Index of English words, starting with "qu"

(1) - Queerness (n.) The quality or state of being queer.

(1) - Quell (n.) Murder.
(2) - Quell (v. t.) To quiet; to allay; to pacify; to cause to yield or cease; as, to quell grief; to quell the tumult of the soul.
(3) - Quell (v. t.) To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
(4) - Quell (v. t.) To take the life of; to kill.
(5) - Quell (v. i.) To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate.
(6) - Quell (v. i.) To die.

(1) - Queller (n.) One who quells; one who overpowers or subdues.
(2) - Queller (n.) A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller.

(1) - Quench (v. i.) To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool.
(2) - Quench (v. t.) To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.
(3) - Quench (v. t.) To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc.