English Words: Q
2,880 words · Page 2 of 58
A town and municipal council in Gurdaspur district, Punjab, India, the founding place of the Ahmadiyya community.
A theocratic organizational structure in ancient Israelite society; congregation, assembly.
An arid basin of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau covered with deserts and salt flats, making up most of northwestern Qinghai Province, China.
A nairovirus discovered in Egypt, primarily transmitted by the tick Ornithodoros erraticus.
An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley
Conspiracy theories or other statements by followers of QAnon that are asserted to be nonsense.
A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or 42 strings and two bridges.
A kind of diagram used to classify igneous rocks based on their mineral composition.
A phrase said to wish somebody good fortune, particularly fortune in some form of honourable battle.
A citizen of the empire established by the Khitans in Central Asia between 1124 and 1218.
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 2. 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.