English words starting with q - page 33
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Meanings of Quinquepartite:
adjectiveDivided into, or consisting of, five parts, pieces, etc.
Meanings of Quinqueradiate:
adjectiveHaving or consisting of five rays.
Meanings of Quinquereme:
nounAn 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:
verbTo divide into five equal parts.
Meanings of Quinquesection:
nounDivision into five equal parts; an instance of this.
Meanings of Quinqueserial:
adjectiveArranged in or consisting of five series or rows.
Meanings of Quinquesyllabic:
adjectiveContaining five syllables.
Meanings of Quinquesyllable:
nounA word containing five syllables.
Meanings of Quinquetuberculate:
adjectiveHaving five cusps or tubercles; specifically = "quinquetubercular".
Meanings of Quinquevalent:
adjectiveAnother term for pentavalent.
Meanings of Quinquevirate:
nounAn association, committee, etc., consisting of five people.
Meanings of Quinquina:
nounCinchona bark. also more fully "quinquina bark". now chiefly historical.
Meanings of Quinsy:
nounInflammation 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:
nounA 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:
nounA 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:
nounA 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:
nounA 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:
nounA fever that recurs (by inclusive reckoning) every fifth day.
adjectiveRecurring (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:
nounA fever that recurs (by inclusive reckoning) every fifth day.
adjectiveRecurring (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:
nounAn 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:
nounA former monetary unit of albania, equivalent to one-hundredth of a gold franc. in later use also: = "qindarka".
Meanings of Quintary:
nounOriginally; †a multiple of five (obsolete). later: something of a fifth level or rank; compare "quaternary".
adjectiveQuinary.
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