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quail |
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to draw back, as with fear or pain |
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quetzal |
Noun
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large trogon of Central America and South America having golden-green and scarlet plumage |
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quetzal |
Noun
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the basic unit of money in Guatemala |
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quill |
Noun
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a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog |
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quill |
Noun
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the hollow spine of a feather |
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quill |
Noun
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any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird |
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quill |
Noun
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pen made from a bird's feather |
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quahog |
Noun
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an edible American clam |
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quahog |
Noun
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Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells |
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quahaug |
Noun
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an edible American clam |
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quahaug |
Noun
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Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells |
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queen |
Noun
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female cat |
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queen |
Noun
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the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites |
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queen |
Noun
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an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males |
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queen |
Noun
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(chess) the most powerful piece |
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queen |
Noun
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one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen |
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queen |
Noun
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offensive term for an openly homosexual man |
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queen |
Noun
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a competitor who holds a preeminent position |
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queen |
Noun
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a female sovereign ruler |
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queen |
Noun
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the wife or widow of a king |
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queen |
Noun
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something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind |
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queen |
Verb
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become a queen |
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queen |
Verb
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promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess |
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quarry |
Noun
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animal hunted or caught for food |
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quarry |
Noun
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a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate |
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quarry |
Noun
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a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence |
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quarry |
Verb
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extract something, for example stones, from or as if from a quarry |
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queen bee |
Noun
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a fertile, egg-laying female bee |
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quarter horse |
Noun
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a small powerful horse originally bred for sprinting in quarter-mile races in Virginia |
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quagga |
Noun
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mammal of South Africa that resembled a zebra |
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quill feather |
Noun
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any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird |
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queenfish |
Noun
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silvery and bluish drumfish of shallow California coastal waters |
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qaftan |
Noun
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a cotton or silk cloak with full sleeves and sash reaching down to the ankles |
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quoin |
Noun
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architectural term for solid exterior angle of a building |
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quoin |
Noun
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the keystone of an arch |
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quoin |
Noun
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expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase |
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quartz oscillator |
Noun
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an oscillator that produces electrical oscillations at a frequency determined by the physical characteristics of a piezoelectric quartz crystal |
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qat |
Noun
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the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea |
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quat |
Noun
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the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea |
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quarters |
Noun
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housing available for people to live in |
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quarter round |
Noun
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a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse |
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quinidine |
Noun
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a pharmaceutical compound derived from cinchona bark, used to treat heart arrhythmias and malaria |
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quinine |
Noun
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a bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark |
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quipu |
Noun
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calculator consisting of a cord with attached cords |
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quirk |
Noun
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a narrow groove beside a beading |
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quirk |
Noun
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a strange attitude or habit |
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quirk |
Verb
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to twist or curve abruptly |
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quirk bead |
Noun
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beading formed with a narrow groove separating it from the surface it decorates |
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quirk molding |
Noun
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a molding having a small groove in it |
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quirt |
Noun
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whip with a leather thong at the end |