(accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from assets.
(business) Ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business.
(law) A right which accrues to a party in a transaction because of the nature of the transaction itself, and which is exercisable upon a change of circumstances or conditions; in other words, an equitable claim.
(law) The power of a court of law having extra-statutory discretion, to decide legal matters and to provide legal relief apart from, though not in violation of, the prevailing legal code; in some cases, a court "sitting in equity" may provide relief to a complainant should the code be found either inapplicable or insufficient to do so.
(law, England) The body of law which was developed in the English Court of Chancery, which Court had extra-statutory discretion, and is now administered alongside the common law of Britain.
(law, finance) Value of property minus liens or other encumbrances.
(nonstandard) Equality
(poker) A player's expected share of the pot.
Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right".
exequy
exequy
noun
(obsolete, now only in plural) Funeral rites.
fuquay
laquey
quacky
quacky
adj
(US, of land or a crop) Infested with quackgrass.
(of a voice or sound) That resembles the quack of a duck.
Fraudulent; characterised by or using the methods of quackery.
quaggy
quaggy
adj
Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry.
Soft or flabby (of a person etc.).
quaily
quaily
noun
(obsolete) The upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda), a game bird.
qually
qualmy
qualmy
adj
queasy; nauseous
quandy
quandy
noun
(obsolete) The long-tailed duck.
quarry
quarry
noun
(countable) An object of search or pursuit.
(mining) A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.
(uncountable) An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
(uncountable, obsolete) A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.
verb
(figuratively, transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
(transitive) To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
quashy
quashy
adj
slushy; mushy
quasky
quatty
quayed
quayed
adj
Furnished with a quay.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quay
queasy
queasy
adj
Easily troubled; squeamish.
Experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach.
a small archipelago, also known as Kinmen, in southern China
quenby
quilly
quilly
adj
Pertaining to or resembling a quill.
With quills; quilled.
quimby
quinby
quincy
quincy
Proper noun
An American male given name transferred from the surname.
Any of a number of places in the U.S.A. named after people with the surname, including:
a CDP in California, and the county seat of Originally named Quinsy.
a city in Florida
a city in Illinois
Noun
A kind of dry white wine made from Sauvignon blanc grapes grown near Quincy in the Loire valley.
A toilet: a fixture for urination and defecation, particularly as a personification of the device.
quinsy
quinsy
noun
(pathology) A peritonsillar abscess; a painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues, usually a complication of tonsillitis, caused by bacterial infection and often accompanied by fever.
quinyl
quippy
quippy
adj
Joky; inclined to or characterised by quipping.
quirky
quirky
adj
Given to quirks or idiosyncrasies; strange in a somewhat silly, awkward manner, potentially cute.
quisby
quisby
adj
(UK, slang, archaic) Drunk; tipsy.
(UK, slang, archaic) In difficult circumstances; in trouble.
(UK, slang, archaic) Mean; destitute; strange.
noun
(slang, obsolete) A wretch; an idle person.
quizzy
quizzy
adj
(dated) Odd; eccentric.
(rare) Inquisitive, curious.
squamy
squary
squary
adj
(UK, dialect) neat and compact
squdgy
squdgy
adj
(informal) moist and pliant; squishy
squshy
squshy
adj
squishy; tending to squash or squelch
yanqui
yanqui
noun
(sometimes derogatory) A citizen of the United States of America, as opposed to a Latin American.