English Words: Q
2,880 words · Page 44 of 58
The remains of a pithouse or earth lodge made by First Nations people in the interior regions of the Pacific Northwest.
A visual system for phenotypic grading of the genitalia, from "fully masculinized" to "fully feminized".
A revised version of the Shavian alphabet, designed for faster handwriting and greater universality.
An extract from the bark of the soapbark tree, Quillaja saponaria, used as a food additive.
Carpiodes cyprinus, a freshwater fish of the sucker family with a long filament that extends back from the dorsal fin, native to the eastern and central United States.
Synonym of crossguard (“a metal bar fixed between, and at right angles to, the blade and the handle of a sword or other bladed weapon that stops an opponent's similar weapon from sliding along the blade and injuring the hand of the person wielding the sword”).
A quilt with an attached pocket into which the whole blanket can be folded, thus making a pillow.
Decorative textile embellishment made from porcupine quills by certain Native Americans.
Any of various simple microphyllous vascular plants, of the family Isoetaceae, that resemble rushes and produce spores.
A fortified residence or encampment in Angola, or the military power associated with it.
A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.
Acronym of Queer/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans (Transgender/Transsexual), Bisexual, Asexual, and/or Gay/Genderqueer.
Having the characteristics of a quilt; specifically, having two layers of cloth sewn together, with a layer of padding between them.
A graphic element, used within maledicta balloons in comics to represent obscenities, curses and swearing, resembling the planet Saturn.
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 44. 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.