9-letter words starting with qui
- qui nhong — a port in SE Vietnam, on the South China Sea. Pop: 163 385 (1992 est)
- quibbling — characterized by or consisting of quibbles; carping; niggling: quibbling debates.
- quick fix — an expedient, temporary solution, especially one that merely postpones having to cope with an overall problem.
- quickbeam — a rowan tree
- quickdraw — (climbing) A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.
- quickened — Simple past tense and past participle of quicken.
- quickener — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
- quickfire — Alternative form of quick-fire.
- quicklier — (rare, literary, dated) More quickly; with greater rapidity.
- quicklime — lime1 (def 1).
- quickness — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- quicksets — Plural form of quickset.
- quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
- quickstep — (formerly) a lively step used in marching.
- quicktime — (graphics, standard, file format, product) Apple Computer's software for playing audio and video. The QuickTime application is a free media player. QuickTime Pro is a paid-for version with editing ability. QuickTime's native format for audio and video is .mov but it can handle many others.
- quidditch — Alternative form of Quidditch.
- quidnuncs — Plural form of quidnunc.
- quiescent — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
- quiesence — Misspelling of quiescence.
- quiet sun — the sun at the minimum of solar activity, occurring every 11 years.
- quietened — Simple past tense and past participle of quieten.
- quietener — a thing which quiets or sedates
- quietness — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
- quietsome — still, calm, quiet
- quill pen — dip pen made from feather
- quillback — a carpsucker, Carpiodes cyprinus, inhabiting waters in the central and eastern U.S., having one ray of the dorsal fin greatly elongated.
- quillfish — a fish, Ptilichthys goodei, of the Bering Sea, having an eellike body with long, many-rayed fins.
- quillwork — a type of decoration using softened and usually dyed porcupine or bird quills.
- quillwort — any fernlike, aquatic marsh plant of the genus Isoëtes, characterized by clustered, quill-like leaves bearing sporangia in their bases.
- quilombos — Plural form of quilombo.
- quinarius — a denomination of ancient Roman coinage, issued in silver or gold at various times and undergoing many changes of value.
- quinellas — Plural form of quinella.
- quinidine — a colorless, crystalline alkaloid, C 2 0 H 2 4 N 2 O 2 , isomeric with quinine, obtained from the bark of certain species of cinchona trees or shrubs, used chiefly to regulate heart rhythm and to treat malaria.
- quinoidal — of or resembling quinone.
- quinoline — a colorless, liquid, water-immiscible, nitrogenous base, C 9 H 7 N, having a disagreeable odor, occurring in coal tar, and usually prepared by oxidizing a mixture of glycerol and aniline: used as a solvent and reagent and to make dyes.
- quinology — The science of the cultivation of cinchona and its use in medicine as quinine.
- quinolone — Any of a class of antibiotics used in treating a variety of mainly Gram-negative infections, and thought to be responsible for antibiotic resistance in some microbes.
- quinonoid — of or resembling quinone.
- quintains — Plural form of quintain.
- quintette — Alternative spelling of quintet A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music.
- quintiles — Plural form of quintile.
- quintroon — a person having one octoroon and one White parent and therefore having one-sixteenth Black blood
- quintuple — fivefold; consisting of five parts.
- quintuply — in a quintuple manner; involving five times as much
- quipsters — Plural form of quipster.
- quirkiest — Superlative form of quirky.
- quislings — Plural form of quisling.
- quit-rent — rent paid by a freeholder or copyholder in lieu of services that might otherwise have been required.
- quitclaim — a transfer of all one's interest, as in a parcel of real estate, especially without a warranty of title.
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