University Vocabulary
367,698 words and 113,531 expressions at the university level.
A Mayan language spoken in Guatemala and part of Mexico.
Alternative form of q-analog.
plural of q-analogue
Synonym of Jackson derivative.
plural of q-derivative
A model-free reinforcement learning algorithm to learn a policy telling an agent what action to take under what circumstances.
In the neo-Gricean semantics and pragmatics of Laurence R. Horn: a reformulation of Paul Grice's maxim of quantity combined with the first two submaxims of manner, stating: "Say as much as you can (given R)", and leading to the implicature that if the speaker did not make a stronger statement (or say more), then its denial is (implied to be) true.
present participle and gerund of Q-slur
Synonym of Q-switching.
simple past and past participle of Q-switch
plural of Q-switch
A technique by which a laser can be made to produce a pulsed output beam, with much higher power in each pulse than would be produced when operating as a continuous wave.
Alternative spelling of cabalistic.
Alternative form of cabalistic.
plural of Qaddafist
Rare form of Gaddafi.
plural of qaghanate
plural of Qahtanite
A neighbourhood of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
plural of qallunaaq
A governorate in north-eastern Egypt.
Conspiracy theories or other statements by followers of QAnon that are asserted to be nonsense.
A barium rare earth fluorocarbonate mineral with ideal formula BaCe(CO₃)₂F
Alternative form of Karakalpak.
plural of Qaraqalpaq
University of Al Quaraouiyine, the university containing the world's oldest library.
Alternative form of Qarmatian.
plural of Qarmathian
plural of Qarmatian
A region of Uzbekistan.
Of or pertaining to the culture of the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Qataban.
plural of Qatabanian
Alternative spelling of Qatabanian.
Quality of being Qatari.
The process of rendering someone or something Qatari.
present participle and gerund of Qatarize
Similar to, or reminiscent of, qawwali music.
Alternative form of Kazakhstani.
plural of Qazaqstani
A port and town in Qeqertalik municipality on the south coast of Disko Island on the west coast of Greenland.
plural of Qezelbash
An uninhabited island of Nunavut territyory, Canada.
A soft colourless monoclinic mineral with the chemical formula NaHCO₃·H₃BO₃·2H₂O.
A complex yellow or green mineral with vitreous lustre.
plural of qingheiite
A district of Huai'an, in central Jiangsu, in eastern China.
A district of Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
A rare mineral first discovered in Tibet in 2009.
A county-level city of Wuzhong, Ningxia autonomous region, China, formerly a county.
A prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.
A Li and Miao autonomous county in Hainan, China.
A black orthorhombic mineral with the chemical formula (Fe,Mn)₂(Nb,Ta)₂WO₁₀.
A district of Bijie, Guizhou, China.
plural of Qizilbash
ʕaaḥuusʔatḥ First Nation spelling of Keltsmaht.
Pertaining to the Qliphoth.
Alternative form of Chomolungma, the Tibetan name for Mount Everest.
An ancient village in Navajo County, Arizona, United States.
A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
plural of quaaltagh (alternative spelling of qualtaghs)
Alternative spelling of quakebreech.
Alternative form of quackgrass.
Alternative form of quacksalver.
plural of quack-salver
plural of quackademic
plural of quackbuster
A surname from Dutch.
plural of Quackenbos
A surname from Dutch.
plural of Quackenbush
plural of quackery
couch grass (a species of grass, Elymus repens)
plural of quackgrass
In a quacking manner; with quacking sounds.
In a quackish manner.
The state or condition of being quackish.
plural of quackmire
One falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills, especially one who dispenses potions, ointments, etc., supposedly having curative powers; a quack.
plural of quacksalver
The actions or practices of a quacksalver; quackery.
Falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills, like a quacksalver.
plural of quackster
A medical, or other, practitioner of dubious merit.
Alternative form of quademic.
plural of quad-demic
Once every four years; quadrennial.
A surname from Italian.
An opioid antagonist of the benzomorphan family, used in scientific research.
Driving in a quad bike.
The transmission of a quadcast.
Involving four colors
A rotorcraft propelled by four rotors.
plural of quadcopter
plural of quadcycle
plural of quaddemic
An operation that is the same as addition unless one of its operands is 57 or greater, in which case it always yields 5; used by Saul Kripke in an argument against Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.
A quantum combination of four excitons
plural of quadexciton
plural of quadfecta
A forking or division into four branches.
plural of quadplex
A quasiparticle composed of two bipolarons
plural of quadpolaron
Of or relating to four races.
Synonym of quadricycle (“four-wheeled pedal cycle”).
plural of quadracycle
Having four radial arms
A kind of phonograph record using a discrete four-channel quadraphonic system.
plural of Quadradisc
Alternative form of quadrofoil.
plural of quadrafoil
Misspelling of quadrigeminal.
plural of quadragene
Of or related to the number 40, particularly
An indulgence from 40 days of fasting or similar abstinence, especially during Lent; (later) various equivalent indulgences against punishment in Purgatory.
plural of quadragene
Synonym of Lent.
That lasts forty days
plural of quadrality
A relationship between four objects.
A discourse or colloquy by four people.
plural of quadralogue
Misspelling of quadrimodal.
Alternative form of quadrangular.
plural of quadrangle
plural of quadrangular
To divide (a plane or other surface) into quadrangles, often by removing the dividing line between two adjacent triangles (following a previous triangulation).
An ancient Roman unit of measure for liquids.
In an arrangement of quadrants
plural of quadrantal
plural of quadrans
Misspelling of quadrantal.
Of, pertaining to, or affecting a quadrant.
Any of the meteors in a January meteor shower whose radiant is inside the constellation Boötes.
plural of Quadrantid
quadrantal
Resembling or characteristic of a quadrant.
squarely
Misspelling of quadriparesis.
Alternative spelling of quadripartite.
Employing four independent channels or speakers.
quadraphonic sound
Sound, in a sound system, originating from four speakers.
Misspelling of quadruplex.
Misspelling of quadrupole.
quadraphonic
Synonym of quadraphonics.
Quality of being quadrate.
Synonym of squarefree.
An athlete who takes part in a quadrathlon.
plural of quadrathlete
A contest involving four successive events, usually swimming, kayaking, cycling, and running.
plural of quadrathlon
quadratic
In a quadratic way.
The quality of being quadratic.
Obsolete form of quadratic.
plural of quadratick
plural of quadratic
present participle and gerund of quadrate
A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, cadmium, lead, silver, and sulfur.
squared
To approximate a system with a quadratic system.
simple past and past participle of quadratize
third-person singular simple present indicative of quadratize
present participle of quadratize
Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.
plural of quadratrix
A curve having ordinates which are a measure of the area (or quadrature) of another curve.
plural of quadratrix
simple past and past participle of quadrat
present participle and gerund of quadrat
The process of making something square; squaring.
plural of quadrature
An Italian genre of painting that used architectural elements to create illusions of perspective.
A person who paints quadratures.
plural of quadraturist
plural of quadraunt
Alternative form of quadrivalent.
simple past and past participle of quadreble
plural of quadreble
present participle and gerund of quadreble
plural of quadrectomy
Alternative form of quadrantectomy.
Alternative spelling of quatrefoil.
plural of quadrefoil (alternative spelling of quatrefoils).
plural of quadrella
plural of quadrennium
Happening every four years.
Every four years.
plural of quadrennial
A period of 4 years, particularly (historical) the sets of four years in the ancient Egyptian and Greek calendars.
plural of quadrennium
Having four winglike extensions or parts.
Having or relating to four axes.
Supporting four frequency bands
tetrabasic
plural of quadriceps
tetrachord
plural of quadrichord
Having four cilia.
plural of quadricinium
A four-part composition.
Of or pertaining to the quadriceps.
Having four colors.
Having four colors.
Alternative spelling of quadricolor.
A quadric cone.
plural of quadricone
Any quadricornous (four-horned) animal
having four horns
plural of quadricorn
Having four ribs.
covered with a checkerboard pattern
Having four cusps.
A highly toxic norbornadiene isomer with potential applications in the storage of solar energy.
A four-wheeled pedal cycle.
plural of quadricycle
One who rides a quadricycle.
A mineral found in volcanic ash.
Having four teeth.
Having four "teeth"
plural of quadriennium
Alternative form of quadrennial.
plural of quadriennial
Alternative form of quadrennium.
plural of quadriennium
Arranged in four rows or ranks.
simple past and past participle of quadrify
third-person singular simple present indicative of quadrify
Having four wires, threads or filaments.
Of insect wings, four veined.
Of or pertaining to lenses that have four different powers per eye.
Alternative form of quadrifoliate.
Having four leaves.
Synonym of four-force.
plural of quadriforce
Having four forms, parts or aspects
Synonym of tetrapylon.
In the form of a quadrifrons.
Branching fourfold; having four branches.
present participle and gerund of quadrify
Someone who has four spouses at the same time.
plural of quadrigamist
The state of having four spouses simultaneously.
Synonym of quadrigatus
plural of quadrigate
plural of quadrigatus
A medium-sized silver coin minted by the Roman Republic during the 3rd century B.C.E.
Having four parts, or two pairs.
One of the corpora quadrigemina.
A form of cardiac arrhythmia in which four beats are followed by a pause.
Of or relating to four genera.
produced by (the interaction of) four genes
Belonging to a certain conjugation class of verbs in Old Japanese or Classical Japanese, so called due to their use of four vowels (grades or rows on the gojūon chart).
fourgram
plural of quadrigram
A hybrid whose parents differ by four pairs of contrasting Mendelian characters.
plural of quadrihybrid
tetrahydrate
Especially of a chariot: pulled by four horses.
Pinnate, with four pairs of leaflets.
quadrijugate
Articulated with two pairs of lips (i.e. involving mouth-to-mouth contact between two people).
Having four layers.
quadrilateral
A polygon with four sides.
plural of quadrilater
Having four leaflets.
A circumstance in which a choice must be made between four undesirable options.
plural of quadrilemma
Having, or bounded by, four lines.
Involving four languages.
Used to describe word roots in Afroasiatic languages which consist of four letters
The use of a grid of squares superimposed on a document such as a map.
simple past and past participle of quadrille
One who dances the quadrille.
plural of quadriller
plural of quadrille
A thousand million million million million: 1 followed by twenty-seven zeros, 10²⁷.
plural of quadrilliard
present participle and gerund of quadrille
plural of quadrillion
Having four lobes.
Synonym of quatrefoil
Having four lobes.
plural of quadrilobe
Having four lobules.
Having four cells or compartments.
plural of quadrilogy
Alternative spelling of quadralogue.
plural of quadrilogue
Alternative form of quadrumanous.
Having, or consisting of, four members.
plural of quadrimer
A period of four months or about four months.
plural of quadrimester
Having, or employing, four modes
Having four modes of operation.
Occurring every four months.
Having four morae.
Having four divisions or leaflets.
A quatercentenary
plural of quadrinity
Alternative form of quaternity.
Having four nodes.
Consisting of four names or parts or terms.
plural of quadrinomial
Alternative form of quadrinomial.
Having four nuclei.
A salt containing four equivalents of oxalic acid to one equivalent of the basic element (or to one equivalent of a univalent basic radical).
A female who has borne four offspring.
plural of quadripara
plural of quadriparesis
Alternative form of quadriparesis.
weakness or paralysis in all four limbs
Of, relating to, or affected by quadriparesis; having profound weakness in all four extremities.
Having given birth to four offspring.
Divided into four parts.
Including four Passovers.
four-footed
Having four wings.
Having four petals
A phase modulation technique that uses four different phase angles.
Having four phases
Alternative form of quadraphonic.
Alternative form of quadraphonics.
Alternative form of quadraphony.
Having four pinnae
Composed of, or relating to, four planes.
plural of quadriplegia
plural of quadriplegic
Alternative form of quadruplex.
Alternative form of quadruplicate.
Alternative form of tetraploid.
plural of quadriploid
A point at which four borders meet.
plural of quadripoint
Having or involving four poles.
An electrical circuit that has two pairs of external terminals.
plural of quadripole
Having four pores.
plural of quadriporticus
A four-sided portico.
A tetraptych.
plural of quadriptych
Employing four pulses (typically, four monophasic magnetic pulses)
A curve that is the complete intersection of two quadric surfaces.
Of or relating to four races.
Having four radiating chromatids
plural of quadriradial
Having or consisting of four rays or similar radiating parts.
which consist of four consonants in its root formula.
A galley with four banks of oars, each rowed by two oarsmen.
plural of quadrireme
A line that passes through four points of the curve.
plural of quadrisecant
To divide into four parts.
simple past and past participle of quadrisect
present participle and gerund of quadrisect
The action of dividing something into four parts.
A line or curve that quadrisects something.
plural of quadrisector
third-person singular simple present indicative of quadrisect
Having four septa.
Arranged in four series.
In four rows or series.
Having four bristles.
quadraphonic
Quadruply spiral; involving, or consisting of, four spirals.
Having four hooves
Four times ternate.
A urate containing four as much of the uric acid constituent as an ordinary urate.
plural of quadriurate
The condition of being quadrivalent.
Synonym of quadrivalence.
Having a valence of four.
plural of quadrivalent
A door, shutter, etc. with four folds.
plural of quadrivalve
Having four variables.
Synonym of four-vector.
plural of quadrivector
Any of the four "liberal arts" making up the quadrivium.
plural of quadrivial
In four directions; four ways.
Any RNA virus of the family Quadriviridae
plural of quadrivirus
The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music.
plural of quadrivium
Having four broods or litters in one year.
Involving four waves or (more often) four wavefronts
Physical actions, movements, and exercises performed by an individual on all fours to mimic those of an animal.
An individual who performs quadrobics.
plural of quadrobist
Having four trifling meanings
A creature with four eyes.
A quadcopter.
plural of quadrocopter
A hydrofoil (vessel) that has four wings.
plural of quadrofoil
Misspelling of quadratojugal.
plural of quadromer
A building divided into four residences as condominiums
plural of quadrominium
Alternative spelling of quadraphonic.
Alternative form of quadraphonics.
Alternative form of quadraphony.
Alternative spelling of quadrupolar.
Misspelling of quadrupole.
plural of quadropoly
A market situation in which four companies exclusively provide a particular product or service.
An antiandrogen.
plural of quadrotor
A complex of oxalate and oxalic acid
plural of quadroxalate
A tetroxide.
plural of quadroxide
quadrumane
plural of quadrumanal
An animal having four hands and feet with opposable digits, specifically a member of the now obsolete order of mammals Quadrumana, comprising all non-human primates; a primate.
plural of quadrumane
Having four feet whose first digits are opposable; applies to all non-human primates.
plural of quadruman
quadrumane
plural of quadrumanual
Synonym of quattuorvir.
Synonym of quattuorvirate.
plural of quadrumvir
plural of quadrumvir
In four parts.
Walking on four feet.
In the manner of an animal that walks on four feet or four legs.
quadrupedal
plural of quadrupedant
quadrupedal
The condition of being a quadruped.
quadrupedal
plural of quadruped
The condition of being a quadruped; quadrupedalism
plural of quadrupel
A triclinic sorosilicate mineral.
An airplane with four superposed main supporting surfaces (four wings one above the other)
plural of quadruplane
quadruplication
In Ancient Rome, a public informer who received a fourth part.
plural of quadruplator
simple past and past participle of quadruple
The state of being quadruple or quadrupled.
third-person singular simple present indicative of quadruple
plural of quadruplet
Having four components.
Having a quadruplex arrangement.
plural of quadruplex
The transmission of four separate messages on a single cable.
having four parts
A group of four things.
present participle and gerund of quadruple
plural of quadrupling
Of or pertaining to a quadrupole
A distribution of either electric charge or magnetization equivalent to two dipoles that point in opposite directions.
plural of quadrupole
Synonym of zillion: an unspecified, extremely large number.
To question
simple past and past participle of quaeritate
third-person singular simple present indicative of quaeritate
present participle and gerund of quaeritate
Of or relating to a quaestor.
Relating to a quaestor.
The office or status of quaestor.
plural of quaestorship
Relating to or concerned with gain; engaged in moneymaking.
The state or condition of being quaffable.
While or by quaffing.
The quality of being quaggy.
Having the characteristics of a quagmire
present participle and gerund of quagmire
Resembling or characteristic of a quagmire.
present participle and gerund of quahaug
plural of quahogger
present participle and gerund of quahog
Any of several species of bird in the genera Geotrygon and Starnoenas of the pigeon family found in the Americas.
plural of quail-dove
plural of quail-pipe
Any of species Ortyxelos meiffrenii of small ground-dwelling birds of the buttonquail family, found in parts of Africa.
plural of quail-plover
Any bird of the genus Cinclosoma, of Australia and New Guinea.
The plant Crossopetalum ilicifolium.
plural of quailery
A bird of the species Ortygospiza atricollis, native to the grasslands of Africa.
plural of quailfinch
fearfully; timidly
A surname.
plural of Quaintance
Somewhat quaint
plural of quaintness
A woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes.
plural of quaintrelle
Alternative form of quakebreech.
Alternative spelling of quakebuttock.