15-letter words containing q, c
- quasi-technical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
- quasicontinuous — uninterrupted in time; without cessation: continuous coughing during the concert.
- quasihistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- quatercentenary — a 400th aniversary or its celebration.
- queen substance — a pheromone secreted from the mandibular glands of a queen honeybee and smelled, eaten, and absorbed by the worker bees, having the effect of preventing them from producing or rearing rival queens.
- queen's counsel — King's Counsel.
- queen's proctor — a British judiciary officer who may intervene in probate, nullity, or divorce actions when collusion, suppression of evidence, or other irregularities are alleged.
- quiche lorraine — a quiche containing bits of bacon or ham and often cheese.
- quick-and-dirty — Informal. slipshod.
- quickie divorce — the formal ending of a marriage by law, carried out in a faster manner than usual, esp online
- quickwittedness — The state or condition of being quickwitted.
- quincentenaries — Plural form of quincentenary.
- quintec-objects — Based on Quintec Prolog (not Quintus). British.
- quintuplicating — Present participle of quintuplicate.
- radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- required course — an obligatory course for all students
- secret mosquito — a high-pitched ringtone for a mobile phone, claimed by its distributors to be inaudible to most adults while remaining audible to children and teenagers
- sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
- sesquicentenary — a hundred and fiftieth anniversary
- sonnet sequence — a group of sonnets composed by one poet and having a unifying theme or subject.
- squelch circuit — a circuit which disconnects a receiver in order to eliminate output noise when no signal or an extremely weak signal is received
- suicide squeeze — squeeze play (def 1a).
- under-frequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- urquhart castle — a castle near Drumnadrochit in Highland, Scotland: situated on Loch Ness
- video frequency — transmission frequency of the television picture.
- well-acquainted — having personal knowledge as a result of study, experience, etc.; informed (usually followed by with): to be acquainted with law.