4-letter words starting with q
- q.d. — every day
- q.t. — on the q.t., stealthily; secretly: to meet someone on the q.t.
- q.v. — (used in formal writing after a cross reference) which see.
- qadi — a judge in a Muslim community, whose decisions are based on Islamic religious law.
- qaid — (in North Africa) a Muslim tribal chief, judge, or senior official.
- qari — (Islam) One who recites the Qur'an according to the tajwid, or proper rules of recitation.
- qats — an evergreen shrub, Catha edulis, of Arabia and Africa, the leaves of which are used as a narcotic when chewed or made into a beverage.
- qazi — Alternative spelling of qadi.
- qcif — Quarter CIF
- qdos — (operating system) The Sinclair QL's proprietary operating system. The origin of the name is uncertain (a weak pun on kudos, perhaps, as Unix was on Multics). There was another OS around from the birth of personal computers called Q.D.O.S. - Quick And Dirty Operating System. QDOS might also stand for QL Data/Disk/Drive/Device Operating System. QDOS did the usual OS sorts of things, as well as multitasking. It was unusual in several ways. It treated all devices (serial ports, mouse ports, screen, microdrive, disk drive, keyboard, etc.) uniformly, so you could print a text file direct to disk or save a binary to the screen for example. Also logical channels could be assigned to particular physical devices. Output directed to a channel would go to the appropriate in/output. This also meant you could have many windows on screen (the QL booted up from internal ROMs with 3 windows - command line, output and program listing) all independent to some extent. Channels could be redirected without affecting the way the process sent or received the data.
- qing — See under Manchu (def 1).
- qis' — Ch'i.
- qktp — queen's knight's pawn
- qlog — A version of Prolog implemented in Lisp which allows Prolog programs to call Lisp and vice versa.
- qmqp — Quick Mail Queueing Protocol
- qmtp — Quick Mail Transfer Protocol
- qoph — the nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- qsam — Physical Sequential
- quab — An unfledged bird.
- quad — quadriplegic: a special ward for quads.
- quag — a quagmire.
- qual — (usually, in the plural) Qualifying exam. An exam taken by someone (usually a grad student or prospective grad student) to measure their mastery in something, usually an academic field.
- quao — (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)
- quar — (obsolete) A quarry.
- quas — Alternative spelling of kvass.
- quat — (obsolete) A pustule.
- quay — Matthew Stanley, 1833–1904, U.S. politician: senator 1887–99, 1901–4.
- que. — Quebec
- qued — Bad; evil.
- quel — The query language used by the database management system INGRES.
- quem — the end to which; aim; goal; final or latest limiting point.
- quep — an expression of derision
- ques — question mark
- quey — a heifer.
- quia — (Lutheranism) Relating to the belief that the w Book of Concord is authoritative because it faithfully describes the Christian faith as revealed in the Bible.
- quib — (archaic) A quip or gibe.
- quid — a portion of something, especially tobacco, that is to be chewed but not swallowed.
- quim — vagina; vulva.
- quin — (informal) A quintuplet.
- quip — a clever or witty remark or comment.
- quit — to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
- quiz — an informal test or examination of a student or class.
- quob — (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To throb; to quiver.
- quod — jail.
- quog — (dated,rare,possibly,dialectal) synonym of quahog.
- quop — To throb or beat.
- quos — quoth.
- quoy — (in Scotland, especially as part of a placename) An area of wasteland (or common land) now enclosed for farming.
- qutb — (in Sufism) the highest-ranking saint, the focal point of all spiritual energy.
- quty — A functional plus logic language. "Quty: A Functional Language Based on Unification", M. Sato et al, in Conf. Fifth Gen. Computer Systems, ICOT 1984, pp.157-165.
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