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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of quinzhee.
Examples
“In the winter though, I am going to have to go with a quinzee.”
“Placing twigs of approximately the same length into the snow mound will help to keep the dome of the quinzee a uniform thickness.”
“It is difficult while digging inside the quinzee to maintain a uniform wall thickness.”
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Q words
Ever get stuck with the random bunch of letters and a q and not know any words? Well, maybe this will help.
quire, quais, quai, queer, quoit, quitrent, quipster, question, quest, questing, quests, quit and 208 more...
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Good ol' qu-
quag, quagga, quaff, querulous, quorum, sesquipedalian, quibble, quip, aquiline, quote, quotationist, quoter and 29 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bĂȘte noire and 568 more...
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john "After setting up tents, we learned how to build a snow cave, or quinzee (thought to be a word and technique derived from the Athabascan people)."
- Polar Discovery, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Nov 30, 2007