Scrabble

We received a Scrabble game for Christmas and played after breakfast in our PJs in front of the woodstove.  A good time was had by both even though I didn't win.  The instructions list all these so called "words" that use a q without a u.  Is that American?  Obviously, we are not full-on Scrabble players.  A woman in my walking group can't get anyone to play with her because she has committed one of those scrabble dictionaries to memory.  Our big words of the day:  jonquils, facets, and ox on a triple word score!