(now rare, chiefly in the plural) Something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment.
The act or fact of acquiring something; acquisition.
acquirements
acquirements
noun
plural of acquirement
acquitment
acquitment
noun
(law) Acquittal.
aminoanthraquinone
aminoanthraquinone
noun
(organic chemistry) Either of two isomeric amino derivatives of anthraquinone
aminoquinoline
aminoquinoline
noun
Any of various quinoline derivatives notable as antimalarial drugs.
antimasque
antimasque
noun
A comic or grotesque dance presented before or between the acts of a masque.
antimasquer
antimasquer
noun
One who takes part in an antimasque.
antimasquerade
apoquinamine
apoquinamine
noun
(organic chemistry) An alkaloid, C₁₉H₂₂N₂O, that is formed by dissolving quinamine in acid.
aquaemanalia
aquamanile
aquamanile
noun
(historical) A ewer or jug-like vessel, shaped like an animal or human figure, used for washing the hands.
aquamaniles
aquamaniles
noun
plural of aquamanile
aquamarine
aquamarine
adj
Of a bluish-green colour.
noun
A bluish-green variety of beryl.
The bluish-green colour of the sea.
aquamarines
aquamarines
noun
plural of aquamarine
aquopentamminecobaltic
cinematheque
cinematheque
noun
A film archive with small cinemas, screening classic and art-house films.
cinematheques
cinematheques
noun
plural of cinematheque
cinquecentism
colliquament
colliquament
noun
The first rudiments of an embryo in generation.
communique
communique
noun
Alternative form of communiqué
communiques
communiques
noun
Misspelling of communiqués.
conquinamine
conquinamine
noun
(organic chemistry) quinidamine
desquamating
desquamating
verb
present participle of desquamate
desquamation
desquamation
noun
(medicine) The shedding of the outer layers of the skin.
desquamations
desquamations
noun
plural of desquamation
diphenylquinomethane
dominique
dominique
Noun
An American breed of chicken with a rose comb and a heavy plumage of irregularly striped black-and-white feathers.
eequinoctium
equalitarianism
equalitarianism
noun
Egalitarianism.
equanimities
equanimities
noun
plural of equanimity
equanimity
equanimity
noun
The state of being calm, stable and composed, especially under stress.
equanimous
equanimous
adj
Calm and composed; of stable disposition.
equanimously
equanimously
adv
In an equanimous manner.
equanimousness
equationism
equestrianism
equestrianism
noun
The art or sport of riding horses.
equianharmonic
equianharmonic
adj
(mathematics) equally anharmonic; specifically, whose anharmonic ratio is a cube root of unity
noun
(geometry) A set of four points whose cross ratio (or anharmonic ratio) is a cube root of 1.
equidimensional
equidimensional
adj
Having (approximately) the same dimensions.
equidominant
equidominant
adj
equally dominant
equimomental
equimomental
adj
Having equal moments of inertia.
equinumerally
equiomnipotent
equipment
equipment
noun
(slang, humorous) The male genitalia.
Any items used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage.
The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
equipments
equipments
noun
(nonstandard) plural of equipment
equisegmented
equitemporaneous
equitemporaneous
adj
(obsolete) Performed in equal periods of time; contemporaneous.
equivoluminal
equivoluminal
adj
Having an equal volume or capacity
esquimauan
gaminesque
gaminesque
adj
Like a gamin or gamine; mischievously charming without sophistication.
harlequinism
hemingwayesque
hemingwayesque
Adjective
Reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist.
hemiquinonoid
inequilibrium
jacqueminot
jacqueminot
noun
A variety of deep crimson rose.
lambrequin
lambrequin
noun
(US) A short decorative drapery for a shelf edge or for the top of a window casing; a valance.
(ceramics) A border pattern with draped effect.
(heraldry) A heraldic representation of such an item, typically with one end pendant.
A scarf or other piece of material used as a covering for a helmet.
lambrequins
lambrequins
noun
plural of lambrequin
liquamen
liquamen
noun
(historical) A fish sauce used in Ancient Rome.
machinotechnique
magnifique
magniloquence
magniloquence
noun
The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse.
magniloquent
magniloquent
adj
Speaking pompously; using deliberately long or esoteric words.
magniloquently
magniloquently
adv
In a magniloquent manner.
manequin
manequin
noun
Dated form of mannequin.
manistique
mannequin
mannequin
noun
(dated) A person who models clothes.
A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes.
A jointed model of the human body used by artists, especially to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery.
An anatomical model of the human body for use in teaching of e.g. CPR.
mannequins
mannequins
noun
plural of mannequin
marinduque
martinique
martinique
Proper noun
An island in the Caribbean, an overseas department of France. Official name: Department of Martinique.
masquerading
masquerading
noun
The act of one who masquerades.
verb
present participle of masquerade
medrinaque
medrinaque
noun
A type of fabric from the Philippines, made from the abaca tree.
menaquinone
menaquinone
noun
(biochemistry, pharmacology) A pale yellow crystalline naphthoquinone C₄₁H₅₆O₂ that is obtained especially from putrefied fish meal and produced by bacteria in the large intestine and essential for the blood-clotting process. It is much more unsaturated than vitamin K₁ and slightly less active biologically, and is an isoprenoid derivative of menadione.
meriquinoid
meriquinoidal
meriquinone
meriquinonic
meriquinonoid
mesquin
michelangelesque
microtechnique
microtechnique
noun
Any small-scale technique.
The art of preparing objects for examination under a microscope.
milliequivalent
milliequivalent
noun
(chemistry) One thousandth of an equivalent
miquelon
miquelon
Proper noun
The northernmost of the islands making up the territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
misconsequence
misconsequence
noun
A wrong consequence; a false deduction.
monchiquite
monchiquite
noun
(mineralogy) A black, basaltic igneous rock consisting of a ground mass of automorphic augite and magnetite with many embedded phenocrysts, usually of olivine.
monique
monique
Proper noun
name from the French form of Monica.
montesquieu
multiloquence
multiloquence
noun
The state or condition of being multiloquent; talkativeness.
multiloquent
multiloquent
adj
Talkative.
nondesquamative
nondesquamative
adj
Not desquamative.
nonequilibrium
nonequilibrium
noun
The condition of not being in equilibrium
nonrelinquishment
nonrelinquishment
noun
Lack of relinquishment; failure to relinquish.
nonrequirement
nonrequirement
noun
That which is not a requirement.
omniloquent
oversqueamishness
oversqueamishness
noun
The quality of being oversqueamish.
pamaquine
pamaquine
noun
(pharmacology) A drug used for the treatment of malaria, closely related to primaquine; it was the first synthetic antimalarial.
plasmoquine
plasmoquine
noun
(medicine) Synonym of chloroquine
preequipment
prerequirement
prerequirement
noun
A prerequisite requirement
primaquine
primaquine
noun
(pharmacology) A synthetic compound derived from quinoline, used as a medication in the treatment of malaria and pneumocystis pneumonia.
quadragintesimal
quadrennium
quadrennium
noun
A period of 4 years, particularly (historical) the sets of four years in the ancient Egyptian and Greek calendars.
quadrenniums
quadriennium
quadrienniumutile
quadrigeminal
quadrigeminal
adj
Having four parts, or two pairs.
quadrigeminate
quadrigeminate
adj
Synonym of quadrigeminal
quadrigeminous
quadrigeminous
adj
Archaic form of quadrigeminal.
quadrigeminum
quadrigeminum
noun
(anatomy) One of the corpora quadrigemina.
quadrilaminate
quadrilaminate
adj
Having four layers.
qualminess
qualminess
noun
Quality of being qualmy.
qualmishness
qualmishness
noun
The quality of being qualmish.
quantimeter
quantimeter
noun
A device for determining the quantity of X-rays generated by a Crookes tube or Coolidge tube.
quantummechanical
quartodeciman
quartodeciman
Noun
Any of a group of early Christians who began Easter on Nisan 14, the day Jesus was crucified according to the Gospel of JohnJohn 19:14, 31, 42, and the day before the beginning of Jewish Passover, which is Nisan 15.
Adjective
Of or pertaining to these people.
quartodecimanism
quartodecimanism
Proper noun
The doctrines of the Quartodecimans.
quatrocentism
quatrocentism
noun
Alternative form of quattrocentism
quebrachamine
quebrachamine
noun
(organic chemistry) An alkaloid obtained from the dried bark of the quebracho tree.
quelimane
quercimeritrin
quercimeritrin
noun
(organic chemistry) A flavonol glucoside, with chemical formula C₂H₂₀O₁₂, found in cotton flowers.
queriman
queriman
noun
The sandbar shark.
querimans
querimonies
querimonies
noun
plural of querimony
querimonious
querimonious
adj
Complaining; querulous.
querimoniously
querimoniously
adv
In a querimonious manner.
querimoniousness
querimoniousness
noun
(archaic) The quality of being querimonious, of tending to complain.
querimony
querimony
noun
(archaic) A complaint.
quickenbeam
quinamicine
quinamidine
quinamine
quinamine
noun
(organic chemistry) A particular alkaloid obtained from cinchona bark.
quindecemvir
quindecemvir
noun
(historical) Any member of an official group of fifteen people, especially a member of the 15-man college of priests who cared for the Sibylline Books in ancient Rome.
quindecemvirate
quindecemvirate
noun
Alternative form of quindecimvirate.
quindecemviri
quindecim
quindecim
noun
(historical) A tax of one fifteenth.
quindecima
quindecima
noun
(music) The interval of a fifteenth, or double octave.
quindecimvir
quindecimvir
noun
(historical, Ancient Rome) Any member of a group of fifteen officials.
quinetum
quinetum
noun
(historical) A mixture of the sulphates of the cinchona alkaloids: a cheap substitute for quinine sulphate.
quinometry
quinometry
noun
(archaic) The art of estimating the quantity of quinine in cinchona bark, and in the commercial salts of this alkaloid.
quinonediimine
quinonediimine
noun
(organic chemistry) Any diimine derived from a quinone
quinonimine
quinonimine
noun
(chemistry) Any of a class of imines formally derived from a quinone by replacing one or both oxygens with =NR.
quinquagesima
quinquagesimal
quinquagesimal
adj
Of or related to a set of 50 people or items.
quinquennium
quinquennium
noun
A period of five years.
quinquenniums
quinquereme
quinquereme
noun
(history) An ancient Carthaginian or Greek galley having three banks of oars, rowed by five oarsmen: two to an oar in each of the upper rows, and one to the lower oar.
quinquertium
quinquertium
noun
(historical) An ancient sporting contest consisting of five separate events.
quintelement
quinzieme
quinzieme
noun
(historical) A tax of one fifteenth of the value of goods, levied on merchants in the ports of England by King John circa 1204.
quipsomeness
ramequin
ramequin
noun
Alternative form of ramekin
ramequins
ramequins
noun
plural of ramequin
reequipment
reequipment
noun
The act, or the result of reequipping
reequipments
reequipments
noun
plural of reequipment
relinquishment
relinquishment
noun
The act of relinquishing something.
relinquishments
relinquishments
noun
plural of relinquishment
requirement
requirement
noun
(engineering, computing) A statement (in domain specific terms) which specifies a verifiable constraint on an implementation that it shall undeniably meet or (a) be deemed unacceptable, or (b) result in implementation failure, or (c) result in system failure.
A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory. Its adpositions are generally of in relation to who or what has given it, on in relation to whom or what it is given to, and for in relation to what is required.