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QCD
Quantum chromodynamics.
QED
Quantum electrodynamics.
Quadrable
That may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square; -- said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly found, and expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms.
Quadrate
Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
Quadratojugal
Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.
Quadrible
Quadrable.
Quadriennial
Same as .
Quadriga
A car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast.
Quadrigenarious
Consisting of four hundred.
Quadrin
A small piece of money, in value about a farthing, or a half cent.
Quadriphyllous
Having four leaves; quadrifoliate.
Quadrivalve
A door, shutter, or the like, having four folds.
Quadruple
four times the sum or number; a fourfold amount; .
Quadruplet
A collection or combination of four of a kind.
Quadruplicate
To make fourfold; to double twice; to quadruple.
Quadruply
To a fourfold quantity; so as to be, or cause to be, quadruple; .
Quagga
A South African wild ass ( syn. ). The upper parts are reddish brown, becoming paler behind and behind and beneath, with dark stripes on the face, neck, and fore part of the body. The species became extinct in the late 1800's, largely due to excessive hunting.
Quaker
One who quakes.
Quaking
from ,
Qualifiedly
In the way of qualification; with modification or qualification.
Qualitied
Furnished with qualities; endowed.
Quality
The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank.
Quantify
To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to determine, fix or express the quantity of; to rate.
Quantitively
So as to be measurable by quantity; quantitatively.
Quap
To quaver.
Quarrel
To quarrel with.
Quarrelet
A little quarrel. See 1st , 2.
Quarrellous
Quarrelsome.
Quarried
Provided with prey.
Quarry-man
A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.
Quarter
To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
Quarterage
A quarterly allowance.
Quatch
Squat; flat.
Quaternion
The number four.
Quaternion
To divide into quaternions, files, or companies.
Quave
To quaver.
Quay
A mole, bank, or wharf, formed toward the sea, or at the side of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in loading and unloading vessels.
Quayage
Wharfage.
Quebracho
A Chilian apocynaceous tree (); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspna of the lung, or bronchial diseases; -- called also , to distinguish it from the , a Mexican anacardiaceous tree () whose bark is said to have similar properties.
Queme
To please.
Quercitannic
Pertaining to, or designating, a tannic acid found in oak bark and extracted as a yellowish brown amorphous substance.
Querent
A complainant; a plaintiff.
Querimonious
Complaining; querulous; apt to complain.
Quest
To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg.
Question
The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; .
Quey
A heifer.
Quibblingly
Triflingly; evasively.
Quickness
The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.
Quietage
Quietness.
Quillaia bark
The bark of a rosaceous tree (), native of Chile. The bark is finely laminated, and very heavy with alkaline substances, and is used commonly by the Chileans instead of soap. Also called .
Quilling
A band of linen, muslin, or the like, fluted, folded, or plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills.
Quillwort
Any plant or species of the genus , cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves.
Quinaldine
A colorless liquid of a slightly pungent odor, , first obtained as a condensation product of aldehyde and aniline, and regarded as a derivative of quinoline; -- called also .
Quinch
To stir; to wince.
Quinizarin
A yellow crystalline substance produced artificially. It is isomeric with alizarin.
Quinoa
The seeds of a kind of goosewort (), used in Chili and Peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made.
Quinogen
A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.
Quinquefarious
Arranged in five vertical rows; pentastichous.
Quinque foliolate
Having five leaflets.
Quinquennium
Space of five years.
Quintic
Of the fifth degree or order.
Quintuple
Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold.
Quire
A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream.
Quirl
See .
Quit
Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See , under , and .
Quite
See .
Quittable
Capable of being quitted.
Quittance
To repay; to requite.
Quittor
A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.
Qui vive
The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; -- used like the English challenge: Who comes there?
Quiz
To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
Quiz
To conduct a quiz. See , , 4.
Quoddies
Herring taken and cured or smoked near Quoddy Head, Maine, or near the entrance of Passamaquoddy Bay.
Quoit
To throw; to pitch.
Quondam
Having been formerly; former; sometime.
Quotation
The act of quoting or citing.
Quoter
One who quotes the words of another.
Quotidian
Occurring or returning daily; .
Quotidian
Anything returning daily; especially , an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day.