puzzling, a. enigmatical, [perplexing], inexplicable, [inscrutable], [intricate], [bewildering].
pyx, n. ciborium; ostensorium, monstrance; binnacle.
Q
quack, n. [charlatan], empiric, pretender, [mountebank].
quack, a. empirical, [charlatanic], [quackish].
quackery, n. empiricism, charlatanism, [charlatanry], mountebankery.
quackish, a. empirical, [charlatanic].
quack medicine. nostrum.
quaggy, a. boggy, queachy, [swampy], [marshy], fenny.
quagmire, n. [slough], [swamp], [marsh], [morass], [bog], fen.