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782 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

quemar el último cartucho: to shoot one's load (use up resources)
quemar las naves: to burn one's bridges
quemar llanta: to burn rubber
quemarropa: only used in a quemarropa
quemarse las cejas: to burn the midnight oil
quemarse las pestañas: to burn the midnight oil
quemazón: great heat; burning; itch; jab; cutting remark
queme: burnout
quemosis: chemosis
quena: a type of reed flute from Peru; pan flute
quenacho: quenacho
quenefa: a type of quenelle from Catalonia
quenepa: mamoncillo
quenista: quena player
quenodesoxicolato: chenodeoxycholate
quenodesoxicólico: chenodeoxycholic
quenya: Quenya
quenístico: quena
queperí: alternative spelling of keperí
quepis: kepi
quepoa: of the Quepoa (an extinct indigenous people of Costa Rica)
quepoa: the Quepoa (an extinct indigenous people of Costa Rica)
quepí: kepi
queque: cake; cupcake; biscuit; sponge cake; ass, arse, butt
quequier: whatever
quequisque: any plant of the Xanthosoma family
quequito: cupcake
quera: woodworm
querades: obsolete spelling of queráis
querandí: Querandí
querandí: Querandí
queratina: keratin
queratinización: keratinization
queratinizar: to keratinize
queratinocito: keratinocyte
queratitis: keratitis
queratocito: keratocyte
queratoconjuntivitis: keratoconjunctivitis
queratocono: keratoconus
queratodermia: cheratodermia
queratoplastia: keratoplasty
queratosis: keratosis
quercetina: quercetin
quercitrina: quercitrin
quercínea: oak
querella: lawsuit; complaint
querella: only used in se querella, third-person singular present indicative of querellarse
querellando: only used in se ... querellando, syntactic variant of querellándose, gerund of querellarse
querellante: plaintiff
querellar: only used in se ... querellar, syntactic variant of querellarse
querellarse: to sue; to bring suit
querelle: only used in me querelle, first-person singular present subjunctive of querellarse
querellemos: only used in nos querellemos, first-person plural present subjunctive of querellarse
querellen: only used in se querellen, third-person plural present subjunctive of querellarse
querelloso: querulous
querencia: longing, want; homesickness, nostalgia; the homing instinct of an animal; the bull's querencia; an animal's lair
querendón: loving, affectionate
querendón: lover, paramour
querequequé: Antillean nighthawk (Chordeiles gundlachii)
querer: to desire, to want, to want to; to love; to be fond of (usually used with people or personified objects); would you ... ?; to mean to, to try to; to love each other