Phrase Hound found 15 phrases and 35 compound words that contain quill. The most common are listed below. Open quill in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 15
- Big QuillA rural municipality in east-central Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Big Quill No. 308.
- quill featherAny of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird; sometimes termed a flight feather.
- crow quillA kind of pen nib for calligraphy, having a small tip and circular shank.
- quill miteA syringophilid.
- quill mitesplural of quill mite: A syringophilid.
- quill penA pen made from a quill.
- quill-driverA clerk or hack writer; a pen-pusher.
- pure quillThe real thing, the genuine article.
- quill bitA bit for boring, resembling half of a reed split lengthways and having its end sharpened like a gouge.
- quill bitsplural of quill bit: A bit for boring, resembling half of a reed split lengthways and having its end sharpened like a gouge.
- quill feathersplural of quill feather: Any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird; sometimes termed a flight feather.
- quill pensplural of quill pen: A pen made from a quill.
- quill-driversplural of quill-driver: A clerk or hack writer; a pen-pusher.
- quill pigporcupine
- quill pigsplural of quill pig: porcupine
Compound words 35
- quillerOne who works with a quill.
- quillwortAny of various simple microphyllous vascular plants, of the family Isoetaceae, that resemble rushes and produce spores.
- quillbackCarpiodes cyprinus, a freshwater fish of the sucker family with a long filament that extends back from the dorsal fin, native to the eastern and central United States.
- quillyPertaining to or resembling a quill.
- goosequillA quill from a goose used as a pen for writing.
- quillworkDecorative textile embellishment made from porcupine quills by certain Native Americans.
- quillfishPtilichthys goodei, a long, eel-like perciform fish native to the north Pacific Ocean.
- quilltailThe ruddy duck.
- quillmanOne who writes with a quill.
- QuilliamA surname from Manx.