| ACEQUIA | • acequia n. (Used in the Southwestern US or in reference to Spain, chiefly agriculture) An irrigation ditch. • ACEQUIA n. (Spanish) an irrigation ditch. |
| ACQUIRE | • acquire v. (Transitive) To get. • acquire v. (Transitive) To gain, usually by one’s own exertions; to get as one’s own. • acquire v. (Medicine) To contract. |
| ACQUIST | • acquist n. (Obsolete) Acquisition; gain. • acquist v. (Obsolete, transitive) To acquire. • ACQUIST n. a thing acquired; specifically property gained otherwise than by inheritance, also ACQUEST. |
| ACQUITE | • acquite v. Obsolete spelling of acquit. • ACQUITE v. (obsolete) to free from a charge, also ACQUIT, ACQUIGHT. |
| ACQUITS | • acquits v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acquit. • ACQUIT v. to free from a charge. |
| AQUATIC | • aquatic adj. Relating to water; living in or near water, taking place in water. • aquatic n. Any aquatic plant. • AQUATIC adj. relating to water. |
| CACIQUE | • cacique n. (Historical) A tribal chief in the Spanish West Indies. • cacique n. A local political leader in Latin America, Spain, or the Philippines. • cacique n. (Ornithology) Any of a number of tropical blackbirds from Central America and South America, family Icteridae. |
| CAIQUES | • caiques n. Plural of caique. • caïques n. Plural of caïque. • CAIQUE n. (French) a light skiff used on the Bosphorus. |
| CAZIQUE | • cazique n. Alternative spelling of cacique. • CAZIQUE n. (Taino) a West Indian or American Indian chief, also CACIQUE. |
| CHARQUI | • charqui n. (South America, Central America, Western US) jerky. • CHARQUI n. jerked beef. |
| COQUINA | • coquina n. (Countable) Any of several small marine clams, of the species Donax variabilis, common in United States… • coquina n. (Uncountable, geology) A soft form of limestone made of fragments of shells, sometimes used as a building… • COQUINA n. (Spanish) a coarse-grained, porous variety of clastic limestone made up chiefly of shells and shell fragments. |
| QUADRIC | • quadric n. (Mathematics) A surface or curve whose shape is defined in terms of a quadratic equation. • quadric adj. (Mathematics) Of or relating to the second degree; quadratic. • QUADRIC adj. of or pertaining to the second degree. |
| QUAICHS | • quaichs n. Plural of quaich. • QUAICH n. (Gaelic) a drinking-cup, also QUAIGH. |
| QUANTIC | • quantic n. (Mathematics) A homogeneous polynomial in two or more variables. • QUANTIC n. a kind of mathematical function. |
| QUARTIC | • quartic adj. (Mathematics) of or relating to the fourth degree. • quartic n. (Mathematics) An algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree. • quartic n. (Mathematics) A curve describing such an equation or function. |