| AQUAFORTISES | • AQUAFORTIS n. concentrated nitric acid, used for etching. |
| AUTOCRITIQUE | • autocritique n. A self-criticism. • autocritique v. To criticize one’s own ideas. • AUTOCRITIQUE n. (French) self-criticism, esp. political. |
| DESQUAMATORY | • desquamatory adj. (Surgery) Relating to the removal of the laminae of exfoliated bones. • DESQUAMATORY n. an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones. |
| ENQUIRATIONS | • ENQUIRATION n. (dialect) inquiry, also INQUIRATION. |
| EQUATORIALLY | • equatorially adv. In an equatorial direction. • EQUATORIAL adv. of, relating to, or located at the equator. |
| EQUILIBRATOR | • equilibrator n. (Rare) A device that maintains equilibrium or balance, especially a part of a heavy gun (e.g. an artillery… • EQUILIBRATOR n. one who equilibrates. |
| EQUIPARATION | • equiparation n. (Chiefly historical, law, philosophy) The transfer or imputation of attributes from one object or concept… • equiparation n. (More generally, rare) Comparison. • EQUIPARATION n. equal treatment. |
| EQUIVOCATORS | • equivocators n. Plural of equivocator. • EQUIVOCATOR n. one who equivocates. |
| EQUIVOCATORY | • equivocatory adj. Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation. • EQUIVOCATORY adj. relating to equivocation. |
| FOREQUARTERS | • forequarters n. Plural of forequarter. • FOREQUARTER n. the front half of a lateral half of the body or carcass of a quadruped. |
| MOUSQUETAIRE | • mousquetaire n. (Historical) A musketeer, especially one of the French royal musketeers of the 17th and 18th centuries… • mousquetaire n. (Historical) A woman’s cloak trimmed with ribbons, with large buttons, fashionable in the mid-19th century. • mousquetaire n. (Historical) A broad turnover linen collar worn in the mid-19th century. |
| QUAESTIONARY | • quæstionary n. Rare spelling of questionary. • QUAESTIONARY n. (Scott) a religious pardoner, also QUESTIONARY. |
| QUAESTORSHIP | • quaestorship n. The office or status of quaestor. • QUAESTORSHIP n. the office of quaestor, also QUESTORSHIP. |
| QUANTOMETERS | • quantometers n. Plural of quantometer. • QUANTOMETER n. (tradename) an instrument for measuring proportions of elements in metallic samples. |
| QUATTROCENTO | • quattrocento n. The 1400s, the fifteenth-century Renaissance Italian period. • QUATTROCENTO n. (Italian) the fifteenth century in Italy; the Italian style of art, architecture, etc. of this period. |
| SEQUESTRATOR | • sequestrator n. One who sequesters. • SEQUESTRATOR n. one who sequestrates. |
| VENTRILOQUAL | • ventriloqual adj. Relating to ventriloquism. • VENTRILOQUAL adj. related to ventriloquy, also VENTRILOQUIAL. |