English Words: Q
2,880 words · Page 33 of 58
A member of one of several South American ethnic groups that spans Peru, Bolivia, northwestern Argentina, northern Chile, and in Ecuador and southern Colombia.
In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10⁻³⁰ (short scale nonillionth or long scale quintillionth).
A hamlet in Ely parish, East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5681).
A fund, set up in the early 18th century, to financially assist the poor members of the clergy.
A flowering plant, species Daucus carota, especially the flowering part of the plant.
A social phenomenon whereby women in positions of authority treat subordinate women worse than they treat men.
A soft, muffin-sized, often heart-shaped cake, particularly popular in the 18th century, containing currants and flavoured with mace and sometimes lemons or oranges, which may be topped with chocolate or shredded coconut.
A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST5924).
An archipelago that is a component of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the northern islands north of the Parry Channel (the Straight East-West Northwest Passage), west of the Nares Strait, and bounded on the north and west by the Arctic Ocean.
The portion of British Antarctic Territory from Weddell Sea to the South Pole.
A widowed queen consort (a queen dowager) whose son or daughter from that marriage is the reigning monarch.
Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role as queen of Heaven.
A superior kind of olive grown in Spain. It is large and oblong, with a small but long pit and a delicate flavour, and is cured when green.
To behave in a submissively appeasing, accommodating, overly flattering, or flamboyant way, especially when excited.
A holiday or observance commemorating a female monarch and observing her birth, including:
An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer) during the reign of a queen.
Often preceded by the: spoken or written English regarded as used and safeguarded by the Queen of England; standard English characterized by correct grammar and what is thought of as proper usage of words and expressions, and (when spoken) formal British pronunciation.
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 33. 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.