QA
Quirky A**holes
Jeff Anonymous, in reference to the many failures that go on in Quality Assurance
1984242 
QA (2)
Quietly Authoritative
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who finds the folk at Quality Assurance to be humble, efficient and reliable.
1984242 
QA (3)
Quaintly Antiquated
Tony McCoy O'Grady, because there may be someone who will say that they are working with outdated techniques and that they are actually 'quirky' as Jeff says.
1984242 
QA (4)
Quick Approval
Angela Brett, who thinks that the Quality Assurance people might occasionally not bother to run thorough tests.
1984242 
QABALAH
Quite Arcane. Biblical Appreciation Lurking Among Hebrews
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984326 1984701 
QATAR
Quite A Torrid, Arid Region.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
Q-BASIC
Quite Boring And Stupid Illogical Code
Tripod
1984512 
QUACK
Quite Unqualified At Clinical Knowledge
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984974 
QUADRA
Quite Unheard-of... Available in Dramatic Range of Abilities!
Angela Brett, on discovering that there are Quadras which are anything from 16 to 200 Megehertz.
1984374 
QUADRANT
Quarter Used As Dentists Refer to Around Nine Teeth
Angela Brett (there's usually only eight teeth per quadrant but supernumerary teeth are not uncommon.)
1985025 
QUADRATRIX
Quite Useful in Answering Dilemma... Round's Area To Rectangle Impossibility Xamined.
Angela Brett
1984629 
QUAFF
Quickly Upraise Alcohol, Finish Fast!
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984338 
QUAGGA
Quippers Usually Are Going, 'Great Ass!'
Angela Brett
1984494 
QUAGGA (2)
Quite Unusual Animal Genetically Gone Away
Patricia Rix
1984494 
QUAGMIRE
Quite Unpassable And Gluey Marsh In Remote Environment
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984245 
QUAILS
Quite Unfilling And I'd Like Somemore
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who can't see the point of eating things as small as quail
1984467 1985049 
QUAINT
Quasi Unique Artifact - It's Not Today's
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984278 
QUAKE
Queen Undresses And King Erupts
Rico Leffanta
1984659 
QUAKERS
Quiet, Unagressive, Agrarian Kinfolk; Extremely Religious Souls.
Roger Williams
1984326 
QUALIFY
Quiet Undergraduate Achieves Learning In Fruitful Yield
Angela Brett
1984473 
QUALITY
Quick! Use A Lasso! It's Tipping! Yikes!
Patricia Rix (I was thinking of a rickety, poorly-built backhouse; don't ask me why!)
1984701 1984353 
QUALITY (2)
Quantity's Usually A Lesser Interest To You
Tony McCoy O'Grady (one should always prefer quality to quantity)
1984353 
QUALITY LIFE
Quit Underachieving And Love It... Tomorrow You'll Lie In Fetid Earth
Angela Brett, who wonders if there's a better word than Underachieving which means something like 'underenjoying' but sounds more like a real word.
1984533 
QUANGO
Quorums Usually Are Nepotistically Gerrymandered Overnight
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984413 
QUANTITY
Quality, Up Above None - That Implies Tangible Yield
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984353 
QUANTUM
Quite Unusually, Angela's Nephew has This Unconventional Moniker!
Angela Brett
1984269 
QUANTUM MANAGEMENT DATABASE
Quickness Unquestionably Always Necessary... This Underaged Mischief-Maker Almost Needs A Gazillion Eyes (Mother's) Ever Noticing Those Dubious Activities That All Begin As Simple Exploration.
Angela Brett, expanding an unsuccessful search, thinking of a database on how to manage her nephew Quantum.
1984362 
QUANTUM PHYSICS
Question Unasked? Answer's Not There! Unless Measured, Particle Hasn't Yet Spin - In Concurrent States.
Angela Brett
1984716 
QUARK
Quantity Uncertain - Although Reasonably Known
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1985046 
QUARK (2)
Quantum Uncertainty Always Restricts Knowledge
Angela Brett
1985046 
QUARREL
Querulous, Unwanted Argument Rowdily Raiding English Language
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela mentioned that we hadn't yet come up with any acronyms beginning with 'Q.'
1984362 
QUARREL (2)
Quashes Usual Amicable Relationship, Retorts Ever Louder
Angela Brett
1984362 
QUASAR
Quite Unusually Active Sources At Radio-wavelengths
Philip Edwards
1984386 
QUASARS
Queer Unusual And Strange Areas - Radiation Sources
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984386 
QUATORZAINS
Quills Used Again To Organise Rhyming Zeugmas As Iambi; New Sonnets!
Angela Brett, while trying to encourage people to apronymise Q words.
1984407 
QUEASY
Quite Uneasy Emotion Assails Stomach, Yes?
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984488 
QUEBEC
Quit Using English, Become Especially 'Canadienne'
Toni McCoi O'Gradi
1984866 
QUEEN
Quite Unloveable Entity of English Nobility!
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984659 
QUEEN KATHARINE
Quite Uuninvolved & Elegant. England Needs King-in-waiting! Anne Takes Henry's Affections, Royal Intrigue Nobbles Everything
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's King Henry VIII
1984431 
QUEER
Quite Unlikely Ever to Easily Reproduce
Angela Brett
1984770 
QUERY
Question to Understand Enigmatic Response of Yours
Angela Brett
1984707 
QUERY (2)
Question is Urgent - (I) Expect Reply Yesterday
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984707 
QUESTION
Query Usually Eliciting Some Thought, If One's Nice
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984605 
QUEUEING
Quality Usually Expressed (as) Uniquely English - It's Now Global
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984275 
QUICKIE
Quite Unexpected Intercourse, Cuddling & Kissing In Excelsis
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984365 
QUICKNESS
Quantity Under Investigation Causes Keen Notion of an Escalation of Super Speediness
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984353 
QUID PRO QUO
Quietude Usually Invokes Detention Police Require Oral Questioning Under Oath
Rico Leffanta
1984311 
QUIET
Quit Ululating - It's Ear Terrorism!
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984533 
QUIET (2)
Quit Uppercasing - It's Eye Terrorism!
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984533 
QUIET (3)
Quiescent Uvular Is Easier to Tolerate.
Angela Brett
1984533 
QUIETUS
Quite Unbearable, Interminable Existence Through Use (of) Suicide
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984665 
QUIFF
Quim Users Invest For Fun
Angela Brett
1984365 
QUINTUPLE
Quadruple's Understood... Increment, Now, To Use Penta-Like Enumerator.
Angela Brett
1984278 
QUIP
Quick, Unscripted, Intense, Pithy
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984509 
QUIP (2)
Quite Unexpected Ingenious Pun
Dustan Dowsing
1984509 
QUIPS
Quirky Utterances In Playful Situations
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984509 
QUIRK
Queer Unusual Idiosyncrasies = Relationship Kaput
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984353 
QUITE
Quantitatively Unspecific, It's Tentatively Extensive.
Angela Brett
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QUITTER
Questioning Unhealthy Inclination Toward Tobacco - Eventually Rewarded.
Angela Brett
1984884 
QUITTER (2)
Questions Usefulness (of) Inching Towards The End Result
Patricia Rix
1984704 
QUIVER
Quasi Unmoving, Infinitesmal Vibratory Evidence of Reaction
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984353 
QUIVERS
Quaint Universally Intimate Vibrations Expecting Romantic  Sensations
Rico Leffanta
1984353 1984365 
QUIZMASTER
Questions Usually Instigate Zero Marks As Silly Twits Essay Reponses
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984485 
QUOTATION
Querysome Use Of Topic Attempting To Instance Own Notions
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984437 
QUOTE
Quotation Used On Thy Email
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984707 
QUO VADIS?
Question Uttered On Via Appia, Disciple Is Surprised
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984326 
QWERTY
"Quit Writing Everything Rapidly!" Typewriter Yells
Angela Brett, since the QWERTY keyboard layout was designed to stop typewriters from jamming, though not necessarily by slowing down typing. (See http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_248.html and the linked article for an interesting discussion on this)
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