5-letter words starting with q
- q-tip — A Q-tip is a small stick with a ball of absorbent cotton at each end, which people use, for example, for applying make-up.
- qadis — a judge in a Muslim community, whose decisions are based on Islamic religious law.
- qahar — a former province of Inner Mongolia in NE China: divided 1952 among adjacent provinces.
- qaids — (in North Africa) a Muslim tribal chief, judge, or senior official.
- qanat — (in the Middle East) a gently sloping underground channel or tunnel constructed to lead water from the interior of a hill to a village below.
- qanun — Alternative form of kanoon.
- qatar — an independent emirate on the Persian Gulf; under British protection until 1971. 8500 sq. mi. (22,000 sq. km). Capital: Doha.
- qeshm — the largest island in the Persian Gulf: part of Iran. Area: 1336 sq km (516 sq miles)
- qiana — a synthetic fabric resistant to stains, wrinkles, etc. and textured like silk, satin, jersey, etc.
- qibla — the point toward which Muslims turn to pray, especially the Kaʿba, or House of God, at Mecca.
- qibli — In the direction of qibla.
- qilin — Lb Chinese mythology A mythical Chinese hooved chimerical creature, said to appear in conjunction with the arrival of a sage.
- qirsh — a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Saudi Arabia, the 20th part of a riyal.
- qishm — an island S of and belonging to Iran, in the Strait of Hormuz. 68 miles (109 km) long; about 510 sq. mi. (1320 sq. km).
- qiyas — judgment of an act or belief by application of established principles governing some analogous act or belief.
- qlisp — 1. SRI 1973. General problem solving, influenced by PLANNER. QA4 features merged with INTERLISP. 2. A parallel LISP.
- qophs — the nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- qorma — Alternative spelling of korma.
- qq.v. — (used in formal writing after a cross reference) which see.
- quack — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
- quaco — (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)
- quade — Alternative form of quede.
- quads — quadriplegic: a special ward for quads.
- quaff — to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
- quags — Plural form of quag.
- quail — a small, migratory, gallinaceous game bird, Coturnix coturnix, of the Old World.
- quair — a book
- quake — (of persons) to shake or tremble from cold, weakness, fear, anger, or the like: He spoke boldly even though his legs were quaking.
- quaky — tending to quake; shaky or tremulous.
- quale — a quality, as bitterness, regarded as an independent object.
- qualm — an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction: He has no qualms about lying.
- quals — Plural form of qual.
- quame — (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)
- quant — Mary, born 1934, English fashion designer and entrepreneur.
- quaos — (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)
- quare — remarkable or strange
- quark — 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.
- quarl — (archaic) A medusa or jellyfish.
- quart — Piquet. a sequence of four cards of the same suit, as an ace, king, queen, and jack (quart major) or king, queen, jack, and ten (quart minor)
- quash — to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue: to quash a rebellion.
- quasi — resembling; seeming; virtual: a quasi member.
- quass — a Russian beer made from fermenting rye or barley and having a dark color and sour taste.
- quata — Archaic form of coiata.
- quate — (Scotland) quiet.
- quave — (intransitive, obsolete) To quiver or tremble.
- quayd — (obsolete) Past participle of quail.
- quays — Plural form of quay.
- qubba — a small Moslem shrine.
- qubit — the fundamental unit of information in a quantum computer, capable of existing in two states, 0 or 1, simultaneously or at a different time.
- quean — an overly forward, impudent woman; shrew; hussy.
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