purlieu
The ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc.
The outskirts of any place; an adjacent district; the environs or neighborhood; milieu.

purlieus
plural of purlieu

purlieux
plural of purlieu

puro
A cigar, especially one made with tobacco from a single country.

puros
plural of puro

purpresture
The unlawful personal appropriation of public lands; wrongful encroachment on, or enclosure of properties belonging to the public (e.g. highways, sidewalks, forests, harbors).

purprestures
plural of purpresture

pursevant
Obsolete form of pursuivant.

pursevants
plural of pursevant

pursuivant
A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; an attendant of the heralds, e.g. in the College of Arms.
A Grand Lodge Officer who guards the inner door during a meeting of the Grand Lodge.
A royal messenger, (particularly) one with the authority to execute warrants.
A warrant officer.
A follower.

pursuivants
plural of pursuivant

pusta
A temperate grassland biome of the Great Hungarian Plain; an exclave of the Pannonian Steppe.

pustas
plural of pusta

puszta
Alternative spelling of pusta.

pusztas
plural of puszta

puttock
Any of several birds of prey including the red kite, buzzard and marsh harrier
A rapacious person who preys on the defenseless.
The futtock.

puxies
plural of puxy

puxy
Alternative spelling of pucksy.

puzzleation
A puzzled state; a puzzlement.

puzzleations
plural of puzzleation

puzzlement
The confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment.
A puzzle; something baffling.

puzzlements
plural of puzzlement

pylagore
A deputy of a state at the amphictyonic council.

pylagores
plural of pylagore

pyloralgia
Pain in the region of the pylorus.

pyram
Any of many ectoparasitic sea snails of the family Pyramidellidae

pyrams
plural of pyram

pyree
An ancient Persian temple devoted to fire.

pyrees
plural of pyree

pyroclast
Solid matter ejected into the air by an active volcano.

pyroclasts
plural of pyroclast

pyrosphere
The zone of igneous activity and lava formation, situated between the lithosphere and barysphere.

qaganate
Alternative form of khaganate.

qaganates
plural of qaganate

qaghanate
Alternative form of khaganate.

qaghanates
plural of qaghanate

qanat
An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley

qanats
plural of qanat

qasr
A palace or castle in Middle Eastern countries.

qasrs
plural of qasr

qbit
Alternative form of qubit.

qbits
plural of qbit

qila
A fort or fortress.

qilas
plural of qila

qinah
Alternative form of kinnah.

qinot
plural of qinah

qinoth
plural of qinah

qishlaq
A rural settlement (originally for the winter period) of seminomadic Turkic peoples of Central Asia, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan.

qishlaqs
plural of qishlaq

qsar
Alternative form of ksar.

qsars
plural of qsar

qsour
plural of qsar

qu
An administrative subdivision of China roughly equivalent to districts, distinguished from the more rural "counties" (xian).

quadplex
A building divided into four separate residences or commercial premises.

quadplexes
plural of quadplex

quadrel
A square brick or tile; a quarrel.
A square piece of turf.

quadrels
plural of quadrel

quadrigate
Synonym of quadrigatus

quadrigates
plural of quadrigate

quadrigati
plural of quadrigatus

quadrigatus
A medium-sized silver coin minted by the Roman Republic during the 3rd century B.C.E.

quadriportici
plural of quadriporticus

quadriportico
A four-sided portico.

quadriporticoes
plural of quadriportico

quadriporticos
plural of quadriportico

quadriporticus
A nearly square courtyard surrounded by colonnaded porticoes.

quadrominium
A building divided into four residences as condominiums

quadrominiums
plural of quadrominium

quadropolies
plural of quadropoly

quadropoly
A market situation in which four companies exclusively provide a particular product or service.

quag
Quagmire; marsh; bog.

quags
plural of quag

quariar
Alternative spelling of quarion.

quarion
A square lump of wax (with a wick in the center), to be burned like a candle.

quarions
plural of quarion.

quarterer
One of a group of agricultural workers who were entitled to keep a quarter of the harvest as payment, yielding up the rest to their lord.

quarterers
plural of quarterer

quartermastership
The position or employment of a quartermaster.

quartern
A quarter part; one fourth.
A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds.

quarterns
plural of quartern

quarterpace
A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only.

quarterpaces
plural of quarterpace

quarterwave
A quarter of a wavelength

quartier
A quarter or district of an urban settlement in France.

quartiers
plural of quartier

quasimoon
Alternative form of quasi-moon.

quasimoons
plural of quasimoon

quasiscience
An area of inquiry that makes use of some of the methods of science, but which fails to be a true science.

quasisciences
plural of quasiscience

quasistate
Synonym of protostate.

quasistates
plural of quasistate

quasite
A theoretical type of artificial satellite, which has large solar sails for maneuvering, allowing a stable solar orbit at speeds lower that Kepler velocity; though not enough solar sail area to allow holding station.

quasites
plural of quasite

quasivacua
plural of quasivacuum

quasivacuum
Any state that approximates to a vacuum, especially one free of baryons

quaw
Alternative form of quag (“swamp”).

quaws
plural of quaw

quayside
An area alongside a quay.

quaysides
plural of quayside

qubba
A tomb structure in the Arab world, particularly an Islamic domed shrine.

qubbas
plural of qubba

qubbat
plural of qubba

qubit
A quantum bit; the basic unit of quantum information described by a superposition of two states; a quantum bit in a quantum computer capable of being in a state of superposition; A binary qudit.

qubits
plural of qubit

quebrada
A ravine or valley in Latin America.

quebradas
plural of quebrada

quebrado
Alternative form of quebrada (“ravine or valley in Latin America”).

quebrados
plural of quebrado

queenlet
A female kinglet; a petty queen; a queen ruling over a small or unimportant territory.
A young or little queen.
A princess.

queenlets
plural of queenlet

quemadero
A place where Spanish heretics were executed by burning.

quemaderos
plural of quemadero

quercetum
A wood or plantation of oak trees.

quercetums
plural of quercetum

querencia
The area of the bull-ring where the bull makes its stand.
homesickness, nostalgia

querencias
plural of querencia

quickmire
A quagmire into which things easily sink, like into quicksand.

quickmires
plural of quickmire

quiescency
Quiescence: the state of being quiescent, or at rest

quietus
A stillness or pause; something that quiets or represses; removal from activity.
Death.
Final settlement (e.g., of a debt).

quietuses
plural of quietus

quietway
A low-traffic cycle route aimed at less confident cyclists or those who want to travel at a more gentle pace.

quietways
plural of quietway

quillet
A quibble, an evasive distinction.

quillets
plural of quillet

quilombo
A fortified residence or encampment in Angola, or the military power associated with it.
A remote settlement in inland Brazil originally founded by fugitive slaves or their descendants.

quilombos
plural of quilombo

quinarii
plural of quinarius

quinarius
A small silver coin minted during the Roman Republic, equal to half of a denarius.

quincunces
plural of quincunx

quincunx
An arrangement of five units with four forming the corners of a square and the fifth at the centre of the square, a pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice, playing cards, or dominoes.
An angle of five-twelfths of a circle, or 150°, between two objects.
A Galton board.
A bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at five-twelfths of an as.

quincunxes
plural of quincunx

quintopolies
plural of quintopoly