English Words: Q
2,880 words · Page 34 of 58
A small case used to introduce and protect a new queen bee to a queenless hive in order to determine whether the new queen will be accepted or rejected
Pertaining to a larger-than-average dress, blouse, skirt, pant or stocking size for women.
Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen; kingcraft as practised by a female sovereign.
A queen croaker, of species Seriphus politus, of North America, with elongated body and large mouth.
A hamlet and civil parish (served by Longdon, Queenhill and Holdfast Parish Council) in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO858369).
A code of rules governing professional and amateur boxing, published in 1867 and endorsed by the ninth Marquess of Queensberry.
A suburban area in the borough of Brent and borough of Harrow, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ1889).
A state of Australia, located in the northeastern part of the continent; a former British colony from 1859 to 1901. Capital: Brisbane.
A cryptid, which may be a relict Thylacoleo (marsupial lion) or mainland variant of the Thylacinus (Tasmanian wolf and Tasmanian tiger)
A fictional sidekick character in American author Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick, the multiracial tattooed Polynesian cannibal prince and skilled harpooner who became a whaler on European vessels out of wanderlust. Queequeg practices an alien fictional religion and constantly engages in feats of bravado intimidating to the white and ethnically-European protagonist but befriends him and shows no resentment at treatment by white societies. Melville's text describes him as “George Washington cannibalistically developed”.
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 34. 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.
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