Random Words that start with Q ending in N

1. To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.
2. To come back to life, receive life.
3. To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.
4. Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
5. To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.
6. To become faster.

   My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach.

7. To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.

   to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced

noun

The European rowan, Sorbus aucuparia.