7 Letter Words Starting With Q

an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret

A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines.

a curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree

a person who drinks heartily

Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes

a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers

a. & n. from Quake, v. Quaking aspen, an American species of poplar (Populus tremuloides), the leaves of which tremble in the lightest breeze. It much resembles the European aspen. See Aspen. --…

add a modifier to a constituent

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)

any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America

of or relating to a quantum or capable of existing in only one of two states

a homogeneous polynomial having at least two variables

(physics) the smallest discrete quantity of some physical property that a system can possess (according to quantum theory)

an angry dispute

a malarial fever that recurs every fourth day

(football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided

a musical composition for four performers

an algebraic equation of the fourth degree

a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma

The bitter principle of quassia, extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called quassite.

a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay

having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen

in a questionably unusual manner

subdued or overcome

A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller. Wyclif (Mark vi. 27).

someone who asks a question

One who inquires, or asks questions.

someone making a search or inquiry

An officer who had the management of the public treasure; a receiver of taxes, tribute, etc.; treasurer of state. Note: At an early period there were also public accusers styled questors, but the…

large trogon of Central America and South America having golden-green and scarlet plumage

an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

give life or energy to

more quickly

hurried repair

with little or no delay

become quiet or quieter

One who, or that which, quiets.

in a restful manner

euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

Furnished with quills; also, shaped like quills. "A sharp- quilled porcupine." Shak. Quilled suture, a variety of stitch in which the threads after being passed deeply through the edges of a wound…

Subtilty; nicety; quibble. "Nice, sharp quillets of the law." Shak.

made of layers of fabric held together by patterned stitching

One who, or that which, quilts.

Consisting of five; arranged by fives. Boyle. Quinary system (Zoöl.), a fanciful classification based on the hypothesis that each group contains five types.

Growing in sets of five; -- said especially of leaves composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole. A salt of quinic acid.

a bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy

The California salmon (Oncorhynchus choicha); -- called also chouicha, king salmon, chinnook salmon, and Sacramento salmon. It is of great commercial importance.

any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes

a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds

Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever. -- n. An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning…

a musical composition for five performers

Of the fifth degree or order. -- n. A quantic of the fifth degree. See Quantic.

See Quintain.

Having, or formed with, a quirk or quirks.

a person who gives up too easily

A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.

someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications

belonging to some prior time