8-letter words containing q, u, a
- maroquin — morocco leather
- marquand — J(ohn) P(hillips) 1893–1960, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- marquees — Plural form of marquee.
- marquesa — A Spanish marchioness.
- marquess — marquee (def 3).
- marquise — the wife or widow of a marquis.
- masquers — Plural form of masquer.
- muqaddam — a leader or person of authority
- musquash — Chiefly British. the fur of the muskrat.
- narquois — mocking, malicious, or snide
- nonequal — as great as; the same as (often followed by to or with): The velocity of sound is not equal to that of light.
- nonquota — not included in a quota
- nut quad — a quad one en wide; en quad.
- oldsquaw — A marine diving duck that breeds in Arctic Eurasia and North America, the male having very long tail feathers and mainly white plumage in winter.
- opaquely — not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
- palenque — a village in SE Mexico, in Chiapas state: ruins of an ancient Mayan city.
- paraquat — a toxic herbicide, C 1 2 H 1 4 N 2 ⋅2CH 3 SO 4 , applied to food and flower crops and to highway borders as a defoliant and weed-killer.
- paraquet — parakeet.
- paroquet — parakeet.
- pasquale — a male given name.
- pauraque — a large, tropical American goatsucker, Nyctidromus albicollis.
- petanque — a form of lawn bowling originating in France, usually played on rough ground using steel balls.
- piquancy — agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.
- pratique — license or permission to use a port, given to a ship after quarantine or on showing a clean bill of health.
- qingyuan — former name of Baoding.
- quaalude — methaqualone
- quackery — the practice or methods of a quack.
- quacking — Present participle of quack.
- quackish — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
- quadbike — Alternative form of quad bike.
- quadcore — (computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of four cores.
- quadding — Also called quadrat. a piece of type metal of less height than the lettered types, serving to cause a blank in printed matter, used for spacing.
- quadplex — fourfold; quadruple.
- quadrans — a bronze coin of ancient Rome, the fourth part of an as.
- quadrant — a quarter of a circle; an arc of 90°.
- quadrate — square or rectangular.
- quadrats — Plural form of quadrat.
- quadriad — a group of four, especially a group of four persons with an interest or task in common.
- quadrics — Plural form of quadric.
- quadriga — a two-wheeled chariot drawn by four horses harnessed abreast.
- quadroon — a person having one-fourth black ancestry, with one black grandparent; the offspring of a mulatto and a white person.
- quadword — (computing) A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus typically 64 bits.
- quaestor — one of two subordinates of the consuls serving as public prosecutors in certain criminal cases.
- quaffing — to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
- quagmire — an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
- quagmiry — relating to a quagmire
- quailing — to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.
- quaintly — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- quakerly — like a Quaker.
- qualcomm — (company) A California-based technology company; their primary product is the OMNITRACS tractor-trailer-tracking system. They also develop the free and commercial versions of Eudora for Macintosh and IBM PC.