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Pyrrhic
- adjective - a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables
- an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare
- of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece; "pyrrhic dance movements"
- of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables; "pyrrhic verses"
- of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans); "a Pyrrhic victory"
Pyrrhus
- noun - king of Epirus; defeated the Romans in two battles in spite of staggering losses (319-272 BC)
Pyrrole
- - A nitrogenous heterocyclic base found in coal tar, bone oil, and other distillates of organic substances, and also produced synthetically as a colorless liquid, C4H5N, having on odor like that of chloroform. It is the nucleus and origin of a large number of derivatives. So called because it colors a splinter of wood moistened with hydrochloric acid a deep red.
Quarrel
- noun - an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words"
- an arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges
- have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"
Quartan
- adjective - a malarial fever that recurs every fourth day
- occurring every fourth day (especially the fever and weakness of malaria); "quartan malaria"
Quarter
- noun - (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided; "both teams scored in the first quarter"
- a district of a city having some distinguishing character; "the Latin Quarter"
- a fourth part of a year; three months; "unemployment fell during the last quarter"
- a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
- a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
- a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour; "it's a quarter til 4"; "a quarter after 4 o'clock"
- a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar; "he fed four quarters into the slot machine"
- an unspecified person; "he dropped a word in the right quarter"
- clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent; "he surrendered but asked for quarter"
- divide by four; divide into quarters
- divide into quarters; "quarter an apple"
- one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound"
- one o
Quartet
- noun -
- a musical composition for four performers
- a set of four similar things considered as a unit
- four people considered as a unit; "he joined a barbershop quartet"; "the foursome teed off before 9 a.m."
- four performers or singers who perform together
Quartic
- noun - an algebraic equation of the fourth degree
Quartos
- noun - the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves
Quartzs
- noun - 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
- colorless glass made of almost pure silica