Scrabble Words with Q but no E
There are 741 valid Scrabble words that contain the letter Q but not a single E, ranging up to 15 letters. They're grouped by length below, longest first. Every word is valid in the NWL (NASPA Word List), the official North American Scrabble tournament dictionary.
15-letter words
6 words- antiquarianisms26
- inquisitorially27
- quadruplicating30
- quadruplication29
- quantifications29
- quintuplicating29
14-letter words
11 words- antiquarianism25
- aquaculturists25
- colloquialisms27
- disquantitying28
- quadrillionths27
- qualifications28
quantification28
a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no')
- quintillionths26
tranquillising24
tending to soothe or tranquilize
tranquillizing33
tending to soothe or tranquilize
- unquantifiably31
13-letter words
26 words- acquisitional24
- aquaculturist24
colloquialism26
a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
- colloquiality27
- conquistadors25
disqualifying30
depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified
- disquisitions23
- inquisitional22
inquisitorial22
especially indicating a form of prosecution in which proceedings are secret and the accused is questioned by a prosecutor who acts also as the judge
- misquotations24
- quadraphonics30
- quadratically28
quadrillionth26
one part in a quadrillion equal parts
- quadriphonics30
- quadruplicity30
qualification27
a statement that limits or restricts some claim
- qualificatory30
- quantitations22
- quantizations31
- quasicrystals27
quintillionth25
one part in a quintillion equal parts
- soliloquising23
- soliloquizing32
tranquilising23
tending to soothe or tranquilize
tranquilizing32
tending to soothe or tranquilize
- unnilquadiums25
12-letter words
38 words- acquisitions23
- antimosquito23
- antiquarians21
- antiquations21
aquacultural23
of or relating to aquiculture
- aquatintists21
- biquadratics26
colloquially26
with the use of colloquial expressions
conquistador24
an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)
disquisition22
an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion
iniquitously24
in an iniquitous manner
- inquisitions21
- liquidambars26
- liquidations22
loquaciously26
in a chatty loquacious manner
- maquiladoras24
misquotation23
an incorrect quotation
- pasquinading25
quadrangular23
of or relating to or shaped like a quadrangle
quadraphonic29
of or relating to quadraphony
- quadrillions22
quadriphonic29
of or relating to quadraphony
- quadrophonic29
- quadrumanous24
- quantitating22
- quantitation21
quantization30
the act of dividing into quanta or expressing in terms of quantum theory
- quarantining22
- quasicrystal26
- quintillions21
- quislingisms24
- quitclaiming26
quixotically33
in a quixotic manner
- quizzicality44
- soliloquists21
tranquillity24
a disposition free from stress or emotion
- ubiquitously26
unnilquadium24
a radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized
11-letter words
54 words- acquainting23
acquisition22
an ability that has been acquired by training
- acquisitors22
antiquarian20
an expert or collector of antiquities
- antiquating21
- antiquation20
- aquafarming26
- aquaplaning23
- aquatically25
- aquatinting21
- aquatintist20
biquadratic25
a polynomial of the fourth degree
- chautauquas25
- chinquapins27
- colloquials22
- colloquists22
- colloquiums24
- disquantity24
- illiquidity24
inquiringly24
in an inquiring manner
inquisition20
a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy
- inquisitors20
liquidambar25
any tree of the genus Liquidambar
- liquidating22
liquidation21
termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
- liquidators21
- liquidising22
- liquidizing31
maquiladora23
an assembly plant in Mexico (near the United States border); parts are shipped into Mexico and the finished product is shipped back across the border
propinquity27
the property of being close together
quadraphony29
a stereophonic sound recording or reproducing system using four separate channels
quadrillion21
the number that is represented as a one followed by 15 zeros
- quadriviums26
- quadrumvirs26
quadrupling24
increase by a factor of four
- quangocracy28
- quangocrats23
- quantifying27
- quibblingly28
- quincuncial24
- quincunxial29
quintillion20
the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros
quintupling23
increasing by a factor of five
quislingism23
act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country
quizzically43
in a quizzical and questioning manner
quotability25
the quality of being worthy of being quoted
- rainsqualls20
- saquinavirs23
- soliloquist20
- squadroning22
- squamations22
- squintingly24
tranquility23
a disposition free from stress or emotion
- vanquishing27
10-letter words
69 words- acquisitor21
- acquittals21
- acquitting22
- antiquarks23
- aquaponics23
- aquilinity22
- baldaquins22
- caciquisms25
- chautauqua24
chinquapin26
shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts
- clinquants21
cliquishly27
in a clannish manner
colloquial21
characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
- colloquist21
colloquium23
an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting
- critiquing22
disqualify26
declare unfit
iniquitous19
characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin
inquisitor19
a questioner who is excessively harsh
- liquations19
liquidator20
(law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties
- liquifying26
loquacious21
full of trivial conversation
- misquoting22
- nonaquatic21
- nonliquids20
- ololiuquis19
- outquoting20
- palanquins21
- quadrantal20
quadratics22
a branch of algebra dealing with quadratic equations
- quadrating21
- quadrivial23
quadrivium25
(Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy
- quadrotors20
- quadrumvir25
qualifying26
success in satisfying a test or requirement
- qualmishly27
- quangocrat22
- quantising20
- quantizing29
- quarryings23
- quartzitic30
- quicksands26
- quillbacks27
- quillworks26
- quillworts22
- quitclaims23
- quixotical28
- quixotisms28
- quotations19
- quotidians20
- rainsquall19
saquinavir22
a weak protease inhibitor (trade name Invirase) used in treating HIV
- squabbling24
- squamation21
- squamosals21
- squarishly25
- squawroots22
- squiggling22
+ 9 more 10-letter words
9-letter words
111 words- acquaints20
acquiring21
the act of acquiring something
acquittal20
a judgment of not guilty
- alfaquins21
antiquark22
the antiparticle of a quark
antiquary21
an expert or collector of antiquities
- antiquing19
antiquity21
an artifact surviving from the past
- aquafabas23
- aquafarms23
- aquanauts18
- aquarians18
- aquarists18
- aquariums20
- aquatints18
- baldaquin21
- caciquism24
- cinquains20
clinquant20
glittering with gold or silver
- colloquia20
- conquians20
- daiquiris19
inquiring19
a request for information
- jacquards28
- liquating19
- liquation18
liquidity22
being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability
- liquoring19
- liquorish21
loquacity23
the quality of being wordy and talkative
- mbaqangas23
- mosquitos20
- nonliquid19
- obliquing21
obliquity23
the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle
- obloquial20
- oldsquaws22
- ololiuqui18
palanquin20
a closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers
- paraquats20
piquantly23
with strong spices; in a spicy manner
- quackisms26
- quadrants19
quadratic21
a polynomial of the second degree
- quadratus19
- quadrifid23
- quadrivia22
- quadrotor19
- quadruply24
- quakingly26
- quandangs20
- quandongs20
- quantally21
- quantongs19
quarrying22
the extraction of building stone or slate from an open surface quarry
quarryman23
a man who works in a quarry
- quartzous27
- quatrains18
- quibbling23
quicksand25
a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down
+ 51 more 9-letter words
8-letter words
136 wordsacquaint19
cause to come to know personally
- alfaquin20
- alfaquis20
aliquant17
an integer that is not an exact divisor of some quantity
- aliquots17
- aquafaba22
- aquafarm22
- aquafits20
aquanaut17
a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research
- aquarial17
- aquarian17
- aquarist17
aquarium19
a tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals
aquatics19
sports that involve bodies of water
aquatint17
a method of etching that imitates the broad washes of a water color
- aquavits20
- calquing20
- charquid23
- charquis22
- cinquain19
- cliquing20
cliquish22
befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
colloquy22
a conversation especially a formal one
- conquian19
- coquinas19
- coquitos19
- cumquats21
daiquiri18
a cocktail made with rum and lime or lemon juice
- illiquid18
iniquity20
absence of moral or spiritual values
jacquard27
French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)
- jonquils24
- kamotiqs23
- kumquats23
- liquidly21
- loquitur17
- maquilas19
- mbaqanga22
mosquito19
two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals
musquash22
beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur
- nonquota17
- oldsquaw21
- opaquing20
- oquassas17
paraquat19
a poisonous yellow solid used in solution as a herbicide
- pasquils19
piquancy24
a tart spicy quality
- qabalahs22
- qamutiks23
- qawwalis23
qindarka22
100 qindarka equal 1 lek in Albania
- quacking24
- quackish26
- quackism25
- quadding20
- quadrans18
quadrant18
a measuring instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies
- quadrati18
- quadrats18
- quadrics20
+ 76 more 8-letter words
7-letter words
118 words- acquits18
- alfaqui19
aliquot16
an integer that is an exact divisor of some quantity
- aquafit19
- aquaria16
aquatic18
a plant that lives in or on water
aquavit19
Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds
asquint16
(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; - Elizabeth Bowen
- buqshas21
- charqui21
- coquina18
- coquito18
- croquis18
cumquat20
any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp
- diquats17
- faquirs19
inquiry19
a search for knowledge
jonquil23
often used colloquially for any yellow daffodil
- kamotiq22
kumquat22
any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp
- liquids17
- liquidy20
liquify22
become liquid or fluid when heated
- liquors16
- loquats16
- maquila18
marquis18
humorist who wrote about the imaginary life of cockroaches (1878-1937)
- niqaabs18
obloquy21
a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
- oquassa16
- pasquil18
piquant18
attracting or delighting
- piquing19
qabalah21
an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret
- qabalas18
- qamutik22
- qawwali22
- qigongs18
- qindars17
- qintars16
- qiviuts19
- quadrat17
quadric19
a curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree
- quaggas18
quahaug20
Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes
- quahogs20
- quaichs21
- quaighs20
- quakily23
- quaking21
qualify22
add a modifier to a constituent
quality19
(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
quamash21
any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America
- quangos17
quantal16
of or relating to a quantum or capable of existing in only one of two states
quantic18
a homogeneous polynomial having at least two variables
quantum18
(physics) the smallest discrete quantity of some physical property that a system can possess (according to quantum theory)
quartan16
a malarial fever that recurs every fourth day
quartic18
an algebraic equation of the fourth degree
- quartos16
+ 58 more 7-letter words
6-letter words
94 wordsacquit17
behave in a certain manner
- buqsha20
- burqas17
- cliquy20
- coquis17
- diquat16
- faqirs18
faquir18
a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
liquid16
a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially `l' and `r')
liquor15
a liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process
loquat15
evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
maquis17
a guerrilla fighter in the French underground in World War II
- niqaab17
- niqabs17
qabala17
an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret
- qajaqs31
- qanats15
- qapiks21
- qiblas17
- qigong17
- qindar16
qintar15
100 qindarka equal 1 lek in Albania
- qiviut18
- quacks21
- quacky24
- quaffs21
quagga17
mammal of South Africa that resembled a zebra; extinct since late 19th century
quaggy20
(of soil) soft and watery
quahog19
Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes
- quaich20
- quaigh19
- quails15
quaint15
attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
- qualia15
- qualms17
- qualmy20
quango16
a quasi nongovernmental organization; an organization that is financed by the government yet acts independently of the government
- quanta15
- quants15
- quarks19
quarry18
a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
quarto15
the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves
- quarts15
quartz24
a hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities
quasar15
a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts
- qubits17
- quicks21
- quiffs21
- quills15
- quilts15
- quinic17
- quinin15
- quinoa15
- quinol15
quinsy18
a painful pus filled inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues; usually a complication of tonsillitis
- quinta15
- quints15
- quippu19
- quippy22
- quipus17
+ 34 more 6-letter words
5-letter words
56 words- aquas14
burqa16
a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan
- cinqs16
- coqui16
faqir17
a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
- maqui16
niqab16
a face veil covering the lower part of the face (up to the eyes) worn by observant Muslim women
- qadis15
- qaids15
- qajaq30
- qanat14
- qapik20
qibla16
a small terrorist group of Muslims in South Africa formed in the 1980s; was inspired by Ayatollah Khomeini to create an Islamic state in South Africa
- qophs19
quack20
an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice
- quads15
quaff20
a hearty draft
- quags15
quail14
flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised
- quais14
- quaky21
qualm16
a mild state of nausea
- quant14
quark18
(physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3
quart14
a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 pints or 1.136 liters
quash17
declare invalid
quasi14
having some resemblance
- quass14
- quays17
- qubit16
quick20
any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)
- quids15
quiff20
a prominent forelock (especially one brushed upward from the forehead)
quill14
a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
quilt14
bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
- quins14
quint14
one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- quips16
quipu16
calculator consisting of a cord with attached cords; used by ancient Peruvians for calculating and keeping records
quirk18
a narrow groove beside a beading
quirt14
whip with a leather thong at the end
quits14
on equal terms by payment or requital
- quods15
quoin14
(architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
quoit14
game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in playing the game of quoits
- quoll14
quota14
a limitation on imports
- quoth17
- qursh17
squab16
a soft padded sofa
squad15
a cooperative unit (especially in sports)
squat14
a small worthless amount
squib16
firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise
squid15
(Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food
- tranq14
- umiaq16
4-letter words
17 wordsaqua13
a shade of blue tinged with green
- cinq15
qadi14
an Islamic judge
- qaid14
- qats13
qoph18
the 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
quad14
(printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
quag14
a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- quai13
quay16
wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline
quid14
a wad of something chewable as tobacco
quin13
one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
quip15
a witty saying
quit13
give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
quiz22
an examination consisting of a few short questions
- quod14
- suqs13
3-letter words
4 wordsqat12
the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant
- qis12
- qua12
- suq12
2-letter words
1 wordqi11
the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health