7-letter words starting with q
- quartet — any group of four persons or things.
- quartic — of or relating to the fourth degree.
- quartos — Plural form of quarto.
- quartzy — resembling quartz
- quasars — one of over a thousand known extragalactic objects, starlike in appearance and having spectra with characteristically large redshifts, that are thought to be the most distant and most luminous objects in the universe.
- quashed — to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue: to quash a rebellion.
- quashee — (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)
- quasher — someone who quells or suppresses
- quashes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quash.
- quassia — a shrub or small tree, Quassia amara, of tropical America, having pinnate leaves, showy red flowers, and wood with a bitter taste. Compare quassia family.
- quassin — a bitter crystalline substance
- quatrin — (obsolete) Any of several small, copper coins, similar to a farthing, in any of several countries.
- quavers — (of a person's voice) Shake or tremble in speaking, typically through nervousness or emotion.
- quavery — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quayage — quays collectively.
- queachy — unwell
- quechan — Yuma (defs 1, 2).
- quechua — the language of the Inca civilization, presently spoken by about 7 million people in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.
- queenie — a female given name.
- queenly — belonging or proper to a queen: queenly propriety.
- queered — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- queerer — Comparative form of queer.
- queerly — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- quelled — Simple past tense and past participle of quell.
- queller — to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
- queneau — Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–76. French writer, influenced in the 1920s by surrealism. His novels include Zazie dans le métro (1959)
- quentin — a male or female given name: from a Latin word meaning “fifth.”.
- quercia — Jacopo Della [yah-kaw-paw del-lah] /ˈyɑ kɔ pɔ ˌdɛl lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1374?–1438, Italian sculptor.
- querent — (legal, historical) A complainant; a plaintiff.
- querida — Darling.
- queried — a question; an inquiry.
- querier — One who, or that which, queries.
- queries — a question; an inquiry.
- querist — a person who inquires or questions.
- quesnay — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1694–1774, French economist and physician.
- quested — a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
- quester — a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
- questin — (organic compound) The substituted anthraquinone 3-methyl, 1,6-dihydroxy, 8-methoxy 9,10-anthraquinone found in some species of Rubiaceae.
- questor — one of two subordinates of the consuls serving as public prosecutors in certain criminal cases.
- quetsch — Horticulture. a variety of plum.
- quetzal — any of several large Central and South American trogons of the genus Pharomachrus, having golden-green and scarlet plumage, especially P. mocino (resplendent quetzal) the national bird of Guatemala: rare and possibly endangered.
- queuers — a braid of hair worn hanging down behind.
- queuing — a braid of hair worn hanging down behind.
- quibble — an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
- quiches — Plural form of quiche.
- quichua — Quechua.
- quicken — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
- quicker — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quickie — a book, story, movie, etc., usually trivial in quality, requiring only a short time to produce.
- quickly — with speed; rapidly; very soon.