8-letter words containing i, n, q
- quadding — Also called quadrat. a piece of type metal of less height than the lettered types, serving to cause a blank in printed matter, used for spacing.
- quaffing — to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
- quailing — to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.
- quaintly — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- qualming — the state of having a qualm
- quantico — a U.S. Marine Corps base and development and education command in NE Virginia, NE of Fredericksburg on the Potomac River.
- quantics — Plural form of quantic.
- quantify — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quantile — one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.
- quantise — Alternative spelling of quantize.
- quantity — a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk; the ocean's vast quantity of fish.
- quantize — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quarrian — a cockatiel, Leptolophus hollandicus, of scrub and woodland regions of inland Australia, that feeds on seeds and grasses
- quarrion — A cockatiel, Nymphicus hollandicus.
- quartine — (botany, archaic) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- quatrain — a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
- queefing — Present participle of queef.
- queen it — a female sovereign or monarch.
- queening — a female sovereign or monarch.
- queenite — a supporter of a queen
- queering — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- quelling — to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
- quercine — of or relating to an oak.
- querying — a question; an inquiry.
- 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.
- queueing — Present participle of queue.
- qui nhon — a seaport in SE Vietnam, on the South China Sea coast.
- quiberon — a peninsula in NW France, on the S coast of Brittany: British naval victory over the French 1759. 6 miles (10 km) long.
- quickens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quicken.
- quiddany — a type of quince jelly
- quidding — Present participle of quid.
- quidnunc — a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip; a gossip or busybody.
- quids in — in a very favourable or advantageous position
- quietens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quieten.
- quieting — Present participle of quiet.
- quiktran — Fortran-like, interactive with debugging facilities. Sammet 1969, p.226.
- quilling — one of the large feathers of the wing or tail of a bird.
- quillman — (archaic) One who writes with a quill.
- quilting — a coverlet for a bed, made of two layers of fabric with some soft substance, as wool or down, between them and stitched in patterns or tufted through all thicknesses in order to prevent the filling from shifting.
- quincunx — an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
- quinella — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor, in order to win, must select the first- and second-place finishers without specifying their order of finishing.
- quiniela — quinella.
- quinones — Plural form of quinone.
- quinque- — five
- quintain — an object mounted on a post or attached to a movable crossbar mounted on a post, used as a target in the medieval sport of tilting.
- quintals — Plural form of quintal.
- quintant — a sextant having an arc equal to one fifth of a circle.
- quintero — Álvarez Quintero.