10-letter words containing q, e
- obsequious — characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
- odalisques — Plural form of odalisque.
- on request — as and when asked for
- opaqueness — The characteristic of being opaque.
- open quote — the quotation mark used to begin a quotation (“ or ").
- orangequat — A citrus tree, a cross between an orange and a kumquat.
- pasquinade — a satire or lampoon, especially one posted in a public place.
- pay cheque — Your pay cheque is a piece of paper that your employer gives you as your wages or salary, and which you can then cash at a bank. You can also use pay cheque as a way of referring to your wages or salary.
- pentaquark — a subatomic particle consisting of four quarks and one antiquark
- pentaquine — a synthetic antimalarial drug, C18H27N3O, used chiefly in the form of its phosphate
- pequot war — a war in 1637 between Connecticut colonists, aided by British soldiers and friendly Indian tribes, and the Pequot Indians under their chief, Sassacus, that resulted in the defeat and dispersion of the Pequot tribe.
- perquisite — an incidental payment, benefit, privilege, or advantage over and above regular income, salary, or wages: Among the president's perquisites were free use of a company car and paid membership in a country club.
- perruquier — a person who creates, styles, or sells perukes or hair-pieces
- picaresque — pertaining to, characteristic of, or characterized by a form of prose fiction, originally developed in Spain, in which the adventures of an engagingly roguish hero are described in a series of usually humorous or satiric episodes that often depict, in realistic detail, the everyday life of the common people: picaresque novel; picaresque hero.
- postgresql — (database) /'post-gres-kyu-el/ An enhancement of the POSTGRES database system. PostgreSQL is an advanced relational database management system with some object oriented approaches. PostgreSQL is developed and distributed as free software, and while retaining its freedom it remains technically and featurewise a worthy competitor to even the most advanced commercial alternatives. It was also one of the first databases to offer MVCC as opposed to row-level locking or table locking, thereby greatly improving multi-user performance. PostgreSQL implements an extended subset of ANSI SQL and runs on many platforms. It also has interfaces to many different programming languages and database protocols, like ODBC and JDBC.
- prequalify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- prerequest — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
- prerequire — to require in advance
- primaquine — a viscous liquid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O, used in the treatment of malaria.
- pull-quote — (in a magazine or newspaper) an excerpted line or phrase, in a larger or display typeface, run at the top of a page or in a mid-column box to draw attention to the text of the article or story from which it is quoted; blurb.
- qt-objects — A library by Michael Travers <[email protected]> and others providing an interface between MCL and QuickTime.
- qu'appelle — a river in S Saskatchewan and SW Manitoba, Canada, flowing E to the Assiniboine River. 270 miles (434 km) long.
- quadcopter — A rotorcraft propelled by four rotors.
- quadrangle — a plane figure having four angles and four sides, as a square.
- quadrature — the act of squaring.
- quadrennia — Plural form of quadrennium.
- quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
- quadricone — a quadric surface swept out by a straight line that passes through a fixed point such that no straight line can intersect it at more than two points
- quadriller — a person who dances quadrilles
- quadrilles — Plural form of quadrille.
- quadriplex — A building divided into four self-contained residences.
- quadripole — an electric circuit with two input and two output terminals
- quadrireme — (in classical antiquity) a galley having four banks of oars.
- quadrisect — to divide (something) into four equal parts.
- quadroxide — (chemistry) A tetroxide.
- quadrumane — a quadrumanous animal, as a monkey.
- quadrupeds — Plural form of quadruped.
- quadrupled — fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance.
- quadruples — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quadruple.
- quadruplet — any group or combination of four.
- quadruplex — fourfold; quadruple.
- quadrupole — a set of four associated positive and negative electric charges or two associated magnetic dipoles
- quaestuary — a quaestor
- quail dove — any of several tropical American pigeons of the genera Starnoenas or Geotrygon.
- quaintness — (obsolete) Cunning; craftiness.
- quakeproof — designed or built to withstand the destructive forces of an earthquake.
- quaker gun — a dummy gun, as on a ship or fort: so called in allusion to the Quakers' opposition to war.
- qualifiers — Plural form of qualifier.
- quandaries — Plural form of quandary.
- quantasome — any of numerous particles in a chloroplast, part of the thylakoid and functioning in photosynthesis.