15-letter words containing a, s, q, u
- a moot question — something having no practical relevance; an academic question
- acquisitiveness — tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.: our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.
- age of aquarius — an astrological era believed to bring increased spirituality and harmony on earth.
- aqueous ammonia — ammonia (def 2).
- aqueous-ammonia — a colorless, pungent, suffocating, highly water-soluble, gaseous compound, NH 3 , usually produced by the direct combination of nitrogen and hydrogen gases: used chiefly for refrigeration and in the manufacture of commercial chemicals and laboratory reagents.
- 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.
- cauchy sequence — fundamental sequence.
- 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).
- consequentially — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
- 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/.
- dose equivalent — a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the absorber: measured in Sievert or rem.
- duque de caxias — a city in SE Brazil: a suburb of Rio de Janeiro.
- east massapequa — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
- 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.
- escape sequence — (character) (Or "escape code") A series of characters starting with the escape character (ASCII 27). Escape sequences are often used to control display devices such as VDUs. An escape sequence might change the colour of subsequent text, reassign keys on the keyboard, change printer settings or reposition the cursor. The escape sequences of the DEC vt100 video terminal have become a de facto standard for this purpose. The term is also used for any sequence of characters that temporarily suspends normal processing of a stream of characters to perform some special function. For example, the Hayes modem uses the sequence "+++" to escape to command mode in which characters are interpreted as commands to the modem itself rather than as data to pass through.
- 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)
- inconsequential — of little or no importance; insignificant; trivial.
- 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.
- japanese quince — a flowering quince, Chaenomeles speciosa, of Japan, having scarlet flowers and pear-shaped fruit.
- jaques-dalcroze — Émile [French ey-meel] /French eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1865–1950, Swiss composer and teacher: created eurythmics.
- je ne sais quoi — an indefinable, elusive quality, especially a pleasing one: She has a certain je ne sais quoi that charms everybody.
- 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
- loaded question — a question containing a hidden trap or implication
- 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
- non-acquisitive — tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.: our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.
- nonacquiescence — the act or condition of acquiescing or giving tacit assent; agreement or consent by silence or without objection; compliance (usually followed by to or in): acquiescence to his boss's demands.
- norman conquest — the conquest of England by the Normans, under William the Conqueror, in 1066.
- oblique sailing — the navigation of a vessel on a point of the compass other than one of the cardinal points.
- 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
- pattypan squash — a flat, whitish variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo melopepo, having a scalloped edge.
- 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.
- qualitativeness — The state or quality of being qualitative.
- quantifications — Plural form of quantification.
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