8-letter words containing q
- queerity — queerness or peculiarity
- quelling — to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
- quelpart — former name of Cheju (def 1).
- quenched — Simple past tense and past participle of quench.
- quencher — to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
- quenches — to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
- quenelle — French Cookery. a dumpling of finely chopped fish or meat that is poached in water or stock and usually served with a sauce.
- quercine — of or relating to an oak.
- querists — Plural form of querist.
- querries — Plural form of querry.
- querying — a question; an inquiry.
- questant — a person who quests
- questers — Plural form of quester.
- questing — a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
- question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- quetzals — Plural form of quetzal.
- queue up — wait in line
- queueing — Present participle of queue.
- qui nhon — a seaport in SE Vietnam, on the South China Sea coast.
- qui vive — on the qui vive, on the alert; watchful: Special guards were on the qui vive for trespassers.
- quibbled — Simple past tense and past participle of quibble.
- quibbler — an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
- quibbles — Plural form of quibble.
- quiberon — a peninsula in NW France, on the S coast of Brittany: British naval victory over the French 1759. 6 miles (10 km) long.
- quickens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quicken.
- quickest — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quickies — Plural form of quickie.
- quickset — a plant or cutting, especially of hawthorn, set to grow, as in a hedge.
- quiddany — a type of quince jelly
- quidding — Present participle of quid.
- quiddity — the quality that makes a thing what it is; the essential nature of a thing.
- quiddler — someone who quiddles
- quidnunc — a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip; a gossip or busybody.
- quids in — in a very favourable or advantageous position
- quiesced — Simple past tense and past participle of quiesce.
- quietens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quieten.
- quietest — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
- quieting — Present participle of quiet.
- quietism — a form of religious mysticism taught by Molinos, a Spanish priest, in the latter part of the 17th century, requiring extinction of the will, withdrawal from worldly interests, and passive meditation on God and divine things; Molinism.
- quietist — A mystic who follows quietism.
- quietive — a thing which quietens or calms
- quietude — the state of being quiet; tranquillity; calmness; stillness; quiet.
- quiktran — Fortran-like, interactive with debugging facilities. Sammet 1969, p.226.
- quillaia — soapbark (sense 1)
- quillets — a subtlety or quibble.
- quilling — one of the large feathers of the wing or tail of a bird.
- quillman — (archaic) One who writes with a quill.
- quilombo — (historical, in Brazil) A remote, inland settlement originally settled by fugitive slaves (or others).
- quilters — Plural form of quilter.
- quilting — a coverlet for a bed, made of two layers of fabric with some soft substance, as wool or down, between them and stitched in patterns or tufted through all thicknesses in order to prevent the filling from shifting.