| CROQUANTES | • CROQUANTE n. (French) a crisp pie or tart. |
| CROQUETING | • croqueting v. Present participle of croquet. • CROQUET v. to play a game with balls, mallets and hoops. |
| INQUISITOR | • inquisitor n. A person who inquires, especially searchingly or ruthlessly. • inquisitor n. (Historical) An official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition. • INQUISITOR n. one who inquires or makes inquisition. |
| ORTANIQUES | • ortaniques n. Plural of ortanique. • ORTANIQUE n. (French) a cross between an orange and a tangerine. |
| QUANGOCRAT | • quangocrat n. A proponent of quangocracy. |
| QUARTATION | • quartation n. (Chemistry, archaic) The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of… • QUARTATION n. mixing one part gold with three parts silver prior to purifying it. |
| QUATERNION | • quaternion n. A group or set of four people or things. • quaternion n. A word of four syllables. • quaternion n. (Mathematics) A type of four-dimensional hypercomplex number consisting of a real part and three imaginary… |
| QUATORZAIN | • quatorzain n. A poem or stanza consisting of fourteen lines. • QUATORZAIN n. a poem of fourteen lines; a sonnet. |
| QUERCITRON | • quercitron n. A yellow dye obtained from the bark of the black oak. • quercitron n. The black oak tree, Quercus velutina, indigenous to North America. • QUERCITRON n. a North American oak, the dyer's oak; its inner bark, a source of quercetin and flavin. |
| QUERNSTONE | • quernstone n. Either of a pair of stones used for grinding material by hand. • QUERNSTONE n. a quern, a stone mill for grinding corn. |
| QUESTIONER | • questioner n. A person who asks questions, or who conducts an official enquiry. • QUESTIONER n. one who asks questions. |
| QUICKTHORN | • quickthorn n. The may-tree, any species of Crataegus or the species Crataegus monogyna. • QUICKTHORN n. hawthorn. |
| RECONQUEST | • reconquest n. The act or process of conquering something again, such as a territory. • RECONQUEST n. the act of conquering again. |
| TOURNIQUET | • tourniquet n. (Medicine) A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through… • tourniquet n. Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position. • tourniquet n. (Obsolete) A turnstile. |
| UNDERQUOTE | • underquote v. (Transitive, intransitive) To give a quotation that is too low, or is lower than that offered by others. • UNDERQUOTE v. to offer at a price lower than. |