5 Letter Words That Start With QU

queue

Noun : (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, less common in North America) A line of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be dealt with in sequence (i.e., the one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on), and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back).

Noun : A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.

Noun : (computing) A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide.

quate

Adjective : (Scotland) quiet

quite

Verb : To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.

Verb : With verbs, especially past participles.

Verb : With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.

query

Noun : A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).

Noun : A question mark.

Noun : (computing, databases) A set of instructions passed to a database.

quasi

Adjective : Resembling or having a likeness to something.

quiet

Adjective : With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.

Adjective : Having little motion or activity; calm.

Adjective : Not busy, of low quantity.

quote

Noun : A quotation; a statement attributed to a person.

Noun : A quotation mark.

Noun : A summary of work to be done with a set price.

queen

Noun : The wife, consort, or widow of a king.

Noun : A female monarch.

Noun : A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.

quest

Noun : A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.

Noun : The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.

Noun : (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.

quick

Adjective : Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

Adjective : Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.

Adjective : Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

queer

Adjective : (dated outside Ireland, Scotland and England) Weird, odd, or different; whimsical.

Adjective : (Britain, informal, dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in "to feel queer").

Adjective : (Britain, slang) Drunk.

quirk

Noun : An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone.

Noun : (architecture) An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a moulding and a soffit.

Noun : (archaic) A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge.

quell

Verb : (transitive) To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.

Verb : (transitive) To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To kill.

quail

Verb : (intransitive) To waste away; to fade, to wither.

Verb : (transitive, now rare) To daunt or frighten (someone).

Verb : (intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.

quire

Noun : One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.

Noun : (bookbinding) A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.

Noun : A book, poem, or pamphlet.

quash

Verb : To defeat decisively, to suppress.

Verb : (obsolete) To crush or dash to pieces.

Verb : (law) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).

quilt

Noun : A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.

Noun : A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.

Noun : A quilted skirt worn by women.

qualm

Noun : A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.

Noun : A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness.

Noun : (now chiefly in the negative) A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt.

quota

Noun : A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.

Noun : A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal.

Noun : (business, economics) A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity.

quill

Noun : The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.

Noun : A pen made from a feather.

Noun : (by extension) Any pen.

quark

Noun : (physics) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle that forms matter. They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.

Noun : (computing, X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.

Noun : A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, eastern, and southeastern Europe as well as the Low Countries, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet.

quaff

Verb : To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts.

Noun : The act of quaffing; a deep draught.

Noun : Misspelling of coif. [A hairdo.]

quant

Noun : (finance) A quantitative analyst.

Noun : A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.

Noun : A vertical shaft used to drive a millstone.

quack

Noun : The sound made by a duck.

Verb : To make a noise like a duck.

Verb : (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.

quake

Noun : A trembling or shaking.

Noun : An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.

Verb : (intransitive) To tremble or shake.

quoin

Noun : Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks.

Noun : The keystone of an arch.

Noun : (printing, historical) A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place.

quint

Noun : (music) An interval of one fifth.

Noun : (music) The E string of a violin.

Noun : (card games) In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker

quain

quiff

Noun : (British dialect) A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke.

Noun : (regional, slang) A trick or ploy; a stratagem.

Noun : (UK) A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s.

quipu

Noun : A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords.

quart

Noun : A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.

Noun : (card games) Four successive cards of the same suit.

Noun : (obsolete) A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.

quoth

Verb : (defective, modal, auxiliary, nonstandard, archaic) To say.

quaid

Noun : A surname.

quath

quale

Noun : (philosophy) An instance of subjective, conscious experience.

Noun : A surname.

quent

quean

Noun : (archaic) A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.

Noun : (Scotland) A young woman, a girl; a daughter.

quran

Noun : Alternative form of Qur'an [The Islamic holy book, considered by Muslims to be the word of God as revealed to Muhammad.]

quirt

Noun : A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.

Verb : To strike with a quirt.

quoit

Noun : A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.

Noun : A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.

Noun : The flat stone covering a cromlech.

quare

Adjective : (dated, Ireland, Appalachia) Queer, strange.

Adjective : (Ireland, used for emphasis) A lot of, very, great.

quine

Noun : (computing) A program that produces its own source code as output.

Verb : (philosophy) To deny the existence or significance of something obviously real or important.

Verb : To append something to a quotation of itself.

quern

Noun : A mill for grinding corn, especially a handmill made of two circular stones.

Verb : (transitive) To grind; to use a quern.

quilp

quinn

Noun : A surname from Irish.

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname.

Noun : A female given name transferred from the surname, of occasional 1990s and later usage.

quook

quarl

Noun : (archaic) A medusa or jellyfish.

Noun : A fire-resistant channel for a burner in a boiler or furnace.

quayd

quech

quoif

Noun : Obsolete form of coif. [A hairdo.]

quaye

Noun : A surname.

quair

quorn

Noun : (with "the") A famous fox hunt (one of the world's oldest, established in 1696) in Leicestershire.

Noun : A village and civil parish (formerly Quorndon) in Charnwood district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5616).

Noun : A town in South Australia.

quito

Noun : The capital city of Ecuador.

quoke

quoll

Noun : Any of the various carnivorous marsupials of the genus Dasyurus found in Australia and New Guinea, roughly the size of a cat.

quoil

Noun : Archaic form of coil. [Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.]

quits

Adjective : (colloquial, Britain) On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.

queme

Verb : (obsolete) To please, to satisfy.

quade

Noun : A surname.

qubit

Noun : (quantum computing) A quantum bit; the basic unit of quantum information described by a superposition of two states; a quantum bit in a quantum computer capable of being in a state of superposition.

quips

Noun : A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.

Verb : (intransitive) To make a quip.

Verb : (transitive) To taunt; to treat with quips.

quice

Noun : Alternative form of queest

quist

Noun : (UK Midlands) The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.

Noun : A surname.

queso

Noun : Short for chile con queso: melted cheese, used for instance as a dipping sauce. [A creamy sauce used as a dip, made from melted cheese and chili peppers.]

querl

Verb : (transitive) To twirl; turn or wind around; coil.

Noun : A twist; curl.

quad-

quena

Noun : (music) A traditional flute of the Andes.

quirl

Verb : (chiefly dialectal, Southern US, Midland US) To curl or twirl, or twist or coil (up).

quish

Noun : Alternative form of cuisse [Defensive armour (especially of plate) for the thigh.]

quina

Noun : (archaic) quinine

qursh

Noun : A monetary unit in Saudi Arabia equivalent to a twentieth of a rial.

quaky

Adjective : Inclined to quake; tremulous.

Noun : Synonym of quaking aspen (“Populus tremuloides”)

quich

Noun : Obsolete spelling of quitch [Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed)]

Verb : Obsolete spelling of quitch [(transitive, obsolete) To shake (something); to stir, move.]

quave

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To quiver or tremble.

Noun : A shaking; trembling.

Noun : A surname from Spanish.

quica

Noun : A small opossum, Didelphis quica, from Guiana and Brazil

quegh

Noun : Alternative form of quaich [(Scotland, historical) A traditional shallow, two-handled cup of Scottish origin symbolizing friendship. It was originally used to toast the arrival or departure of a visitor.]

querk

Verb : (transitive) To throttle; choke; stifle; suffocate.

Verb : (intransitive) To grunt, croak, squeal; to moan, complain; to sigh, huff; to emit a breath forcibly, as after great exertion.

Verb : (dialectal, intransitive) To die.

quile

Noun : (now Appalachia) Pronunciation spelling of coil. [Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.]

Verb : (now Appalachia) Pronunciation spelling of coil. [To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.]

quino

Noun : Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, better known by his pen name Quino (17 July 193230 September 2020), was an Argentinian cartoonist.

Noun : an Argentine cartoonist.

quads

Noun : (poker slang) four of a kind

Noun : (music) a set of four tenor drums played by a drummer, typically in a marching band or drum corps

quand

quids

Noun : The inherent nature of something.

Noun : (US, historical) A member of a section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811, following John Randolph of Roanoke. (From tertium quid.)

Noun : Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something else.

quang

quays

Noun : (nautical) A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf.

Verb : To land or tie up at a quay or similar structure, especially used in the phrase "quay up".

Noun : A surname.

quass

Verb : (obsolete) to drink deeply; to quaff.

Noun : Alternative spelling of kvass [A fermented cereal-based low alcoholic beverage, often flavored with fruit, honey and herbs.]

quira

Noun : The tough wood of Platymiscium pinnatum.

quali

Noun : (motor racing, slang) Clipping of qualifying. [A qualification or added condition.]

Noun : (sports, slang) Clipping of qualifier. [One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.]

quipo

Noun : Alternative spelling of quipu [A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords.]

qubic

queet

Noun : A certain Native American tribe of Washington.

quqon

quaco

quins

Noun : (informal) A quintuplet.

Noun : A European scallop, Pecten opercularis, used as food.

Noun : A surname.

queck

quata

Noun : Archaic form of coiata.

quadr

queef

Noun : (vulgar, slang) An emission of air from the vagina, especially when audible; vaginal flatulence.

Noun : (vulgar, slang) A contemptible person.

Verb : (vulgar, intransitive, slang) To produce an emission of air from the vagina.

quach

Noun : A surname.

quats

Noun : (obsolete) A pustule.

Noun : (obsolete) An annoying, worthless person.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To satiate.

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