6-letter words containing q
- quacky — sounding like a quack
- quadr- — quadri-
- quadra — a small molding, as a fillet.
- quaere — a query or question.
- quaffs — Plural form of quaff.
- quagga — an extinct equine mammal, Equus quagga, of southern Africa, related to and resembling the zebra, but striped only on the forepart of the body and the head.
- quaggy — of the nature of or resembling a quagmire; marshy; boggy.
- quagma — Theorized phase of matter occurring at extremely high temperature and density, composed of free quarks.
- quahog — an edible clam, Venus (Mercenaria) mercenaria, inhabiting waters along the Atlantic coast, having a relatively thick shell.
- quaich — a Scottish drinking cup of the 17th and 18th centuries having a shallow bowl with two or three flat handles.
- quaigh — A traditional, shallow, two-handled Scottish cup symbolising friendship.
- quails — Plural form of quail.
- quaint — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- quaked — Simple past tense and past participle of quake.
- quaker — a popular name for a member of the Religious Society of Friends.
- quakes — Plural form of quake.
- qualia — a quality, as bitterness, regarded as an independent object.
- qualms — an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction: He has no qualms about lying.
- qualmy — Queasy; nauseous.
- quamin — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- quanah — (Quanah Parker) 1845?–1911, Comanche leader.
- quango — (especially in Great Britain) a semi-public advisory and administrative body supported by the government and having most of its members appointed by the government.
- quanta — plural of quantum.
- quants — Plural form of quant.
- quantz — Johann Joachim [yoh-hahn yoh-ah-khim] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyoʊ ɑ xɪm/ (Show IPA), 1697–1773, German flutist and composer: teacher of Frederick the Great.
- quapaw — a member of a North American Indian people formerly of Arkansas, now living mostly in northeastern Oklahoma.
- quarks — Physics. any of the hypothetical particles with spin 1/2, baryon number 1/3, and electric charge 1/3 or −2/3 that, together with their antiparticles, are believed to constitute all the elementary particles classed as baryons and mesons; they are distinguished by their flavors, designated as up (u), down (d), strange (s), charm (c), bottom or beauty (b), and top or truth (t), and their colors, red, green, and blue. Compare color (def 18), flavor (def 5), quantum chromodynamics, quark model.
- quarry — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quarte — the fourth of eight defensive positions.
- quarto — a book size of about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 cm), determined by folding printed sheets twice to form four leaves or eight pages. Symbol: 4to, 4°.
- quarts — Plural form of quart.
- quartz — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- quasar — one of over a thousand known extragalactic objects, starlike in appearance and having spectra with characteristically large redshifts, that are thought to be the most distant and most luminous objects in the universe.
- quashi — an unsophisticated or gullible male Black peasant
- quasi- — Quasi- is used to form adjectives and nouns that describe something as being in many ways like something else, without actually being that thing.
- quatch — a sound
- quater — (in prescriptions) four times.
- quatre — the four at cards, dice, or the like.
- quatro — a small guitar with four or five strings or pairs of strings, used in Latin American and Caribbean music.
- quaver — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quayle — James Danforth ("Dan") born 1947, vice president of the U.S. 1989–93.
- quazzy — unwell
- qubits — Plural form of qubit.
- qubyte — a quantum byte, or eight quantum bits, a sequence processed as a unit.
- queach — a thicket
- queans — Plural form of quean.
- queasy — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- queazy — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- quebec — a province in E Canada. 594,860 sq. mi. (1,540,685 sq. km).
- queens — a female sovereign or monarch.