A person who finishes furniture or objects so they have the appearance of an antique, either for decoration or to perpetrate a fraud.
aquarist
aquarist
noun
A person who maintains an aquarium.
aquarter
arquated
arquated
adj
Shaped like a bow; arcuate; curved.
barquest
besquirt
biquartz
briquets
briquets
noun
plural of briquet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of briquet
coquetry
coquetry
noun
(countable) An act constituting such behaviour; an affectation of amorous interest or enticement, especially of a woman directed towards a man.
Coquettish behaviour; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing.
critique
critique
noun
(obsolete) A critic; one who criticises.
A point made to criticize something.
An essay in which another piece of work is criticised, reviewed, etc.
The art of criticism.
verb
To review something; to criticize.
croquets
croquets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of croquet
detraque
equators
equators
noun
plural of equator
frequent
frequent
adj
(obsolete) Full; crowded; thronged.
(obsolete) Often or commonly reported.
Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
Done or occurring often; common.
Occurring at short intervals.
verb
(transitive) To visit often.
loquitur
marquita
marquito
outquery
paraquat
paraquat
noun
(chemistry) A poisonous yellow herbicide derived from bipyridine
paraquet
paroquet
parquets
parquets
noun
plural of parquet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of parquet
perquest
pratique
pratique
noun
(nautical) Permission to use a port given to a ship after compliance with quarantine or on conviction that she is free of contagious disease.
(obsolete) Practice; habits.
prequote
quadrant
quadrant
noun
(college basketball) One of the four categories of team wins and losses, as categorized by strength of schedule.
(geometry) One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°.
(mathematics) One of the four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis.
(nautical) A measuring device with a graduated arc of 90° used in locating an altitude.
(obsolete) A square or quadrangle.
One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.
quadrate
quadrate
adj
(archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
(archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
noun
(anatomy) The quadrate bone.
(astrology) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
(geometry) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
(archaic, transitive) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).
(archaic, transitive) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
(archaic, transitive, intransitive) To square.
quadrats
quadrats
noun
plural of quadrat
quadriti
quaestor
quaestor
noun
(historical) An Ancient Roman official responsible for public revenue and other financial affairs.
(historical) In the Middle Ages, an officer who announced indulgences.
(historical) The Quaestor sacri palatii of the late Roman Empire and Byzantium; first generally a legislator, then judicial official, and eventually an honorary title by the 14th century.
quainter
quainter
adj
comparative form of quaint: more quaint
quaranty
quaranty
noun
(historical, uncommon) Synonym of Council of Forty, former courts with 40 members in Florence and Venice.
quartana
quartane
quartane
noun
(chemistry, obsolete) butane
quartano
quartans
quartans
noun
plural of quartan
quartaut
quartern
quartern
noun
(archaic) A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds.
(archaic) A quarter part; one fourth.
quarters
quarters
noun
(by extension) The place where someone or something lives
(plural only, military) Housing, barracks or other habitation or living space. Compare cuarto.
A commonly played university drinking game in North America.
Quarterfinals.
plural of quarter.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quarter
quartets
quartets
noun
plural of quartet
quartful
quartful
noun
The amount that fills a quart vessel
quartics
quartics
noun
plural of quartic
quartile
quartile
noun
(statistics) Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.
(statistics) Any one of the four groups so divided.
quartine
quartine
noun
(botany, archaic) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
quartole
quartole
noun
(music) A quadruplet.
quartzes
quartzes
noun
plural of quartz
quartzic
quartzic
adj
Of or relating to quartz.
quateron
quatorze
quatorze
noun
(card games) The four aces, kings, queens, jacks, or tens, in the game of piquet, any of these counting as fourteen points.
quatrain
quatrain
noun
A poem in four lines.
A stanza of four lines.
quatrino
quatrino
noun
Alternative form of quattrino (“old Italian coin”)
quebrith
quebrith
noun
(alchemy) sulfur
queerest
queerest
adj
superlative form of queer: most queer
queerity
queerity
noun
(dated) Queerness; something odd or strange.
(social sciences) Queerness, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms.
quelpart
quercite
quercite
noun
(organic chemistry) A white crystalline substance found in acorns.
querists
querists
noun
plural of querist
quertaro
queryist
queryist
noun
One who asks a question.
questers
questers
noun
plural of quester
questeur
questors
questors
noun
plural of questor
quieters
quieters
noun
plural of quieter
quilters
quilters
noun
plural of quilter
quintars
quintars
noun
plural of quintar
quintary
quintary
adj
quinary
quintero
quipster
quipster
noun
a person who makes quips; a joker
quirites
quirting
quirting
verb
present participle of quirt
quistron
quiteria
quiteris
quitrent
quitrent
noun
A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit (absolved) from other service.
quitters
quitters
noun
plural of quitter
quittors
quittors
noun
plural of quittor
quixotry
quixotry
noun
A wild, visionary idea, an eccentric notion or act; a quixotism.
racquets
racquets
noun
a game for two or four players, played in an enclosed court with a small hard fast-moving ball
plural of racquet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of racquet
raquette
reequipt
reequipt
verb
(obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of reequip
requests
requests
noun
plural of request
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of request
requital
requital
noun
Compensation for loss or damage; amends.
Repayment, reward, recompense, return in kind.
Retaliation or reprisal; vengeance.
requited
requited
verb
simple past tense and past participle of requite
requiter
requiter
noun
One who requites.
requites
requites
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of requite
requoted
requoted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of requote
roqueted
roqueted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of roquet
roquette
roquette
noun
A herb of the mustard family (Eruca sativa), with pungently flavored leaves often eaten in salads.
sequitur
sequitur
noun
A logical conclusion or consequence of facts.
squarest
squarest
adj
superlative form of square: most square
squatter
squatter
noun
(Australia, historical) A large-scale grazier and landowner.
(Australia, historical) One who occupied Crown land.
(Philippines) A poor vagrant; An illegal informal settler; hobo; beggar; One suffering from extreme poverty.
(informal) A squat toilet.
One who squats, sits down idly.
squinter
squinter
noun
One who squints.
squirted
squirted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of squirt
squirter
squirter
noun
(military slang) A person, presumed to be hostile, who absconds upon the approach of (Western) soldiers.
(slang, vulgar) A woman who can ejaculate.
One who, or that which, squirts.
squitter
squitter
noun
(archaic) Watery stool.
(communications engineering) A random broadcast of data occurring either intentionally or in response to noise.
verb
(communications engineering) To broadcast squitter.