Words starting with Q

qThe seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.
QAA member of Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
qaafThe letter ق in the Arabic script.
QaanaaqA town in northwestern Greenland near the Thule Air Base.
qachelA small gong or bell used as a liturgical accompaniment in Ethiopian places of worship.
qadadA waterproof surface of lime plaster treated with slaked lime, oils and fats, used in the ancient Arab world.
qadarDivine intervention in the affairs of humans; fate, predestination.
QadariteA member of the Qadariyya, an early Islamic movement which held that man was endowed by God with free will.
QadeshtuA putative Canaanite goddess. Her Egyptian equivalent is Qetesh.
qadiA judge who is trained in and practices Islamic law.
QadianA town and municipal council in Gurdaspur district, Punjab, India, the founding place of the Ahmadiyya community.
QadianiBelonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at movement.
QadirA surname from Arabic.
QadiriyyaA member of a particular fundamentalist Sufi order.
QadjarDated spelling of Qajar.
QadriA surname from Arabic.
QafarSynonym of Afar (the Cushitic language)
qafizA traditional Arab unit of volume, varying over time, place, and substance measured.
qahalA theocratic organizational structure in ancient Israelite society; congregation, assembly.
QahiraCairo
QahtaniteAn Arab who originates from the southern region of the Arabian Peninsula, especially from Yemen.
QaidamAn arid basin of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau covered with deserts and salt flats, making up most of northwestern Qinghai Province, China.
qairaqA pair of flat oval stones used as clappers or castanets used in Tajik and Uzbek music.
QaisarbaghA neighbourhood of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
QajarA member of the Qajar tribe.
QakaA township in Qira, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
qalamA reed pen used for Islamic calligraphy
qalamdanA Persian box or case for storing a pen.
qalandarA wandering ascetic Sufi dervish.
QalandiaA village in Jerusalem Govenorate, West Bank, Palestine.
qallunaaqNot Inuit; of European descent.
QallunaatEuropeans, people who are not Inuit, considered as a group.
QalqilyaA city in the West Bank, Palestine.
QalyubiyyaA governorate in north-eastern Egypt.
qamaA Persian shortsword.
QamarA surname from Arabic.
QamataThe chief deity in traditional Xhosa religion.
QamishliA city in al-Hasakah Governorate in northeastern Syria, on the border with Turkey.
qamutikAn Inuit sled for travelling on snow and ice.
qanatAn underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley
qandiliteAn opaque black metallic mineral with the chemical formula (Mg,Fe)₂(Ti,Fe,Al)O₄.
qanonAn anonymous poster on the Internet message boards 4chan, 8chan and 8kun, claiming to possess Q clearance, who originated a pro-Trump conspiracy theory claiming that Donald Trump is working against a cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic pedophiles comprised of his political opponents.
QAnonerA supporter of the QAnon movement; one who believes in the QAnon conspiracy theory.
QAnonsenseConspiracy theories or other statements by followers of QAnon that are asserted to be nonsense.
QantasThe national airline of Australia.
qanunA Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or 42 strings and two bridges.
QanungoA surname.
qanunistSomeone who plays a qanun.
qapikA unit of currency equivalent to a hundredth of an Azerbaijani manat.
qaqarssukiteA barium rare earth fluorocarbonate mineral with ideal formula BaCe(CO₃)₂F
QaqetA non-Austronesian language of the Baining family, spoken in East New Britain Province on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
QaqortoqA city in Kujalleq, Greenland.
QaqqaqA surname from Inuktitut.
QaraiA Turkic tribe found in Khorasan, Azerbaijan, Kerman, and Fars.
QarawiyyinUniversity of Al Quaraouiyine, the university containing the world's oldest library.
qareenA jinn who acts as a person's spiritual double and may influence them to do evil.
QarenA supporter of QAnon, especially female, who has a hostile and irrational attitude.
qargiA kashim.
qariOne who recites the Qur'an according to the tajwid, or proper rules of recitation.
qarmaqAn interseasonal single-room family dwelling among the Inuit people, variously consisting of a hybrid tent and igloo, or tent and sod house.
qarmatA Qarmatian.
QarmatianA member of a religious group combining elements of the Ismaili Shi'i branch of Islam with Persian mysticism, founded by Hamdan Qarmat and centered in eastern Arabia, where they attempted to establish a utopian republic in 899 CE.
QarqanSynonym of Qiemo.
QarshiThe regional capital of the Qashqadaryo region, Uzbekistan.
qasabAn ancient Arabian measurement of volume representing the amount of water sufficient to irrigate a certain amount of land for a given time period, the exact values varying between regions.
QasemA surname from Arabic.
qasgiqA kashim.
QashqadaryoA region of Uzbekistan.
QashqaiA tribal confederation of clans of Turkic origin in the Shiraz region of Iran.
qasidaAn Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure.
QasimQasim, the eldest son of the prophet Muhammad.
qasrA palace or castle in Middle Eastern countries.
qassA preacher or sermonizer (sometimes merely a popular storyteller) in early Islam.
QassamThe Qassam rocket, a type of homemade rocket used by Hamas militants in Gaza.
QatabanAn ancient South Semitic-speaking kingdom in ancient Yemen that existed from the early 1st millennium BCE until the late 1st or 2nd centuries CE.
QatabanianOf or pertaining to the culture of the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Qataban.
QatabanicQatabanian.
QataghanA province of Afghanistan (defuncted, dissolved in 1964 into parts of the provinces of Baghlan, Kunduz, and Takhar. Also known as Kataghan)
QatarA country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: State of Qatar. Capital: Doha.
QatargateThe Qatar corruption scandal at the European Parliament.
QatariA person from Qatar or of Qatari descent.
QatarinessQuality of being Qatari.
QatarizationThe process of rendering someone or something Qatari.
QatarizeTo render Qatari.
qatayefSweet dumplings filled with cream or nuts, traditionally served in Arab communities during Ramadan.
QatifiOf or relating to Qatif, Saudi Arabia.
QatnaA Bronze Age city in present-day western Syria
QatneanOf or relating to Qatna
QaturA town in Khoy County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran, near the border with Turkey.
QaujimajatuqangitInuit traditional knowledge
QaujimanituqangitInuit traditional knowledge
qawwalA person who performs qawwali music or song.
qawwaliA style of Muslim devotional music, especially among the South Asian Sufis, accompanied by drums and harmonium.
qaygiqSynonym of kashim
qazfFalse accusation of adultery (zina).
qaziA surname.
QazvinA city in Iran, the seat of Qazvin County's Central District and the capital of Qazvin Province.
QballSynonym of Qcumber.
QbertSynonym of Qcumber.
QcumberA follower of the QAnon movement.
QDonce per day
QED(Partial) initialism of quantum electrodynamics.
QedariteA member of a certain ancient Arab tribal confederation.
qeejSynonym of lusheng.
QEF“quod erat faciendum”, “what was to have been done” – used to end a mathematical passage other than a proof.
qelesheA white brimless felt skullcap traditionally worn by Albanians.
QeltA river in Palestine, flowing seasonally in Wadi Qelt.
qeltiteA vitreous, light brown mineral.
QemantA small ethnic group in Ethiopia related to the Agaw which historically practices a syncretic blend of Judaism and folk religion and speaks Qimant but has since been largely assimilated both linguistically and religiously into Amhara culture.
QenaA city, the capital city of Qena governorate, Egypt
qeneAn Ethiopian literary genre that employs double entendres.
qenetA kind of secular musical scale developed by the Amhara ethnic group of Ethiopia.
QeqertarsuaqA port and town in Qeqertalik municipality on the south coast of Disko Island on the west coast of Greenland.
QeqqataA municipality of Greenland.
qereIn the liturgical use of the Tanakh, a spoken reading that diverges from the written word (the ketiv); an indication of such a reading.
QeshmAn Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz, the largest island in the Persian Gulf.
QeteshA goddess adopted into the ancient Egyptian religion from the religion of Canaan, popular during the New Kingdom. Her Canaan equivalent is the goddess Qadeshtu.
QEWThe Queen Elizabeth Way, a heavily-traveled Canadian highway connecting the Peace Bridge at Buffalo, New York to Toronto, Ontario.
qewlA Yazidi hymn.
qewwalA Yazidi reciter of sacred hymns (qewls).
QFIIQualified Foreign Institutional Investor
QGAThe Queen's Gambit Accepted opening.
qhquaque hora: every hour - used in medical pharmacy prescriptions usually with a numeral defining hours between doses. "q4h" read as: "taken every 4 hours". Also common is the format: "3 caps q4h" read as" means "Take 3 capsules every 4 hours."
qiAn ancient Chinese duchy, and later kingdom, under the Zhou dynasty
QianA surname.
QianaA silky material made from nylon fibers.
QiandongnanA Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture in Guizhou, China.
QiangAn ethnic group in China, living mainly in a mountainous region in the northwestern part of Sichuan on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.
QiangicBelonging to or pertaining to a group of related Sino-Tibetan languages, spoken in southwestern China and Tibet, which include Ersu and the extinct language Tangut.
QianjiangA sub-prefectural city of Hubei, China, formerly a county.
Qianlongthe Qianlong Emperor (the fifth emperor of the Qing dynasty)
QiannanA Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture in Guizhou, China.
QiantangA river in China, flowing north and east through Zhejiang into Hangzhou Bay.
QianxiA county-level city of Bijie, Guizhou, China.
QianxinanA Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture in Guizhou, China.
QianyangA county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
QianzhousaurusA theropod dinosaur in the genus Qianzhousaurus from the Late Cretaceous of China.
QiaoA surname.
QiaokouA district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
QibinA district of Hebi, Henan, China.
qiblaThe direction in which Muslims face while praying, currently determined as the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca.
qibliIn the direction of qibla.
QichunA county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
QIDFour times a day.
QidongA county of Hengyang, Hunan, China.
QiduA district of Keelung, Taiwan.
QiemoA county of Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
QieziheA district of Qitaihe, Heilongjiang, China.
QiflingAny of the child apprentices of the witch Qifrey in the Japanese manga series Witch Hat Atelier.
qigongA Chinese system of breathing control, physical exercise and meditation.
QijiaAn early Bronze Age culture distributed around western Gansu and eastern Qinghai, China.

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