFERS (23) QUAFFING (24) [verb] To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts. | [noun] The act by which something is quaffed; a drinking. QUAGGIER (19) QUAGMIRE (20) [noun] A swampy, soggy area of ground. | [noun] A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle; a predicament. | [verb] To embroil (a person, etc.) in complexity or difficulty. QUAGMIRY (23) QUAHAUGS (21) [noun] An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria. | [noun] A similar edible clam found along coasts around the North Atlantic, generally in deeper waters, the ocean quahog, black quahog, mahogany clam or Icelandic cyprine, Arctica islandica QUAICHES (22) [noun] A traditional shallow, two-handled cup of Scottish origin symbolizing friendship. It was originally used to toast the arrival or departure of a visitor. | [noun] (by extension) Any two-handled drinking vessel or trophy. QUAILING (18) [verb] To waste away; to fade, to wither | [verb] To daunt or frighten (someone) | [verb] To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful. QUAINTER (17) [adjective] Of a person: cunning, crafty. | [adjective] Cleverly made; artfully contrived. | [adjective] Strange or odd; unusual. QUAINTLY (20) [adverb] In a quaint manner; oddly; strangely. QUAKIEST (21) QUALMIER (19) QUALMISH (22) QUANDANG (19) QUANDARY (21) [noun] A state of not knowing what to decide; a state of difficulty or perplexity; a state of uncertainty, hesitation or puzzlement. | [noun] A dilemma, a difficult decision or choice. QUANDONG (19) [noun] Any of several species of Santalum: | [noun] Any of many species of Elaeocarpus: | [noun] Highroot quandong (Aceratium concinnum) QUANTICS (19) [noun] A homogeneous polynomial in two or more variables. QUANTIFY (23) [verb] To assign a quantity to. | [verb] To determine the value of (a variable or expression). QUANTILE (17) [noun] One of the class of values of a variate which divides the members of a batch or sample into equal-sized subgroups of adjacent values or a probability distribution into distributions of equal probability. QUANTING (18) QUANTITY (20) [noun] A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items. | [noun] An indefinite amount of something. | [noun] A specific measured amount. QUANTIZE (26) [verb] To limit the number of possible values of a quantity, or states of a system, by applying the rules of quantum mechanics | [verb] To approximate a continuously varying signal by one whose amplitude can only have a set of discrete values | [verb] To shift each beat in a rhythmic pattern to the nearest beat of a given resolution (eighth note, sixteenth note, etc.), or to adjust the frequency or pitch of a note to the nearest perfect tone in a given musical scale QUANTONG (18) QUARRELS (17) [noun] A verbal dispute or heated argument. | [noun] A ground of dispute or objection; a complaint. | [noun] An earnest desire or longing. QUARRIED (18) [adjective] Provided with quarry or prey. | [verb] To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry. | [verb] To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching. QUARRIER (17) QUARRIES (17) [noun] A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate. | [verb] To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry. | [verb] To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching. QUARTANS (17) QUARTERN (17) [noun] A quarter part; one fourth. | [noun] A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds. QUARTERS (17) [noun] A fourth part of something. | [noun] Place or position. | [noun] Technical or specialized senses. QUARTETS (17) [noun] A music composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument. | [noun] The set of four musicians who perform a piece of music together in four parts. | [noun] A group of four singers, usually males, who sings together in four-part harmony. QUARTICS (19) [noun] An algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree. | [noun] A curve describing such an equation or function. QUARTILE (17) [noun] Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population. | [noun] Any one of the four groups so divided. QUARTZES (26) QUASHERS (20) QUASHING (21) [verb] To defeat decisively. | [verb] To crush or dash to pieces. | [verb] To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.). QUASSIAS (17) [noun] Any of several tropic trees, of the genus Quassia, having scarlet flowers. | [noun] The bitter substance quassin extracted from its bark. QUASSINS (17) QUATORZE (26) [noun] The four aces, kings, queens, jacks, or tens, in the game of piquet, any of these counting as fourteen points. QUATRAIN (17) [noun] A poem in four lines. | [noun] A stanza of four lines. QUAVERED (21) [verb] To shake in a trembling manner. | [verb] To use the voice in a trembling manner, as in speaking or singing. | [verb] To utter quaveringly. QUAVERER (20) QUAYAGES (21) QUAYLIKE (24) QUAYSIDE (21) [noun] An area alongside a quay. QUEASIER (17) [adjective] Experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach. | [adjective] Easily troubled; squeamish. QUEASILY (20) QUEAZIER (26) QUEENDOM (20) QUEENING (18) [verb] To make a queen. | [verb] To act the part of a queen; to queen it. | [verb] To promote a pawn, usually to a queen. QUEEREST (17) [adjective] Weird, odd or different; whimsical. | [adjective] Slightly unwell (mainly in "to feel queer"). | [adjective] Drunk. QUEERING (18) [verb] To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null. | [verb] To puzzle. | [verb] To ridicule; to banter; to rally. QUEERISH (20) QUELLERS (17) QUELLING (18) [verb] To subdue, to put down; to silence or force (someone) to submit. | [verb] To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish. | [verb] To kill. QUENCHED (23) [verb] To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst. | [verb] To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light). | [verb] To cool rapidly by dipping into a bath of coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron. QUENCHER (22) [noun] Something that quenches (thirst, fire, etc.) QUENCHES (22) [verb] To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst. | [verb] To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light). | [verb] To cool rapidly by dipping into a bath of coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron. QUENELLE (17) [noun] A light dumpling made of lightly spiced minced meat or fish bound with egg and poached. | [noun] An elliptical shape moulded by chefs from soft foods using two spoons. | [noun] A gesture which is usually performed by pointing one arm diagonally downwards palm down, while touching the shoulder with the opposite hand. QUERCINE (19) QUERIDAS (18) [noun] (in Latin-American contexts) darling QUERIERS (17) QUERISTS (17) [noun] A person who asks questions. QUERYING (21) [verb] To ask a question. | [verb] To ask, inquire. | [verb] To question or call into doubt. QUESTERS (17) QUESTING (18) [verb] To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job. | [verb] To search for; to examine. | [verb] (of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal. QUESTION (17) [noun] A sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response; an interrogative. | [noun] A subject or topic for consideration or investigation. | [noun] A doubt or challenge about the truth or accuracy of a matter. QUESTORS (17) QUETZALS (26) [noun] Any trogon of the genus Pharomacrus, especially the resplendent quetzal, Pharomacrus mocinno, which has very long tail feathers and is found in Guatemala and Costa Rica. | [noun] A monetary unit used in Guatemala, equal to 100 centavos. QUEUEING (18) [verb] To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line. | [verb] To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue. | [verb] To add to a queue data structure. QUEZALES (26) QUIBBLED (22) [verb] To complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner. QUIBBLER (21) QUIBBLES (21) [noun] A pun. | [noun] An objection or argument based on an ambiguity of wording or similar trivial circumstance; a minor complaint. QUICKENS (23) [verb] To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive. | [verb] To come back to life, receive life. | [verb] To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited. QUICKEST (23) [adjective] Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast. | [adjective] Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly. | [adjective] Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent. QUICKIES (23) [noun] Something made or done swiftly. | [noun] (by extension) A brief sexual encounter. | [noun] A fast bowler. QUICKSET (23) [noun] The cuttings used, or the hedge produced by this method | [adjective] (of a hedge etc) Grown from cuttings planted directly into the ground QUIDDITY (22) [noun] The essence or inherent nature of a person or thing. | [noun] A trifle; a nicety or quibble. | [noun] An eccentricity; an odd feature. QUIDNUNC (20) [noun] A person eager to learn news and scandal. QUIETENS (17) [verb] To make quiet. | [verb] To become quiet. QUIETERS (17) QUIETEST (17) [adjective] With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise. | [adjective] Having little motion or activity; calm. | [adjective] Not busy, of low quantity. QUIETING (18) [verb] To become quiet, silent, still, tranquil, calm. | [verb] To cause someone to become quiet. | [noun] The act of making something quiet. QUIETISM (19) [noun] A form of mysticism involving quiet contemplation. | [noun] A state of passive quietness. QUIETIST (17) QUIETUDE (18) [noun] Tranquility QUILLAIA (17) QUILLAIS (17) QUILLAJA (24) QUILLETS (17) QUILLING (18) [verb] To pierce or be pierced with quills. | [verb] To write. | [verb] To form fabric into small, rounded folds. QUILTERS (17) QUILTING (18) [verb] To construct a quilt. | [verb] To construct something, such as clothing, using the same technique. | [noun] A layer or layers of quilted padding. QUINCUNX (26) [noun] An arrangement of five units in a pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice, playing cards, or dominoes. | [noun] An angle of five-twelfths of a circle, or 150°, between two objects. | [noun] A Galton board. QUINELAS (17) QUINELLA (17) [noun] A form of bet in which the bettor predicts the first two finishers in a race, without concern for the order of finishing. | [verb] To have two team members, horses, etc., finish first and second in the same event. QUINIELA (17) QUININAS (17) QUININES (17) QUINNATS (17) QUINOIDS (18) QUINOLIN (17) QUINONES (17) [noun] Any of a class of aromatic compounds having two carbonyl functional groups in the same six-membered ring. QUINSIES (17) QUINTAIN (17) [noun] An object (generally a post or plank on a support) set up as a target to be tilted at in jousting, or otherwise used as target practice. QUINTALS (17) [noun] (historical except India) A measure of weight originally equal to a hundred pounds; later, a hundredweight. | [noun] One hundred kilograms. QUINTANS (17) QUINTARS (17) QUINTETS (17) [noun] A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians) | [noun] A group of five musicians, fit to play such a piece of music together | [noun] Any group of five members QUINTICS (19) QUINTILE (17) [noun] Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets. | [noun] (by extension) A subset thus obtained. | [noun] An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72°) QUINTINS (17) QUIPPERS (21) QUIPPING (22) [verb] To make a quip. | [verb] To taunt; to treat with quips. QUIPPISH (24) QUIPSTER (19) [noun] A person who makes quips; a joker QUIRKIER (21) [adjective] Given to quirks or idiosyncrasies; strange in a somewhat silly, awkward manner, potentially cute. QUIRKILY (24) QUIRKING (22) [verb] To move with a wry jerk. | [verb] To furnish with a quirk or channel. | [verb] To use verbal tricks or quibbles QUIRKISH (24) QUIRTING (18) [verb] To strike with a quirt. QUISLING (18) [noun] A traitor who collaborates with the enemy. QUITCHES (22) QUITRENT (17) QUITTERS (17) [noun] One who quits. | [noun] A deliverer. QUITTING (18) [verb] To pay (a debt, fine etc.). | [verb] To repay (someone) for (something). | [verb] To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.). QUITTORS (17) QUIVERED (21) [verb] To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver. | [adjective] Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver for arrows. | [adjective] Sheathed, as in a quiver. QUIVERER (20) QUIXOTES (24) QUIXOTIC (26) [adjective] Possessing or acting with the desire to do noble and romantic deeds, without thought of realism and practicality; exceedingly idealistic. | [adjective] Impulsive. | [adjective] Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded. QUIXOTRY (27) QUIZZERS (35) [noun] A person who quizzes or asks questions. | [noun] A person who takes part in a quiz. | [noun] One who chaffs or mocks. QUIZZING (36) [verb] To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions. | [verb] To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly. | [verb] To question closely, to interrogate. QUOINING (18) [verb] To wedge or steady with quoins. | [noun] The architectural elements, such as stone or brick, that form a quoin QUOITING (18) [verb] To play quoits. | [verb] To throw as with a quoit. QUOMODOS (20) QUOTABLE (19) [adjective] Capable or worthy of being quoted QUOTABLY (22) QUOTIENT (17) [noun] The number resulting from the division of one number by another. | [noun] By analogy, the result of any process that is the inverse of multiplication as defined for any mathematical entities other than numbers. | [noun] A quotum or quota. QURUSHES (20) RACQUETS (19) [noun] An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis, or a shuttlecock in badminton. | [verb] To hit with a racquet. | [verb] To play a game that involves using a racquet. RAMEQUIN (19) REEQUIPS (19) [verb] To equip again; to provide with new equipment RELIQUES (17) REMARQUE (19) REQUESTS (17) [noun] Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence). | [noun] A formal message requesting something. | [noun] Condition of being sought after. REQUIEMS (19) [noun] A mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person. | [noun] A musical composition for such a mass. | [noun] A piece of music composed to honor a dead person. REQUIRED (18) [verb] To ask (someone) for something; to request. | [verb] To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively. | [verb] Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. REQUIRER (17) REQUIRES (17) [verb] To ask (someone) for something; to request. | [verb] To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively. | [verb] Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. REQUITAL (17) REQUITED (18) [verb] To return (usually something figurative) that has been given; to repay; to recompense | [verb] To retaliate. REQUITER (17) REQUITES (17) [verb] To return (usually something figurative) that has been given; to repay; to recompense | [verb] To retaliate. ROQUETED (18) [verb] In croquet, to hit another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken. RORQUALS (17) [noun] Any whale of family Balaenopteridae, with longitudinal skin folds running from below the mouth to the navel, allowing the capacity of the mouth to expand greatly when feeding. SEAQUAKE (21) [noun] A hydrostatic pressure disturbance caused by an earthquake or volcano in the seabed. SEQUELAE (17) [noun] A disease or condition which is caused by an earlier disease or problem. | [noun] That which follows; an inference or corollary. SEQUENCE (19) [noun] A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series | [noun] The state of being sequent or following; order of succession. | [noun] A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony). SEQUENCY (22) SEQUENTS (17) SEQUINED (18) SEQUITUR (17) SEQUOIAS (17) [noun] Sequoiadendron giganteum, a coniferous evergreen tree formerly in the genus Sequoia, now placed in Sequoiadendron. | [noun] Sequoia sempervirens, a coniferous evergreen tree, the only living species of the genus Sequoia. SHEQALIM (22) SILIQUAE (17) [noun] A weight of four grains; a carat. | [noun] A long dry fruit (seed capsule), length more than twice the width, typical to cruciferous plants and consisting of two fused carpels that separate when ripe. SILIQUES (17) [noun] A long dry fruit (seed capsule), length more than twice the width, typical to cruciferous plants and consisting of two fused carpels that separate when ripe. SOLIQUID (18) SQUABBLE (21) [noun] A minor fight or argument. | [verb] To participate in a minor fight or argument. | [verb] To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment. SQUADDED (20) SQUADRON (18) [noun] Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square. | [noun] A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers. | [noun] A body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and fifty men, and led by a captain or a major. SQUALENE (17) [noun] A linear triterpene hydrocarbon found in shark liver oil and in human sebum; it plays a role in the biosynthesis of steroids. SQUALLED (18) [verb] To cry or wail loudly. SQUALLER (17) SQUALORS (17) SQUAMATE (19) [noun] Any reptile of the order Squamata. | [adjective] Covered in scales. SQUAMOSE (19) [adjective] Covered with, made of, or resembling scales; scaly. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal SQUAMOUS (19) [adjective] Covered with, made of, or resembling scales; scaly. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal SQUANDER (18) [verb] To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate. | [verb] To scatter; to disperse. | [verb] To wander at random; to scatter. SQUARELY (20) [adverb] In the shape of a square; at right angles | [adverb] Firmly and solidly | [adverb] In a direct, straightforward and honest manner SQUARERS (17) SQUAREST (17) [adjective] Shaped like a square (the polygon). | [adjective] Forming a right angle, especially at right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced. | [adjective] Of numbers formed by multiplying two equal numbers. SQUARING (18) [verb] To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular: | [verb] To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit. | [verb] To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something. SQUARISH (20) SQUASHED (21) [verb] To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush. | [verb] To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze. | [verb] To suppress; to force into submission. SQUASHER (20) SQUASHES (20) [noun] A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets. | [noun] A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water. | [noun] A place or a situation where people have limited space to move. SQUATTED (18) [verb] To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet. | [verb] (exercise) To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee. | [verb] To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner. SQUATTER (17) [noun] One who squats, sits down idly. | [noun] One who occupies a building or land without title or permission. | [noun] A large-scale grazier and landowner. SQUAWKED (25) [verb] To make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly. | [verb] To speak out; to protest. | [verb] To report an infraction; to rat on or tattle; to disclose a secret. SQUAWKER (24) SQUEAKED (22) [verb] To emit a short, high-pitched sound. | [verb] To inform, to squeal. | [verb] To speak or sound in a high-pitched manner. SQUEAKER (21) [noun] One who or that which squeaks. | [noun] A party toy that uncoils with a squeaking sound when blown; a party puffer. | [noun] An informer. SQUEALED (18) [verb] To scream with a shrill, prolonged sound. | [verb] To give sensitive information about someone to a third party; to rat on someone. SQUEALER (17) [noun] Any animal or person who squeals. | [noun] A pig. | [noun] An informant. SQUEEGEE (18) [noun] A tool consisting of a rubber or similar blade attached at a right angle to a handle, particularly | [noun] A roller used to similar effect, particularly | [noun] A person who uses a squeegee, especially one who "cleans" the windshield of a car stopped at a traffic light and then demands payment. SQUEEZED (27) [verb] To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once. | [verb] To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to. | [verb] To fit into a tight place. SQUEEZER (26) SQUEEZES (26) [noun] A close or tight fit. | [noun] A difficult position. | [noun] A hug or other affectionate grasp. SQUEGGED (20) SQUELCHY (25) SQUIBBED (22) [verb] To make a sound like a small explosion. | [verb] To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute. SQUIDDED (20) [verb] To fish with the kind of hook called a squid. | [verb] (parachuting) To cause squidding (an improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth). SQUIFFED (24) [adjective] Intoxicated SQUIGGLE (19) [noun] A short twisting or wiggling line or mark | [noun] The tilde | [noun] An illegible scrawl SQUIGGLY (22) SQUILGEE (18) SQUILLAE (17) SQUILLAS (17) SQUINTED (18) [verb] To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression. | [verb] To look or glance sideways. | [verb] To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus. SQUINTER (17) SQUIREEN (17) [noun] (originally Ireland) A minor squire; a small landowner. SQUIRING (18) [verb] To attend as a squire. | [verb] To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection. SQUIRISH (20) SQUIRMED (20) [verb] To twist one's body with snakelike motions. | [verb] To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment. | [verb] To evade a question, an interviewer etc. SQUIRMER (19) SQUIRREL (17) [noun] Any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae distinguished by their large bushy tail. | [noun] A person, usually a freezoner, who applies L. Ron Hubbard's technology in a heterodox manner. | [noun] One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder. SQUIRTED (18) [verb] (of a liquid) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice. | [verb] (of a liquid) To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice. | [verb] To hit with a rapid stream of liquid. SQUIRTER (17) SQUISHED (21) [verb] To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist). | [verb] To be compressed or squeezed. SQUISHES (20) [noun] The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed. | [noun] A political moderate. | [noun] Marmalade. SQUOOSHY (23) SQUUSHED (21) SQUUSHES (20) TEQUILAS (17) [noun] An alcoholic liquor distilled from the fermented juice of the Central American century plant Agave tequilana TORQUATE (17) TORQUERS (17) TORQUING (18) [verb] To twist or turn something. TRANQUIL (17) [adjective] Free from emotional or mental disturbance. | [adjective] Calm; without motion or sound. TURQUOIS (17) UBIQUITY (22) [noun] The state or quality of being, or appearing to be, everywhere at once; actual or perceived omnipresence. | [noun] Anything that is ubiquitous within a specified area. UNEQUALS (17) [noun] One who is not an equal. UNIQUELY (20) [adverb] In a unique manner. UNIQUEST (17) UNQUIETS (17) UNQUOTED (18) [adjective] Not quoted on the stock exchange. | [adjective] Not enclosed in quotation marks. | [adjective] Not having been quoted; whose words have not been repeated by others. UNQUOTES (17) [verb] To convert (a quoted expression) back to its original form. USQUABAE (19) USQUEBAE (19) VANQUISH (23) [verb] To defeat, to overcome. VAQUEROS (20) [noun] A cowboy; a herdsman.

ACQUAINTS (20) [verb] (followed by with) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar. | [verb] (followed by of or that) To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant. | [verb] To familiarize; to accustom. ACQUIESCE (22) [verb] (with in (or sometimes with, to)) To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object. | [verb] To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition. ACQUIRERS (20) [noun] One who acquires. | [noun] A bank or financial institution that processes credit card or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant. ACQUIRING (21) [verb] To get. | [verb] To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own | [verb] To contract. ACQUITTAL (20) [noun] The act of fulfilling the duties (of a given role, obligation etc.). | [noun] A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process. | [noun] Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends. ACQUITTED (21) [verb] To declare or find innocent or not guilty. | [verb] To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil. | [verb] Followed by of (and formerly by from): to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge. ACQUITTER (20) [noun] One who acquits or declares not guilty. | [noun] One who settles or discharges a debt or obligation. AEQUORINS (18) [noun] Proteins found in jellyfish that fluoresce and are used in biological research to detect calcium ions. ALFAQUINS (21) ANTIQUARK (22) [noun] The antiparticle of a quark. ANTIQUARY (21) [noun] A person who is knowledgeable of, or who collects antiques; an antiquarian. | [noun] An aficionado or student of antiquities, ancient artifacts, historic sites, ancient writings, or things of the past. | [adjective] Relating to antiquity. ANTIQUATE (18) [verb] To make something old-fashioned or outdated. | [verb] To cause something to seem old or obsolete. ANTIQUERS (18) [noun] People who deal in or collect antiques. | [verb] Third-person singular present tense of the verb "antique," meaning to make something appear old or to finish with an antique appearance. ANTIQUING (19) [verb] To search or shop for antiques. | [verb] To make an object appear to be an antique in some way. | [verb] To emboss without gilding. ANTIQUITY (21) [noun] Ancient times; faraway history; former ages | [noun] The people of ancient times. | [noun] An old gentleman. APPLIQUED (23) [verb] To decorate something in this way APPLIQUES (22) [noun] A decorative design made by cutting pieces of material and applying them to the surface of another for decoration. | [verb] To decorate something in this way AQUACADES (21) [noun] An entertainment consisting of swimmers and divers performing to music AQUANAUTS (18) [noun] An underwater explorer. AQUAPLANE (20) [noun] A board ridden by a standing person and pulled by a motorboat for entertainment | [verb] To ride such a board | [verb] For a car or similar vehicle to slide along the road on a thin film of water between the road and the tyres. This occurs when a car has some speed and comes to somewhere with more water on the road than the weight of the car and the grooves in the tyre tread pattern (if any) can push away. The result is almost no traction at all for steering or braking. AQUARELLE (18) [noun] A watercolour (painting) | [noun] A printed picture coloured by the application of watercolor through stencils, using a different stencil for each colour. AQUARIANS (18) [noun] People born under the zodiac sign Aquarius (approximately January 20 to February 18). | [noun] Members of a sect or group associated with water or aquatic beliefs in historical contexts. AQUARISTS (18) [noun] A person who maintains an aquarium. AQUARIUMS (20) [noun] A tank, often made of glass, for keeping live fish or other aquatic animals. | [noun] A public place where live fish and other aquatic animals are exhibited. AQUATINTS (18) [noun] A form of etching with acid on a plate partially covered with varnish that produces a print somewhat resembling a watercolour. | [noun] An etching or print made using this method. AQUATONES (18) AQUEDUCTS (21) [noun] An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another. | [noun] A structure carrying water over a river or depression, especially in regards to ancient aqueducts. AQUILEGIA (19) [noun] Any member of the genus Aquilegia. ARABESQUE (20) [noun] An elaborate design of intertwined floral figures or complex geometrical patterns, mainly used in Islamic Art and architecture. | [noun] An ornate composition, especially for the piano. | [noun] A dance position in which the dancer stands on one leg, with the other raised backwards, and the arms outstretched. BANQUETED (21) [verb] To participate in a banquet; to feast. | [verb] To have dessert after a feast. | [verb] To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast. BANQUETER (20) [noun] A person who attends or participates in a banquet. BANQUETTE (20) [noun] A narrow area behind a defensive wall's parapet elevated above its terreplein and used by defenders to shoot at attackers. | [noun] A bench built into a wall, especially one built into a wall of a defensive trench, used for sitting and for shooting at attackers. | [noun] An upholstered bench, e.g., along a wall of a restaurant or lounge area. BARBEQUED (23) [verb] To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels. | [verb] To grill. | [adjective] Cooked on a barbecue. BARBEQUES (22) [noun] A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium. | [noun] A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus. | [noun] Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded. BAROQUELY (23) [adverb] In a baroque manner; with the ornate, elaborate, or dramatic style characteristic of baroque art and architecture. BARQUETTE (20) [noun] A small oval pastry case or boat-shaped mold used for serving food, or a small pastry dessert baked in such a mold. BEDQUILTS (21) BELIQUORS (20) BEQUEATHS (23) [verb] To give or leave by will; to give by testament. | [verb] To hand down; to transmit. | [verb] To give; to offer; to commit. BOUTIQUES (20) [noun] A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like. | [noun] A small shop located within a larger one. | [noun] A film production company making only a few movies per year. BRIQUETTE (20) [noun] A small brick, typically made of charcoal and used for fuel. | [noun] A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving. | [noun] A moulded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material. BRUSQUELY (23) [adverb] In a rough, abrupt, or curt manner; bluntly or curtly. BRUSQUEST (20) BURLESQUE (20) [noun] A derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody. | [noun] A variety adult entertainment show, usually including titillation such as striptease, most common from the 1880s to the 1930s. | [noun] A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion. CACIQUISM (24) [noun] A system of political control exercised by a cacique (local leader or boss), particularly in Spanish-speaking countries. CHAQUETAS (23) CHEQUERED (24) [verb] To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard. | [verb] To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard. | [adjective] Divided into squares, or into light and dark patches. CHIBOUQUE (25) [noun] A Turkish tobacco pipe CINQUAINS (20) [noun] A five-line poetic form which consists of 2, 4, 6, 8 then 2 syllables. | [noun] A five-line poetic form which consists of 1 noun, 2 adjectives, 3 actions, 4 feeling words, then 1 noun that is the same as top noun CLAQUEURS (20) [noun] One of the claque employed to applaud at a theatre. CLINQUANT (20) [adjective] Glittering or shining with a bright, often superficial luster. | [noun] A glittering or tinsel-like material used for ornamentation. CLIQUIEST (20) [adjective] Having the characteristics of a clique COEQUALLY (23) COEQUATED (21) COEQUATES (20) [verb] Third person singular present tense of coequate, meaning to equate together or consider as equal simultaneously. COLLOQUIA (20) [noun] A colloquy; a meeting for discussion. | [noun] An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting. | [noun] An address to an academic meeting or seminar. CONQUERED (21) [verb] To defeat in combat; to subjugate. | [verb] To acquire by force of arms, win in war. | [verb] To overcome an abstract obstacle. CONQUEROR (20) [noun] Someone who conquers CONQUESTS (20) [noun] Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy. | [noun] (by extenstion) An act or instance of overcoming an obstacle. | [noun] That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral. CONQUIANS (20) [noun] A card game played with a deck of 40 cards, popular in Mexico and Latin America, in which players try to form sequences and sets of cards. COQUETTED (21) [verb] To act as a flirt or coquet. | [verb] To waste time; to dally. | [verb] To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint; to lead on. COQUETTES (20) [noun] A woman who flirts or plays with men's affections. | [noun] Any hummingbird in the genus Lophornis COQUILLES (20) [noun] Plural of coquille, a shell-shaped dish or a scallop shell used in cooking. | [noun] Decorative shell-shaped architectural ornaments. COTQUEANS (20) [noun] A man who busies himself with women's affairs or household matters; an effeminate man. | [noun] A man who spends too much time in the kitchen or with cooking. CRITIQUED (21) [verb] To review something. CRITIQUES (20) [noun] The art of criticism. | [noun] An essay in which another piece of work is criticised, reviewed, etc. | [noun] A point made to criticize something. CROQUETED (21) [verb] (games) To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet. CROQUETTE (20) [noun] A minced, cooked food (usually meat or vegetables), which is deep-fried in fat and sometimes sprinkled with breadcrumbs. DAIQUIRIS (19) [noun] A cocktail of rum, lemon or lime juice and sugar, sometimes with fruit added. DISQUIETS (19) [noun] Lack of quiet; absence of tranquility in body or mind | [verb] To make (someone or something) worried or anxious. DOMINIQUE (21) ELOQUENCE (20) [noun] The quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing. | [noun] An eloquent utterance. ENQUIRIES (18) [noun] A question. | [noun] Search for truth, information or knowledge. ENQUIRING (19) [verb] To make an enquiry. | [verb] To ask about (something). | [noun] An instance of making an enquiry; an asking. EQUALISED (19) [verb] To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree. | [verb] To be equal to; to equal, to rival. | [verb] To make the scoreline equal by scoring points. EQUALISER (18) [noun] One who makes equal; a balancer. | [noun] A device that balances various quantities. | [noun] A goal, run, point, etc. that equalizes the score. EQUALISES (18) [verb] To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree. | [verb] To be equal to; to equal, to rival. | [verb] To make the scoreline equal by scoring points. EQUALIZED (28) [verb] To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree. | [verb] To be equal to; to equal, to rival. | [verb] To make the scoreline equal by scoring points. EQUALIZER (27) [noun] One who makes equal; a balancer. | [noun] A device that balances various quantities. | [noun] A goal, run, point, etc. that equalizes the score. EQUALIZES (27) [verb] To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree. | [verb] To be equal to; to equal, to rival. | [verb] To make the scoreline equal by scoring points. EQUALLING (19) [verb] To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to. | [verb] To make equivalent to; to cause to match. | [verb] To have as its consequence. EQUATIONS (18) [noun] The act or process of equating two or more things, or the state of those things being equal (that is, identical). | [noun] An assertion that two expressions are equal, expressed by writing the two expressions separated by an equal sign; from which one is to determine a particular quantity. | [noun] A small correction to observed values to remove the effects of systematic errors in an observation. EQUERRIES (18) [noun] An officer responsible for the care and supervision of the horses of a person of rank. | [noun] A personal attendant to a head of state, a member of a royal family, or a national representative. EQUIMOLAR (20) [adjective] Containing the same number of moles (of two or more compounds) EQUINOXES (25) [noun] The intersection of the apparent path of the sun in the sky (the ecliptic) with the celestial equator. | [noun] One of the two days on which this intersection occurs each year: (for the Northern hemisphere) March 20 or 21 in the spring and September 22 or 23 in the autumn. EQUIPAGES (21) [noun] Equipment or supplies, especially military ones. | [noun] Military dress; uniform, armour etc. | [noun] A type of horse-drawn carriage. EQUIPMENT (22) [noun] The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition. | [noun] Whatever is used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage. EQUIPOISE (20) [noun] A state of balance; equilibrium. | [noun] A counterbalance. | [verb] To act or make to act as an equipoise. EQUIPPERS (22) EQUIPPING (23) [verb] To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging) | [verb] To dress up; to array; to clothe. | [verb] To prepare (someone) with a skill. EQUISETUM (20) [noun] The horsetail (plant of genus Equisetum) EQUITABLE (20) [adjective] Marked by or having equity. | [adjective] Fair, just, or impartial. | [adjective] Relating to the general principles of justice that correct or supplement the provisions of the law. EQUITABLY (23) [adverb] In an equitable manner EQUIVOCAL (23) [noun] A word or expression capable of different meanings; an ambiguous term. | [adjective] Having two or more equally applicable meanings; capable of double or multiple interpretation. | [adjective] Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected. EQUIVOKES (25) [noun] A homonym. | [noun] A play on words, a pun. | [noun] Ambiguity or double meaning. EQUIVOQUE (30) [noun] A homonym. | [noun] A play on words, a pun. | [noun] Ambiguity or double meaning. ESQUIRING (19) ETIQUETTE (18) [noun] The forms required by a good upbringing, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society. | [noun] The customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other. | [noun] A label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail. EXCHEQUER (30) [noun] A treasury. | [noun] An available fund of money, especially one for a specific purpose. | [verb] To proceed against (a person) in the Court of Exchequer. EXQUISITE (25) [noun] Fop, dandy. | [adjective] Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional. | [adjective] Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact. FREQUENCE (23) FREQUENCY (26) [noun] The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period. | [noun] The property of occurring often rather than infrequently. | [noun] The quotient of the number of times n a periodic phenomenon occurs over the time t in which it occurs: f = n / t. FREQUENTS (21) [verb] To visit often. GROTESQUE (19) [noun] A style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms. | [noun] Anything grotesque. | [noun] A sans serif typeface. HARLEQUIN (21) [noun] A pantomime fool, typically dressed in checkered colorful clothes. | [noun] A greenish-chartreuse color. | [noun] A harlequin duck. HARQUEBUS (23) [noun] An obsolete matchlock firearm. | [noun] A portable gun, varying in size from a small cannon to a musket. When used in the field it was supported upon a tripod or trestle. HENEQUENS (21) HENEQUINS (21) HENIQUENS (21) INQUIETED (19) INQUILINE (18) [noun] An animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, gall, or dwelling place of an animal of another species. | [noun] An organism that lives within a reservoir of water collected in the hollow of a plant stem or leaf. INQUIRERS (18) INQUIRIES (18) [noun] The act of inquiring; a seeking of information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning. | [noun] Search for truth, information, or knowledge; examination of facts or principles; research; investigation INQUIRING (19) [verb] To ask (about something). | [verb] To make an inquiry or an investigation. | [verb] To call; to name. JACQUARDS (28) [noun] Fabric woven on a Jacquard loom. | [noun] Fabric resembling a jacquard, but woven by a different process. | [noun] A Jacquard loom. JACQUERIE (27) [noun] A violent revolt by peasants. LACQUERED (21) [verb] To apply a lacquer to something or to give something a smooth, glossy finish. LACQUERER (20) LACQUEYED (24) [verb] To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously. | [verb] To toady, play the flunky. LIQUATING (19) [verb] To separate by fusion, as a more fusible from a less fusible material. | [verb] To melt; to become liquid (liquefy) LIQUATION (18) LIQUEFIED (22) [verb] To make into a liquid. | [verb] To become liquid. | [verb] (image manipulation, especially Adobe Photoshop) To distort and warp an image. LIQUEFIER (21) LIQUEFIES (21) [verb] To make into a liquid. | [verb] To become liquid. | [verb] (image manipulation, especially Adobe Photoshop) To distort and warp an image. LIQUIDATE (19) [verb] To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount. | [verb] To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts. | [verb] To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem. LIQUIDITY (22) [noun] The degree of which something is in high supply and demand, making it easily convertible to cash | [noun] The state or property of being liquid. | [noun] An asset's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash. LIQUIDIZE (28) [verb] To make liquid usually refering to solid food in a food processor. | [verb] To convert assets into liquid (cash) form; to liquidate LIQUIFIED (22) [verb] To make into a liquid. | [verb] To become liquid. | [verb] (image manipulation, especially Adobe Photoshop) To distort and warp an image. LIQUIFIES (21) [verb] To make into a liquid. | [verb] To become liquid. | [verb] (image manipulation, especially Adobe Photoshop) To distort and warp an image. LIQUORICE (20) [noun] The plant Glycyrrhiza glabra, or sometimes in North America the related American Licorice plant Glycyrrhiza lepidota. | [noun] A type of candy made from that plant's dried root or its extract. | [noun] A black colour, named after the licorice. LIQUORING (19) [verb] To drink liquor, usually to excess. | [verb] To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess. | [verb] To grease. LOQUACITY (23) [noun] Talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious. MANNEQUIN (20) [noun] A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes | [noun] A jointed model of the human body used by artists, especially to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery | [noun] An anatomical model of the human body for use in teaching of e.g. CPR MAQUETTES (20) [noun] A preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture. MARQUETRY (23) [noun] A decorative technique in which veneers of wood, ivory, metal etc. are inlaid into a wood surface to form intricate designs. | [noun] An example of this work MARQUISES (20) [noun] A nobleman in England, France, and Germany, of a rank next below that of duke, but above a count. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred by letters patent or letters close. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Bassarona. | [noun] A marchioness, especially one who is French. MESQUITES (20) [noun] Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Prosopis found in North America, and used as forage, which have long, beige seed/bean pods which may be dried and ground into a sweet, nutty flour. | [noun] The wood of these trees, used for smoking food, or charcoal made from this wood. | [noun] Country or land dominated by mesquite trees. MEZQUITES (29) MIQUELETS (20) MISQUOTED (21) [verb] To incorrectly recite a quote. | [verb] To incorrectly record a quote. MISQUOTES (20) [noun] An incorrect recitation of a quote. | [noun] An incorrect recording of a quote. | [verb] To incorrectly recite a quote. MONOCOQUE (22) [noun] A structure design in which the frame and body are built as a single integrated structure. MOONQUAKE (24) [noun] A seismic event occurring on the moon; the lunar equivalent of an earthquake. MOQUETTES (20) MORESQUES (20) MOSQUITOS (20) [noun] A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria and yellow fever. | [verb] To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course. MYSTIQUES (23) NONEQUALS (18) NONLIQUID (19) NONUNIQUE (18) OBLIQUELY (23) [adverb] In an oblique manner; sideways. OBLIQUING (21) OBLIQUITY (23) OBLOQUIES (20) OBSEQUIES (20) [noun] Funeral rites. | [noun] The last office for the dead. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A funeral rite or service. ODALISQUE (19) [noun] A female slave in a harem, especially one in the Ottoman seraglio. | [noun] A desirable or sexually attractive woman. OLDSQUAWS (22) [noun] Clangula hyemalis, the long-tailed duck, a medium-sized seaduck. OLOLIUQUI (18) OUTQUOTED (19) OUTQUOTES (18) PALANQUIN (20) [noun] A covered type of litter for a stretched-out passenger, carried on four poles on the shoulders of four or more bearers, as formerly used (also by colonials) in eastern Asia. PARAQUATS (20) PARAQUETS (20) PAROQUETS (20) PARQUETED (21) PARQUETRY (23) [noun] The technique of applying wooden tiles or veneers to create a decorative geometrical pattern on floors, furniture etc. PHYSIQUES (26) [noun] The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person. | [noun] The trained muscular structure of a person's body. PIQUANCES (22) PIQUANTLY (23) POSTIQUES (20) PRATIQUES (20) QUAALUDES (19) [noun] A dose of this drug, sometimes taken recreationally. QUACKISMS (26) QUADRANTS (19) [noun] One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines. | [noun] One of the four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis. | [noun] One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°. QUADRATED (20) [verb] To adjust (a gun) on its carriage. | [verb] To train (a gun) for horizontal firing. | [verb] To square. QUADRATES (19) [verb] To adjust (a gun) on its carriage. | [verb] To train (a gun) for horizontal firing. | [verb] To square. QUADRATIC (21) [noun] A quadratic polynomial, function or equation. | [adjective] Square-shaped | [adjective] Of a polynomial, involving the second power (square) of a variable but no higher powers, as ax^2 + bx + c. QUADRIGAE (20) QUADRILLE (19) [noun] A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance. | [noun] The music for this dance. | [noun] A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck. | [noun] Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper. QUADROONS (19) [noun] A person of three-fourths Caucasian descent and one fourth African descent. | [noun] A person of three-quarters Aboriginal descent and one quarter Caucasian descent; a person of one quarter Aboriginal descent. QUADRUPED (22) [noun] A four-footed or four-legged animal | [noun] A mammal ambulating on all fours QUADRUPLE (21) [verb] To multiply by four. | [verb] To increase by a factor of four. | [verb] To provide four parallel running lines on a given stretch of railway. QUADRUPLY (24) [adverb] Four times | [adverb] In four (often different) ways QUAESTORS (18) [noun] An Ancient Roman official responsible for public revenue and other financial affairs. | [noun] The Quaestor sacri palatii of the late Roman Empire and Byzantium; first generally a legislator, then judicial official, and eventually an honorary title by the 14th century. | [noun] In the Middle Ages, an officer who announced indulgences. QUAGGIEST (20) QUAGMIRES (21) [noun] A swampy, soggy area of ground. | [noun] A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle; a predicament. | [verb] To embroil (a person, etc.) in complexity or difficulty. QUAINTEST (18) [adjective] Of a person: cunning, crafty. | [adjective] Cleverly made; artfully contrived. | [adjective] Strange or odd; unusual. QUALIFIED (22) [adjective] Meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position. | [adjective] Restricted or limited by conditions. | [verb] To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities. QUALIFIER (21) [noun] One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition. | [noun] A preliminary stage of a competition. | [noun] (grammar) A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; a modifier; that adds or subtracts attributes to another. QUALIFIES (21) [verb] To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities. | [verb] To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task. | [verb] To certify or license someone for something. QUALITIES (18) [noun] Level of excellence. | [noun] A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person. | [noun] High social position. (See also the quality.) QUALMIEST (20) QUAMASHES (23) [noun] Any of the North American flowering plants of the genus Camassia. QUANDANGS (20) QUANDONGS (20) [noun] Any of several species of Santalum: | [noun] Any of many species of Elaeocarpus: | [noun] Highroot quandong (Aceratium concinnum) QUANTILES (18) [noun] One of the class of values of a variate which divides the members of a batch or sample into equal-sized subgroups of adjacent values or a probability distribution into distributions of equal probability. QUANTIZED (28) [verb] To limit the number of possible values of a quantity, or states of a system, by applying the rules of quantum mechanics | [verb] To approximate a continuously varying signal by one whose amplitude can only have a set of discrete values | [verb] To shift each beat in a rhythmic pattern to the nearest beat of a given resolution (eighth note, sixteenth note, etc.), or to adjust the frequency or pitch of a note to the nearest perfect tone in a given musical scale QUANTIZER (27) [noun] An electronic device that samples a varying quantity (e.g. a waveform) and generates a digital response QUANTIZES (27) [verb] To limit the number of possible values of a quantity, or states of a system, by applying the rules of quantum mechanics | [verb] To approximate a continuously varying signal by one whose amplitude can only have a set of discrete values | [verb] To shift each beat in a rhythmic pattern to the nearest beat of a given resolution (eighth note, sixteenth note, etc.), or to adjust the frequency or pitch of a note to the nearest perfect tone in a given musical scale QUANTONGS (19) QUARRELED (19) [verb] To disagree. | [verb] To contend, argue fiercely, squabble. | [verb] To find fault; to cavil. 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QUENCHERS (23) [noun] Something that quenches (thirst, fire, etc.) QUENCHING (24) [verb] To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst. | [verb] To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light). | [verb] To cool rapidly by dipping into a bath of coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron. QUENELLES (18) [noun] A light dumpling made of lightly spiced minced meat or fish bound with egg and poached. | [noun] An elliptical shape moulded by chefs from soft foods using two spoons. | [noun] A gesture which is usually performed by pointing one arm diagonally downwards palm down, while touching the shoulder with the opposite hand. QUERCETIN (20) [noun] A flavonol found in many fruits, vegetables, leaves and grains. QUERULOUS (18) [adjective] Often complaining; suggesting a complaint in expression; fretful, whining. QUESTIONS (18) [noun] A sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response; an interrogative. | [noun] A subject or topic for consideration or investigation. | [noun] A doubt or challenge about the truth or accuracy of a matter. QUETZALES (27) QUIBBLERS (22) QUIBBLING (23) [verb] To complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner. | [noun] Petty argument QUICKENED (25) [verb] To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive. | [verb] To come back to life, receive life. | [verb] To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited. QUICKENER (24) QUICKLIME (26) [noun] Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water. | [verb] To treat with quicklime. 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QUINTETTE (18) [noun] A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians) | [noun] A group of five musicians, fit to play such a piece of music together | [noun] Any group of five members QUINTILES (18) [noun] Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets. | [noun] (by extension) A subset thus obtained. | [noun] An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72°) QUINTUPLE (20) [noun] A fivefold amount | [verb] To multiply something (or be multiplied) by five | [adjective] Having five parts or members QUIPSTERS (20) [noun] A person who makes quips; a joker QUIRKIEST (22) [adjective] Given to quirks or idiosyncrasies; strange in a somewhat silly, awkward manner, potentially cute. QUISLINGS (19) [noun] A traitor who collaborates with the enemy. QUITCLAIM (22) [noun] A renunciation of claims. | [noun] A deed that is a renunciation of claims to a parcel of real property and a transfer of one's claims to another. | [verb] To relinquish or release (a claim, title etc.); to transfer (an interest in property). QUITRENTS (18) QUITTANCE (20) [noun] A release or acquittal. | [noun] A discharge from a debt or obligation; a document that shows this discharge. | [noun] Recompense; return; repayment. QUIVERERS (21) QUIVERING (22) [verb] To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver. | [noun] A motion by which something quivers or trembles. | [adjective] Shaking, shivering QUIXOTISM (27) QUIZZICAL (38) [adjective] Questioning or suggesting puzzlement. | [adjective] Strange or eccentric. QUODLIBET (21) [noun] A form of music with melodies in counterpoint. | [noun] A form of trompe l'oeil which realistically renders domestic items (paper-knives, playing-cards, ribbons, etc). | [noun] A mode of philosophical debate popular in the Middle Ages, in which any question could be posed extemporaneously. QUOTATION (18) [noun] A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but also scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted. | [noun] A price that has been quoted for buying or selling. | [noun] The act of setting a price. QUOTIDIAN (19) [noun] A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria. | [noun] A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy. | [noun] (usually with definite article) Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class. QUOTIENTS (18) [noun] The number resulting from the division of one number by another. | [noun] By analogy, the result of any process that is the inverse of multiplication as defined for any mathematical entities other than numbers. | [noun] A quotum or quota. RAMEQUINS (20) REACQUIRE (20) [verb] Acquire again RECONQUER (20) [verb] To conquer again. RELACQUER (20) RELIQUARY (21) [noun] A container to hold or display religious relics. | [noun] An object that sustains the memory of past people or events. | [noun] A person who owes a balance. RELIQUEFY (24) RELIQUIAE (18) [noun] Remains, especially of fossil organisms. | [noun] Artifacts; things made or modified by human art. REMARQUES (20) REQUESTED (19) [verb] To ask for (something). | [verb] To ask (somebody) to do something. 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SEQUACITY (23) SEQUENCED (21) [verb] To arrange in an order | [verb] To determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in a nucleic acid | [verb] To produce (music) with a sequencer SEQUENCER (20) [noun] Any device that activates or deactivates the components of a machine or system according to a preplanned sequence (as in a washing machine, or central heating system). | [noun] A device or system that orders and/or modifies digitally stored music and sound for playback. | [noun] A device for determining the sequence of monomers in a polymer, especially amino acids in protein, or bases in DNA; A sequenator. SEQUENCES (20) [noun] A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series | [noun] The state of being sequent or following; order of succession. | [noun] A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony). SEQUESTER (18) [noun] Sequestration; separation | [noun] A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee. | [noun] A sequestrum. SEQUESTRA (18) [noun] A fragment of bone or other dead tissue that has separated during necrosis SEQUINNED (19) SEQUITURS (18) SOBRIQUET (20) [noun] A familiar name for a person (typically a shortened version of a person’s given name). SOLILOQUY (21) [noun] The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience. | [noun] (authorship) A speech or written discourse in this form. | [verb] (very rare) To issue a soliloquy. SOLIQUIDS (19) SQUABBIER (22) SQUABBLED (23) [verb] To participate in a minor fight or argument. | [verb] To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment. SQUABBLER (22) SQUABBLES (22) [noun] A minor fight or argument. | [verb] To participate in a minor fight or argument. | [verb] To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment. SQUADDING (21) SQUADRONS (19) [noun] Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square. | [noun] A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers. | [noun] A body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and fifty men, and led by a captain or a major. SQUALENES (18) SQUALIDER (19) SQUALIDLY (22) SQUALLERS (18) SQUALLIER (18) [adjective] Characterized by squalls, or sudden violent bursts of wind; gusty. | [adjective] Producing or characteristic of loud wails. | [adjective] Interrupted by unproductive spots, as a field of turnips or grain. SQUALLING (19) [verb] To cry or wail loudly. | [noun] The act of one who squalls. SQUAMOSAL (20) [noun] The platelike part of the temporal bone | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the platelike part of the temporal bone SQUANDERS (19) [verb] To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate. | [verb] To scatter; to disperse. | [verb] To wander at random; to scatter. SQUASHERS (21) SQUASHIER (21) [adjective] Easily squashed when pressed. | [adjective] Resembling a bog or marsh underfoot. SQUASHILY (24) SQUASHING (22) [verb] To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush. | [verb] To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze. | [verb] To suppress; to force into submission. SQUATNESS (18) SQUATTERS (18) [noun] One who squats, sits down idly. | [noun] One who occupies a building or land without title or permission. | [noun] A large-scale grazier and landowner. SQUATTEST (18) [adjective] Relatively short or low, and thick or broad. | [adjective] Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching. SQUATTIER (18) SQUATTING (19) [verb] To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet. | [verb] (exercise) To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee. | [verb] To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner. SQUAWFISH (27) [noun] A cyprinid fish of the genus Ptychocheilus, a voracious predator on small trout and salmon. SQUAWKERS (25) SQUAWKING (26) [verb] To make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly. | [verb] To speak out; to protest. | [verb] To report an infraction; to rat on or tattle; to disclose a secret. SQUAWROOT (21) [noun] Either of two unrelated plants from eastern North America: SQUEAKERS (22) [noun] One who or that which squeaks. | [noun] A party toy that uncoils with a squeaking sound when blown; a party puffer. | [noun] An informer. SQUEAKIER (22) [adjective] Tending to produce a high-pitched sound or squeak. SQUEAKING (23) [verb] To emit a short, high-pitched sound. | [verb] To inform, to squeal. | [verb] To speak or sound in a high-pitched manner. SQUEALERS (18) [noun] Any animal or person who squeals. | [noun] A pig. | [noun] An informant. SQUEALING (19) [verb] To scream with a shrill, prolonged sound. | [verb] To give sensitive information about someone to a third party; to rat on someone. | [noun] The sound of one who squeals; a squeal. SQUEAMISH (23) [adjective] Easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseated or nervous; oversensitive | [adjective] Averse or reluctant SQUEEGEED (20) [verb] To use a squeegee. SQUEEGEES (19) [noun] A tool consisting of a rubber or similar blade attached at a right angle to a handle, particularly | [noun] A roller used to similar effect, particularly | [noun] A person who uses a squeegee, especially one who "cleans" the windshield of a car stopped at a traffic light and then demands payment. SQUEEZERS (27) SQUEEZING (28) [verb] To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once. | [verb] To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to. | [verb] To fit into a tight place. SQUEGGING (21) SQUELCHED (24) [verb] To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force | [verb] (radio technology) to suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength, below which the signal is suppressed by applying a gain of zero, and above which a positive (and linear from zero) gain is applied. | [verb] To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground SQUELCHER (23) SQUELCHES (23) [noun] A squelching sound. | [noun] (radio technology) The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver. | [noun] A heavy blow or fall. SQUIBBING (23) [verb] To make a sound like a small explosion. | [verb] To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute. | [noun] A squib; a sarcastic jibe or petty dispute. SQUIDDING (21) [verb] To fish with the kind of hook called a squid. | [verb] (parachuting) To cause squidding (an improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth). | [noun] (parachuting) An improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth. The action of "to squid". SQUIFFIER (24) [adjective] Slightly drunk or intoxicated; tipsy | [adjective] Crooked, askew; awry SQUIGGLED (21) [verb] To wriggle or squirm | [verb] To make a squiggle | [verb] To write (something) illegibly SQUIGGLES (20) [noun] A short twisting or wiggling line or mark | [noun] The tilde | [noun] An illegible scrawl SQUILGEED (20) SQUILGEES (19) SQUINCHED (24) [verb] To scrunch up (one's face, etc.). SQUINCHES (23) [noun] A structure constructed between two adjacent walls to aid in the transition from a polygonal to a circular structure, as when a dome is constructed on top of a square room. SQUINNIED (19) [verb] To squint. SQUINNIER (18) SQUINNIES (18) [verb] To squint. SQUINTERS (18) SQUINTEST (18) SQUINTIER (18) SQUINTING (19) [verb] To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression. | [verb] To look or glance sideways. | [verb] To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus. SQUIREENS (18) [noun] (originally Ireland) A minor squire; a small landowner. SQUIRMERS (20) SQUIRMIER (20) SQUIRMING (21) [verb] To twist one's body with snakelike motions. | [verb] To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment. | [verb] To evade a question, an interviewer etc. SQUIRRELS (18) [noun] Any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae distinguished by their large bushy tail. | [noun] A person, usually a freezoner, who applies L. Ron Hubbard's technology in a heterodox manner. | [noun] One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder. SQUIRTERS (18) SQUIRTING (19) [verb] (of a liquid) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice. | [verb] (of a liquid) To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice. | [verb] To hit with a rapid stream of liquid. SQUISHIER (21) [adjective] (of an object or substance) Yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud. | [adjective] (of a person) Used as a term of endearment. | [adjective] Subjective or vague. SQUISHING (22) [verb] To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist). | [verb] To be compressed or squeezed. SQUOOSHED (22) SQUOOSHES (21) SQUUSHING (22) TECHNIQUE (23) [noun] The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements. | [noun] Practical ability in some given field or practice, often as opposed to creativity or imaginative skill. | [noun] A method of achieving something or carrying something out, especially one requiring some skill or knowledge. TORQUESES (18) TURQUOISE (18) [noun] A sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone. | [noun] A pale greenish-blue colour, like that of the gemstone. | [adjective] Made of turquoise (the gemstone). UNEQUALED (19) [adjective] Unmatched, superlative, the best ever done, record setting. UNEQUALLY (21) UNQUIETER (18) UNQUIETLY (21) UNQUOTING (19) [verb] To convert (a quoted expression) back to its original form. USQUABAES (20) USQUEBAES (20)

ACQUAINTED (22) [verb] (followed by with) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar. | [verb] (followed by of or that) To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant. | [verb] To familiarize; to accustom. ACQUIESCED (24) [verb] (with in (or sometimes with, to)) To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object. | [verb] To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition. ACQUIESCES (23) [verb] (with in (or sometimes with, to)) To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object. | [verb] To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition. ACQUIRABLE (23) [adjective] Able to be acquired or obtained. ACQUISITOR (21) [noun] One who acquires or obtains something. | [noun] In some contexts, a person or entity that makes acquisitions. ACQUITTALS (21) [noun] The act of fulfilling the duties (of a given role, obligation etc.). | [noun] A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process. | [noun] Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends. ACQUITTERS (21) [noun] Plural of acquitter; persons who acquit or find not guilty. | [noun] Plural of acquitter; those who discharge or settle a debt or obligation. ACQUITTING (22) [verb] To declare or find innocent or not guilty. | [verb] To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil. | [verb] Followed by of (and formerly by from): to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge. ADEQUACIES (22) [noun] The quality of being sufficient, adequate or able to meet the needs. ADEQUATELY (23) [adverb] In an adequate manner. | [adverb] Sufficient to satisfy a requirement or meet a need; sufficiently; satisfactorily. | [adverb] Barely satisfactory or sufficient. ANTIPLAQUE (21) [adjective] Designed to prevent or reduce the formation of plaque, particularly dental plaque or arterial plaque. ANTIQUARKS (23) [noun] The antiparticle of a quark. ANTIQUATED (20) [adjective] Old-fashioned, out of date ANTIQUATES (19) [verb] To make something old-fashioned or obsolete. | [verb] To outdate or cause something to seem out of date. AQUAMARINE (21) [noun] The bluish-green colour of the sea. | [noun] A bluish-green variety of beryl. | [adjective] Of a bluish-green colour. AQUAPLANED (22) [verb] To ride such a board | [verb] For a car or similar vehicle to slide along the road on a thin film of water between the road and the tyres. This occurs when a car has some speed and comes to somewhere with more water on the road than the weight of the car and the grooves in the tyre tread pattern (if any) can push away. The result is almost no traction at all for steering or braking. AQUAPLANER (21) [noun] A vehicle or tire that skids on a wet surface due to a layer of water between the tire and road. | [noun] A driver or operator of a vehicle that aquaplanes. AQUAPLANES (21) [noun] A board ridden by a standing person and pulled by a motorboat for entertainment AQUARELLES (19) [noun] A watercolour (painting) | [noun] A printed picture coloured by the application of watercolor through stencils, using a different stencil for each colour. AQUATINTED (20) [verb] To make such etchings. AQUATINTER (19) AQUIFEROUS (22) [adjective] Containing or conveying water; bearing or conducting water. AQUILEGIAS (20) [noun] Any member of the genus Aquilegia. AQUILINITY (22) ARABESQUES (21) [noun] An elaborate design of intertwined floral figures or complex geometrical patterns, mainly used in Islamic Art and architecture. | [noun] An ornate composition, especially for the piano. | [noun] A dance position in which the dancer stands on one leg, with the other raised backwards, and the arms outstretched. ARQUEBUSES (21) [noun] An obsolete matchlock firearm. | [noun] A portable gun, varying in size from a small cannon to a musket. When used in the field it was supported upon a tripod or trestle. BANQUETERS (21) [noun] People who attend or participate in a banquet; those who feast together. BANQUETING (22) [verb] To participate in a banquet; to feast. | [verb] To have dessert after a feast. | [verb] To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast. BANQUETTES (21) [noun] A narrow area behind a defensive wall's parapet elevated above its terreplein and used by defenders to shoot at attackers. | [noun] A bench built into a wall, especially one built into a wall of a defensive trench, used for sitting and for shooting at attackers. | [noun] An upholstered bench, e.g., along a wall of a restaurant or lounge area. BARBEQUING (24) [verb] To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels. | [verb] To grill. BARQUETTES (21) [noun] Small boat-shaped pastry cases or molds used in cooking, typically filled with savory or sweet ingredients. | [noun] Plural of barquette, a type of small decorative boat-shaped dish or container. BELIQUORED (22) BEQUEATHAL (24) [noun] The act of bequeathing; a bequest or legacy left to someone in a will. BEQUEATHED (25) [verb] To give or leave by will; to give by testament. | [verb] To hand down; to transmit. | [verb] To give; to offer; to commit. BLANQUETTE (21) [noun] A white meat stew in which neither the meat nor the sauce is browned. BRIQUETTED (22) [verb] Past tense of briquette; formed into briquettes (compressed blocks of coal dust or charcoal used as fuel). BRIQUETTES (21) [noun] A small brick, typically made of charcoal and used for fuel. | [noun] A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving. | [noun] A moulded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material. BRUSQUERIE (21) [noun] The act or situation of being brusque; an abrupt or blunt quality. BURLESQUED (22) [verb] To make a burlesque parody of. | [verb] To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language. BURLESQUER (21) [noun] One who performs or writes burlesques; a performer of burlesque comedy or satire. BURLESQUES (21) [noun] A derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody. | [noun] A variety adult entertainment show, usually including titillation such as striptease, most common from the 1880s to the 1930s. | [noun] A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion. CACIQUISMS (25) [noun] The plural of caciquism, referring to systems of political control or dominance exercised by a cacique (a local chief or leader, particularly in Spanish-speaking regions). CATAFALQUE (24) [noun] A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate. CHAUTAUQUA (24) [noun] A place in the state of New York where people go over in the summer for vacation to enjoy artistic events. | [noun] A kind of travelling tent-show which used to move across America featuring popular talks. CHEQUERING (25) [verb] To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard. | [verb] To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard. | [noun] A chequered pattern. CHIBOUQUES (26) [noun] A Turkish tobacco pipe CHINQUAPIN (26) [noun] Any of the trees in the genus Castanopsis. | [noun] Any of the trees and shrubs in the genus Chrysolepis. | [noun] A water chinquapin, the water plant Nelumbo lutea, American lotus. CINQUEFOIL (24) [noun] A potentilla (flower). | [noun] A stylized flower or leaf with five lobes. | [noun] A particular knot of five crossings. CLINQUANTS (21) [noun] Showy or glittering ornaments; tinsel or spangles used for decoration. | [adjective] Glittering or showy in appearance. CLIQUISHLY (27) [adverb] In a manner characteristic of or befitting a clique; in an exclusionary or snobbish way that favors members of a select group. COEQUALITY (24) COEQUATING (22) COLLOQUIAL (21) [noun] A colloquial word or phrase, colloquialism | [adjective] Denoting a manner of speaking or writing that is characteristic of familiar conversation, of common parlance; informal. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to a conversation; conversational or chatty. COLLOQUIES (21) [noun] A conversation or dialogue. | [noun] A formal conference. | [noun] A church court held by certain Reformed denominations. COLLOQUIST (21) COLLOQUIUM (23) [noun] A colloquy; a meeting for discussion. | [noun] An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting. | [noun] An address to an academic meeting or seminar. COMMUNIQUE (25) [noun] An official report or statement, such as a government press release or the report of a conference. CONQUERING (22) [verb] To defeat in combat; to subjugate. | [verb] To acquire by force of arms, win in war. | [verb] To overcome an abstract obstacle. CONQUERORS (21) [noun] Someone who conquers CONSEQUENT (21) [noun] The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q." | [noun] An event which follows another. | [noun] The second term of a ratio, i.e. the term b in the ratio a:b, the other being the antecedent. COQUETRIES (21) [noun] Coquettish behaviour; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing. | [noun] An act constituting such behaviour; an affectation of amorous interest or enticement, especially of a woman directed towards a man. COQUETTING (22) [verb] To act as a flirt or coquet. | [verb] To waste time; to dally. | [verb] To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint; to lead on. COQUETTISH (24) [adjective] Of or relating to a young, flirtatious girl. | [adjective] Characteristic of a coquet. CRITIQUING (22) [verb] To review something. CROQUETING (22) [verb] (games) To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet. CROQUETTES (21) [noun] A minced, cooked food (usually meat or vegetables), which is deep-fried in fat and sometimes sprinkled with breadcrumbs. DELINQUENT (20) [noun] One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws. | [noun] A person who has not paid his or her debts. | [noun] A term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642-1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent. DELIQUESCE (22) [verb] To melt and disappear. | [verb] To become liquid by absorbing water from the atmosphere. DESQUAMATE (22) [verb] To shed or peel. DISQUALIFY (26) [verb] To make ineligible for something. | [verb] To exclude from consideration by the explicit revocation of a previous qualification. DISQUIETED (21) [verb] To make (someone or something) worried or anxious. DISQUIETLY (23) DOMINIQUES (22) EARTHQUAKE (26) [noun] A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults. | [noun] (planetary geology) Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial bodies. ELOQUENCES (21) ELOQUENTLY (22) [adverb] In an eloquent manner; stated well. EQUABILITY (24) EQUALISERS (19) [noun] One who makes equal; a balancer. | [noun] A device that balances various quantities. | [noun] A goal, run, point, etc. that equalizes the score. EQUALISING (20) [verb] To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree. | [verb] To be equal to; to equal, to rival. | [verb] To make the scoreline equal by scoring points. EQUALITIES (19) [noun] The fact of being equal. | [noun] The fact of being equal, of having the same value. | [noun] The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences. EQUALIZERS (28) [noun] One who makes equal; a balancer. | [noun] A device that balances various quantities. | [noun] A goal, run, point, etc. that equalizes the score. EQUALIZING (29) [verb] To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree. | [verb] To be equal to; to equal, to rival. | [verb] To make the scoreline equal by scoring points. EQUANIMITY (24) [noun] The state of being calm, stable and composed, especially under stress. EQUATIONAL (19) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or constructed using equations EQUATORIAL (19) [noun] A kind of telescope mounted so as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the Earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed, even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension and declination are known. | [adjective] Of, near, or relating to the equator | [adjective] Perpendicular to the plane of a ring EQUESTRIAN (19) [noun] An equestrian person; a horserider. | [adjective] Of horseback riding or horseback riders. | [adjective] Of or relating to the ancient Roman class of equites/equestrians EQUILIBRIA (21) [noun] The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change. | [noun] Mental balance. | [noun] The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same. EQUINITIES (19) EQUIPMENTS (23) EQUIPOISED (22) [verb] To act or make to act as an equipoise. | [verb] To cause to be or stay in equipoise. EQUIPOISES (21) [verb] To act or make to act as an equipoise. | [verb] To cause to be or stay in equipoise. EQUISETUMS (21) [noun] The horsetail (plant of genus Equisetum) EQUITATION (19) [noun] The art, practice or act of riding a horse; horsemanship. EQUIVALENT (22) [noun] Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc. | [noun] An equivalent weight. | [verb] To make equivalent to; to equal. EQUIVOCATE (24) [verb] To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity. | [verb] To render equivocal or ambiguous. EQUIVOQUES (31) [noun] A homonym. | [noun] A play on words, a pun. | [noun] Ambiguity or double meaning. ETIQUETTES (19) [noun] The forms required by a good upbringing, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society. | [noun] The customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other. | [noun] A label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail. EXCHEQUERS (31) [noun] A treasury. | [noun] An available fund of money, especially one for a specific purpose. EXQUISITES (26) [noun] Fop, dandy. FOURSQUARE (22) [noun] A sport played by four players where players have to hit a ball into other people's squares, and attempt to make a return hit. | [noun] A four-square cipher | [adjective] Having four equal sides; square. FREQUENCES (24) FREQUENTED (23) [verb] To visit often. FREQUENTER (22) [noun] A person who frequents; a regular visitor. | [adjective] Done or occurring often; common. | [adjective] Occurring at short intervals. FREQUENTLY (25) [adverb] At frequent intervals. | [adverb] (of a sequence) For infinitely many terms of the sequence. GROTESQUES (20) [noun] A style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms. | [noun] Anything grotesque. | [noun] A sans serif typeface. HARLEQUINS (22) [noun] A pantomime fool, typically dressed in checkered colorful clothes. | [noun] A greenish-chartreuse color. | [noun] A harlequin duck. HUMORESQUE (24) [noun] A composition that is playful in attitude and tone. INADEQUACY (25) [noun] The state of being inadequate. | [noun] A shortage of required material. | [noun] A lack of competence or ability. INADEQUATE (20) [noun] An individual who is inadequate. | [adjective] Not adequate; not fit for the purpose INELOQUENT (19) INEQUALITY (22) [noun] An unfair, not equal, state. | [noun] A statement that of two quantities one is specifically less than (or greater than) another. Symbol: < or \leq or > or \geq or \ne, as appropriate. INEQUITIES (19) [noun] A lack of justice; injustice. | [noun] An unjust act; a disservice. INFREQUENT (22) [adjective] Not frequent; not happening frequently. INIQUITIES (19) [noun] Deviation from what is right; gross injustice, sin, wickedness. | [noun] An act of great injustice or unfairness; a sinful or wicked act; an unconscionable deed. INIQUITOUS (19) [adjective] Wicked or sinful | [adjective] Morally objectionable INQUIETING (20) INQUIETUDE (20) [noun] A condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous. INQUILINES (19) [noun] An animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, gall, or dwelling place of an animal of another species. | [noun] An organism that lives within a reservoir of water collected in the hollow of a plant stem or leaf. INQUISITOR (19) [noun] A person who inquires, especially searchingly or ruthlessly. | [noun] An official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition. JACQUERIES (28) [noun] A violent revolt by peasants. LACQUERERS (21) LACQUERING (22) [verb] To apply a lacquer to something or to give something a smooth, glossy finish. | [noun] An application of lacquer. LACQUEYING (25) [verb] To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously. | [verb] To toady, play the flunky. LAMBREQUIN (23) [noun] A short decorative drapery for a shelf edge or for the top of a window casing; a valance (North America only). | [noun] An ornamental hanging over upper part of window or along the edge of a shelf. | [noun] A border pattern with draped effect used in ceramics. LIQUATIONS (19) LIQUEFIERS (22) LIQUEFYING (26) [verb] To make into a liquid. | [verb] To become liquid. | [verb] (image manipulation, especially Adobe Photoshop) To distort and warp an image. LIQUESCENT (21) [adjective] Melting. LIQUIDATED (21) [verb] To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount. | [verb] To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts. | [verb] To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem. LIQUIDATES (20) [verb] To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount. | [verb] To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts. | [verb] To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem. LIQUIDATOR (20) [noun] One who liquidates. | [noun] One supporting the political policy of liquidationism; a liquidationist. | [noun] Any of the workers involved in cleaning up the Chernobyl disaster LIQUIDIZED (30) [verb] To make liquid usually refering to solid food in a food processor. | [verb] To convert assets into liquid (cash) form; to liquidate LIQUIDIZES (29) [verb] To make liquid usually refering to solid food in a food processor. | [verb] To convert assets into liquid (cash) form; to liquidate LIQUIDNESS (20) LIQUIFYING (26) [verb] To make into a liquid. | [verb] To become liquid. | [verb] (image manipulation, especially Adobe Photoshop) To distort and warp an image. LIQUORICES (21) [noun] The plant Glycyrrhiza glabra, or sometimes in North America the related American Licorice plant Glycyrrhiza lepidota. | [noun] A type of candy made from that plant's dried root or its extract. | [noun] A black colour, named after the licorice. LOQUACIOUS (21) [adjective] Talkative; chatty. MANNEQUINS (21) [noun] A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes | [noun] A jointed model of the human body used by artists, especially to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery | [noun] An anatomical model of the human body for use in teaching of e.g. CPR MAQUILLAGE (22) [noun] Makeup, cosmetics, or its application, especially in theatrical or excessive use. MARQUESSES (21) [noun] A title of nobility for a man ranking beneath a duke and above an earl. MARQUISATE (21) [noun] The territory held by a marquis, margrave or marchioness. | [noun] The state or rank of a marquis. MASQUERADE (22) [noun] An assembly or party of people wearing (usually elaborate or fanciful) masks and costumes, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions. | [noun] The act of wearing a mask or dressing up in a costume for, or as if for, a masquerade ball. | [noun] An act of living under false pretenses; a concealment of something by a false or unreal show; a disguise, a pretence; also, a pretentious display. MICROQUAKE (27) MISQUOTING (22) [verb] To incorrectly recite a quote. | [verb] To incorrectly record a quote. MONOCOQUES (23) [noun] A structure design in which the frame and body are built as a single integrated structure. MOONQUAKES (25) [noun] A seismic event occurring on the moon; the lunar equivalent of an earthquake. MOSQUITOES (21) [noun] A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria and yellow fever. MOSQUITOEY (24) MUSQUASHES (24) [noun] The muskrat, Ondatra zibethicus. NETIQUETTE (19) [noun] Conduct while online that is appropriate and courteous to other Internet users, and may be expected or enforced by others. NONAQUATIC (21) NONAQUEOUS (19) NONLIQUIDS (20) OBSEQUIOUS (21) [adjective] Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes. | [adjective] Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal. ODALISQUES (20) [noun] A female slave in a harem, especially one in the Ottoman seraglio. | [noun] A desirable or sexually attractive woman. OLOLIUQUIS (19) OPAQUENESS (21) OUTQUOTING (20) PALANQUINS (21) [noun] A covered type of litter for a stretched-out passenger, carried on four poles on the shoulders of four or more bearers, as formerly used (also by colonials) in eastern Asia. PARQUETING (22) PASQUINADE (22) [noun] A lampoon, originally as published in public; a satire or libel on someone. | [verb] To satirize (someone) by using a pasquinade. PERQUISITE (21) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Any monetary or other incidental benefit beyond salary. | [noun] A gratuity. | [noun] A privilege or possession held or claimed exclusively by a certain person, group or class. PICARESQUE (23) [noun] A picaresque novel. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to adventurers or rogues. | [adjective] Characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero. PIQUANCIES (23) [noun] The degree to which something is piquant, stimulating or exciting. PREQUALIFY (27) [verb] To qualify or be qualified in advance. PREREQUIRE (21) QUACKERIES (25) [noun] The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud. | [noun] An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine. QUADPLEXES (29) [noun] A building divided into four separate residences or commercial premises QUADRANGLE (21) [noun] A geometric shape with four angles and four straight sides; a four-sided polygon. | [noun] A courtyard which is quadrangular. | [noun] The buildings forming the border of such a courtyard. QUADRANTAL (20) QUADRANTES (20) QUADRATICS (22) [noun] A quadratic polynomial, function or equation. QUADRATING (21) [verb] To adjust (a gun) on its carriage. | [verb] To train (a gun) for horizontal firing. | [verb] To square. QUADRATURE (20) [noun] The process of making something square; squaring. | [noun] The act or process of constructing a square that has the same area as a given plane figure, or of computing that area. | [noun] (numerical analysis) The calculation of a definite integral by numerical means. QUADRENNIA (20) [noun] A period of 4 years, the sets of four years in the Egyptian and Greek calendars. QUADRICEPS (24) [noun] A muscle having four heads, especially the large extensor at the front of the thigh. QUADRILLES (20) [noun] A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance. | [noun] The music for this dance. | [noun] A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck. QUADRIVIAL (23) QUADRIVIUM (25) [noun] The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music. QUADRUMVIR (25) QUADRUPEDS (23) [noun] A four-footed or four-legged animal | [noun] A mammal ambulating on all fours QUADRUPLED (23) [verb] To multiply by four. | [verb] To increase by a factor of four. | [verb] To provide four parallel running lines on a given stretch of railway. QUADRUPLES (22) [verb] To multiply by four. | [verb] To increase by a factor of four. | [verb] To provide four parallel running lines on a given stretch of railway. QUADRUPLET (22) [noun] One of a group of four babies born from the same mother during the same birth. | [noun] A tuplet of four notes. | [noun] A sequence of four elements. QUADRUPOLE (22) [noun] A distribution of either electric charge or magnetization equivalent to two dipoles that point in opposite directions. | [noun] A magnet with two north poles and two south poles, used to focus a beam of particles. QUAGMIRIER (22) QUAINTNESS (19) QUALIFIERS (22) [noun] One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition. | [noun] A preliminary stage of a competition. | [noun] (grammar) A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; a modifier; that adds or subtracts attributes to another. QUALIFYING (26) [verb] To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities. | [verb] To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task. | [verb] To certify or license someone for something. QUALMISHLY (27) QUANDARIES (20) [noun] A state of not knowing what to decide; a state of difficulty or perplexity; a state of uncertainty, hesitation or puzzlement. | [noun] A dilemma, a difficult decision or choice. QUANTIFIED (23) [adjective] Measured | [adjective] Used as a quantifier | [verb] To assign a quantity to. QUANTIFIER (22) [noun] (grammar) A word, such as all or many, that expresses a quantity | [noun] An operator, such as the universal quantifier (written as ∀) or the existential quantifier (∃), used in predicate calculus to indicate the degree that predicate is true for a specified set. | [noun] A symbol or symbols in a regular expression indicating the number of characters to be matched. QUANTIFIES (22) [verb] To assign a quantity to. | [verb] To determine the value of (a variable or expression). QUANTITATE (19) [verb] To measure the quantity of, especially with high accuracy and taking uncertainty into account, as in quantitative analysis. QUANTITIES (19) [noun] A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items. | [noun] An indefinite amount of something. | [noun] A specific measured amount. QUANTIZERS (28) [noun] An electronic device that samples a varying quantity (e.g. a waveform) and generates a digital response QUANTIZING (29) [verb] To limit the number of possible values of a quantity, or states of a system, by applying the rules of quantum mechanics | [verb] To approximate a continuously varying signal by one whose amplitude can only have a set of discrete values | [verb] To shift each beat in a rhythmic pattern to the nearest beat of a given resolution (eighth note, sixteenth note, etc.), or to adjust the frequency or pitch of a note to the nearest perfect tone in a given musical scale QUARANTINE (19) [noun] The desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days according to the Bible. | [noun] A grace period of 40 days during which a widow has the right to remain in her dead husband's home, regardless of the inheritance. | [noun] A sanitary measure to prevent the spread of a contagious plague by isolating those believed or feared to be infected. QUARRELERS (19) QUARRELING (20) [noun] A heated argument. QUARRELLED (20) [verb] To disagree. | [verb] To contend, argue fiercely, squabble. | [verb] To find fault; to cavil. QUARRELLER (19) QUARRYINGS (23) QUARTERAGE (20) [noun] A quarterly payment or allowance, tax, pension, or wage paid or received. | [noun] The provision of quarters (as for troops), or the cost of it. QUARTERING (20) [verb] To divide into quarters; to divide by four. | [verb] To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment. | [verb] To lodge; to have a temporary residence. QUARTETTES (19) [noun] A music composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument. | [noun] The set of four musicians who perform a piece of music together in four parts. | [noun] A group of four singers, usually males, who sings together in four-part harmony. QUARTZITES (28) QUARTZITIC (30) QUATERNARY (22) [noun] A quaternary compound. | [noun] The Quaternary period or the system of deposits laid down during it. | [adjective] Of fourth rank or order QUATERNION (19) [noun] A group or set of four people or things. | [noun] A word of four syllables. | [noun] A four-dimensional hypercomplex number that consists of a real dimension and 3 imaginary ones (i, j, k) that are each an independent square root of -1. They are commonly used in vector mathematics and in calculating the rotation of three-dimensional objects. QUATERNITY (22) QUATREFOIL (22) [noun] A symmetrical shape that forms the overall outline of four partially-overlapping circles of the same diameter. | [noun] A stylized flower or leaf with four lobes. QUEASINESS (19) QUEBRACHOS (26) [noun] Any of several trees of southern South America with produce very hard wood rich in tannin, especially those of the genus Schinopsis. | [noun] The bark of these trees, formerly used in treating fever. QUEENLIEST (19) [adjective] Having the status, rank or qualities of a queen; regal. QUEENSHIPS (24) QUEENSIDES (20) QUENCHABLE (26) QUENCHLESS (24) [adjective] That cannot be quenched; unquenchable. QUERCETINS (21) QUERCITRON (21) QUESADILLA (20) [noun] A Mexican dish made by filling a tortilla (corn or flour) with cheese, folding in half and toasting until the cheese is melted. Additional ingredients, such as meats (chicken or beef, commonly), or vegetables can be added. Often served with salsa, guacamole and/or sour cream. QUESTIONED (20) [verb] To ask questions about; to interrogate; to enquire for information. | [verb] To raise doubts about; have doubts about. | [verb] To argue; to converse; to dispute. QUESTIONER (19) [noun] A person who asks questions, or who conducts an official enquiry. QUICKENERS (25) QUICKENING (26) [verb] To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive. | [verb] To come back to life, receive life. | [verb] To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited. QUICKLIMES (27) QUICKSANDS (26) [noun] Wet sand that things readily sink in, often found near rivers or coasts | [noun] Anything that pulls one down or buries one metaphorically QUICKSTEPS (27) [noun] A fast foxtrot noted for its complex and intricate footwork. | [verb] To dance the quickstep. | [verb] To move with a hurried step. QUIDDITIES (21) [noun] The essence or inherent nature of a person or thing. | [noun] A trifle; a nicety or quibble. | [noun] An eccentricity; an odd feature. QUIESCENCE (23) [noun] The state of being quiescent; dormancy. | [noun] Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless. | [noun] The action of bringing something to rest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a quiescent state. QUIETENING (20) [verb] To make quiet. | [verb] To become quiet. | [noun] The act of making something quieter. QUIETISTIC (21) QUILLBACKS (27) QUILLWORKS (26) QUINACRINE (21) [noun] A drug with various applications, including as an antimalarial, having the chemical formula C23H30ClN3O QUINCUNXES (28) [noun] An arrangement of five units in a pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice, playing cards, or dominoes. | [noun] An angle of five-twelfths of a circle, or 150°, between two objects. | [noun] A Galton board. QUINIDINES (20) QUINOLINES (19) [noun] Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a benzene ring fused with a pyridine ring; especially the simplest such compound, C9H7N. QUINTETTES (19) [noun] A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians) | [noun] A group of five musicians, fit to play such a piece of music together | [noun] Any group of five members QUINTUPLED (22) [verb] To multiply something (or be multiplied) by five QUINTUPLES (21) [noun] A fivefold amount | [verb] To multiply something (or be multiplied) by five QUINTUPLET (21) [noun] One of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth. | [noun] A tuplet of five notes to be played in the time for four. | [noun] A collection or combination of five things. QUIRKINESS (23) QUITCLAIMS (23) [verb] To relinquish or release (a claim, title etc.); to transfer (an interest in property). QUITTANCES (21) [noun] A release or acquittal. | [noun] A discharge from a debt or obligation; a document that shows this discharge. | [noun] Recompense; return; repayment. QUIXOTICAL (28) QUIXOTISMS (28) QUIXOTRIES (26) QUIZMASTER (30) [noun] A person who poses questions to contestants on a quiz show. QUODLIBETS (22) [noun] A form of music with melodies in counterpoint. | [noun] A form of trompe l'oeil which realistically renders domestic items (paper-knives, playing-cards, ribbons, etc). | [noun] A mode of philosophical debate popular in the Middle Ages, in which any question could be posed extemporaneously. QUOTATIONS (19) [noun] A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but also scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted. | [noun] A price that has been quoted for buying or selling. | [noun] The act of setting a price. QUOTIDIANS (20) RADIOPAQUE (22) [adjective] Impenetrable to X-rays and other radiation RAINSQUALL (19) REACQUAINT (21) [verb] To acquaint again; to reintroduce or refamiliarise. REACQUIRED (22) [verb] Acquire again REACQUIRES (21) [verb] Acquire again RECONQUERS (21) [verb] To conquer again. RECONQUEST (21) [noun] The act or process of conquering something again, such as a territory. REEQUIPPED (24) [verb] To equip again; to provide with new equipment RELACQUERS (21) RELINQUISH (22) [verb] To give up, abandon or retire from something. To trade away. | [verb] To let go (free, away), physically release. | [verb] To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession. REQUESTERS (19) REQUESTING (20) [verb] To ask for (something). | [verb] To ask (somebody) to do something. REQUESTORS (19) REQUIESCAT (21) [noun] A prayer for the peaceful repose of the soul of a dead person REQUISITES (19) [noun] An indispensable item; a requirement. ROQUELAURE (19) SEMILIQUID (22) [noun] Any substance with properties intermediate between those of a solid and a liquid. | [adjective] Having properties intermediate between those of a solid and a liquid. | [adjective] Somewhat liquid; able to flow or change, but not completely freely. SEMIOPAQUE (23) [adjective] Partially opaque. SEMIQUAVER (24) [noun] A sixteenth note, drawn as a crotchet with two tails. SEQUACIOUS (21) [adjective] (Of objects) Likely to follow or yield to physical pressure; easily shaped or molded. | [adjective] (Of people) Likely to follow or yield to others, especially showing unthinking adherence to others' ideas; easily led. | [adjective] Following neatly or smoothly. SEQUENCERS (21) [noun] Any device that activates or deactivates the components of a machine or system according to a preplanned sequence (as in a washing machine, or central heating system). | [noun] A device or system that orders and/or modifies digitally stored music and sound for playback. | [noun] A device for determining the sequence of monomers in a polymer, especially amino acids in protein, or bases in DNA; A sequenator. SEQUENCIES (21) SEQUENCING (22) [verb] To arrange in an order | [verb] To determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in a nucleic acid | [verb] To produce (music) with a sequencer SEQUENTIAL (19) [adjective] Succeeding or following in order SEQUESTERS (19) [verb] To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw. | [verb] To separate in order to store. | [verb] To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things. SEQUESTRUM (21) [noun] A fragment of bone or other dead tissue that has separated during necrosis SOBRIQUETS (21) [noun] A familiar name for a person (typically a shortened version of a person’s given name). SOUBRIQUET (21) [noun] A familiar name for a person (typically a shortened version of a person’s given name). SQUABBIEST (23) SQUABBLERS (23) SQUABBLING (24) [verb] To participate in a minor fight or argument. | [verb] To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment. | [noun] A petty argument or conflict. SQUADRONED (21) SQUALIDEST (20) SQUALLIEST (19) [adjective] Characterized by squalls, or sudden violent bursts of wind; gusty. | [adjective] Producing or characteristic of loud wails. | [adjective] Interrupted by unproductive spots, as a field of turnips or grain. 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SQUEEZABLE (30) SQUELCHERS (24) SQUELCHIER (24) SQUELCHING (25) [verb] To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force | [verb] (radio technology) to suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength, below which the signal is suppressed by applying a gain of zero, and above which a positive (and linear from zero) gain is applied. | [verb] To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground SQUETEAGUE (20) SQUIFFIEST (25) [adjective] Slightly drunk or intoxicated; tipsy | [adjective] Crooked, askew; awry SQUIGGLIER (21) SQUIGGLING (22) [verb] To wriggle or squirm | [verb] To make a squiggle | [verb] To write (something) illegibly SQUINCHING (25) [verb] To scrunch up (one's face, etc.). SQUINNIEST (19) SQUINNYING (23) [verb] To squint. 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SUBAQUEOUS (21) [adjective] Existing below the water surface. | [adjective] Designed for underwater use. | [adjective] Weak and filtered SUBSEQUENT (21) [adjective] Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely. | [adjective] Following in order of place; succeeding. TECHNIQUES (24) [noun] The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements. | [noun] Practical ability in some given field or practice, often as opposed to creativity or imaginative skill. | [noun] A method of achieving something or carrying something out, especially one requiring some skill or knowledge. TOURNIQUET (19) [noun] A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb. | [noun] Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position. | [noun] A turnstile. TRANQUILER (19) TRANQUILLY (22) TURQUOISES (19) UBIQUINONE (21) [noun] Any of several isoprenyl quinones that have a role in cellular respiration UBIQUITIES (21) UBIQUITOUS (21) [adjective] Being everywhere at once: omnipresent. | [adjective] Appearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time. | [adjective] Widespread; very prevalent. ULTRAQUIET (19) UNEQUALLED (20) [adjective] Without equal; unmatched. UNIQUENESS (19) [noun] The state or quality of being unique or one of a kind. UNQUIETEST (19) UNREQUITED (20) [adjective] Unanswered; not returned; not reciprocated; not repaid. USQUEBAUGH (25) [noun] Whisky. VANQUISHED (26) [verb] To defeat, to overcome. | [adjective] Defeated. VANQUISHER (25) VANQUISHES (25) [verb] To defeat, to overcome. YOUTHQUAKE (29) [noun] A noticeable shift in society or culture in response to the activities or tastes of younger members of the culture.

ACQUAINTING (23) [verb] (followed by with) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar. | [verb] (followed by of or that) To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant. | [verb] To familiarize; to accustom. ACQUIESCENT (24) [adjective] Willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance | [adjective] Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit ACQUIESCING (25) [verb] (with in (or sometimes with, to)) To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object. | [verb] To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition. ACQUIREMENT (24) [noun] (chiefly in plural) Something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment. | [noun] The act or fact of acquiring something; acquisition. ACQUISITION (22) [noun] The act or process of acquiring. | [noun] The thing acquired or gained; a gain. | [noun] The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting these signals into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer. ACQUISITIVE (25) [adjective] Acquired. | [adjective] Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring. | [adjective] Dispositioned toward acquiring and retaining information. ACQUISITORS (22) [noun] Plural of acquisitor; one who acquires or obtains something. | [noun] In law, a person who makes an acquisition. ACQUITTANCE (24) [noun] A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. | [noun] Payment of debt; settlement. | [noun] The release from a debt, or from some obligation or duty; exemption. ANTIQUARIAN (20) [noun] A collector or student of, or expert in, antiquities or antiques. | [adjective] Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity. ANTIQUARIES (20) [noun] A person who is knowledgeable of, or who collects antiques; an antiquarian. | [noun] An aficionado or student of antiquities, ancient artifacts, historic sites, ancient writings, or things of the past. ANTIQUATING (21) [verb] Making something old-fashioned or outdated; causing something to become obsolete. ANTIQUATION (20) ANTIQUITIES (20) [noun] Ancient times; faraway history; former ages | [noun] The people of ancient times. | [noun] An old gentleman. APPLIQUEING (25) [verb] To decorate something in this way AQUACULTURE (22) [noun] The cultivation of aquatic produce such as aquatic plants, fish and other aquatic animals. AQUAMARINES (22) [noun] The bluish-green colour of the sea. | [noun] A bluish-green variety of beryl. AQUAPLANERS (22) [noun] Vehicles or tires that lose traction and slide on wet road surfaces. | [verb] Third-person singular present of aquaplane; skids on a wet surface. AQUAPLANING (23) [verb] To ride such a board | [verb] For a car or similar vehicle to slide along the road on a thin film of water between the road and the tyres. This occurs when a car has some speed and comes to somewhere with more water on the road than the weight of the car and the grooves in the tyre tread pattern (if any) can push away. The result is almost no traction at all for steering or braking. | [noun] The act of aquaplaning. AQUARELLIST (20) [noun] A person who paints with watercolors. AQUATICALLY (25) [adverb] In a manner relating to or occurring in water. AQUATINTERS (20) [noun] Plural of aquatinter; artists or printmakers who practice aquatint, an intaglio printmaking technique that uses acid to create tonal effects on copper plates. AQUATINTING (21) [verb] To make such etchings. AQUATINTIST (20) [noun] An artist who practices aquatint, a printmaking technique that produces tonal effects similar to watercolor paintings. AQUICULTURE (22) [noun] The cultivation and farming of aquatic organisms, such as fish, shellfish, and aquatic plants, in controlled environments. BARQUENTINE (22) [noun] A sailing vessel similar to a barque, but fore-and-aft (schooner) rigged on the mainmast BELIQUORING (23) BEQUEATHALS (25) [noun] Plural of bequeathal; the act of leaving property or possessions to someone in a will. | [noun] Things that are bequeathed; legacies or inheritances. BEQUEATHING (26) [verb] To give or leave by will; to give by testament. | [verb] To hand down; to transmit. | [verb] To give; to offer; to commit. BIQUADRATIC (25) [adjective] Of or relating to the fourth degree, or involving the fourth power of a variable. | [noun] A polynomial or equation of the fourth degree. BLANQUETTES (22) [noun] A white meat stew in which neither the meat nor the sauce is browned. BRIQUETTING (23) [verb] The process of compressing coal dust, charcoal, or other fine materials into briquettes or blocks for use as fuel. BRUSQUENESS (22) [noun] The quality of being abrupt or curt in manner or speech; rudeness or lack of politeness. BRUSQUERIES (22) [noun] The act or situation of being brusque; an abrupt or blunt quality. BURLESQUELY (25) [adverb] In a manner characterized by burlesque; in a style that is mockingly exaggerated or comically absurd for theatrical or entertainment purposes. BURLESQUERS (22) [noun] People who perform or write burlesques, which are comedic theatrical performances that ridicule or parody serious works or subjects. | [verb] Third-person singular present tense of the verb "burlesque," meaning to perform or treat something in a burlesque manner. BURLESQUING (23) [verb] To make a burlesque parody of. | [verb] To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language. | [noun] An instance of burlesque. CATAFALQUES (25) [noun] A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate. CHAUTAUQUAS (25) [noun] A place in the state of New York where people go over in the summer for vacation to enjoy artistic events. | [noun] A kind of travelling tent-show which used to move across America featuring popular talks. CHINQUAPINS (27) [noun] Any of the trees in the genus Castanopsis. | [noun] Any of the trees and shrubs in the genus Chrysolepis. | [noun] A water chinquapin, the water plant Nelumbo lutea, American lotus. CHLOROQUINE (25) [noun] A 4-aminoquinoline drug used to treat and prevent malaria, having the chemical formula C18H26ClN3 CINQUECENTO (24) [noun] The sixteenth century (1500s). | [adjective] Sixteenth-century (1500s). CINQUEFOILS (25) [noun] A potentilla (flower). | [noun] A stylized flower or leaf with five lobes. | [noun] A particular knot of five crossings. COLLOQUIALS (22) [noun] Informal words or expressions used in casual conversation. | [adjective] Relating to or characteristic of colloquial language; informal in speech or writing. COLLOQUISTS (22) COLLOQUIUMS (24) [noun] A colloquy; a meeting for discussion. | [noun] An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting. | [noun] An address to an academic meeting or seminar. COMMUNIQUES (26) [noun] Official announcements or statements issued by a government, organization, or military authority. CONSEQUENCE (24) [noun] That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause. | [noun] A result of actions, especially if such a result is unwanted or unpleasant. | [noun] A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference. CONSEQUENTS (22) [noun] The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q." | [noun] An event which follows another. | [noun] The second term of a ratio, i.e. the term b in the ratio a:b, the other being the antecedent. COREQUISITE (22) [noun] A course that must be taken at the same time as another course, or a requirement that must be fulfilled simultaneously with another requirement. CROQUIGNOLE (23) [noun] A small, crisp cake or pastry, typically made from choux dough and filled with cream or other sweet filling. | [noun] A method of curling hair by winding it around a rod or pin. DELINQUENCY (26) [noun] Misconduct. | [noun] A criminal offense. | [noun] A debt that is overdue for payment. DELINQUENTS (21) [noun] One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws. | [noun] A person who has not paid his or her debts. | [noun] A term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642-1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent. DELIQUESCED (24) [verb] To melt and disappear. | [verb] To become liquid by absorbing water from the atmosphere. DELIQUESCES (23) [verb] To melt and disappear. | [verb] To become liquid by absorbing water from the atmosphere. DESQUAMATED (24) [verb] To shed or peel. DESQUAMATES (23) [verb] To shed or peel. DISCOTHEQUE (26) [noun] (slightly obsolete) A nightclub where dancing takes place. DISQUANTITY (24) DISQUIETING (22) [verb] To make (someone or something) worried or anxious. | [noun] The act by which someone or something is disquieted. | [adjective] Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy. DISQUIETUDE (22) [noun] A state of disquiet, uneasiness, or anxiety. | [noun] A fear or an instance of uneasiness. EARTHQUAKES (27) [noun] A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults. | [noun] (planetary geology) Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial bodies. EQUABLENESS (22) EQUATORWARD (24) EQUESTRIANS (20) [noun] An equestrian person; a horserider. EQUIANGULAR (21) [adjective] Of a polygon, having all interior angles equal. This is not necessarily a regular polygon, since that would also be equilateral; a rectangle is equiangular but not equilateral, unless it is a square. EQUICALORIC (24) EQUIDISTANT (21) [adjective] Occupying a position midway between two ends or sides. | [adjective] Occupying a position that is an equal distance between several points. Note that in a one-dimensional space this position can be identified with two points, in a two-dimensional space with three points (not on the same straight line), and in a three-dimensional space with four points (not in the same plane). | [adjective] Describing a map projection that preserves scale. No map can show scale correctly throughout the entire map but some can show true scale between one or two points and every point or along every meridian and these are referred to as equidistant. EQUILATERAL (20) [noun] A side exactly corresponding, or equal, to others. | [noun] A figure having all its sides equal. | [adjective] (of a polygon) Having all the sides equal. EQUILIBRANT (22) EQUILIBRATE (22) [verb] To balance, or bring into equilibrium. | [verb] To balance, to be in a state of equilibrium. EQUILIBRIST (22) [noun] A tightrope walker. EQUILIBRIUM (24) [noun] The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change. | [noun] Mental balance. | [noun] The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same. EQUINOCTIAL (22) [noun] The great circle midway between the celestial poles; the celestial equator. | [noun] The terrestrial equator. | [adjective] Of or relating to the spring or autumnal equinox. EQUIPOISING (23) [verb] To act or make to act as an equipoise. | [verb] To cause to be or stay in equipoise. EQUIPOLLENT (22) [noun] An equivalent. | [adjective] Having equal power or force | [adjective] (of each of two statements) able to be deduced from the other EQUITATIONS (20) EQUIVALENCE (25) [noun] The condition of being equivalent or essentially equal. | [noun] An equivalence relation; ≡; ~ | [noun] The relationship between two propositions that are either both true or both false. EQUIVALENCY (28) [noun] An equivalent thing. | [noun] Equivalence EQUIVALENTS (23) [noun] Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc. | [noun] An equivalent weight. EQUIVOCALLY (28) EQUIVOCATED (26) [verb] To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity. | [verb] To render equivocal or ambiguous. EQUIVOCATES (25) [verb] To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity. | [verb] To render equivocal or ambiguous. EQUIVOCATOR (25) EXQUISITELY (30) [adverb] In an exquisite manner. | [adverb] Exceedingly; in the highest degree FOREQUARTER (23) FREQUENCIES (25) [noun] The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period. | [noun] The property of occurring often rather than infrequently. | [noun] The quotient of the number of times n a periodic phenomenon occurs over the time t in which it occurs: f = n / t. FREQUENTERS (23) [noun] A person who frequents; a regular visitor. FREQUENTEST (23) FREQUENTING (24) [verb] To visit often. GIGANTESQUE (22) GROTESQUELY (24) [adverb] In a grotesque manner; disgustingly. GROTESQUERY (24) [noun] That which is grotesque in nature or style. HARQUEBUSES (25) [noun] An obsolete matchlock firearm. | [noun] A portable gun, varying in size from a small cannon to a musket. When used in the field it was supported upon a tripod or trestle. HEADQUARTER (24) [verb] To provide (an organization) with headquarters. | [verb] To establish headquarters. HINDQUARTER (24) HUMORESQUES (25) [noun] A composition that is playful in attitude and tone. ILLIQUIDITY (24) INEQUITABLE (22) [adjective] Unfair, unequal or unjust INEQUITABLY (25) INEQUIVALVE (26) [noun] Any bivalve mollusc whose valves are of different sizes. | [adjective] (of the shells of a bivalve mollusc) Having valves of different sizes INFREQUENCE (25) INFREQUENCY (28) INQUIETUDES (21) INQUIRINGLY (24) INQUISITION (20) [noun] An investigation or inquiry into the truth of some matter | [noun] An inquest | [noun] A questioning INQUISITIVE (23) [adjective] Eager to acquire knowledge. | [adjective] Too curious; overly interested; nosy. INQUISITORS (20) [noun] A person who inquires, especially searchingly or ruthlessly. | [noun] An official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition. LACQUERWARE (25) [noun] Decorative items coated with lacquer. LACQUERWORK (29) [noun] Artistic or decorative work made with lacquer. LAMBREQUINS (24) [noun] A short decorative drapery for a shelf edge or for the top of a window casing; a valance (North America only). | [noun] An ornamental hanging over upper part of window or along the edge of a shelf. | [noun] A border pattern with draped effect used in ceramics. LIQUIDAMBAR (25) [noun] A resinous gum that exudes from the bark of the tree Liquidambar styraciflua | [noun] The tree itself, also called sweetgum LIQUIDATING (22) [verb] To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount. | [verb] To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts. | [verb] To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem. LIQUIDATION (21) [noun] The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash. | [noun] The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business. | [noun] Murder of dehumanized victims by a regime (and possibly its allies). 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QUALIFICATION (27) [noun] The act or process of qualifying for a position, achievement etc. | [noun] An ability or attribute that aids someone's chances of qualifying for something; specifically, completed professional training. | [noun] A certificate, diploma, or degree awarded after successful completion of a course, training, or exam. QUALITATIVELY (28) [adverb] In a qualitative manner. | [adverb] With respect to quality rather than quantity. QUANTITATIONS (22) QUANTIZATIONS (31) QUARRELSOMELY (27) QUARTERBACKED (31) [verb] To play the position of quarterback. | [verb] (by extension) To lead a team or group; to be primarily responsible for some group project or activity. QUARTERFINALS (25) [noun] One of the four competitions in a knockout tournament whose winners go on to play in the two semifinals. QUARTERMASTER (24) [noun] An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies. | [noun] A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master. QUARTERSTAVES (25) QUASICRYSTALS (27) [noun] Any solid with conventional crystalline properties but exhibiting a point group symmetry inconsistent with translational periodicity QUASIPARTICLE (26) [noun] Any entity that has some characteristics of a distinct particle, but comprises a grouping of multiple particles QUASIPERIODIC (27) QUATTROCENTOS (24) QUEENLINESSES (22) QUERULOUSNESS (22) QUESTIONARIES (22) [noun] A questionnaire. | [noun] One who makes it his business to seek after relics and carry them about for sale. QUESTIONNAIRE (22) [noun] A form containing a list of questions; a means of gathering information for a survey | [verb] To survey using questionnaires QUINCENTENARY (27) [noun] A five-hundredth anniversary. | [adjective] Pertaining to a quincentenary; quincentennial. QUINDECILLION (25) QUINQUENNIALS (31) QUINQUENNIUMS (33) [noun] A period of five years. QUINTESSENCES (24) [noun] A thing that is the most perfect example of its type; the most perfect embodiment of something; epitome, prototype. | [noun] A pure substance. | [noun] The essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form. QUINTILLIONTH (25) QUINTUPLICATE (26) [noun] A set of five similar or identical things. | [noun] One element of such a set. | [verb] To multiply by five. QUOTABILITIES (24) REACQUAINTING (25) [verb] To acquaint again; to reintroduce or refamiliarise. REACQUISITION (24) [noun] A second or subsequent acquisition. RELINQUISHING (26) [verb] To give up, abandon or retire from something. To trade away. | [verb] To let go (free, away), physically release. | [verb] To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession. REQUISITENESS (22) REQUISITIONED (23) [verb] To demand something, especially for a military need of staff, supplies or transport. SCULPTURESQUE (26) [adjective] Like or suggesting sculpture: shapely, statuelike, etc. SEQUESTRATING (23) [verb] To sequester. SEQUESTRATION (22) [noun] The process or act of sequestering; a putting aside or separating. SESQUITERPENE (24) [noun] Any terpene formed from three isoprene units, and having fifteen carbon atoms; includes several plant pigments such as the flavones. SOLILOQUISING (23) [verb] To perform a soliloquy; (of a character) to talk to oneself. SOLILOQUIZERS (31) SOLILOQUIZING (32) [verb] To perform a soliloquy; (of a character) to talk to oneself. | [noun] Something spoken in soliloquy. SQUALIDNESSES (23) SQUASHINESSES (25) SQUEAMISHNESS (27) SQUEEZABILITY (36) SQUIREARCHIES (27) [noun] The landowning gentry. SQUISHINESSES (25) TRANQUILITIES (22) TRANQUILIZERS (31) [noun] That which tranquillizes or soothes. | [noun] A drug used to reduce anxiety or tension; a sedative. TRANQUILIZING (32) [verb] To calm (a person or animal) or put them to sleep using a drug. | [verb] To make (something or someone) tranquil. | [verb] To become tranquil. TRANQUILLIZED (32) [verb] To calm (a person or animal) or put them to sleep using a drug. | [verb] To make (something or someone) tranquil. | [verb] To become tranquil. TRANQUILLIZER (31) [noun] That which tranquillizes or soothes. | [noun] A drug used to reduce anxiety or tension; a sedative. TRANQUILLIZES (31) [verb] To calm (a person or animal) or put them to sleep using a drug. | [verb] To make (something or someone) tranquil. | [verb] To become tranquil. UNCONQUERABLE (26) [adjective] Not conquerable; indomitable. 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ADEQUATENESSES (24) [noun] The plural form of adequateness; the quality or state of being adequate or sufficient in amount, quality, or extent. ANTHRAQUINONES (26) [noun] A class of organic compounds containing a quinone structure with two carbonyl groups, used in dyes, pigments, and pharmaceuticals. ANTIQUARIANISM (25) [noun] The study, collection, or appreciation of antiquities and things of the past; scholarly interest in ancient or old objects and history. AQUACULTURISTS (25) [noun] Persons who practice aquaculture, the farming and cultivation of aquatic organisms such as fish, shellfish, and plants in controlled water environments. BIUNIQUENESSES (25) [noun] The plural of biuniqueness, referring to the quality or state of being biunique (having a one-to-one correspondence in both directions between two sets or functions). CINQUECENTISTS (27) [noun] Scholars, artists, or writers of the sixteenth century, particularly those of the Italian Renaissance. | [noun] People who study or are interested in the culture and art of the 1500s. CLIQUISHNESSES (28) [noun] The plural of cliquishness; the quality or state of being cliquish, characterized by the tendency of a group to exclude outsiders and maintain exclusivity. COLLOQUIALISMS (27) [noun] A colloquial word or phrase; a common spoken expression. | [noun] Colloquial style of speaking. CONQUISTADORES (26) [noun] A conqueror, but especially one of the Spanish soldiers that invaded Central and South America in the 16th century and defeated the Incas and Aztecs. COQUETTISHNESS (28) [noun] The quality or behavior of flirting playfully or affectedly to attract attention or admiration. DELIQUESCENCES (28) DEMISEMIQUAVER (31) [noun] A thirty-second note, drawn as a crotchet with three tails. DISEQUILIBRATE (26) DISEQUILIBRIUM (28) [noun] The loss of equilibrium or stability, especially due to an imbalance of forces. DISQUANTITYING (28) EQUILIBRATIONS (25) EQUITABILITIES (25) EQUIVOCALITIES (28) FREQUENTATIONS (26) FREQUENTATIVES (29) [noun] (grammar) Any of a subclass of imperfective verbs that denote a repeated action, no longer productive in English, but found in e.g. Finnish, Latin, Russian, and Turkish. FREQUENTNESSES (26) GRANDILOQUENCE (27) HEADQUARTERING (28) [verb] To provide (an organization) with headquarters. | [verb] To establish headquarters. INADEQUATENESS (24) INCONSEQUENCES (27) INCONSEQUENTLY (28) INIQUITOUSNESS (23) LOQUACIOUSNESS (25) MAGNILOQUENCES (28) MAGNILOQUENTLY (29) MICROTECHNIQUE (32) MULTIFREQUENCY (33) NONACQUISITIVE (28) NONDELINQUENTS (24) NONEQUILIBRIUM (27) NONEQUIVALENCE (28) OBSEQUIOUSNESS (25) PLASTOQUINONES (25) QUADRILATERALS (24) [noun] A polygon with four sides. | [noun] An area defended by four fortresses supporting each other. QUADRILLIONTHS (27) QUADRUMVIRATES (29) [noun] A group of four people, especially a council of four men sharing office or rule. QUADRUPLICATED (29) [verb] To replicate four times; to make fourfold; to quadruple. | [adjective] Replicated four times QUADRUPLICATES (28) [noun] In quadruplicate: four times over, in four copies | [verb] To replicate four times; to make fourfold; to quadruple. QUALIFICATIONS (28) [noun] The act or process of qualifying for a position, achievement etc. | [noun] An ability or attribute that aids someone's chances of qualifying for something; specifically, completed professional training. | [noun] A certificate, diploma, or degree awarded after successful completion of a course, training, or exam. QUALMISHNESSES (28) QUANTIFICATION (28) [noun] The act of quantifying. | [noun] The expression of an economic activity in monetary units. | [noun] A limitation that is imposed on the variables of a proposition. QUANTITATIVELY (29) [adverb] In a quantitative manner. | [adverb] With respect to quantity rather than quality. QUARTERBACKING (32) [verb] To play the position of quarterback. | [verb] (by extension) To lead a team or group; to be primarily responsible for some group project or activity. | [noun] The act of playing as a quarterback QUARTERMASTERS (25) [noun] An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies. | [noun] A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master. QUASIPARTICLES (27) [noun] Any entity that has some characteristics of a distinct particle, but comprises a grouping of multiple particles QUESTIONNAIRES (23) [noun] A form containing a list of questions; a means of gathering information for a survey QUINCENTENNIAL (25) [noun] A 500th anniversary. | [adjective] Relating to a 500th anniversary. QUINDECILLIONS (26) QUINQUENNIALLY (35) QUINTESSENTIAL (23) [adjective] Of the nature of a quintessence (in all senses); ultimate. QUINTILLIONTHS (26) QUINTUPLICATED (28) [verb] To multiply by five. | [verb] To make five copies of. QUINTUPLICATES (27) [noun] A set of five similar or identical things. | [noun] One element of such a set. | [verb] To multiply by five. QUIZZICALITIES (43) REACQUISITIONS (25) [noun] A second or subsequent acquisition. RELINQUISHMENT (28) REQUISITIONING (24) [verb] To demand something, especially for a military need of staff, supplies or transport. SEQUESTRATIONS (23) [noun] The process or act of sequestering; a putting aside or separating. SESQUIPEDALIAN (26) [noun] A long word. | [noun] A person who uses long words. | [adjective] (of a word or words) Long; polysyllabic. SESQUITERPENES (25) [noun] Any terpene formed from three isoprene units, and having fifteen carbon atoms; includes several plant pigments such as the flavones. SQUARISHNESSES (26) TRANQUILLITIES (23) TRANQUILLIZERS (32) [noun] That which tranquillizes or soothes. | [noun] A drug used to reduce anxiety or tension; a sedative. TRANQUILLIZING (33) [verb] To calm (a person or animal) or put them to sleep using a drug. | [verb] To make (something or someone) tranquil. | [verb] To become tranquil. TRANQUILNESSES (23) UBIQUITOUSNESS (25) UNQUANTIFIABLE (28) [noun] Something that cannot be quantified. | [adjective] Incapable of being quantified or precisely defined mathematically. UNQUESTIONABLE (25) [adjective] Undeniable, obvious UNQUESTIONABLY (28) [adverb] Without question; beyond doubt; indubitably. | [adverb] OK, right-on VENTRILOQUISMS (28) VENTRILOQUISTS (26) [noun] A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism. VENTRILOQUIZED (36) [verb] To practice ventriloquism. | [verb] To speak the words of (another person), as though by ventriloquism. VENTRILOQUIZES (35) [verb] To practice ventriloquism. | [verb] To speak the words of (another person), as though by ventriloquism.

ACQUISITIVENESS (29) [noun] The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession. | [noun] The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. ANTIQUARIANISMS (26) [noun] Plural of antiquarianism; the study, collection, or practice of being interested in antiquities or ancient things. | [noun] Characteristics or practices typical of antiquarians or those devoted to the study of rare and old objects. CHURRIGUERESQUE (30) [adjective] Relating to or denoting a Spanish baroque architectural style characterized by elaborate and ornate decoration. COLLOQUIALITIES (26) [noun] Informal or conversational expressions and phrases characteristic of everyday speech. | [noun] The quality or state of being colloquial; informal language usage. CONSEQUENTIALLY (29) [adverb] In a way that follows as a natural or logical result; as a consequence. COUNTERQUESTION (26) DEMISEMIQUAVERS (32) [noun] A thirty-second note, drawn as a crotchet with three tails. DISEQUILIBRATED (28) DISEQUILIBRATES (27) DISEQUILIBRIUMS (29) EQUALITARIANISM (26) EQUITABLENESSES (26) EQUIVOCALNESSES (29) EXQUISITENESSES (31) GRANDILOQUENCES (28) GRANDILOQUENTLY (29) GROTESQUENESSES (25) GYROFREQUENCIES (33) INCONSEQUENTIAL (26) [noun] Something unimportant; something that does not matter. | [adjective] Having no consequence; not consequential; of little importance. | [adjective] Not logically following from the premises. INQUISITIVENESS (27) INQUISITORIALLY (27) MICROEARTHQUAKE (35) MICROTECHNIQUES (33) NONEQUILIBRIUMS (28) NONEQUIVALENCES (29) NONQUANTIFIABLE (29) NONQUANTITATIVE (27) NONUNIQUENESSES (24) PICTURESQUENESS (28) QUADRUPLICATING (30) [verb] To replicate four times; to make fourfold; to quadruple. QUADRUPLICATION (29) QUADRUPLICITIES (29) [noun] A group of four things. QUANTIFICATIONS (29) [noun] The act of quantifying. | [noun] The expression of an economic activity in monetary units. | [noun] A limitation that is imposed on the variables of a proposition. QUARRELSOMENESS (26) QUARTERFINALIST (27) QUATERCENTENARY (29) [noun] A four-hundredth anniversary QUERULOUSNESSES (24) QUINCENTENARIES (26) [noun] A five-hundredth anniversary. QUINCENTENNIALS (26) [noun] A 500th anniversary. QUINTUPLICATING (29) [verb] To multiply by five. | [verb] To make five copies of. RELINQUISHMENTS (29) REQUISITENESSES (24) SCULPTURESQUELY (31) SESQUICARBONATE (28) SESQUICENTENARY (29) [noun] A 150-year anniversary. SQUEAMISHNESSES (29) SQUEEZABILITIES (35) UNQUESTIONINGLY (28) VENTRILOQUIALLY (30) VENTRILOQUISTIC (29) VENTRILOQUIZING (37) [verb] To practice ventriloquism. | [verb] To speak the words of (another person), as though by ventriloquism.