Words Starting QU & Ending N

• become quiet or quieter

• make calm or still

• cause to be quiet or not talk

• occurring every fourth day (especially the fever and weakness of malaria)

• a malarial fever that recurs every fourth day

• the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

• a female sovereign ruler

• the wife or widow of a king

• something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind

• a competitor who holds a preeminent position

• offensive term for a homosexual man

• one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

• (chess) the most powerful piece

• an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males

• female cat

• promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

• become a queen

• A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.

• A young woman, a girl; a daughter.

• expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase

• the keystone of an arch

• (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone