quadra
n. - plinth; square frame.
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quadragintesimal
adj. - in forty parts; forty-fold.
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quadral
adj. - in four parts.
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quadrant
n. - quarter of circumference of circle; instrument for measuring altitudes. quadrantal, adj.
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quadrat
n. - small square area or block, especially used as space in printing (abbr. quad).
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quadrate
v. - square; agree; make to agree; n. & a., square; oblong; Astronomy, distant 90° from each other. quadratic, adj. square; applied to algebraic expression containing square but no higher power of unknown quantity; n. such equation. quadratics, n. algebra dealing with quadratic equations. quadrature, n. problem or act of finding square with area equal of another known figure; act of determining areas; Astronomy, relation of quadrate heavenly bodies.
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quadrel
n. - small block (of stone, wood etc.).
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quadrennial
adj. - lasting four years; occurring every fourth year; n. fourth anniversary. quadrennium, n. (pl. -nia) period of four years.
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quadrimum
n. - best or oldest wine. quadrimum merum, four- year-old wine.
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quadripartite
adj. - pertaining to or for four parts or parties. quadripartition, n.
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quadrisect
v. - divide into four equal parts. quadrisection, n.
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quadrivial
adj. - leading in four directions; pertaining to meeting of four ways.
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quadrivium
n. - (pl. -ia) higher division of seven liberal arts studied in Middle Ages: arithmetic, music, astronomy, geometry.
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quadrivoltine
adj. - having four broods in one year; n. such creature.
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quadrual
adj.,n. - (number) denoting four.
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quadrumanous
adj. - (of apes, etc.) with all four feet adapted for use as hands.
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quaestor
n. - ancient Roman public treasurer or assistant military commander. quaestorial, adj.
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quaestuary
adj.,n. - archaic, (person) in business for profit, or having profit as sole aim.
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quaintise
n. - ingenuity, cunning; a trick or stratagem
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quale
n. - (pl. -lia) thing having quality; sensation considered in virtue of its own quality alone; quality having independent existence.
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quant
n. - punting pole; v.t. propel with quant.
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quantulum
n. - small quantity.
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quaquaversal
adj. - dipping in all directions; dome-like.
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quarender, quarenden
n. - kind of dark red apple.
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quartan
adj. - (fever) recurring after approximately seventy-two hours.
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quarto
n. - book size made by folding sheet into four leaves: foolscap quarto, 81/2 x 63/4 in; crown quarto, 10 x 71/2 in; demy quarto, 111/4 x 83/4 in; royal quarto, 121/2 x 10 in; imperial quarto, 15 x 11 in (abbr. 4to).
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quatercentenary
n. - four-hundredth anniversary.
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quatrefoil
n. - any figure like leaf or flower with four leaflets. quatrefoliated, adj.
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quattrocento
n. - 15th century.
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quebracho
n. - several tropical American trees and their timber or bark.
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qued
adj. - evil, bad
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quenelle
n. - fish or meat forcemeat ball.
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quenouille
adj. - applied to training of trees, etc., into cone-like outline.
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quercetum
n. - oak plantation.
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querimony
n. - a complaint
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quern
n. - hand-power grinding mill.
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querulent
adj.,n. - habitually and abnormally suspicious (person). querulous, adj. peevish; fretful; complaining.
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question extraordinaire
n. - n. final or severest torture.
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qui vive
n. - 'who goes there?' on the qui vive, on the alert.
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quidam
n. - obscure, unknown person
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quiddity
n. - the essence or nature of a thing
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quidnunc
n. - gossiper; inquisitive person.
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quiescent
adj. - resting; dormant. quiescence, quiescency, n.
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quietism
n. - kind of mysticism in which indifference to world is obtained by passive contemplation of divinity; passivity. quietist, n.
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quietus
n. - receipt; release; act of dispatching or disposing of; knockout or fatal blow; death.
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quillet
n. - archaic, quibble; small tube.
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quinary
adj. - pertaining to or comprising five; in fives; Mathematics, having five as base.
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quincentenary
n. - (pertaining to) five hundredth anniversary.
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quincunx
n. - four corners and centre of rectangle; arrangement of five things in those positions. quincuncial, adj.
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quindecagon
n. - 15-sided plane figure. quindecasyllabic, adj. having 15 syllables. quindecennial, adj. pertaining to 15 years.
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quinquagenarian
adj.,n. - (person) in from fiftieth to sixtieth year. quinquagenary,, adj. fifty-year-old; n. 50th anniversary.
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Quinquagesima
n. - Sunday before Lent. Quinquagesimal, adj. pertaining to fifty days.
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quinquennial
adj. - lasting five years; occurring every fifth year. quinquennium, n. (pl. -nia) period of five years.
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quinsy
n. - severe inflammation of tonsils and throat.
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quintain
n. - object, or target, tilted at; tilting at quintain.
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quintal
n. - hundredweight; 100 lb; metric unit of 100 kg.
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quintan
adj. - (fever) recurring after five days (i.e. every fourth day).
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quintant
n. - instrument having arc of fifth part of circumference of circle for taking altitudes.
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quintic
adj. - Mathematics, of or pertaining to fifth degree.
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quipu
n. - device of knotted cords, used by Incas of Peru to calculate or order information.
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quire
n. - two dozen sheets of paper.
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quirt
n. - a riding crop or whip
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quisguous
adj. - perplexing
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quisling
n. - traitor collaborating with enemy occupiers of his or her country.
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quisquillian
adj. - trashy
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quitrent
n. - small nominal rent commuting feudal services.
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quo vadis
phr. - 'whither goest thou?'
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quod erat demonstrandum
phr. - 'which was to be demonstrated' (abbr. Q.E.D.). quod erat faciendum, 'which was to be done' (abbr. Q.E.F.).
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quodlibet
n. - 'what you like'; moot or subtle point; fruitless or pedantic argument.
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quoin
n. - angle; wedge; cornerstone.
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quondam
adj. - 'formerly'; a. former.
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