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- quadrillion num A million trillion (logic: 1,000,000⁴): 1 followed by twenty-four zeros, 10²⁴.
- quadrioxalate noun A salt containing four equivalents of oxalic acid to one equivalent of the basic element (or to one equivalent of a univalent basic…
- quadroon noun A person considered three-fourths white, having one non-white grandparent.
- quant suff adv The amount of the last ingredient in a recipe or prescription required to make it up to the required quantity of a mixture.
- quare adj Queer, strange.
- quasi-stellar object noun a radio-quiet quasar
- quasi-stellar radio-source noun A radioloud quasar.
- quattuordecillion num 10⁸⁴.
- queen cake noun A soft, muffin-sized, often heart-shaped cake, particularly popular in the 18th century, containing currants and flavoured with mace and…
- queener noun A student who takes an interest in courting women.
- queer verb To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
- queerity noun Queerness; something odd or strange.
- queerly adv In a queer (strange) manner.
- queery adj Queer; curious; strange.
- Quichuan adj Dated form of Quechuan.
- quietus noun A stillness or pause; something that quiets or represses; removal from activity.
- quindecillion num 10⁹⁰.
- quintillion num A million quadrillion: 1 followed by 30 zeros, 10³⁰.
- quintroon noun The offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black.
- quirks mode noun A technique used by some web browsers to maintain backward compatibility with older web pages that do not comply with modern standards.…
- Quislingist adj That is collaborating with an occupying enemy.
- quislingize verb To corrupt by getting a significant number of members to collaborate with an enemy occupying force.
- quiz noun An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.
- quizzer noun One who chaffs or mocks.
- quizzy adj Odd; eccentric.
- Rabbinism noun Rabbinic Judaism.
- race music noun Commercially recorded African-American popular music from the early 20th century, including blues and jazz.
- racialism noun Tribalism, nationalism.
- racialist noun A racist.
- raciology noun The scientific study of human race.
- racket verb To be dissipated; to carouse.
- racy of the soil adj Deeply connected to a place, especially Ireland; indigenous.
- radioconductor noun A substance or device that has its conductivity altered in some way by electric waves, such as a coherer
- radium noun A type of cloth woven from silk or synthetic yarn, often with a shiny appearance.
- rag noun A person suffering from exhaustion or lack of energy.
- raggie noun A close friend; chum.
- rake verb To behave as a rake; to lead a hedonistic and immoral life.
- rakish adj Like a rake; dissolute; profligate.
- ram-jam noun A person of vaguely Middle Eastern ethnicity.
- ramal adj Of or pertaining to a ramus, or branching
- rant verb To speak extravagantly, as in merriment.
- rap verb To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
- rap someone's knuckles verb to give someone a punishment.
- rapid noun A burst of rapid fire.
- rapper noun A bold lie; a whopper.
- rapping adj Remarkably large; whopping.
- rapscallion noun A rascal, scamp, rogue, or scoundrel.
- rapture verb To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
- rat pack noun A juvenile criminal gang.
- rather intj An enthusiastic affirmation.
- rattler noun A loud, inconsiderate talker.
- rattletrap noun Any piece of miscellaneous equipment or junk.
- rattling adj good, fine.
- ravish verb To rape.
- ravishment noun rape
- read for press verb To read and inspect a text in order to locate errors prior to printing or publication; to proofread.
- read oneself in verb To read aloud the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent; required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first…
- read someone's beads verb To read someone; to call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
- rebop noun bebop
- receive verb To take, as something that is offered; to accept.
- reclaim verb To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
- reclining noun The act of one who reclines.
- reconfirm verb To advise an airline of your intention to use a reservation, or risk cancellation.
- recount verb To rehearse; to enumerate.
- recover noun The forward movement in rowing, after one stroke to take another (recovery).
- recruit verb To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like.
- recur verb To speak, think, or write about something again; to go back or return to a memory, a subject, etc.
- red adj Native American.
- Red Chinese adj pertaining to the People's Republic of China
- red deer noun The wapiti or North American elk, Cervus canadensis, a deer species of North America, long believed to be a subspecies of the European red…
- Red Indian noun An aboriginal native of the Americas of pre-Columbian lineage. An Indian, Amerind(ian), American Indian, a Native American.
- red lead noun Tomato ketchup.
- red nigger noun A Native American person.
- red wedding noun A wedding ceremony in the Soviet Union in which the couple pledged loyalty to the state or communism in addition to reciting marriage vows.
- reeducation camp noun A camp where people are rehabilitated to health, especially after injury.
- reefer noun A marijuana cigarette.
- reformist noun An advocate of reform in the Church of England; a Reformer.
- refresh verb To take refreshment; to eat or drink.
- refrigeratory noun In distillation, a vessel filled with cold water, surrounding the worm, the vapour in which is thereby condensed.
- regimen noun Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.
- rejig verb To provide (a place, etc.) with new equipment or machinery; to reequip, to refit.
- relax verb To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open.
- relent verb To become less rigid or hard; to soften; to yield, for example by dissolving or melting
- reliance noun Anything on which to rely; ground of trust.
- reliever noun A garment kept for being lent out.
- religieuse noun A nun.
- religionary noun A religious zealot; a religionist.
- relishy adj Tasty.
- remove noun The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
- renate adj Reborn or reincarnated.
- render verb To give up; to yield; to surrender.
- renegade verb To desert one's cause, or change one's loyalties; to commit betrayal.
- Reno divorce noun A divorce obtained in Reno, Nevada, prior to the widespread institution of no-fault divorce in the 1970s United States. Prior to this, many…
- renumberer noun A program that renumbers lines of code in another program (for example, to allow insertion of further lines between them).
- Reorganite noun A member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (RLDS Church; since 2001 the Community of Christ).
- repeater noun A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.
- report verb To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
- repository noun A place where things are stored for sale; a shop.
- repossess verb To gain back possession of.
- reptile noun Any creeping or crawling animal, one that moves along close to the ground on its belly or on short legs, such as a lizard, snake…