English Words: Q
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The festival and religious rituals sometimes observed celebrating a Roman emperor's 15th year of rule.
Any member of an official group of fifteen people, especially a member of the 15-man college of priests who cared for the Sibylline Books in ancient Rome.
A group of fifteen people, especially (politics) a council of fifteen men sharing office or rule, particularly such groups of magistrates in ancient Rome.
Two octaves higher. Marking indicates a passage to be transposed up two octaves. Abbreviation: 15ma.
A Brazilian baked custard dessert made chiefly from sugar, egg yolks, and ground coconut.
A river in Colombia, 69 kilometres (43 mi) long, which forms in the mountains east of Salento and flows to the southwest.
A method for minimization of Boolean functions, functionally identical to Karnaugh mapping, but having a tabular form that is more efficient in computer algorithms. It is based on finding prime implicants.
An argument for the existence of abstract mathematical objects such as numbers and sets, based on the fact that they are indispensable to the best scientific theories.
A form of bet in which the bettor predicts the first two finishers in a race, without concern for the order of finishing.
3-cyclopentyl norethisterone, a steroidal progestin whose acylated derivative is used as a pharmaceutical drug.
A white crystalline acid, tetrahydroxy-cyclohexanecarboxylic acid, obtained from cinchona bark, coffee beans and yerba mate; used as an astringent, and in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals
A compound obtained from cinchona bark and used to treat irregularities of heart rhythm. It is an isomer of quinine.
A kind of bet in which the first- and second-place finishers must be predicted, but (unlike a perfecta) not necessarily in the correct order.
An alkaloid with the chemical formula C₂₀H₂₄N₂O₂, originally derived from cinchona bark (from plants of the genus Cinchona), used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water, which presents as a bitter colourless powder; also, a drug containing quinine or a chemical compound derived from it.
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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 46. 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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