| MANQUE | • manque adj. (Postpositive) unable to fully realise one’s ambitions; would-be. • manqué adj. (Postpositive) Unfulfilled due to the vagary of circumstance, some inherent flaw or a constitutional lack. • MANQUE n. (French) the section on a roulette table which includes the numbers 1 to 18 or a bet placed in this area. |
| MAQUIS | • maquis n. (Botany) Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub. • maquis n. (Historical) The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere. • MAQUIS n. (French) a thick underbrush, also MAQUI. |
| MARQUE | • marque n. A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making… • marque n. A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model). • marque n. A ship commissioned for making captures. |
| MASQUE | • masque n. (Historical, in 16th- and 17th-century England and Europe) A dramatic performance, often performed at… • masque n. Words and music written for a masque. • masque n. A masquerade. |
| MOSQUE | • mosque n. (Islam) A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid. • MOSQUE n. (Arabic) a Muslim place of worship, also MOSK. |
| QUALMS | • qualms n. Plural of qualm. • QUALM n. a feeling of doubt. |
| QUALMY | • qualmy adj. Queasy; nauseous. • QUALMY adj. having misgivings. |
| QUEMED | • quemed v. Simple past tense and past participle of queme. • QUEME v. (Spenser) to please, suit, fit. |
| QUEMES | • quemes v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of queme. • QUEME v. (Spenser) to please, suit, fit. |
| QUIDAM | • quidam n. A nobody; a person of no importance. • QUIDAM n. (Latin) a certain person; somebody. |
| QUORUM | • quorum n. The minimum number of members required for a group to officially conduct business and to cast votes… • quorum n. A selected body of persons. • QUORUM n. (Latin) a minimum number of persons necessary for some business. |
| QUOTUM | • quotum n. A part or proportion; a fraction; quota. • QUOTUM n. (Latin) a share, also QUOTA. |
| SQUAMA | • squama n. (Medicine) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium. • squama n. (Botany) The bract of a deciduous spike. • squama n. (Botany) Any scaly bracted leaf. |
| SQUAME | • squame n. (Zoology) The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean. • squame n. (Medicine) A flake of dead skin tissue. • squame n. (Medicine) A squamous (scale-like) cell. |
| SQUIRM | • squirm v. To twist one’s body with snakelike motions. • squirm v. To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment. • squirm v. To evade a question, an interviewer etc. (Can we add an example for this sense?) |
| UMIAQS | • umiaqs n. Plural of umiaq. • UMIAQ n. (Inuit) an Eskimo canoe, also OOMIAC, OOMIACK, OOMIAK, UMIAC, UMIACK, UMIAK. |