English words: quarter of to quasielectron

300 English words, part 6 of 13 of the words starting with Q, A to Z. 19 have a page of their own.

English words quarter of to quasielectron

quarter of noun: Synonym of quarter to; fifteen minutes before a certain hour.
quarter of an hour noun: fifteen minutes.
quarter-phase adjective: Differing in phase by a quarter of a cycle; two-phase.
quarter pipe noun: A structure used to perform tricks, approximately half the size of a half-pipe, similar in appearance to having a quarter of a circle in cross-section, with...
quarter-plate noun: A photographic plate measuring 3¼ by 4¼ inches.
quarter point noun: Any of the 32 points of the compass achieved by bisecting the angles of the sixteen half-points; for example, north by east (lying between north and...
quarter pole noun: A pole indicating that the finish line is one quarter of a mile away.
quarter-pound adjective: Synonym of quarter-pounder
quarter pounder adjective, noun: A beef hamburger whose patty weighed approximately a quarter of a pound before cooking.
quarter rest noun: A rest of the same duration as a quarter note.
quarter-round noun: A form of ovolo consisting of a convex molding whose cross section is a quarter circle.
quarter saw verb: Alternative spelling of quartersaw.
quarter seam noun: A small join that runs around a cricket ball at 90 degrees to the main seam, and has no stitching.
quarter section noun /ˈkwoɹ.təɹ ˌsɛk.ʃən/: A square tract of laud containing 160 acres, and constituting one fourth of a section.
quarter session noun: A local court traditionally held at four set times each year in the Kingdom of England from 1388, and later in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and various other...
quarter sovereign noun: A British gold bullion and collectors' coin with a face value of 25 pence; it is issued by the Royal Mint since 2009.
quarter-staff noun: Alternative form of quarterstaff.
quarter-stave noun: Alternative form of quarterstaff.
quarter-sucker noun: A coin-operated arcade game.
quarter time noun: The interval between the first and second quarters of a sports match.
quarter tone noun: The musical interval equal to one quarter of a tone or 1/24 of an octave; half a semitone.
quarter-up price noun: In share valuation, the bid price plus 25% of the difference between the bid and offer prices.
quarter waiter noun: A gentleman usher on duty in the English court for three months of each year.
quarter water noun: A combination of water, food coloring, and sugar sold as a drink in small plastic bottles for 25 cents.
quarter-wave plate noun: A sheet of birefringent material whose thickness is such that the light associated with the larger refractive index is retarded in phase by 90° with respect...
quarter-wavelength film noun: Synonym of λ/4 film.
quarter window noun: Synonym of quarter glass.
quarter-witted adjective: Having or displaying half the mental capacity of a half-wit.
quarter-yearly adjective, adverb: Synonym of quarterly (“every three months”).
quarter-zip adjective, noun: Having a short zip (approximately a quarter of the height of the garment) descending from the collar.
quarterage noun: A quarterly payment or allowance, tax, pension, or wage paid or received.
quarterback noun, verb /ˈkwɔːtəbak/: An offensive back whose primary job is to pass the ball in a play.
quarterbacking noun, verb: The act of playing as a quarterback
quarterboy noun: A male figure that strikes a bell every quarter of an hour as part of the mechanism of a public clock.
quarterdeck noun: The aft part of the upper deck of a ship; normally reserved for officers
quarterdecker noun: A ship that has a quarterdeck; an officer who serves on a quarterdeck
quartereen noun: A farthing.
quarterer noun: One of a group of agricultural workers who were entitled to keep a quarter of the harvest as payment, yielding up the rest to their lord.
quarterfinal noun: One of the four competitions in a knockout tournament whose winners go on to play in the two semifinals.
quarterfinalist noun: a person or team that takes part in a quarterfinal
quarterfold noun /ˈk(w)ɔɹtɚˌfoʊld/: A fold produced by folding a sheet of paper or other material once in half and then again in half at a right angle, resulting in four roughly equal panels...
quarterhorse noun: Alternative spelling of quarter horse.
quartering adjective, noun, verb: A division into four parts.
quartering block noun: A block on which the body of a condemned criminal was quartered.
quarterite noun: An inhabitant of a particular quarter.
quarterization noun: division into quarters
quarterize verb: To divide into quarters.
quarterland noun: An old Scots unit of measure of land.
quarterless adjective: Without quarter; merciless.
quarterlife adjective: Of or relating to an age between twenty and twenty-nine years old.
quarterlifer noun: A vicenarian.
quarterlight noun: Alternative spelling of quarter light.
quarterly adjective, adverb, noun: Occurring once every quarter year (three months); taking place quarter-yearly.
quarterly court noun: a county court held every three months.
quarterly quartered adjective: Synonym of counterquartered.
Quartermain proper noun: A surname.
Quartermaine proper noun: A surname, a variant of Quartermain.
quarterman noun: A foreman in a shipyard
quartermaster noun, verb /ˈk(w)ɔɹtɚˌmæstɚ/: An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops,...
quartermaster general noun: The staff officer in charge of supplies for an entire army, and also in charge of quartermaster units and personnel.
quartermaster sergeant noun: A class of rank or appointment in some armed forces, especially those of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.
quartermaster train noun: The vehicles and personnel dedicated to moving supplies which are under the command of the quartermaster.
quartermastering noun, verb: The duties of a quartermaster.
quartermasterly adjective: Like or suiting a quartermaster.
quartermastership noun: The position or employment of a quartermaster.
quartermiler noun: Alternative form of quarter-miler.
quartermistress noun: A female quartermaster.
quartern noun: A quarter part; one fourth.
quarteron noun: Obsolete form of quadroon.
quarterpace noun: A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only.
quarterpenny noun: A coin worth one fourth of a penny.
quarterpipe noun: Alternative form of quarter-pipe.
quarterpounder noun: Alternative form of quarter-pounder.
quarters noun, verb /ˈkwɔɹtɚz/: Housing, barracks, or other habitation or living space.
quartersaw verb: Cut radially (towards the heart of the log), at right angles to the growth rings, for stability or the production of decorative patterns.
quarterstaff noun /ˈkwɔɹtəɹˌstæf/: A wooden staff with an approximate length between 2 and 2.5 meters, sometimes tipped with iron, used as a weapon in rural England during the Early Modern...
quartertime noun: Alternative form of quarter time.
quartertone noun: Alternative spelling of quarter tone.
quarterwave noun: A quarter of a wavelength
quartessence noun: Anything that is slightly less pure than a quintessence
quartet noun /kwɔː(ɹ)ˈtɛt/: A group of four people or things, particularly
quartetist noun: a person who composes or performs quartets
quartette noun: Alternative spelling of quartet.
quartetto noun: A quartet.
Quartey proper noun: A surname from Ga.
quartful noun: The amount that fills a quart vessel
quartibrach noun: The fourth-order brachial plate of a crinoid.
quartic adjective, noun: Of or relating to the fourth degree.
quartic function noun: Any function of a polynomial whose greatest exponent is 4.
quartically adverb: In a quartic manner.
quarticity noun: The condition of being quartic
quarticovariant noun: a covariant of degree 4
quartier noun /kɑː(ɹ)tiˈeɪ/: A quarter or district of an urban settlement in France.
quartile noun, verb /ˈkwɔː(ɹ)taɪl/: Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.
quartiled adjective, verb: Divided into quartiles.
quartilho noun: A traditional Portuguese unit of liquid volume, varying in size between 350 and 530 mL.
quartimax adjective: Describing an orthogonal rotation that maximizes the squared loadings for each variable rather than each factor.
quartine noun: A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
quartino noun: A carafe that can hold a quarter of a litre of wine.
quartinvariant noun: Alternative form of quadrinvariant.
quartiparous adjective: Having given birth to four offspring.
quartisect verb: Alternative form of quadrisect.
quarto noun /ˈkwɔː.təʊ/: A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5" or 190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting one of several standard sizes of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25" or...
Quartodeciman adjective, noun: Any of a group of early Christians (especially in Asia Minor, Syria, and Jerusalem) who observed Pascha (Christian Passover or Easter) on Nisan 14 of the...
quartole noun: A quadruplet.
quartumvir noun: Alternative form of quattuorvir.
quartumvirate noun: Alternative form of quattuorvirate: rule by four people.
quartz noun /k(w)ɔːts/: The most abundant mineral on the earth's surface, of chemical composition silicon dioxide, SiO₂. It occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and...
quartz arenite noun: A sandstone arenite that is predominantly composed of silica.
quartz arenitic adjective: Of or relating to quartz arenite.
quartz-beta noun: Alternative form of beta quartz.
quartz clock noun: Any timepiece that makes use of the piezoelectric property of a quartz crystal.
quartz crusher noun: A machine designed to crush quartz in order to extract gold.
quartz crystal noun: A small crystal of quartz accurately cut in certain directions so that it can be vibrated at a particular frequency, to produce an electric signal of...
quartz-crystal clock noun: A clock which is regulated by a quartz crystal.
quartz-diorite noun: Any form of diorite containing appreciable amounts of quartz.
quartz glass noun: Synonym of fused quartz.
quartz halogen lamp noun: An incandescent light bulb in which the envelope is made of quartz instead of glass, and the filament is surrounded by an atmosphere of a halogen gas,...
quartz heater noun: A portable electric radiant heater consisting of elements sealed in quartz glass tubes which produce infrared radiation in front of a reflective backing.
quartz-iodine lamp noun: A type of light bulb consisting of a quartz bulb and a tungsten filament and the bulb containing iodine, operating at a high temperature and producing an...
quartz lamp noun: A mercury vapor lamp consisting of an ultraviolet light source, and enclosed by an envelope made from quartz rather than glass, which transmits ultraviolet...
quartz mining noun: the mining of gold-bearing quartz
quartz monzonite noun: An intrusive, felsic, igneous rock that has an approximately equal proportion of orthoclase and plagioclase feldspars.
quartz reefer noun: A person gold miner or prospector working on a quartz reef.
quartz schist noun: A metamorphosed schist composed mostly of quartz with some mica and/or tourmaline.
quartz-trachyte noun: Synonym of rhyolite.
quartz wacke noun: A type of sandstone that contains over 95% quartz grains and more than 15% mud matrix.
quartz watch noun: Any watch that makes use of the piezoelectric property of a quartz crystal.
quartzarenic adjective: Alternative form of quartz arenitic.
quartzarenite noun: Alternative form of quartz arenite.
quartzarenitic adjective: Alternative form of quartz arenitic.
quartzic adjective: Of or relating to quartz.
quartziferous adjective: Yielding or containing quartz.
quartzine noun: A fibrous form of silica similar to chalcedony.
quartzing noun: The extraction of quartz from the earth, and moreover the subsequent extraction of gold from quartz.
quartzipsamment noun: A form of psamment that has a high percentage of quartz or similar material
quartzite noun /ˈk(w)ɔːtˌsaɪt/: A metamorphic rock from sandstone, consisting of interlocking grains of quartz.
quartzitic adjective: Of, relating to, or containing quartzite.
quartzless adjective: Lacking quartz.
quartzlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of quartz.
quartzmonzonite noun: Alternative form of quartz monzonite.
quartzofeldspathic adjective: Containing quartz and feldspar.
quartzofeldspatholithic adjective: Consisting chiefly of or containing significant amounts of quartz, feldspar, and rock fragments (lithic grains), especially as a type of sandstone composed...
quartzoid noun: A form of crystal resembling quartz, having two six-sided pyramids, base to base.
quartzolite noun: A type of rock consisting of almost pure quartz, but also containing some feldspar and small amounts of mica and amphibole.
quartzolithic adjective: Relating to quartzolites.
quartzose adjective: Pertaining to quartz; made of quartz.
quartzous adjective: Pertaining to quartz; made of quartz.
quartzphyric adjective: Quartzic and porphyric.
quartzwacke noun: Alternative form of quartz-wacke.
quartzy adjective: Resembling or containing quartz.
quaruba noun: Any tree of the genus Vochysia, of the tropical Americas.
quas noun: Alternative spelling of kvass.
quasar noun /ˈkweɪ.zɑː/: An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and (putatively) the most distant objects in the universe.
quasarlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a quasar.
quash verb /kwɒʃ/: To defeat decisively, to suppress.
quashable adjective: Able to be quashed or annulled
quashal noun: the granting of a motion to quash
Quashee noun: A black inhabitant of the West Indies.
quasher noun: One who quashes.
Quashgai noun: Alternative form of Qashqai.
Quashie noun: Alternative form of Quashee.
quashing noun, verb: The action of quashing something.
Quashqai noun: Alternative form of Qashqai.
quashy adjective: slushy; mushy
quasi adjective, prefix /ˈkweɪzaɪ/: Resembling or having a likeness to the named thing.
quasi-academic adjective: Resembling academic work.
quasi-adjective noun: An adjectival noun, a specific Japanese part of speech. Some of these words can be used as regular nouns, and all can be used as adjectives when followed by...
quasi-alliance noun: a security arrangement that is not based on a formal defense pact, but on tacit agreements
quasi-autobiographical adjective: Partially autobiographical.
quasi-biennial oscillation noun: A quasiperiodic oscillation of the equatorial zonal wind between easterlies and westerlies in the tropical stratosphere
quasi-compact adjective: In which has every open cover has a finite subcover.
quasi-contract noun: An obligation of one party to another created by the law in the absence of an agreement; not based upon the intentions or expressions of the parties;...
quasi-converb noun: Alternative form of quasiconverb.
quasi corporation noun: An entity that exercises some of the functions of a corporation, but has not been granted separate legal personality by statute; especially, a public...
quasi-crystal noun: Alternative form of quasicrystal.
quasi-derivative noun: A particular generalization of the derivative of a function between two Banach spaces.
quasi-dictator noun: A leader that rules dictatorially but still allows some freedoms.
quasi-differentiable adjective: That has a quasi-derivative.
quasi-divinity noun: The condition, as of a king etc., of being considered to have some attributes of a god.
quasi-easement noun: A legal right that resembles an easement, but arises when a single owner uses one part of their land for the benefit of another part, before dividing the...
quasi-etymological adjective: Based on faulty etymological grounds or reasoning; employing the techniques of etymology but not in a rigorous, scholarly, or accurate manner.
quasi-fascist adjective, noun: Synonym of para-fascist.
quasi-federalist adjective: Being or supporting a system of government that appears to be devolved as a federation, but in fact still centrally controlled.
quasi-governmental adjective: Alternative form of quasigovernmental.
quasi-governmentally adverb: Alternative form of quasigovernmentally.
quasi-independent adjective: Somewhat independent.
quasi-invariant adjective: Preserving a specified property under transformation.
quasi-isomorphism noun: Which induces isomorphisms of the (co)homology groups.
quasi-Jewish adjective: Resembling or somewhat Jewish.
quasi-judicial adjective: Alternative form of quasijudicial.
quasi-judicial agency noun: An agency of the executive branch that exercises some judicial functions and before which a minimum of due process is required.
quasi-legislative adjective: Partly legislative.
quasi-magical adjective: Almost magical.
quasi-money noun: Alternative form of quasimoney.
quasi-moon noun: Synonym of quasi-satellite.
quasi-naturalistic adjective: Resembling something naturalistic.
quasi-one-dimensional adjective: Almost one-dimensional.
quasi-one-dimensionality noun: The condition of being quasi-one-dimensional.
quasi partner noun: a nominal partner
quasi-periodic adjective: Alternative spelling of quasiperiodic.
quasi-planet noun: a body comparable to a planet, but not a planet, such as a dwarf planet or a planetary-mass moon
quasi-probability noun: A concept introduced in order to apply quantum corrections to classical statistical mechanics
quasi-projective adjective: Locally closed with respect to the Zariski topology on projective n-space; isomorphic to such a set.
quasi-pseudo-metrizability noun: The property of being quasi-pseudo-metrizable.
quasi-pseudo-metrizable adjective: Able to be equipped with a quasi-pseudo-metric.
quasi-realism noun: The noncognitivist metaethical view that although ethical sentences do not express propositions (and thus cannot be true or false), they nevertheless...
quasi-rent noun: The income earned, in excess of post-investment opportunity cost, by a sunk cost investment.
quasi-reorganization noun: A corporate accounting procedure in which recapitalization is achieved by the elimination of the existing deficit and the establishment of a new earned...
quasi-rhyme noun: Somewhat of a rhyme.
quasi-sacred adjective: Resembling something sacred.
quasi-satellite noun: An object in a specific type of coorbital configuration (1:1 orbital resonance) with a planet, causing it to stay close to the planet over many orbital...
quasi-science noun: Alternative form of quasiscience.
quasi-scientific adjective: Seemingly scientific, especially by using the language but not the methods or rigour of science.
quasi-solid noun /ˌkweɪ̯.zaɪ̯ˈsɒl.ɪd/: Matter apparently intermediate between solids and liquids.
quasi-spin noun: Alternative form of quasispin.
quasi-star noun: Alternative form of quasistar.
quasi-stellar adjective: Alternative form of quasistellar.
quasi-stellar object noun: a quasar
quasi-stellar radio source noun: A quasar.
quasi-stellar radiosource noun: Alternative form of quasi-stellar radio-source.
quasi-stoichiometric adjective: Almost stoichiometric.
quasi-synonym noun: Synonym of parasynonym.
quasi-three-dimensional adjective: Almost three-dimensional.
quasi-three-dimensionality noun: The condition of being quasi-three-dimensional.
quasi-tort noun: An unusual tort action on the basis of a legal doctrine that some legal duty exists which cannot be classified strictly as negligence in a personal duty...
quasi-traditional adjective: Partially traditional.
quasi-transitive adjective: Such that its vertex set can be partitioned into finitely many sets, so that there exists an automorphism mapping a vertex to another vertex if and only if...
quasi-two-dimensional adjective: Almost two-dimensional.
quasi-two-dimensionality noun: The condition of being quasi-two-dimensional.
quasi-uniform adjective, noun: Alternative spelling of quasiuniform (adjective).
quasi-zero-dimensional adjective: Almost zero-dimensional.
quasiabelian adjective: Having properties similar to an abelian structure
quasianalytic adjective: Belonging or relating to a generalization of the class of real analytic functions based upon the fact that, if f is an analytic function on an interval...
quasianalytical adjective: Synonym of quasianalytic.
quasianalyticity noun: The property of being quasianalytic.
quasiarchaeological adjective: Apparently, but not actually, archaeological.
quasiatomic adjective: Having some atomic characteristics
quasiballistic adjective: Synonym of semiballistic.
quasibarreled adjective: Alternative form of quasibarrelled.
quasibarrelled adjective: For which every barrelled bornivorous set in the space is a neighbourhood of zero.
quasibialgebra noun: A generalization of a bialgebra that allows for a weaker form of coassociativity.
quasibinomial adjective: Describing a generalisation of binomial distributions
quasiblack adjective: Describing a form of black hole that has a quasihorizon.
quasiboson noun: A particle that behaves as if it were a boson
quasibound adjective: Describing a system, particle etc., that has both a closed and an open boundary condition
quasibrittleness noun: The quality of being quasibrittle.
quasichemical adjective: Describing the interactions of particles that resemble chemical reactions
quasicircle noun: A Jordan curve in the complex plane that is the image of a circle under a quasiconformal mapping of the plane onto itself.
quasicircular adjective: Almost, but not quite circular.
quasiclassic adjective: quasiclassical
quasiclassical adjective: Having certain aspects of classical physics.
quasicoaxial adjective: Describing an open-wire power transmission cable that has shielding layers above and below it
quasicoherent adjective: Belonging to a generalization of coherent sheaves, including the locally free sheaves of infinite rank.
quasicompact adjective: Alternative form of quasi-compact.
quasicomplete adjective: almost complete
quasiconcave adjective: said of a function, if the inverse image of any set of the form (a,∞) for that function is a convex set.
quasiconcavity noun: The state or condition of being quasiconcave.
quasicondensate noun: A material that has some, but not all, characteristics of a condensate.
quasicondensation noun: The formation of a quasicondensate.
quasiconformal adjective: Nearly, but not quite, conformal
quasiconformality noun: The quality of being quasiconformal.
quasiconformally adverb: In a quasiconformal manner
quasiconstitutional adjective: Somewhat or partially constitutional.
quasicontinuous adjective: Having some characteristics of a continuous function, system etc
quasicontinuum noun: A system that behaves as a continuum in most but not all respects.
quasicontractual adjective: Having certain elements of a contract.
quasicontroversial adjective: Synonym of semicontroversial.
quasiconverb noun: A verb form which functions as a converb, but is constructed differently.
quasiconvex adjective: said of a function, if the inverse image of any set of the form (-∞,a) for that function is a convex set.
quasiconvexity noun: The state of being quasiconvex.
quasicriminal adjective: Bordering on criminal; having certain characteristics of a crime.
quasicritical adjective: Having most, but not all, characteristics of a critical system
quasicrystal noun: any solid with conventional crystalline properties but exhibiting a point group symmetry inconsistent with translational periodicity
quasicrystalline adjective: Of or relating to quasicrystals
quasicrystallographic adjective: Relating to quasicrystallography.
quasicrystallography noun: The study of quasicrystals.
quasicubic adjective: Almost, but not quite cubic.
quasicycle noun: Any approximately cyclic phenomenon that does not repeat exactly
quasicyclic adjective: Describing a certain type of cyclic group or cyclic code
quasidemocracy noun: Any political system having certain aspects of democracy.
quasidemocratic adjective: Having certain aspects of democracy.
quasideterminant noun: The equivalent of a determinant in matrices that have noncommutative entries
quasidiagonal adjective: Having an approximate unit consisting of projections which is quasicentral.
quasidiagonality noun: The property of being quasidiagonal.
quasidifferentiable adjective: Alternative form of quasi-differentiable.
quasidiscrete adjective: Having certain aspects of a discrete state or system.
quasidisk noun: The interior of a quasicircle.
quasidisorder noun: The condition of an apparently disordered system that has an underlying order.
quasidisordered adjective: Apparently disordered, but having an underlying order.
quasidistribution noun: A quantum state described in terms of phase-space quasiprobability densities.
quasidocumentary adjective: Somewhat or partially documentary.
quasidominance noun: The dominance (repetitive appearance through generations) in a population of a recessive trait because of repeated consanguineous matings.
quasidominant adjective: Of or pertaining to quasidominance
quasidormant adjective: Apparently dormant
quasidynamical adjective: Describing a system that has some characteristics of a dynamical system
quasieasement noun: Alternative form of quasi-easement.
quasieconomic adjective: Having certain economic aspects.
quasielastic adjective: Almost, but not totally elastic
quasielectron noun: A form of quasiparticle formed from an electron as it travels through a semiconductor.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under Q: 3,883 words, in 13 parts.