7-letter words containing q, u, a
- quailed — to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.
- quailer — One who hunts quail.
- quaking — (of persons) to shake or tremble from cold, weakness, fear, anger, or the like: He spoke boldly even though his legs were quaking.
- qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- quality — an essential or distinctive characteristic, property, or attribute: the chemical qualities of alcohol.
- quamash — camass.
- quamish — queasy; having an upset stomach; qualmish.
- quandry — Misspelling of quandary.
- quangos — Plural form of quango.
- quannet — a flat file or rasp with a handle at one end, used as a plane
- quantal — of or relating to quanta or quantum mechanics.
- quantic — a rational, integral, homogeneous function of two or more variables.
- quantum — time slice
- quarles — Francis, 1592–1644, English poet.
- quarrel — a square-headed bolt or arrow, formerly used with a crossbow.
- quartan — (of a fever, ague, etc.) characterized by paroxysms that recur every fourth day, both days of consecutive occurrence being counted.
- quarter — crumb
- quartes — the fourth of eight defensive positions.
- quartet — any group of four persons or things.
- quartic — of or relating to the fourth degree.
- quartos — Plural form of quarto.
- quartzy — resembling quartz
- quasars — one of over a thousand known extragalactic objects, starlike in appearance and having spectra with characteristically large redshifts, that are thought to be the most distant and most luminous objects in the universe.
- quashed — to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue: to quash a rebellion.
- quashee — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- quasher — someone who quells or suppresses
- quashes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quash.
- quassia — a shrub or small tree, Quassia amara, of tropical America, having pinnate leaves, showy red flowers, and wood with a bitter taste. Compare quassia family.
- quassin — a bitter crystalline substance
- quatrin — (obsolete) Any of several small, copper coins, similar to a farthing, in any of several countries.
- quavers — (of a person's voice) Shake or tremble in speaking, typically through nervousness or emotion.
- quavery — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quayage — quays collectively.
- queachy — unwell
- quechan — Yuma (defs 1, 2).
- quechua — the language of the Inca civilization, presently spoken by about 7 million people in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.
- queneau — Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–76. French writer, influenced in the 1920s by surrealism. His novels include Zazie dans le métro (1959)
- quercia — Jacopo Della [yah-kaw-paw del-lah] /ˈyɑ kɔ pɔ ˌdɛl lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1374?–1438, Italian sculptor.
- querida — Darling.
- quesnay — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1694–1774, French economist and physician.
- quetzal — any of several large Central and South American trogons of the genus Pharomachrus, having golden-green and scarlet plumage, especially P. mocino (resplendent quetzal) the national bird of Guatemala: rare and possibly endangered.
- quichua — Quechua.
- quillai — soapbark (def 1).
- quinary — pertaining to or consisting of five.
- quinate — arranged in groups of five.
- quinela — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor, in order to win, must select the first- and second-place finishers without specifying their order of finishing.
- quinnat — Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, the chinook salmon.
- quintal — a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms (220.5 avoirdupois pounds).
- quintan — (of a fever, ague, etc.) characterized by paroxysms that recur every fifth day.
- quite a — intensifier before noun