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

• A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.

• A stake driven into the ground.

• A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

• A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

• One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

• (sometimes figurative) A sentry.

• A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

• The card game piquet.

• To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.

• To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.

• To tether to, or as if to, a picket.

• To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

• To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

• with low volume

• with little or no sound

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

• in a restful manner

• the difference between the market value of a property and the claims held against it

• the ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation

• conformity with rules or standards

• a block made from charcoal or coal dust and burned as fuel

• any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar

• 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

• 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

• made of layers of fabric held together by patterned stitching