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

quintillion: nonillion (10³⁰); quintillion (10¹⁸)
quinto: fifthly; in fifth place
quintuple: quintuple
quintuple: quintuple; hundred twenty-eighth note
quintuple croche: hundred twenty-eighth note
quintuplement: fivefold increase
quintupler: to quintuple, to multiply by five
quinté: a bet on the first five horses in a race
quinvicies: twenty-fifthly
quinzaine: about fifteen people, about fifteen things, etc.; a period of fifteen consecutive days; two weeks; a fortnight
quinze: fifteen
quinze jours: a fortnight, a period of two weeks, of fourteen days (exactly or approximately)
quinze-A: fifteen all
quinze-vingt: a blind patient of the Hôpital des Quinze-Vingts; a blind person
quinze-vingts: three hundred
quinzième: fifteenth
quinzième: fifteenth
quinzièmement: fifteenthly
quinzomadaire: fortnightly
quinzomadaire: fortnightly; fortnightly publication
quinzomadairement: fortnightly
quiproquo: misunderstanding; equivocation
quipu: alternative spelling of quipou
quirite: Quirite
quiscale: grackle
quittance: a receipt, a quittance
quittancer: to receipt, to release
quittançable: dischargeable, releasable (liable to be released); receiptable
quitte: quits; play quitte, play even, play without winning or losing, a draw
quitte ou double: double or quits, double or nothing
quitte à: since, given that; at the risk of, however much
quitter: to discharge somebody from an obligation; to leave, to quit; to part with somebody, to leave somebody
quitter le navire: to abandon ship, to jump ship (to leave or forsake a ship due to its impending doom); to abandon ship (to leave a person or organization when things become difficult)
quitter le nid familial: to leave the nest, to fly the nest (to stop living with one's parents)
quitus: discharge (of a debt etc.)
quiz: quiz
quiètement: quietly
quiétisme: quietism
quiétiste: quietist
quiétiste: quietist
quiétude: tranquility
quoi: what; what, (that) which; enough (of something specific); nothing; whatever
quoi: you know, like, y'know
quoi: what? say again?
quoi de neuf: what's new, what's up, how's it going
quoi encore: Indicates the speaker's impatience at being faced with the return of someone or something they believed settled: what now? now what? what is it now? what is it this time?
quoi faire: why, how come, what for
quoi qu'il en ait été: at any rate, in any case, howbeit, anyway, anyhow
quoi qu'il en coûte: whatever it costs, whatever the cost, whatever it takes
quoi qu'il en eût été: at any rate, in any case, howbeit, anyway, anyhow
quoi qu'il en fût: at any rate, in any case, howbeit, anyway, anyhow
quoi qu'il en soit: be that as it may, at any rate, in any case, howbeit, anyway, anyhow
quoi que: whatever (+ subjunctive)
quoi que ce soit: anything (at all)
quoicoubaka: stupid.
quoicoubaka: An idiot.
quoicoubeh: Meaningless response to "quoi?".
quoiqu': apocopic form of quoique
quoique: though, although
quolibet: gibe, taunt