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9-letter words containing c, q, u

  • hacqueton — an upholstered garment for the upper body worn under chain mail or such a garment covered with chain mail
  • jacquards — Plural form of jacquard.
  • jacquerie — the revolt of the peasants of northern France against the nobles in 1358.
  • lacquered — a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
  • lacquerer — One who lacquers.
  • liquorice — licorice.
  • loquacity — the state of being loquacious; talkativeness; garrulity.
  • macquarie — a river in SE Australia, in New South Wales, flowing NW to the Darling River. 750 miles (1210 km) long.
  • monocoque — a type of boat, aircraft, or rocket construction in which the shell carries most of the stresses.
  • overquick — too quick: Let's not be overquick to criticize.
  • paycheque — a payment for work done
  • qiu chuji — Ch'iu Ch'u-chi.
  • quadratic — square.
  • quadricep — Quadriceps.
  • quantical — relating to quantics
  • quebecker — a native or inhabitant of Quebec, especially one who is from the city of Quebec and whose native language is French.
  • quebecois — Quebecer.
  • quebracho — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Schinopsis, having very hard wood, especially S. lorentzii, the wood and bark of which are important in tanning and dyeing.
  • queen-cup — a North American plant, Clintonia uniflora, of the lily family, having solitary, white flowers and blue berries.
  • queencake — a small light cake containing currants
  • queercore — a type of gay-oriented punk music
  • quenchers — Plural form of quencher.
  • quenching — to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
  • quercetin — a yellow, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, C 1 5 H 1 0 O 7 , obtained from the bark of the quercitron and other vegetable substances, used as a yellow dye; flavin.
  • quercetum — a group of oak trees
  • quercitol — a colorless, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , obtained from acorns or oak bark: used chiefly in medicine.
  • querencia — (bullfighting) The area of the bull-ring where the bull makes its stand. (from 1930s).
  • quick fix — an expedient, temporary solution, especially one that merely postpones having to cope with an overall problem.
  • quickbeam — a rowan tree
  • quickdraw — (climbing) A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.
  • quickened — Simple past tense and past participle of quicken.
  • quickener — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
  • quickfire — Alternative form of quick-fire.
  • quicklier — (rare, literary, dated) More quickly; with greater rapidity.
  • quicklime — lime1 (def 1).
  • quickness — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
  • quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
  • quicksets — Plural form of quickset.
  • quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
  • quickstep — (formerly) a lively step used in marching.
  • quicktime — (graphics, standard, file format, product)   Apple Computer's software for playing audio and video. The QuickTime application is a free media player. QuickTime Pro is a paid-for version with editing ability. QuickTime's native format for audio and video is .mov but it can handle many others.
  • quidditch — Alternative form of Quidditch.
  • quidnuncs — Plural form of quidnunc.
  • quiescent — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
  • quiesence — Misspelling of quiescence.
  • quillback — a carpsucker, Carpiodes cyprinus, inhabiting waters in the central and eastern U.S., having one ray of the dorsal fin greatly elongated.
  • quitclaim — a transfer of all one's interest, as in a parcel of real estate, especially without a warranty of title.
  • quittance — recompense or requital.
  • quizzical — odd, queer, or comical.
  • quoad hoc — as much as this; to this extent.
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