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782 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

quisquilloso: fussy person; picky eater
quisquilloso: nitpicking, fussy, picky, persnickety (US), pernickety (UK), fastidious; tetchy, touchy, prickly, testy
quiste: cyst
quita: debt relief
quitaesmalte: nail polish remover
quitagrapas: staple remover (device with two jawlike pincers which is used to remove staples)
quitamanchas: stain remover
quitamaridos: home wrecker
quitamiedos: crash barrier, guardrail, traffic barrier
quitanieves: snow plow (US), snow plough (UK); plural of quitanieve
quitapinturas: paint stripper
quitar: to remove, to take away, to take down, to take off, to pull off, to pull out, to clear, to clear away, to strip, to strip away; to get rid of; to get off; to deprive of, to take away from (uses indirect object); to take off, to remove, to disrobe, to doff (as clothes or accoutrements)
quitar el hojaldre al pastel: To peel the onion, to peel back the mask.
quitar hierro: to play down
quitarse el sombrero: to tip one's hat (in respect)
quitarse la vida: to take one's own life, commit suicide
quitarse un peso de encima: to get off one's chest
quitasol: parasol
quitasueño: worry, preoccupation
quitavidas: crash barrier, guardrail, traffic barrier
quite: the action of removal; a swerve or sidestep
quiteño: native or inhabitant of the city of Quito, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (usually male)
quiteño: of, from or relating to the city of Quito, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
quitina: chitin
quitinoso: chitinous
quito: exempt; free
quitosano: chitosan
quitridiomicosis: chytridiomycosis
quitón: chiton (mollusk)
quiubo: alternative spelling of quihubo (what's up?; what's new?)
quiula: tinamou
quiula puneña: The puna tinamou.
quiz: quiz show
quizque: synonym of dizque
quizá: perhaps, maybe
quizás: maybe, perhaps
quién: who?, whom?; (with “de”) whose?; if only; I wish
quién lo diría: who would have known; who would have thunk it
quién quita: you never know, who knows
quién sabe: who knows?
quién va: who goes there?
quién vive: who goes there?
quiénes: plural of quién; whom? (what person; object of a verb)
quiñón: share of land
quió: eye dialect spelling of quiero
quiúbole: alternative spelling of quehúbole
quota: obsolete spelling of cuota
quánto: obsolete spelling of cuánto
quánto: obsolete spelling of cuánto
quásar: superseded spelling of cuásar
qué: how; Substitutes an interrogative word like cómo, cuándo, etc.
qué: what (expresses surprise or confusion)
qué: what
qué bolá: what's up; 'sup
qué carajo: what the fuck
qué cosa: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see qué, cosa.; what's up?; come again
qué demonios: what the devil; what the dickens
qué diablos: what the devil; what the dickens
qué duda cabe: no doubt; without a doubt
qué es de tu vida: what's new?, how's life?, what has become of you?