Words Containing: Q,U,I,E,T,S

• a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards

• a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake

• an inquiry into the cause of an unexpected death

• euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

• A member of the equestrian order (Latin: ordo equester), the lower of the two aristocratic classes of Ancient Rome, ranking below the patricians.

• A person who asks questions.

• characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity

• free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound

• (of the sun) characterized by a low level of surface phenomena, such as sunspots

• a period of calm weather

• an untroubled state; free from disturbances

• the absence of sound

• a disposition free from stress or emotion

• with little or no activity or no agitation (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly')

• not showy or obtrusive

• in a softened tone

• (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves

• become quiet or quieter

• make calm or still