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quartermaster |
Noun
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an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops |
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quartermaster general |
Noun
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a staff officer in charge of supplies for a whole army |
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queen regnant |
Noun
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a female sovereign ruler |
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queen consort |
Noun
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the wife of a reigning king |
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queen dowager |
Noun
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the widow of a king |
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queen mother |
Noun
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a queen dowager who is mother of the reigning sovereign |
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queen regent |
Noun
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a queen who serves as ruler when the king cannot |
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question master |
Noun
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the host or chairman of a radio or tv quiz show or panel game |
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quizmaster |
Noun
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the host or chairman of a radio or tv quiz show or panel game |
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quiz master |
Noun
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the host or chairman of a radio or tv quiz show or panel game |
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quibbler |
Noun
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a disputant who quibbles |
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quick study |
Noun
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someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily |
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quietist |
Noun
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a follower of Quietism |
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quintipara |
Noun
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woman who has given birth to a viable infant in each of five pregnancies |
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quester |
Noun
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someone making a search or inquiry |
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quail bush |
Noun
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spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico |
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quackgrass |
Noun
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European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes |
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quercitron |
Noun
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a yellow dye made from the bark of the quercitron oak tree |
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queen's cup |
Noun
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plant with 1 or 2 white starlike flowers on short leafless stalks |
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quassia |
Noun
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handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood |
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quassia |
Noun
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a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge |
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quaking aspen |
Noun
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Old World aspen with a broad much-branched crown |
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quarter-vine |
Noun
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woody flowering vine of southern United States |
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quickset |
Adjective
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grown from cuttings planted directly in the ground |
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quickset |
Noun
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cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines |
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quillwort |
Noun
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any of several spore-bearing aquatic or marsh plants having short rhizomes and leaves resembling quills |
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quick buck |
Noun
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quick or easy earnings |
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quittance |
Noun
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payment of a debt or obligation |
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quittance |
Noun
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a document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt |
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quid pro quo |
Noun
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something for something |
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quayage |
Noun
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a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay |
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quarter stock |
Noun
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stock with a par value of $25/share |
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quick assets |
Noun
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assets in the form of cash, or easily convertible into cash |
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quadrupling |
Noun
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increase by a factor of four |
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quellung |
Noun
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the swelling of the capsule surrounding a microorganism after reaction with an antibody |
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quellung reaction |
Noun
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the swelling of the capsule surrounding a microorganism after reaction with an antibody |
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quintupling |
Noun
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increasing by a factor of five |
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quire |
Noun
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a quantity of paper |
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quarter section |
Noun
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a land unit equal to a quarter of a mile, or 160 acres, and measuring half a mile on a side |
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quantity unit |
Noun
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a measure of the quantity of electricity, determined by the amount of an electric current and the time for which it flows |
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quart |
Noun
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a United States liquid unit equal to 32 fluid ounces |
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quart |
Noun
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a United States dry unit equal to 2 pints or 67.2 cubic inches |
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quart |
Noun
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a British imperial capacity measure, liquid or dry, equal to 2 pints or 1.136 liters |
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qurush |
Noun
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a monetary unit in Saudi Arabia, there are 20 qurush in a riyal |
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qepiq |
Noun
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an Azerbaijani currency equal to one hundreth of a manat |
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qindarka |
Noun
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100 qindarka equal 1 lek in Albania |
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qintar |
Noun
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an Albanian currency equal to one hundreth of a lek |
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quartern |
Noun
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one of four equal parts |
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quintal |
Noun
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a unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds |
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quintal |
Noun
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a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms |