Staff Q of the Old English Wordbook.
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see: Forshortenings.
| Quickened | Old English | Kind | Meaning |
| quale | cwalu | n | a quelling with weapons, torment, a violent death, slaughter |
| qualmstow | cwealmstów | n | execution-place |
| quarternward | cwearternweard | n | gaoler, jailor, prison warder |
| queem | cwéman | vb | to gratify, please, satisfy |
| queddle | cwedol | adj | talkative |
| quickfee | cwicfeoh | n | living property, living wealth, cattle |
| quid | cwide | n | sentence, declaration; saying, proverb; decree |
| quedredeness | cwedrǽdnes | n | covenant, agreement |
| quild | cwyld/cwild | n | plague, pestilence, murrain; destruction |
| quildflood | cwildflód | n | deluge |
| quilm | cwylmian | vb | to suffer, torment |
| quith | cwiþ | n | womb, uterus, matrix |
| quithe | cwíþan | vb | to lament, to deplore, to bewail |
| quone | cwánian | vb | to bewail, deplore, mourn, lament |