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11-letter words containing q, e

  • quonset hut — A Quonset hut is a military hut made of metal. The walls and roof form the shape of a semi-circle.
  • quoteworthy — quotable.
  • racquetball — a game similar to handball, played on a four-walled court but with a short-handled, strung racket and a larger, somewhat softer ball.
  • re-acquaint — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
  • requalified — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
  • requirement — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
  • requisition — the act of requiring or demanding.
  • requisitory — a demand, usually in writing, made by a prosecutor that a sentence be passed against an accused party, and stating reasons for the demand
  • requiteless — without requital; unrequited
  • requitement — to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
  • rose quartz — a rose-red to pink variety of crystalline quartz usually found in massive form and used as a gem or ornamental stone.
  • semiaquatic — partly aquatic; growing or living in or close to water, or carrying out part of its life cycle in water.
  • semiquinone — any of the class of free radicals formed as intermediates in the oxidation of a hydroquinone to a quinone.
  • sequestered — A sequestered place is quiet and far away from busy places.
  • sequestrant — any substance used to bring about sequestration, often by chelation. They are used in horticulture to counteract lime in the soil
  • sequestrate — Law. to sequester (property). to confiscate.
  • sesquialter — in the ratio of 3:2
  • sesquioxide — an oxide containing three atoms of oxygen and two of another element, as aluminum oxide, Al 2 O 3 .
  • sesquipedal — given to using long words.
  • sesquiplane — a biplane having one wing with not more than half the surface area of the other wing.
  • soho square — a formerly fashionable residential district of London, England.
  • soldatesque — of or relating to a soldier
  • soliloquise — to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
  • soliloquize — to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
  • squall line — a line or extended narrow region within which squalls or thunderstorms occur, often several hundred miles long.
  • square away — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • square deal — the stated policy of President Theodore Roosevelt, originally promising fairness in all dealings with labor and management and later extended to include other groups.
  • square foot — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one foot on each side; 0.0929 square meters. 2 , sq. ft. Abbreviation: ft.
  • square inch — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. 2 , sq. in. Abbreviation: in.
  • square knot — a common knot in which the ends come out alongside of the standing parts.
  • square meal — a nourishing or filling meal: You'll feel better after you've had a square meal.
  • square mile — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one mile on each side; 2.59 square kilometers. 2 , sq. mi. Abbreviation: mi.
  • square root — a quantity of which a given quantity is the square: The quantities +6 and −6 are square roots of 36 since (+6)×(+6)=36 and (−6)×(−6)=36.
  • square sail — a sail set beneath a horizontal yard, the normal position of which, when not trimmed to the wind, is directly athwartships.
  • square wave — a graph, function, vibration, etc., that is periodic and equal to one constant on one half of the period and a different constant, which may be zero, on the other half.
  • square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • square yard — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one yard on each side; 0.8361 square meters. 2 , sq. yd. Abbreviation: yd.
  • square-toed — with the toes squared off
  • square-toes — an old-fashioned or strait-laced person.
  • squarsonage — the residence of a squarson
  • squattiness — the condition or quality of being squat
  • squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
  • squeeze off — If you squeeze off a shot, you fire a bullet from a gun.
  • squeeze out — extract
  • squeeze-box — a concertina or accordion.
  • squint-eyed — affected with or characterized by strabismus.
  • squirearchy — the collective body of squires or landed gentry of a country.
  • squirreling — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
  • squishiness — soft and wet: The ground was squishy from the rain.
  • st. quentin — a city in N France, on the Somme: retaken from the Germans 1918.
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