8-letter words containing e, s, q
- pasquale — a male given name.
- péquiste — in Canada, member or supporter of the Parti Québécois
- physique — physical or bodily structure, appearance, or development: the physique of an athlete.
- postquel — POSTGRES QUERy Language. The language used by the POSTGRES database system.
- quaestor — one of two subordinates of the consuls serving as public prosecutors in certain criminal cases.
- quantise — Alternative spelling of quantize.
- quarrels — Plural form of quarrel.
- quarries — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quarters — one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided: a quarter of an apple; a quarter of a book.
- quartets — Plural form of quartet.
- quartzes — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- quasheba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- quayside — the area bordering and around a quay or quays.
- queasier — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- queasily — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- queerest — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- queerish — Somewhat queer.
- quenches — to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
- querists — Plural form of querist.
- querries — Plural form of querry.
- questant — a person who quests
- questers — Plural form of quester.
- questing — a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
- question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- quetzals — Plural form of quetzal.
- quibbles — Plural form of quibble.
- quickens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quicken.
- quickest — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quickies — Plural form of quickie.
- quickset — a plant or cutting, especially of hawthorn, set to grow, as in a hedge.
- quiesced — Simple past tense and past participle of quiesce.
- quietens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quieten.
- quietest — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
- quietism — a form of religious mysticism taught by Molinos, a Spanish priest, in the latter part of the 17th century, requiring extinction of the will, withdrawal from worldly interests, and passive meditation on God and divine things; Molinism.
- quietist — A mystic who follows quietism.
- quillets — a subtlety or quibble.
- quilters — Plural form of quilter.
- quinones — Plural form of quinone.
- quintets — Plural form of quintet.
- quipster — a person who frequently makes quips.
- quirites — the citizens of ancient Rome
- quite so — indeed, precisely
- quitters — Plural form of quitter.
- racquets — Plural form of racquet.
- rufisque — a city in W Senegal, E of Dakar.
- seaquake — an agitation of the sea caused by a submarine eruption or earthquake.
- sequelae — an abnormal condition resulting from a previous disease.
- sequence — the following of one thing after another; succession.
- sequency — consecutiveness
- sequined — a small shining disk or spangle used for ornamentation, as on women's clothing and accessories or on theatrical costumes.