8-letter words containing q, u, a
- qualming — the state of having a qualm
- qualmish — tending to have, or having, qualms.
- quandary — a state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do; dilemma.
- quandong — an Australian tree, Fusanus acuminatus, bearing a fruit with an edible, nutlike seed.
- quantico — a U.S. Marine Corps base and development and education command in NE Virginia, NE of Fredericksburg on the Potomac River.
- quantics — Plural form of quantic.
- quantify — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quantile — one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.
- quantise — Alternative spelling of quantize.
- quantity — a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk; the ocean's vast quantity of fish.
- quantize — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quantong — quandong.
- quanzhou — a seaport in SE Fujian province, in SE China, on Taiwan Strait.
- quarnero — Gulf of, an arm of the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia.
- quarrels — Plural form of quarrel.
- quarrian — a cockatiel, Leptolophus hollandicus, of scrub and woodland regions of inland Australia, that feeds on seeds and grasses
- quarried — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quarrier — a person who quarries stone.
- quarries — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quarrion — A cockatiel, Nymphicus hollandicus.
- quartern — a quarter, or a fourth part, especially of certain weights and measures, as of a pound, ounce, peck, or pint.
- quarters — one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided: a quarter of an apple; a quarter of a book.
- quartets — Plural form of quartet.
- quartier — a city district
- quartile — Statistics. (in a frequency distribution) one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into four groups having equal frequencies. Compare first quartile, median, third quartile.
- quartine — (botany, archaic) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
- quartzes — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- quasheba — (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)
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- quassias — Plural form of quassia.
- quatorze — a set of four cards of the same denomination, aces, kings, queens, jacks, or tens, scoring 14 points.
- quatrain — a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
- quavered — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quaylike — resembling a quay
- quayside — the area bordering and around a quay or quays.
- queasier — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- queasily — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- quebrada — Southwestern U.S. a ravine.
- quechuan — of or relating to the Quechua language or people.
- quelpart — former name of Cheju (def 1).
- questant — a person who quests
- quetzals — Plural form of quetzal.
- quiddany — a type of quince jelly
- quiktran — Fortran-like, interactive with debugging facilities. Sammet 1969, p.226.
- quillaia — soapbark (sense 1)
- quillman — (archaic) One who writes with a quill.
- quinella — 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.
- quiniela — quinella.
- quintain — an object mounted on a post or attached to a movable crossbar mounted on a post, used as a target in the medieval sport of tilting.
- quintals — Plural form of quintal.