English Words: Q

2,880 words · Page 5 of 58

qigongnoun

A Chinese system of breathing control, physical exercise and meditation.

Qijiangname

A district of Chongqing, China.

Qijinname

Alternative form of Cijin.

Qikiqtaalukname

An uninhabited island of Nunavut territyory, Canada.

qilanoun

A fort or fortress.

Qilianname

A county of Haibei, Qinghai, China.

qilinnoun

A mythical Chinese hooved chimerical creature, said to appear in conjunction with the arrival of a sage.

Qimeiname

Alternative form of Cimei (island)

Qimenname

A county of Huangshan, Anhui, China.

qinnoun

Any of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most commonly the seven-stringed instrument more specifically called the guqin.

Qin Mountainsname

A major east-west mountain range in southern Shaanxi province, China.

Qin scriptnoun

Synonym of small seal script.

Qin'anname

A county of Tianshui, Gansu, in northwestern China.

Qinbeiname

A district of Qinzhou, Guangxi autonomous region, China.

qindarkënoun

A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Albanian lek

Qinduname

A district of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.

qingnoun

A sounding stone, a Chinese musical instrument.

Qing dynastyname

The last dynasty of China, lasting from 1644 to 1912 C.E.

Qingchuanname

A county of Guangyuan, Sichuan, China.

Qingdaoname

A major prefecture-level city and subprovincial city in eastern Shandong, in eastern China, on the Yellow Sea.

Qingfengname

A county of Puyang, Henan, China.

Qinggilname

A county of Altay prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Qinghainame

A province in northwestern China. Capital: Xining.

qinghaosunoun

The drug artemisinin.

Qinghename

Synonym of Qinggil: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

qingheiitenoun

A complex yellow or green mineral with vitreous lustre.

Qinghemenname

A district of Fuxin, Liaoning, China.

Qingjianname

A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.

Qingjiangpuname

A district of Huai'an, in central Jiangsu, in eastern China.

Qingjinname

Synonym of Chongjin: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

Qinglongname

A Manchu autonomous county in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China.

Qingmingname

The first day of the fifth solar term in the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar, the 15th day after the Spring equinox (April 4 or 5).

Qingming Festivalname

Synonym of Tomb Sweeping Day.

Qingpuname

A district of Shanghai, China.

Qingquanname

A village in Taoshan, Wufeng, Hsinchu County, Taiwan.

Qingshanname

A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.

Qingshanhuname

A district of Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.

Qingshuiname

A county of Tianshui, Gansu, China.

qingsongitenoun

A rare mineral first discovered in Tibet in 2009.

Qingtianname

A county of Lishui, Zhejiang, China.

Qingtongxianame

A county-level city of Wuzhong, Ningxia autonomous region, China, formerly a county.

qingtuannoun

A sweet rice-flour ball, usually filled with red bean paste, traditionally consumed on Tomb Sweeping Day in China.

Qingxiuname

A district of Nanning, Guangxi autonomous region, China.

Qingxuname

A county of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.

Qingyangname

A county of Chizhou, Anhui, China.

Qingyuanname

A district of Baoding, Hebei, China.

Qingyunpuname

A district of Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.

qingzhenname

Synonym of halal: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name; permissible according to Muslim religious customs, especially of food preparation

Qinhuangdaoname

A prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.

Qinling Mountainsname

Synonym of Qin Mountains.

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 5. 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.