8-letter words containing n, q
- quatrain — a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
- quechuan — of or relating to the Quechua language or people.
- queefing — Present participle of queef.
- queen it — a female sovereign or monarch.
- queendom — the position or status of a queen.
- queening — a female sovereign or monarch.
- queenite — a supporter of a queen
- queenlet — a queen of a small realm
- 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.
- quenched — Simple past tense and past participle of quench.
- quencher — to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
- quenches — to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
- quenelle — French Cookery. a dumpling of finely chopped fish or meat that is poached in water or stock and usually served with a sauce.
- quercine — of or relating to an oak.
- querying — a question; an inquiry.
- questant — a person who quests
- 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.
- quintets — Plural form of quintet.
- quintics — Plural form of quintic.
- quintile — Statistics. a quantile for the special case of five equal proportions.
- quipping — a clever or witty remark or comment.
- quirinal — one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built.
- quirinus — an ancient Roman god of war, identified with the deified Romulus; a personification of the Roman nation.
- quirking — Present participle of quirk.
- quirting — Present participle of quirt.