13-letter words containing a, r, e, q
- queen's award — either of two awards instituted by royal warrant (1976) for a sustained increase in export earnings by a British firm (Queen's Award for Export Achievement) or for an advance in technology (Queen's Award for Technological Achievement)
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- questionaries — Plural form of questionary.
- questionnaire — a list of questions, usually printed, submitted for replies that can be analyzed for usable information: a questionnaire used in market research.
- quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
- quincentenary — a 500th anniversary or its celebration.
- quinine water — carbonated water containing lemon, lime, sweetener, and quinine, often used as a mixer.
- quinquagenary — a 50th anniversary.
- reacquainting — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
- reacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
- sequestration — removal or separation; banishment or exile.
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- squandermania — an extreme urge for, or level of pleasure obtained by, spending money recklessly
- square matrix — a matrix in which the number of rows is equal to the number of columns.
- square number — a number that is the square of another integer, as 1 of 1, 4 of 2, 9 of 3, etc.
- square splice — a scarf joint between two pieces, having the form of a half-lap joint with a thicker and a thinner section for each piece, the thicker one being at the end: used to resist tension.
- square-rigged — having square sails as the principal sails.
- square-rigger — having square sails as the principal sails.
- squared paper — graph paper with a pattern of squares formed by lines crossing at right angles.
- squash ladder — a list showing the relative order of merit of a set of squash players determined by the winning player in each match taking the higher of the two players' positions
- squash player — a person who plays squash
- squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
- squirrel away — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- squirrel cage — a cage containing a cylindrical framework that is rotated by a squirrel or other small animal running inside of it.
- strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
- subequatorial — of, relating to, or being a region near the equatorial region.
- summer squash — any of several squashes of the variety Cucurbita pepo melopepo, that mature in the late summer or early autumn and are used as a vegetable in an unripe state, before the rind and seeds become hard.
- tahrir square — a large square in central Cairo, in Egypt. The name, meaning ‘liberation’, was used informally after the 1919 revolution and then officially after the 1952 revolution. Scene of mass demonstrations in 2011 against the government of president Hosni Mubarak
- three-quarter — consisting of or involving three quarters of a whole or of the usual length: a blouse with a three-quarter sleeve.
- thundersquall — a combined squall and thunderstorm.
- tranquillizer — a person or thing that tranquilizes.
- unconquerable — to acquire by force of arms; win in war: to conquer a foreign land.
- unconquerably — in an invincible manner
- unquarantined — a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
- ventriloquial — of, relating to, or using ventriloquism.
- water quality — Water quality is the degree to which water is clean, and whether it is suitable for drinking, for making plants grow, or for fish to live in, etc.
- winter squash — any of several varieties of Cucurbita maxima or C. moschata that mature in late autumn and are used, when ripe, as a vegetable.