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11-letter words containing e, q, u, a, t

  • metasequoia — a tall deciduous coniferous tree, Metasequoia glyptostrobodes, first known as a fossil and then discovered alive in China.
  • milquetoast — a very timid, unassertive, spineless person, especially one who is easily dominated or intimidated: a milquetoast who's afraid to ask for a raise.
  • plastiqueur — a person, especially a terrorist, who makes, places, or detonates plastic bombs.
  • plateresque — noting or pertaining to a 16th-century style of Spanish architecture characterized by profuse applications of delicate low-relief Renaissance ornament to isolated parts of building exteriors.
  • preacquaint — to acquaint (someone with information) in advance
  • quadratures — Plural form of quadrature.
  • quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
  • quaintrelle — (obscure) A woman who emphasizes a life of passion expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm, and cultivation of life’s pleasures.
  • qualitative — pertaining to or concerned with quality or qualities.
  • quantasomes — any of numerous particles in a chloroplast, part of the thylakoid and functioning in photosynthesis.
  • quantifiers — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
  • quantitated — Simple past tense and past participle of quantitate.
  • quantometer — a spectroscopic instrument for measuring the percentage of different metals present in a sample
  • quarantined — a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
  • quarantines — Plural form of quarantine.
  • quarry tile — a square or diamond-shaped unglazed floor tile
  • quarter bar — a strut for bracing the central post of a windmill.
  • quarter cif — (communications, standard)   (QCIF), a video format standard used in videoconferencing, that transfers one fourth as much data as Common Intermediate Format (CIF). QCIF is defined in ITU H.261 as having 144 lines and 176 pixels per line, with half as many chrominance pixels in each direction. QCIF is suitable for videoconferencing systems that use telephone lines. The codec standard specifies that QCIF compatibility is mandatory, and CIF compatibility is optional.
  • quarter day — (in England, Ireland, and Wales) one of the four days, Lady Day, Midsummer Day, Michaelmas, or Christmas, regarded as marking off the quarters of the year, on which quarterly payments are due, tenancies begin and end, etc.
  • quarterback — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • quarterdeck — the part of a weather deck that runs aft from the midship area or the mainmast to the stern or poop of a vessel.
  • quarterlies — Plural form of quarterly.
  • quarterlife — designating the period of life immediately following adolescence, usually the early twenties to early thirties
  • quarterpace — (archaic, architecture) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only.
  • quarterpipe — Alternative form of quarter-pipe.
  • quaternions — Plural form of quaternion.
  • quatre bras — a village in central Belgium, near Brussels: battle preliminary to the battle of Waterloo fought here 1815.
  • quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
  • quaver rest — a musical rest or silence that lasts for the equivalent of a quaver or eighth note
  • questionary — a questionnaire.
  • quitclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of quitclaim.
  • quite a bit — a small piece or quantity of anything: a bit of string.
  • quizmasters — Plural form of quizmaster.
  • racquetball — a game similar to handball, played on a four-walled court but with a short-handled, strung racket and a larger, somewhat softer ball.
  • re-acquaint — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
  • rose quartz — a rose-red to pink variety of crystalline quartz usually found in massive form and used as a gem or ornamental stone.
  • semiaquatic — partly aquatic; growing or living in or close to water, or carrying out part of its life cycle in water.
  • sequestrant — any substance used to bring about sequestration, often by chelation. They are used in horticulture to counteract lime in the soil
  • sequestrate — Law. to sequester (property). to confiscate.
  • sesquialter — in the ratio of 3:2
  • soldatesque — of or relating to a soldier
  • square foot — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one foot on each side; 0.0929 square meters. 2 , sq. ft. Abbreviation: ft.
  • square knot — a common knot in which the ends come out alongside of the standing parts.
  • square root — a quantity of which a given quantity is the square: The quantities +6 and −6 are square roots of 36 since (+6)×(+6)=36 and (−6)×(−6)=36.
  • square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • square-toed — with the toes squared off
  • square-toes — an old-fashioned or strait-laced person.
  • squattiness — the condition or quality of being squat
  • sympathique — pleasing or congenial
  • terraqueous — consisting of land and water, as the earth.
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