7-letter words starting with q
- quiddit — (rare) quibble.
- quiddle — a person concerned with trivialities
- quiesce — Become quiet or quieter.
- quieted — Simple past tense and past participle of quiet.
- quieten — to become quiet (often followed by down).
- quieter — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
- quietly — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
- quietus — a finishing stroke; anything that effectually ends or settles: Having given a quietus to the argument, she left.
- quiffed — Simple past tense and past participle of quiff.
- quillai — soapbark (def 1).
- quilled — rolled or incurved into a narrow tubular form.
- quiller — a machine for quilling yarn.
- quillet — a subtlety or quibble.
- quillon — either of two transverse projecting members forming the cross guard of a sword.
- quilmes — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
- quilted — resembling a quilt, as in texture, design, stitching, etc.
- quilter — 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.
- quimper — a department in W France. 2714 sq. mi. (7030 sq. km). Capital: Quimper.
- quinary — pertaining to or consisting of five.
- quinate — arranged in groups of five.
- quinces — Plural form of quince.
- quinche — to move, to wince
- quincke — Angioedema.
- quinela — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor, in order to win, must select the first- and second-place finishers without specifying their order of finishing.
- quinine — a white, bitter, slightly water-soluble alkaloid, C 2 0 H 2 4 N 2 O 2 , having needlelike crystals, obtained from cinchona bark: used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of resistant forms of malaria.
- quinnat — Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, the chinook salmon.
- quinnet — Alternative form of quinnat.
- quinoid — a quinonoid substance.
- quinone — a yellow, crystalline, cyclic unsaturated diketone, C 6 H 4 O 2 , formed by oxidizing aniline or hydroquinone: used chiefly in photography and in tanning leather.
- quintal — a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms (220.5 avoirdupois pounds).
- quintan — (of a fever, ague, etc.) characterized by paroxysms that recur every fifth day.
- quintet — any set or group of five persons or things.
- quintic — of the fifth degree.
- quintin — a masculine name: dim. Quint
- quipped — a clever or witty remark or comment.
- quipper — One who quips; a jester.
- quiring — Present participle of quire.
- quirked — Having, or formed with, a quirk.
- quirker — a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism: He is full of strange quirks.
- quirted — Simple past tense and past participle of quirt.
- quite a — intensifier before noun
- quittal — repayment, requital
- quitted — to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
- quitter — a person who quits or gives up easily, especially in the face of some difficulty, danger, etc.
- quittor — purulent infection of horses and other hoofed animals, characterized by chronic inflammation of the lateral cartilage of the foot and formation of fistulas that open above the coronet, usually resulting in lameness.
- quivers — Plural form of quiver.
- quivery — the act or state of quivering; a tremble or tremor.
- quixote — Don, Don Quixote.
- quizzed — an informal test or examination of a student or class.
- quizzer — an informal test or examination of a student or class.