Nouns in english starting with Q

• quarto — Noun – English ～ the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves
• quartz — Noun – English ～ a hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities
• quartz crystal — Noun – English ～ a thin plate or small rod of quartz cut along certain lines and ground so that it can produce an electric signal at a constant frequency; used in crystal oscillators
• quartz mill — Noun – English ～ a stamp mill for stamping quartz
• quartz lamp — Noun – English ～ a mercury-vapor lamp that is enclosed in a quartz container instead of a glass container
• quartz battery — Noun – English ～ a stamp mill for stamping quartz
• quartz glass — Noun – English ～ colorless glass made of almost pure silica
• quartz — Noun – English ～ colorless glass made of almost pure silica
• quartz oscillator — Noun – English ～ an oscillator that produces electrical oscillations at a frequency determined by the physical characteristics of a piezoelectric quartz crystal
• quartzite — Noun – English ～ hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals
• quasar — Noun – English ～ a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts
• quasi-NGO — Noun – English ～ a quasi nongovernmental organization; an organization that is financed by the government yet acts independently of the government
• quasi contract — Noun – English ～ a contract created by law for reasons of justice without any expression of assent
• quasiparticle — Noun – English ～ a quantum of energy (in a crystal lattice or other system) that has position and momentum and can in some respects be regarded as a particle
• quassia — Noun – English ～ handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark
• Quassia amara — Noun – English ～ handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark
• quassia — Noun – English ～ a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma
• quassia family — Noun – English ～ chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark having dry usually one-seeded winged fruit
• quat — Noun – English ～ the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults"
• quatercentenary — Noun – English ～ the 400th anniversary (or the celebration of it)

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