English words starting with q - page 33

Meanings of Quinquepartite:

adjective

Divided into, or consisting of, five parts, pieces, etc.

Meanings of Quinqueradiate:

adjective

Having or consisting of five rays.

Meanings of Quinquereme:

noun

An ancient roman or greek galley of a kind believed to have had three banks of oars, the oars in the top two banks being rowed by pairs of oarsmen and the oars in the bottom bank being rowed by single oarsmen.

Usage examples:

He applied mind to warfare, introducing artillery, phoenician siege-technique, and the quinquereme.

Meanings of Quinquesect:

verb

To divide into five equal parts.

Meanings of Quinquesection:

noun

Division into five equal parts; an instance of this.

Meanings of Quinqueserial:

adjective

Arranged in or consisting of five series or rows.

Meanings of Quinquesyllabic:

adjective

Containing five syllables.

Meanings of Quinquesyllable:

noun

A word containing five syllables.

Meanings of Quinquetuberculate:

adjective

Having five cusps or tubercles; specifically = "quinquetubercular".

Meanings of Quinquevalent:

adjective

Another term for pentavalent.

Meanings of Quinquevirate:

noun

An association, committee, etc., consisting of five people.

Meanings of Quinquina:

noun

Cinchona bark. also more fully "quinquina bark". now chiefly historical.

Meanings of Quins:

noun

Short for quintuplet.

Meanings of Quinsy:

noun

Inflammation of the throat, especially an abscess in the region of the tonsils.

Usage examples:

His examination disclosed quinsy in the mother

Meanings of Quint:

noun

(in piquet) a sequence of five cards of the same suit. a run of ace, king, queen, jack, and ten is a quint major and one of jack, ten, nine, eight, and seven a quint minor.

Meanings of Quinta:

noun

(in spain, portugal, and latin america) a large house in the country or on the outskirts of a town.

Usage examples:

Hidden away in the forest and mountains, the picture-postcard town of sintra is home to impressive …

Meanings of Quintain:

noun

A post set up as a mark in tilting with a lance, typically with a sandbag attached that would swing round and strike an unsuccessful tilter.

Usage examples:

The object of the exercise was to strike the quintain hard enough to knock it all the way over, bey…

Meanings of Quintains:

noun

A post set up as a mark in tilting with a lance, typically with a sandbag attached that would swing round and strike an unsuccessful tilter.

Usage examples:

The object of the exercise was to strike the quintain hard enough to knock it all the way over, bey…

Meanings of Quintal:

noun

A unit of weight equal to a hundredweight (112 lb) or, formerly, 100 lb.

Usage examples:

An indian authority cited four and a half quintal (four hundredweight) of wood for an open-air crem…

Meanings of Quintals:

noun

A unit of weight equal to a hundredweight (112 lb) or, formerly, 100 lb.

Usage examples:

An indian authority cited four and a half quintal (four hundredweight) of wood for an open-air crem…

Meanings of Quintan:

noun

A fever that recurs (by inclusive reckoning) every fifth day.

adjective

Recurring (by inclusive reckoning) every fifth day (i.e. at intervals of approximately ninety-six hours); specifically designating fever (in later use especially trench fever) which recurs in this way.

Meanings of Quintans:

noun

A fever that recurs (by inclusive reckoning) every fifth day.

adjective

Recurring (by inclusive reckoning) every fifth day (i.e. at intervals of approximately ninety-six hours); specifically designating fever (in later use especially trench fever) which recurs in this way.

Meanings of Quintant:

noun

An instrument formerly used for making angular measurements, especially in astronomy and navigation, analogous to a sextant but having a notional arc of 72 degrees rather than 60 degrees, and so measuring up to 72 degrees (or 144 if the instrument has a mirror). compare "octant", "quadrant".

Meanings of Quintar:

noun

A former monetary unit of albania, equivalent to one-hundredth of a gold franc. in later use also: = "qindarka".

Meanings of Quintary:

noun

Originally; †a multiple of five (obsolete). later: something of a fifth level or rank; compare "quaternary".

adjective

Quinary.