English Words: Q
2,880 words · Page 16 of 58
Any of several species of bird in the genera Geotrygon and Starnoenas of the pigeon family found in the Americas.
The 2006 controversy over the accidental shooting of Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old Texas attorney, by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, while participating in a quail hunt on a ranch in Riviera, Texas.
A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7420).
An object-like data structure containing both data and code (or pointers to code), typically used as an abstraction to manage self-modifying code.
A lake formed after the damming of a watercourse by a landslide caused by an earthquake.
A believer of the Quaker faith and a member of the Society of Friends, known for their pacifist views.
A nonfunctional imitation of a gun or an artillery piece, typically made of wood and usually intended to deceive enemy forces into overestimating one's available firepower.
The belief system of the members of the Religious Society of Friends, an ostensibly Christian religious denomination that began in England in the 17th century.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter Q contains 2,880 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 58 pages, and you are currently viewing page 16. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "Q" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.