Nouns That Start With Q

60 words Words by letter Checked 9 Oct 2026

These nouns that start with Q come from a standard English dictionary used for word games, ranked by how often each word is used in everyday writing. There are 60 nouns starting with Q on this page. The 60 most common come first, each with a short meaning, followed by shorter, longer and easier picks and a filter for any ending or length.

Only 60 nouns start with Q, and nearly every one has a U straight after the Q. Question, quality, queen and quarter are the ones children meet first.

Queue is a fun spelling oddity, with four vowels in a row after the Q. Quiz and quartz are short and both end in Z, which word-game players will love. Quality and quantity are easy to mix up, so teach them side by side.

Nouns starting with Q: 60
Most used: question
Longest common one: qualification 13 letters

Most common nouns that start with Q

Ranked by how often the word appears in English text. "Type" is the word's main part of speech.

#	Word	Meaning	Type
1	question	an instance of questioning	noun
2	quality	an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; --Shakespeare	noun
3	queen	the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites	noun
4	quarter	one of four equal parts	noun
5	quest	a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria	noun
6	quarters	housing available for people to live in	noun
7	quantity	how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify	noun
8	quantum	a discrete amount of something that is analogous to the quantities in quantum theory	noun
9	queens	a borough of New York City	noun
10	questioning	a request for information	noun
11	quarterback	(football) the person who plays quarterback	noun
12	qualification	an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something	noun
13	quiz	an examination consisting of a few short questions	noun
14	queue	a line of people or vehicles waiting for something	noun
15	quad	one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy	noun
16	quartz	colorless glass made of almost pure silica	noun
17	quarantine	enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease	noun
18	quarry	a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person...	noun
19	quartet	the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one	noun
20	quota	a prescribed number	noun
21	quotation	a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage	noun
22	quake	shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of...	noun
23	questionnaire	a form containing a set of questions; submitted to people to gain statistical information	noun
24	qualifier	a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition	noun
25	quid	the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence	noun
26	quadrant	a quarter of the circumference of a circle	noun
27	quay	wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline	noun
28	quilt	bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together	noun
29	quaker	a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves...	noun
30	quirk	a strange attitude or habit	noun
31	quill	pen made from a bird's feather	noun
32	quorum	a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business	noun
33	quack	an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice	noun
34	quark	(physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons	noun
35	quartermaster	an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops	noun
36	quart	a United States liquid unit equal to 32 fluid ounces; four quarts equal one gallon	noun
37	quadratic	an equation in which the highest power of an unknown quantity is a square	noun
38	quakers	a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers	noun
39	quotient	the ratio of two quantities to be divided	noun
40	quarterfinal	one of the four competitions in an elimination tournament whose winners go on to play in the semifinals	noun
41	quince	small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated	noun
42	quaternary	last 2 million years	noun
43	quintet	a musical composition for five performers	noun
44	quantification	a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no')	noun
45	quadrangle	a four-sided polygon	noun
46	quickness	skillful performance or ability without difficulty	noun
47	quickie	hurried repair	noun
48	quagmire	a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot	noun
49	quarrying	the extraction of building stone or slate from an open surface quarry	noun
50	quin	one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy	noun
51	quicksand	a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy	noun
52	quilting	stitching through layers of fabric and a filling so as to create a design	noun
53	quint	the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one	noun
54	quiche	a member of the Mayan people of south central Guatemala	noun
55	quandary	a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one	noun
56	quitter	a person who gives up too easily	noun
57	quantization	the act of dividing into quanta or expressing in terms of quantum theory	noun
58	quinine	a bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy	noun
59	quarto	the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves	noun
60	questioner	someone who asks a question	noun

Short nouns that start with Q

queen
quest
quiz
queue
quad
quota
quake
quid
quay
quilt
quirk
quill
quack
quark
quart
quin
quint

Long nouns that start with Q

questioning
quarterback
qualification
quarantine
questionnaire
quartermaster
quarterfinal
quaternary
quantification
quadrangle
quantization
questioner

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How many nouns start with Q?

This list has 60 nouns starting with Q, taken from a standard word-game dictionary and limited to words that appear in real English text.

What are the most common nouns that start with Q?

question, quality, queen, quarter, quest, quarters, quantity, quantum are the most used in everyday English.

What are some long nouns that start with Q?

questioning, quarterback, qualification, quarantine, quotation.

What are easy nouns that start with Q for kids?

queen are short, everyday examples.

Source: the ENABLE word list (a public-domain dictionary used for word games), ranked by how often each word appears in English text (the open wordfreq project), with short meanings from Princeton WordNet. Offensive words are left out.

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