5 Letter Words Starting with Q

Every 5-letter English word in the JumbleFix dictionary that starts with Q. Each word links to its definition. Face-value Scrabble and Words With Friends scores are shown so you can pick a high-scoring play without leaving the page.

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  1. qaeda Scrabble 15 · WWF 15
    n.. a terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terr...
  2. qatar Scrabble 14 · WWF 14
    n.. a peninsula extending northward from the Arabian mainland into the Persian Gulf
  3. qepiq Scrabble 25 · WWF 26
    n.. 100 qepiq equal 1 manat in Azerbaijan
  4. qiang Scrabble 15 · WWF 17
    n.. the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Sichuan
  5. qibla Scrabble 16 · WWF 18
    n.. a small terrorist group of Muslims in South Africa formed in the 1980s; was inspired by Ayatollah Khomeini to create an Islamic state in South Africa
  6. quack Scrabble 20 · WWF 22
    v. i.. To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
  7. quaff Scrabble 20 · WWF 21
    v. t.. To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts.
  8. quail Scrabble 14 · WWF 16
    v. i.. To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.
  9. quake Scrabble 18 · WWF 19
    v. i.. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.
  10. quaky Scrabble 21 · WWF 21
    a.. Shaky, or tremulous; quaking.
  11. qualm Scrabble 16 · WWF 19
    n.. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.
  12. quant Scrabble 14 · WWF 16
    n.. A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
  13. quark Scrabble 18 · WWF 19
    n.. fresh unripened cheese of a smooth texture made from pasteurized milk, a starter, and rennet
  14. quarl Scrabble 14 · WWF 16
    n.. A medusa, or jellyfish.
  15. quart Scrabble 14 · WWF 15
    n.. The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
  16. quash Scrabble 17 · WWF 17
    n.. Same as Squash.
  17. quasi Scrabble 14 · WWF 15
    As if; as though; as it were; in a manner sense or degree; having some resemblance to; qualified; -- used as an adjective, or a prefix with a noun or an adje...
  18. quass Scrabble 14 · WWF 15
    n.. A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians.
  19. quata Scrabble 14 · WWF 15
    n.. The coaita.
  20. quave Scrabble 17 · WWF 19
    n.. See Quaver.
  21. quean Scrabble 14 · WWF 16
    n.. A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl.
  22. queen Scrabble 14 · WWF 16
    n.. The wife of a king.
  23. queer Scrabble 14 · WWF 15
    a.. At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act.
  24. quegh Scrabble 18 · WWF 19
    n.. A drinking vessel. See Quaich.
  25. quell Scrabble 14 · WWF 17
    v. i.. To die.
  26. queme Scrabble 16 · WWF 18
    v. t. & i.. To please.
  27. querl Scrabble 14 · WWF 16
    v. t.. To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread, or rope.
  28. quern Scrabble 14 · WWF 16
    n.. A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills.
  29. query Scrabble 17 · WWF 17
    n.. A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.
  30. quest Scrabble 14 · WWF 15
    n.. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.
  31. queue Scrabble 14 · WWF 16
    n.. A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.
  32. quica Scrabble 16 · WWF 18
    n.. A small South American opossum (Didelphys quica), native of Guiana and Brazil. It feeds upon insects, small birds, and fruit.
  33. quick Scrabble 20 · WWF 22
    superl.. Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.
  34. quiet Scrabble 14 · WWF 15
    a.. In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air.
  35. quiff Scrabble 20 · WWF 21
    n.. a prominent forelock (especially one brushed upward from the forehead)
  36. quill Scrabble 14 · WWF 17
    n.. One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.
  37. quilt Scrabble 14 · WWF 16
    n.. Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two cloths an...
  38. quine Scrabble 14 · WWF 16
    n.. United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001)
  39. quint Scrabble 14 · WWF 16
    n.. A set or sequence of five, as in piquet.
  40. quipo Scrabble 16 · WWF 18
    n.. Same as Quipu.
  41. quipu Scrabble 16 · WWF 19
    n.. A contrivance employed by the ancient Peruvians, Mexicans, etc., as a substitute for writing and figures, consisting of a main cord, from which hung at certa...
  42. quira Scrabble 14 · WWF 15
    n.. any of several tropical American trees some yielding economically important timber
  43. quire Scrabble 14 · WWF 15
    n.. See Choir.
  44. quirk Scrabble 18 · WWF 19
    n.. A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.
  45. quirl Scrabble 14 · WWF 16
    n. & v.. See Querl.
  46. quirt Scrabble 14 · WWF 15
    n.. A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
  47. quite Scrabble 14 · WWF 15
    v. t. & i.. See Quit.
  48. quito Scrabble 14 · WWF 15
    n.. the capital of Ecuador
  49. quits Scrabble 14 · WWF 15
    interj.. See the Note under Quit, a.
  50. quoin Scrabble 14 · WWF 16
    n.. Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.
  51. quoit Scrabble 14 · WWF 15
    n.. A flattened ring-shaped piece of iron, to be pitched at a fixed object in play; hence, any heavy flat missile used for the same purpose, as a stone, piece of...
  52. quoll Scrabble 14 · WWF 17
    n.. A marsupial of Australia (Dasyurus macrurus), about the size of a cat.
  53. quota Scrabble 14 · WWF 15
    n.. A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
  54. quote Scrabble 14 · WWF 15
    v. t.. To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote...
  55. quoth Scrabble 17 · WWF 17
    v. t.. Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the...
  56. quran Scrabble 14 · WWF 16
    n.. See Koran.