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15-letter words containing q, a

  • loaded question — a question containing a hidden trap or implication
  • massapequa park — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
  • milliequivalent — a unit of measure, applied to electrolytes, that expresses the combining power of a substance. Abbreviation: mEq.
  • mixture quality — Mixture quality is the degree to which a mixture is an ideal mixture.
  • narcotics squad — a department of the police which investigates crimes concerning illegal drugs
  • negative equity — If someone who has borrowed money to buy a house or flat has negative equity, the amount of money they owe is greater than the present value of their home.
  • netmarq limited — A small technical consultancy specialising in the testing of network components. They do performance tests of network interface cards, routers, hubs, file servers, etc. To reflect the marketplace, most tests are carried out in a Novell NetWare environment, although they can equally well use Lan server, Banyan Vines, NT Advanced Server, IBM PC Support. They claim to be Europe's leading such test lab and compete with US Labs such as LanQuest and NSTL. They also do some network design, installation, support, and troubleshooting. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • non-acquisitive — tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.: our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.
  • non-qualitative — pertaining to or concerned with quality or qualities.
  • nonacquiescence — the act or condition of acquiescing or giving tacit assent; agreement or consent by silence or without objection; compliance (usually followed by to or in): acquiescence to his boss's demands.
  • nonquantifiable — not capable of being quantified
  • nonquantitative — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
  • norman conquest — the conquest of England by the Normans, under William the Conqueror, in 1066.
  • oblique sailing — the navigation of a vessel on a point of the compass other than one of the cardinal points.
  • parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
  • patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
  • pattypan squash — a flat, whitish variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo melopepo, having a scalloped edge.
  • pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • preacquaintance — prior acquaintance with a person or with information, the state of having been preacquainted
  • preequalization — preemphasis.
  • primary quality — any of the qualities inherent in an object, namely quantity, extent, figure, solidity, and motion or rest.
  • probit equation — A probit equation is used to quantify the relationship between the concentration of a dangerous material and its effect on people.
  • qaboos bin said — born 1940, Sultan of Oman from 1970
  • quadragenarians — Plural form of quadragenarian.
  • quadric surface — a three-dimensional surface whose equation is a quadratic equation.
  • quadripartition — A division into four parts.
  • quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
  • quadruplication — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
  • qualifying exam — any examination that one needs to pass in order to begin or continue with a course of study
  • qualitativeness — The state or quality of being qualitative.
  • quality control — a system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in an existing product or service by careful planning, use of proper equipment, continued inspection, and corrective action as required.
  • quality of life — comfort and enjoyment in one's existence
  • quality-of-life — affecting the quality of urban life: such quality-of-life crimes as fare-beating and graffiti writing.
  • quantifiability — (uncountable) The condition of being quantifiable.
  • quantifications — Plural form of quantification.
  • quantity theory — a theory stating that the general price level varies directly with the quantity of money in circulation and the velocity with which it is circulated, and inversely with the volume of production expressed by the total number of money transactions
  • quantum gravity — a theory of the gravitational interaction that involves quantum mechanics to explain the force
  • quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
  • quarrelsomeness — The quality of being quarrelsome; an argumentative nature. (from 17th c.).
  • quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • quarter blanket — a horse blanket, usually placed under a saddle or harness and extending to the horse's tail.
  • quarter century — a period of twenty five years
  • quarter pounder — A quarter pounder is a hamburger that weighs four ounces before it is cooked. Four ounces is a quarter of a pound.
  • quarter section — (in surveying and homesteading) a square tract of land, half a mile on each side, thus containing ¼ sq. mi. or 160 acres. Abbreviation: q.s.
  • quarterfinalist — a participant in a quarterfinal contest.
  • quartermistress — the female equivalent of a quartermaster
  • quartz movement — an extremely accurate electronic movement utilizing the natural frequency of vibrations of a quartz crystal to regulate the operation of the timepiece (quartz clock or quartz watch)
  • quasi-automatic — having the capability of starting, operating, moving, etc., independently: an automatic sprinkler system; an automatic car wash.
  • quasi-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
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