English Words: Q
2,880 words · Page 55 of 58
Synonym of jumping jack (“a toy figure of a person with jointed limbs that can be made to appear to dance or jump by pulling an attached string”).
Which one should Google. (Used after a term to indicate that more information on the term can be found through a Google search.)
Herring, especially if caught and cured (or smoked) near any of the various northeastern American places named Quoddy or Passamquoddy.
Of a system, having an origin that is unknown, intentionally undisclosed, or treated as irrelevant.
Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks.
Any of the various carnivorous marsupials of the genus Dasyurus found in Australia and New Guinea, roughly the size of a cat.
A writ and legal fiction that (until the late 19th century) allowed the Court of Exchequer to obtain a jurisdiction over cases normally brought in the Court of Common Pleas, based on having the plaintiff in a debt case claim that he was a debtor to the king, and that the defendant's debt prevented him paying the king.
A prefabricated building having a roof of corrugated iron and semicircular cross section.
A lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel, having a semicircular cross section.
(of a meeting) Having a quorum; having the minimum number of people necessary to conduct business and to cast votes.
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 55. 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.