8-letter words containing l, i, q
- quaintly — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- qualming — the state of having a qualm
- qualmish — tending to have, or having, qualms.
- 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.
- quartile — Statistics. (in a frequency distribution) one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into four groups having equal frequencies. Compare first quartile, median, third quartile.
- quaylike — resembling a quay
- queasily — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- quelling — to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
- quibbled — Simple past tense and past participle of quibble.
- quibbler — an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
- quibbles — Plural form of quibble.
- quiddler — someone who quiddles
- quillaia — soapbark (sense 1)
- quillets — a subtlety or quibble.
- quilling — one of the large feathers of the wing or tail of a bird.
- quillman — (archaic) One who writes with a quill.
- quilombo — (historical, in Brazil) A remote, inland settlement originally settled by fugitive slaves (or others).
- quilters — Plural form of quilter.
- 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.
- 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.
- quintals — Plural form of quintal.
- quintile — Statistics. a quantile for the special case of five equal proportions.
- quirinal — one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built.
- quirkily — having or full of quirks.
- quisling — a person who betrays his or her own country by aiding an invading enemy, often serving later in a puppet government; fifth columnist.
- requital — the act of requiting.
- soliquid — a semisolid, semiliquid solution
- squailer — a stick that has been specially weighted to use as a missile for throwing at something
- squaloid — of, relating to, or like a shark, or specifically the dogfish (Squalidae) family of sharks
- squarial — a type of square dish formerly produced by BSB for receiving satellite television. Previous satellite dishes had been round. The Squarial ceased to be produced in 1990.
- squiggle — a short, irregular curve or twist, as in writing or drawing.
- squiggly — a short, irregular curve or twist, as in writing or drawing.
- squiggol — Bird-Meertens Formalism
- squilgee — squeegee.
- squirely — belonging or relating to, or appropriate to, a squire or squires
- squirrel — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- tanaquil — a legendary queen of Rome who prophesied the future greatness of Servius Tullius and helped him to gain the throne after the murder of her husband by a political faction.
- tranquil — free from commotion or tumult; peaceful; quiet; calm: a tranquil country place.
- umquhile — (esp of a person now dead) former or previous
- uniquely — existing as the only one or as the sole example; single; solitary in type or characteristics: a unique copy of an ancient manuscript.
- wulumuqi — Ürümqi.