15-letter words containing q, u, e
- inquisitiveness — given to inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge; intellectually curious: an inquisitive mind.
- jacques cartier — Sir George Étienne [zhawrzh ey-tyen] /ʒɔrʒ eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1814–73, Canadian political leader: prime minister 1857–62, defense minister 1867–73.
- japanese quince — a flowering quince, Chaenomeles speciosa, of Japan, having scarlet flowers and pear-shaped fruit.
- jaques-dalcroze — Émile [French ey-meel] /French eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1865–1950, Swiss composer and teacher: created eurythmics.
- je ne sais quoi — an indefinable, elusive quality, especially a pleasing one: She has a certain je ne sais quoi that charms everybody.
- job requirement — a quality or qualification that you must have in order to be suitable for a certain job
- joseph jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
- kaibab squirrel — a nearly extinct tree squirrel, Sciurus kaibabensis, found only in a small area north of the Grand Canyon.
- keyboard plaque — (jargon) The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. "Are there any other terminals I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard plaque."
- keyes technique — a system of treating periodontal diseases by eliminating specific disease-related microorganisms, primarily through nonsurgical therapy that is regulated and adjusted in accordance with microscopic or cultural findings in subgingival plaque specimens.
- keying sequence — a sequence made up of letters or numbers that can encode or decode a polyalphabetic substitution cipher one letter at a time.
- lamb's-quarters — the pigweed, Chenopodium album.
- linear equation — a first-order equation involving two variables: its graph is a straight line in the Cartesian coordinate system.
- liquid nitrogen — nitrogen in a liquid state
- liquidity event — the ending of an investor's involvement in a business venture with a view to realizing a gain or loss from the investment
- liquorice stick — a long, stick-shaped, liquorice-flavoured sweet, often dipped in sherbet, etc
- living quarters — accommodation
- loaded question — a question containing a hidden trap or implication
- massapequa park — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
- microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
- milliequivalent — a unit of measure, applied to electrolytes, that expresses the combining power of a substance. Abbreviation: mEq.
- mixture quality — Mixture quality is the degree to which a mixture is an ideal mixture.
- negative equity — If someone who has borrowed money to buy a house or flat has negative equity, the amount of money they owe is greater than the present value of their home.
- non prosequitur — a judgment entered against the plaintiff in a suit when the plaintiff does not appear in court to prosecute it.
- non-acquisitive — tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.: our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.
- non-equilibrium — a state of rest or balance due to the equal action of opposing forces.
- non-qualitative — pertaining to or concerned with quality or qualities.
- non-requirement — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
- nonacquiescence — the act or condition of acquiescing or giving tacit assent; agreement or consent by silence or without objection; compliance (usually followed by to or in): acquiescence to his boss's demands.
- nonquantifiable — not capable of being quantified
- nonquantitative — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
- norman conquest — the conquest of England by the Normans, under William the Conqueror, in 1066.
- nyquist theorem — (communications) A theorem stating that when an analogue waveform is digitised, only the frequencies in the waveform below half the sampling frequency will be recorded. In order to reconstruct (interpolate) a signal from a sequence of samples, sufficient samples must be recorded to capture the peaks and troughs of the original waveform. If a waveform is sampled at less than twice its frequency the reconstructed waveform will effectively contribute only noise. This phenomenon is called "aliasing" (the high frequencies are "under an alias"). This is why the best digital audio is sampled at 44,000 Hz - twice the average upper limit of human hearing. The Nyquist Theorem is not specific to digitised signals (represented by discrete amplitude levels) but applies to any sampled signal (represented by discrete time values), not just sound.
- oblique sailing — the navigation of a vessel on a point of the compass other than one of the cardinal points.
- oblique section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane that is other than parallel or perpendicular to its longest axis.
- on the qui vive — on the qui vive, on the alert; watchful: Special guards were on the qui vive for trespassers.
- parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
- picturesqueness — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
- pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- pre-delinquency — failure in or neglect of duty or obligation; dereliction; default: delinquency in payment of dues.
- preacquaintance — prior acquaintance with a person or with information, the state of having been preacquainted
- preequalization — preemphasis.
- prerequirements — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
- probit equation — A probit equation is used to quantify the relationship between the concentration of a dangerous material and its effect on people.
- quadragenarians — Plural form of quadragenarian.
- quadric surface — a three-dimensional surface whose equation is a quadratic equation.
- quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
- qualifying exam — any examination that one needs to pass in order to begin or continue with a course of study
- qualitativeness — The state or quality of being qualitative.
- quality of life — comfort and enjoyment in one's existence