15-letter words containing a, s, q, u, r
- age of aquarius — an astrological era believed to bring increased spirituality and harmony on earth.
- bughouse square — Informal. any intersection or park mall in a big city where political zealots, agitators, folk evangelists, etc., congregate to argue and make soapbox speeches.
- chi-square test — a test derived from the chi-square distribution to compare the goodness of fit of theoretical and observed frequency distributions or to compare nominal data derived from unmatched groups of subjects
- chinese lacquer — lacquer (def 2).
- cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking) The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
- demisemiquavers — Plural form of demisemiquaver.
- disquisitionary — of or relating to a disquisition
- domain squatter — (web) An unscrupulous person who registers a domain name in the hope of selling it to the rightful, expected owner at a profit. E.g. http://foldoc.com/.
- epsilon squared — (jargon) A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
- equalitarianism — Egalitarianism.
- fair and square — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
- foolscap quarto — a book size, 63⁄4 by 81⁄2 inches (foolscap quarto)
- franklin square — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- griqualand east — a former district in S South Africa, SW of Natal.
- griqualand west — a former district in S South Africa, N of the Orange River and W of the Orange Free State: diamonds found 1867.
- harlequin snake — the E American coral snake (Micrurus fulvius)
- inquisitorially — In an inquisitorial manner.
- jacques cartier — Sir George Étienne [zhawrzh ey-tyen] /ʒɔrʒ eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1814–73, Canadian political leader: prime minister 1857–62, defense minister 1867–73.
- jaques-dalcroze — Émile [French ey-meel] /French eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1865–1950, Swiss composer and teacher: created eurythmics.
- joseph jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
- kaibab squirrel — a nearly extinct tree squirrel, Sciurus kaibabensis, found only in a small area north of the Grand Canyon.
- lamb's-quarters — the pigweed, Chenopodium album.
- living quarters — accommodation
- massapequa park — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
- narcotics squad — a department of the police which investigates crimes concerning illegal drugs
- norman conquest — the conquest of England by the Normans, under William the Conqueror, in 1066.
- parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
- pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- quadragenarians — Plural form of quadragenarian.
- quadric surface — a three-dimensional surface whose equation is a quadratic equation.
- quarrelsomeness — The quality of being quarrelsome; an argumentative nature. (from 17th c.).
- quarter section — (in surveying and homesteading) a square tract of land, half a mile on each side, thus containing ¼ sq. mi. or 160 acres. Abbreviation: q.s.
- quarterfinalist — a participant in a quarterfinal contest.
- quartermistress — the female equivalent of a quartermaster
- quasi-permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- quasi-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- quasi-universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
- quasihistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- queen's pattern — a pattern of ceramic decoration consisting of bands of swirling radial lines, white on blue alternating with red on white.
- query expansion — (information science) Adding search terms to a user's search. Query expansion is the process of a search engine adding search terms to a user's weighted search. The intent is to improve precision and/or recall. The additional terms may be taken from a thesaurus. For example a search for "car" may be expanded to: car cars auto autos automobile automobiles. The additional terms may also be taken from documents that the user has specified as being relevant; this is the basis for the "more like this" feature of some search engines. The extra terms can have positive or negative weights.
- question master — quizmaster.
- quincentenaries — Plural form of quincentenary.
- quotation marks — one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usually shown as “ at the beginning and ” at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, of single marks of this kind, as “He said, ‘I will go.’ ” Frequently, especially in Great Britain, single marks are used instead of double, the latter being then used for a quotation within a quotation.
- qurnet es sauda — a mountain in N Lebanon, in the Lebanon Mountains: highest point in Lebanon. 10,131 feet (3090 meters).
- sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
- sesquicentenary — a hundred and fiftieth anniversary
- siberian squill — a bulbous, Eurasian plant, Scilla siberica, of the lily family, having nodding, deep blue flowers.
- silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
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