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quadrillion: septillion (10²⁴); quadrillion (10¹⁵)
quadrilobe: quatrefoil
quadrilogie: tetralogy
quadrimestre: quadrimester (term of four months)
quadrimoteur: four-engine (of an aircraft, etc.)
quadrinôme: quadrinomial
quadripartite: quadripartite
quadriphonie: quadraphony
quadriplégie: quadriplegia (paralysis of all four limbs)
quadripolaire: quadripolar, tetrapolar
quadripôle: quadripole, two-port network
quadrique: quadric
quadrique: quadric
quadrirème: quadrireme (galley with four banks of oars)
quadriréacteur: four-engine
quadriréacteur: a four-engine aircraft
quadrisaïeul: great-great-great-grandparent; great-great-great-grandfather
quadrisaïeule: great-great-great-grandmother
quadrisulfure: tetrasulfide / tetrasulphide
quadrisyllabe: quadrisyllable, tetrameter
quadrisyllabique: quadrisyllabic, tetrametric
quadritube: four-barrelled, quadruple-barrelled
quadrivalent: quadrivalent (all senses)
quadroxyde: synonym of tétraoxyde
quadrumane: quadrumane
quadrumane: quadrumanous, quadrumane
quadruple: quadruple; sixty-fourth note
quadruple: something that is equal to four times something else; a move whose score is multiplied by four; the area on the board where such a move is possible
quadruple croche: sixty-fourth note
quadruplement: quadruply
quadrupler: to quadruple, to multiply by four
quadruplet: quadruplet (sequence of 4 elements)
quadruplé: quadruplet
quadrupolaire: quadrupolar
quadrupède: quadruped (a four-footed animal)
quadrupède: quadrupedal
quadrupédie: quadrupedy
quadrupôle: quadripole, two-port network
quai: quay, wharf; platform (of a station)
quaker: Quaker (member of the Quaker faith)
quakeresse: Quakeress
quali: qualitative
qualifiable: qualifiable
qualificatif: qualifying
qualificatif: qualifier
qualification: qualification (all senses)
qualifier: to qualify (of a sports team, etc.) (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage); to characterize, to consider; to call, to label; to call oneself (usually undeservedly); to characterize (to be characteristic of)
qualitatif: qualitative (concerned with quality rather than quantity, i.e., the subjective characteristics rather than plain, measurable facts); of good quality
qualitativement: qualitatively
qualité: quality
qualité de vie: quality of life
quand: when (at what time)
quand: when (at the time that); whenever
quand bien même: even if, even though
quand et quand: at the same time, simultaneously
quand il n'y en a plus, il y en a encore: Said of something that is seemingly endless, never-ending or inexhaustible.
quand le chat n'est pas là, les souris dansent: when the cat's away the mice will play
quand le vin est tiré, il faut le boire: in for a penny, in for a pound
quand les poules auront des dents: when Hell freezes over; when pigs fly (never)
quand même: anyway, anyhow, just the same, all the same, regardless; really; extremely; seriously; still