8-letter words containing a, e, q, u
- equators — Plural form of equator.
- equipage — The equipment for a particular purpose.
- equiseta — Plural form of equisetum.
- equitant — (of a leaf) having its base folded and partly enclosing the leaf next above it, as in an iris.
- esquimau — Eskimo
- exequial — of or relating to exequies
- huaquero — the Spanish name for a tomb or grave robber
- icequake — a disturbance, especially a vibration or series of vibrations, caused by the breaking up of large ice masses.
- la tuque — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- lacquers — Plural form of lacquer.
- limequat — a hybrid citrus tree produced by crossing the lime and the kumquat.
- liquable — able to be melted
- liquated — Simple past tense and past participle of liquate.
- macaques — Plural form of macaque.
- manequin — Dated form of mannequin.
- maquette — a small model or study in three dimensions for either a sculptural or an architectural project.
- marquees — Plural form of marquee.
- marquesa — A Spanish marchioness.
- marquess — marquee (def 3).
- marquise — the wife or widow of a marquis.
- masquers — Plural form of masquer.
- nonequal — as great as; the same as (often followed by to or with): The velocity of sound is not equal to that of light.
- opaquely — not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
- palenque — a village in SE Mexico, in Chiapas state: ruins of an ancient Mayan city.
- paraquet — parakeet.
- paroquet — parakeet.
- pasquale — a male given name.
- pauraque — a large, tropical American goatsucker, Nyctidromus albicollis.
- petanque — a form of lawn bowling originating in France, usually played on rough ground using steel balls.
- pratique — license or permission to use a port, given to a ship after quarantine or on showing a clean bill of health.
- quaalude — methaqualone
- quackery — the practice or methods of a quack.
- quadbike — Alternative form of quad bike.
- quadcore — (computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of four cores.
- quadplex — fourfold; quadruple.
- quadrate — square or rectangular.
- quaestor — one of two subordinates of the consuls serving as public prosecutors in certain criminal cases.
- quagmire — an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
- quakerly — like a Quaker.
- quantile — one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.
- quantise — Alternative spelling of quantize.
- quantize — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quarnero — Gulf of, an arm of the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia.
- quarrels — Plural form of quarrel.
- quarried — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quarrier — a person who quarries stone.
- quarries — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quartern — a quarter, or a fourth part, especially of certain weights and measures, as of a pound, ounce, peck, or pint.
- quarters — one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided: a quarter of an apple; a quarter of a book.
- quartets — Plural form of quartet.