English Words: Q
2,880 words · Page 42 of 58
A style of play in which each player has a fixed amount of time available to make all moves.
Wet sand that appears firm but in which things readily sink, often found near rivers or coasts.
To save progress in one's game with a rapid keystroke, without needing to, e.g., reach a checkpoint.
A device that eliminates the need to use the clutch or throttle when shifting gears on a manual transmission.
A sorting algorithm that operates by recursively partitioning the items to be sorted into two sets.
A horse with a dental defect that cannot masticate hay, but rejects it rolled up like a quid of tobacco.
A fictional ball game played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals.
A philosophical viewpoint which posits that the laws of nature do not supervene on quiddity.
A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM0287).
Of, pertaining to, or being a quidnunc or the abearance of which: gossiping; cumbrously inquisiturient; irresponsibly rumourmongering.
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 42. 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.