9-letter words containing q, a
- reliquary — a repository or receptacle for relics.
- reliquiae — remains, as those of fossil organisms.
- remarqued — pertaining to a piece of print art that contains a remarque or original drawing by the artist in the margin
- requalify — to qualify again
- sasquatch — Big Foot.
- sea squab — the blowfish: used especially on menus as a euphemism.
- sequacity — following with smooth or logical regularity.
- sequestra — a fragment of bone that has become necrotic as a result of disease or injury and has separated from the normal bone structure.
- squabbish — rather short and fat or thick
- squabbled — to engage in a petty quarrel.
- squad car — police vehicle
- squadoosh — nothing
- squadrone — a former Scottish political party, active in the last parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union, in the early 18th century
- squadsman — a member of a squad or team.
- squalling — the act or sound of squalling: The baby's squall was heard next door.
- squamella — a small scale or bract in a plant
- squamosal — Anatomy. of or relating to the thin, scalelike portion of the temporal bone that is situated on the side of the skull above and behind the ear.
- square go — a fair fight between two individuals
- square up — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- squarrose — denoting any rough or ragged surface.
- squashing — to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
- squattily — in a somewhat squat manner or shape
- squatting — occupying a property illegally
- squaw man — a contemptuous term used to refer to a white or other non-Indian man married to a North American Indian woman.
- squawbush — a rank-smelling, sprawling shrub, Rhus trilobata malacophylla, of the cashew family, native to California, having spikes of greenish flowers.
- squawfish — any of several large, voracious cyprinid fishes of the genus Ptychocheilus, inhabiting rivers of the western U.S. and Canada: the Colorado squawfish, P. lucius, is endangered.
- squawking — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- squawroot — a fleshy, leafless plant, Conopholis americana, of the broomrape family, native to eastern North America, having a stout, yellowish, conelike stalk of lipped flowers, and growing in clusters, especially under oaks.
- squeak by — a short, sharp, shrill cry; a sharp, high-pitched sound.
- squeakery — a squeaking quality, manner, or action
- squeamish — fastidious or dainty.
- squinancy — a prostrate Eurasian plant, Asperula cynanchica, of the madder family, having smooth, weak stems and sparse white or pink flowers, formerly believed to be a cure for quinsy.
- squirarch — a person who believes in government by squires
- starquake — a rapid change in the mass distribution or shape of a pulsar, resulting in a fluctuation of the pulsar's pulse rate or radiation intensity.
- suquamish — a member of a Salishan-speaking North American Indian people of Washington, near Puget Sound.
- tarquinii — an ancient city of Etruria, in central Italy, NW of Rome: present-day Tarquinia on site.
- top quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 176 to 199 GeV/c2, a positive charge 2⁄3 that of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- totaquine — a mixture of quinine and other alkaloids derived from cinchona bark, used as a substitute for quinine in treating malaria
- triquetra — a geometrical figure having three points, especially one formed of three intersecting ellipses: The triquetra was often used in ancient art to symbolize a triune deity.
- unequable — unstable, varying, or unsteady
- unequaled — not equaled or surpassed; matchless: an unequaled record of victories.
- unequally — not equal; not of the same quantity, quality, value, rank, ability, etc.: People are unequal in their capacities.
- unequated — to regard, treat, or represent as equivalent: We cannot equate the possession of wealth with goodness.
- unquachog — a member of an American Indian people of eastern Long Island, New York.
- unquaking — not quaking or trembling, esp from fear
- unqualify — to disqualify or to make unfit
- unsquared — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- utraquist — Calixtine.
- vauquelin — Louis Nicolas [lwee nee-kaw-lah] /lwi ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1763–1829, French chemist: discoverer of chromium and beryllium.
- velazquez — Diego Rodríguez de Silva y [dye-gaw raw-th ree-geth th e seel-vah ee] /ˈdyɛ gɔ rɔˈðri gɛθ ðɛ ˈsil vɑ i/ (Show IPA), 1599–1660, Spanish painter.