1. [v]  (grammar) add a modifier to a constituent
2. [v]  make more specific; "qualify these remarks"
3. [v]  make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job"
4. [v]  describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of; "You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist"; "This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover"
5. [v]  pronounce fit or able; "She was qualified to run the marathon"; "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections"
6. [v]  specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"
7. [v]  prove capable or fit; meet requirements

QUALIFY is a 7 letter word that starts with Q.

1. \Qual"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Qualified}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Qualifying}.] [F. qualifier, LL. qualificare, fr. L.
   qualis how constituted, as + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See
   {Quality}, and {-Fy}.]
   1. To make such as is required; to give added or requisite
      qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation,
      or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or
      other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; to make
      capable, as of an employment or privilege; to supply with
      legal power or capacity.
   
            He had qualified himself for municipal office by
            taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.
                                                  --Macaulay.
   
   2. To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to
      regulate.
   
            It hath no larynx . . . to qualify the sound. --Sir
                                                  T. Browne.
   
   3. To reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive
      form, to particular or restricted form; to modify; to
      limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a
      statement, claim, or proposition.
   
   4. Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to
      reduce the strength of, as liquors.
   
            I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But
            qualify the fire's extreme rage.      --Shak.
   
   5. To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons. [Obs.]
   
            In short space he has them qualified. --Spenser.
   
   Syn: To fit; equip; prepare; adapt; capacitate; enable;
        modify; soften; restrict; restrain; temper.
   
   

2. \Qual"i*fy\, v. i.
   1. To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or
      employment.
   
   2. To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or
      complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.