English words starting with q - page 32

Meanings of Quinquagenary:

noun

A fiftieth anniversary; the celebration of such an anniversary.

adjective

Of or relating to a fiftieth anniversary.

Meanings of Quinquagesima:

noun

The sunday before the beginning of lent.

Meanings of Quinquagesimal:

adjective

Designating, belonging to, or relating to a set of fifty things (especially days); based on division into fifty parts.

Meanings of Quinquangle:

noun

A pentagon.

Meanings of Quinquarticular:

adjective

Relating to or concerning the five articles of doctrine enunciated by the arminian remonstrants, which were repudiated by the calvinists at the synod of dort in 1618.

Meanings of Quinquatria:

noun

A roman festival in honour of the goddess minerva (19–23 march).

Meanings of Quinquatrus:

noun

A roman festival in honour of the goddess minerva (19–23 march).

Meanings of Quinquedentate:

adjective

Of a ligand: forming five separate bonds. of a complex: formed by such a ligand.

Meanings of Quinquefarious:

adjective

Divided into five sets, rows, parts, etc.

Meanings of Quinquefid:

adjective

Especially of a leaf, calyx, etc.: divided in five sections to about halfway; five-cleft.

Meanings of Quinquefoil:

noun

A cinquefoil (genus potentilla), which typically has compound leaves of five leaflets. now chiefly us and rare.

adjective

Resembling the quinquefoil leaf, quinquefoil-shaped.

Meanings of Quinquefoliated:

adjective

(of a leaf) quinate; (formerly, of the corolla of a flower) †composed of five (fused) segments (obsolete).

Meanings of Quinquefoliolate:

adjective

(of a leaf) quinate.

Meanings of Quinquelateral:

adjective

Having five sides.

noun

A five-sided plane figure.

Meanings of Quinqueliteral:

adjective

(of a root) containing five consonants.

noun

A root containing five consonants.

Meanings of Quinquelobate:

adjective

Having or consisting of five lobes.

Meanings of Quinquelobed:

adjective

= quinquelobate .

Meanings of Quinquelocular:

adjective

Having five locules or compartments.

Meanings of Quinquenary:

adjective

Quinary.

Meanings of Quinquenerved:

adjective

(of a leaf) having five nerves or veins.

Meanings of Quinquennia:

noun

A specified period of five years.

Usage examples:

Two 4th-cent. writers ascribe to the later emperor trajan the view that nero surpassed all other pr…

Meanings of Quinquenniad:

noun

Quinquennium.

Meanings of Quinquennial:

adjective

Recurring every five years.

Usage examples:

They conducted quinquennial reviews

Meanings of Quinquennium:

noun

A specified period of five years.

Usage examples:

Two 4th-cent. writers ascribe to the later emperor trajan the view that nero surpassed all other pr…

Meanings of Quinquenniums:

noun

A specified period of five years.

Usage examples:

Two 4th-cent. writers ascribe to the later emperor trajan the view that nero surpassed all other pr…