6-Letter Words Starting: Q

• colorless glass made of almost pure silica

• a hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities

• A cat-sized marsupial, Setonix brachyurus, of southwestern Australia.

• (informal) strikingly unconventional

• a hearty draft

• to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught

• Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

• Plants used in making a quickset hedge

• The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.

• Quitchgrass.

• A fast bowler.

• To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.

• To quicken.

• a prominent forelock (especially one brushed upward from the forehead)