10-letter words containing q, e
- quick-fire — firing or equipped for firing rapidly, especially at moving targets.
- quickening — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
- quicksteps — Plural form of quickstep.
- quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
- quiddative — Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing.
- quiddities — Plural form of quiddity.
- quiescence — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
- quiescency — Quiescence: the state of being quiescent, or at rest.
- quiet down — stop talking so loudly
- quietening — Present participle of quieten.
- quietistic — Of or relating to quietism, a philosophy of passivity and non-involvement.
- quinacrine — an alkaloid, C 2 3 H 3 0 ClN 3 O, similar in its properties to pamaquine, used in the treatment of malaria.
- quincewort — Squinancywort.
- quincunxes — Plural form of quincunx.
- quinestrol — a synthetic estrogen, C 2 5 H 3 2 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives.
- quinoidine — a brownish-black, resinous substance consisting of a mixture of alkaloids, obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of quinine and formerly used as a cheap substitute for it.
- quinolones — Plural form of quinolone.
- quinquefid — cleft into five parts or lobes.
- quintefoil — cinquefoil (def 2).
- quintupled — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuple.
- quintuples — Plural form of quintuple.
- quintuplet — any group or combination of five, especially of the same kind.
- quintuplex — fivefold; quintuple.
- quirkiness — having or full of quirks.
- quittances — Plural form of quittance.
- quiver leg — a round, tapered chair leg used in the Louis Quinze style and similar styles.
- quiverfuls — Plural form of quiverful.
- quivertips — Plural form of quivertip.
- quizmaster — a person who asks questions of contestants in a game, especially as part of a radio or television program.
- quizziness — unusualness, eccentricity
- quodlibets — Plural form of quodlibet.
- qwertyuiop — Filler text.
- radiopaque — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- rafinesque — Constantine Samuel, 1783–1840, U.S. naturalist, born in Turkey.
- ramboesque — looking or behaving like, or characteristic of, Rambo, a fictional film character noted for his mindless brutality
- reacquaint — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
- reconquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
- red liquor — mordant rouge.
- red square — a large, open square in central Moscow, adjacent to the Kremlin: site of military parades, Lenin's tomb, and St. Basil's cathedral.
- red squill — a variety of squill whose bulbs are red, used chiefly as a rat poison.
- relinquish — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- requesting — 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.
- requestion — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- requiescat — a wish or prayer for the repose of the dead.
- requisites — required or necessary for a particular purpose, position, etc.; indispensable: the requisite skills of an engineer.
- requitable — to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
- requiteful — requiting, tending to requite
- romanesque — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture prevailing in western or southern Europe from the 9th through the 12th centuries, characterized by heavy masonry construction with narrow openings, features such as the round arch, the groin vault, and the barrel vault, and the introduction or development of the vaulting rib, the vaulting shaft, and central and western towers for churches.
- roquelaure — a cloak reaching to the knees, worn by men during the 18th century.
- rubenesque — of or relating to the painter Peter Paul Rubens or his works, which feature full-figured women.