6-letter words containing q
- exequy — (obsolete, now only in plural) funeral rites.
- faquir — fakir.
- fouque — Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte- [free-drikh hahyn-rikh kahrl,, duh lah moht] /ˈfri drɪx ˈhaɪn rɪx kɑrl,, də lɑ ˈmoʊt/ (Show IPA), 1777–1843, German romanticist: poet and novelist.
- fuqaha — plural of faqih.
- griqua — (in South Africa) a person of mixed African and European descent, especially a native of Griqualand.
- jaques — a disillusioned and satirical observer of life, in Shakespeare's As You Like It.
- jequie — a city in E Brazil.
- jerque — to search (a ship) for contraband or undeclared goods
- laquey — (networking) [LaQuey, T. (with J. Ryer), "The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking", Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1992]
- lasque — a thin, flat-cut diamond, often of irregular shape
- lgbtiq — relating to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, intersexes, and queers (or those questioning their gender identity or sexual orientation).
- liquid — composed of molecules that move freely among themselves but do not tend to separate like those of gases; neither gaseous nor solid.
- liquor — a distilled or spirituous beverage, as brandy or whiskey, as distinguished from a fermented beverage, as wine or beer.
- loquat — a small evergreen tree, Eriobotrya japonica, native to China and Japan, cultivated as an ornamental and for its yellow, plumlike fruit.
- manque — having failed, missed, or fallen short, especially because of circumstances or a defect of character; unsuccessful; unfulfilled or frustrated (usually used postpositively): a poet manqué who never produced a single book of verse.
- maquis — the French underground movement, or Resistance, that combatted the Nazis in World War II.
- marque — a city in SE coastal Texas.
- masqat — Muscat.
- masque — a form of aristocratic entertainment in England in the 16th and 17th centuries, originally consisting of pantomime and dancing but later including dialogue and song, presented in elaborate productions given by amateur and professional actors.
- mequon — a town in E Wisconsin.
- mosque — a Muslim temple or place of public worship.
- nasdaq — National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations: a system for quoting over-the-counter securities.
- ofqual — Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation: a government body regulating examinations, assessments, and qualifications in England and vocational qualifications in Northern Ireland
- opaque — not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
- pequot — a member of a powerful tribe of Algonquian-speaking Indians of Connecticut that was essentially destroyed in the Pequot War.
- piqued — to affect with sharp irritation and resentment, especially by some wound to pride: She was greatly piqued when they refused her invitation.
- piquet — a card game played by two persons with a pack of 32 cards, the cards from deuces to sixes being excluded.
- plaque — a thin, flat plate or tablet of metal, porcelain, etc., intended for ornament, as on a wall, or set in a piece of furniture.
- posslq — either of two persons, one of each sex, who share living quarters but are not related by blood, marriage, or adoption: a categorization used by the U.S. Census Bureau.
- pulque — a fermented milky drink made from the juice of certain species of agave in Mexico.
- q'nial — A portable incremental compiler for NIAL, written in C at Queen's University, Canada. There aree versions for Unix and MS-DOS, from NIAL Systems Ltd.
- q-boat — Q-ship.
- q-ship — an armed combat ship disguised as a merchant vessel to attract submarines within attack range.
- q-sort — a psychological test requiring subjects to sort items relative to one another along a dimension such as "agree"/"disagree" for analysis by Q-methodological statistics
- q.i.d. — four times a day
- qabala — Alternative spelling of Kabballah.
- qanats — Plural form of qanat.
- qanoon — Alternative form of kanoon.
- qantas — the Australian national airline
- qaranc — Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
- qasida — an Arabic poem, usually in monorhyme, that may be satirical, elegiac, threatening, or laudatory.
- qatari — an independent emirate on the Persian Gulf; under British protection until 1971. 8500 sq. mi. (22,000 sq. km). Capital: Doha.
- qawwal — A performer of qawwali.
- qazvin — a city in NW Iran, NW of Teheran: capital of Persia in the 16th century.
- qbasic — (language) Quick basic. A version of BASIC from Microsoft, later known as MS-BASIC.
- qigong — a Chinese system of breathing exercises, body postures and movements, and mental concentration, intended to maintain good health and control the flow of vital energy.
- qindar — a money of account of Albania, the 100th part of a lek.
- qintar — a money of account of Albania, the 100th part of a lek.
- qiviut — the soft, dense, light-brown woolly undercoat of the musk ox, used in making fabrics.
- quacks — Plural form of quack.