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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation quarter (of a year)
  • abbreviation quarterly
  • abbreviation Games queen
  • abbreviation question

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  • noun The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.
  • noun The ordinal number seventeenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.
  • abbreviation question or questions
  • abbreviation quarter
  • abbreviation the supposed common source of the Gospels of Mark and Luke (from German Quelle, source)
  • abbreviation the Q factor in electronics
  • abbreviation astronomy quasar
  • abbreviation sports qualified
  • abbreviation American Library Association Abbreviation for quarto, book size (25-30cm).
  • abbreviation chess queen
  • proper noun The pseudonym of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • noun The seventeenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
  • noun biochemistry IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for glutamine

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