6-letter words starting with q
- 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.
- 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°.
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