5 Letter Words That Start With QUI

quiet

Adjective : With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.

Adjective : Having little motion or activity; calm.

Adjective : Not talking much or not talking loudly; reserved.

quiff

Noun : (UK) A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s.

Verb : (UK) To arrange (the hair) in such a manner.

Noun : (slang) A young girl, especially as promiscuous; a prostitute.

quire

Noun : One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.

Noun : (bookbinding) A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.

Noun : A book, poem, or pamphlet.

quirk

Noun : An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, a mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone.

Verb : To alter in a unique and unusual way.

Verb : (ambitransitive) To (cause to) move with a wry jerk.

quite

Verb : To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.

Verb : To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather.

Verb : With verbs, especially past participles.

quick

Adjective : Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

Adjective : Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.

Adjective : Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

quint

Noun : (firefighting) A vehicle used by firefighters that combines the capabilities of a fire engine and a fire truck, having the ability to provide vertical access as well as pump water to fight a fire.

Noun : (music) An interval of one fifth.

Noun : (card games) In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker

quips

Noun : A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.

Verb : (intransitive) To make a quip.

Verb : (transitive) To taunt; to mock with quips.

quill

Noun : A pen made from a feather.

Noun : (by extension) Any pen.

Noun : The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.

quilt

Noun : A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.

Noun : (figurative) Something composed of a variety of stitched-together parts; a patchwork.

Verb : To construct a quilt.

quine

Noun : (computing) A program that produces its own source code as output.

Verb : To append (a text) to a quotation of itself.

Verb : (philosophy) To deny the existence or significance of (something obviously real or important).

quile

Noun : (now Appalachia) Pronunciation spelling of coil. [Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.]

Verb : (now Appalachia) Pronunciation spelling of coil. [To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.]

quice

Noun : Alternative form of queest.

quipo

Noun : Alternative spelling of quipu. [A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords.]

quits

Adjective : (colloquial, British) On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.

quipu

Noun : A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords.

quirt

Noun : A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.

Verb : To strike with a quirt.

quito

Noun : The capital city of Ecuador.

Noun : The capital of Pichincha province, Ecuador

Noun : A canton (Quito Canton) in Pichincha province, Ecuador.

quids

Noun : Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something else.

Noun : (UK, colloquial) Pound sterling. (usually only used with a whole number of pounds)

Noun : (Ireland, colloquial, by extension) Euro.

quich

Noun : Obsolete spelling of quitch. [Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed)]

Verb : Obsolete spelling of quitch. [(transitive, obsolete) To shake (something); to stir, move.]

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quira

Noun : The tough wood of Platymiscium pinnatum.

quirl

Verb : (chiefly dialectal, Southern US, Midland US) To curl or twirl, or twist or coil (up).

quinn

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname.

Noun : A female given name transferred from the surname, of occasional 1990s and later usage.

Noun : A surname from Irish.

quist

Noun : (UK Midlands) The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.

Noun : A surname.

quica

Noun : A small opossum, Didelphis quica, from Guiana and Brazil

quino

Noun : Archaic form of keno (“gambling game”). [A gambling game, a variety of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.]

quish

Noun : Alternative form of cuisse. [Defensive armour (especially of plate) for the thigh.]

quins

Noun : (informal) A quintuplet.

Noun : A European scallop, Pecten opercularis, used as food.

Noun : A village in County Clare, Ireland, south-east of Ennis (Irish grid ref R 4174).

quina

Noun : (archaic) quinine

quigg

Noun : A surname from Irish.

quink

Noun : (physics) A hypothetical fundamental particle; a preon.

quipe

quilp

Noun : Daniel Quilp is one of the main antagonists in the novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, written in 1840.

quimp

Noun : A graphic element, used within maledicta balloons in comics to represent obscenities, curses and swearing, resembling the planet Saturn.

quizz

Noun : Archaic form of quiz. [(dated) An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.]

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quila

quims

Noun : (vulgar) The female genitalia; the vulva.

Noun : (synecdochically, vulgar, derogatory) An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person.

Adjective : (Ulster) Affectedly nice, prim.

quisp

Noun : a sugar-sweetened breakfast cereal from the Quaker Oats Company.

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