English Words: Q
2,880 words · Page 37 of 58
A short-nosed bandicoot, Isoodon fusciventer, found in southwestern Western Australia (formerly treated as a subspecies of the southern brown bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus).
The distaff- or cone-like shape of a tree that has been subjected to quenouille training.
A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.
A monoclinic-sphenoidal pitch black mineral containing hydrogen, lead, manganese, and oxygen.
Tannoform derived from quercitannin or quercitannic, rather than gallotannic, acid.
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 37. 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.