7-letter words containing a, e, q, u
- quadded — Also called quadrat. a piece of type metal of less height than the lettered types, serving to cause a blank in printed matter, used for spacing.
- quadrel — a square stone, brick, or tile.
- quaeres — Plural form of quaere.
- quaffed — to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
- quaffer — to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
- quailed — to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.
- quailer — One who hunts quail.
- quannet — a flat file or rasp with a handle at one end, used as a plane
- quarles — Francis, 1592–1644, English poet.
- quarrel — a square-headed bolt or arrow, formerly used with a crossbow.
- quarter — crumb
- quartes — the fourth of eight defensive positions.
- quartet — any group of four persons or things.
- quashed — to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue: to quash a rebellion.
- quashee — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- quasher — someone who quells or suppresses
- quashes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quash.
- quavers — (of a person's voice) Shake or tremble in speaking, typically through nervousness or emotion.
- quavery — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quayage — quays collectively.
- queachy — unwell
- quechan — Yuma (defs 1, 2).
- quechua — the language of the Inca civilization, presently spoken by about 7 million people in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.
- queneau — Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–76. French writer, influenced in the 1920s by surrealism. His novels include Zazie dans le métro (1959)
- quercia — Jacopo Della [yah-kaw-paw del-lah] /ˈyɑ kɔ pɔ ˌdɛl lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1374?–1438, Italian sculptor.
- querida — Darling.
- quesnay — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1694–1774, French economist and physician.
- quetzal — any of several large Central and South American trogons of the genus Pharomachrus, having golden-green and scarlet plumage, especially P. mocino (resplendent quetzal) the national bird of Guatemala: rare and possibly endangered.
- quinate — arranged in groups of five.
- quinela — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor, in order to win, must select the first- and second-place finishers without specifying their order of finishing.
- quite a — intensifier before noun
- quorate — A quorum.
- racquet — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
- salique — Salic.
- sequela — an abnormal condition resulting from a previous disease.
- sequoia — either of two large coniferous trees of California, Sequoiadendron giganteum or Sequoia sempervirens, both having reddish bark and reaching heights of more than 300 feet (91 meters).
- sequoya — 1770?–1843, Cherokee Indian scholar: inventor of a syllabary for writing Cherokee.
- squamae — a scale or scalelike part, as of epidermis or bone.
- squared — having four equal sides
- squares — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- squeaky — squeaking; tending to squeak: His squeaky shoes could be heard across the lobby.
- tequila — a strong liquor from Mexico, distilled from fermented mash of an agave.
- unequal — not equal; not of the same quantity, quality, value, rank, ability, etc.: People are unequal in their capacities.
- vaquero — a cowboy or herdsman.
- wanaque — a town in NE New Jersey.