10-letter words containing q, u, i, r
- quick fire — rapid continuous gunfire, esp at a moving target
- quick-fire — firing or equipped for firing rapidly, especially at moving targets.
- quickthorn — hawthorn, esp when planted as a hedge
- quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
- quikscript — Simulation language derived from SIMSCRIPT, based on 20-GATE.
- quinacrine — an alkaloid, C 2 3 H 3 0 ClN 3 O, similar in its properties to pamaquine, used in the treatment of malaria.
- quincewort — Squinancywort.
- quinestrol — a synthetic estrogen, C 2 5 H 3 2 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives.
- quintipara — A female that has borne five offspring.
- quirkiness — having or full of quirks.
- quiver leg — a round, tapered chair leg used in the Louis Quinze style and similar styles.
- quiverfuls — Plural form of quiverful.
- quivertips — Plural form of quivertip.
- quizmaster — a person who asks questions of contestants in a game, especially as part of a radio or television program.
- qwertyuiop — Filler text.
- radiopaque — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- rafinesque — Constantine Samuel, 1783–1840, U.S. naturalist, born in Turkey.
- rainsquall — squall1 (def 1).
- reacquaint — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
- red liquor — mordant rouge.
- red squill — a variety of squill whose bulbs are red, used chiefly as a rat poison.
- relinquish — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- requesting — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
- requestion — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- requiescat — a wish or prayer for the repose of the dead.
- requisites — required or necessary for a particular purpose, position, etc.; indispensable: the requisite skills of an engineer.
- requitable — to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
- requiteful — requiting, tending to requite
- riot squad — a group of police officers having special training and equipment for quelling riots and other public disturbances.
- sea squirt — any tunicate, especially a sessile ascidian, so called from its habit of contracting its body and ejecting streams of water when disturbed.
- seaquarium — an area of salt water where sea animals are kept so people can look at them
- semicirque — an opening in the shape of a semicircle amongst trees or hills
- semiquaver — a sixteenth note.
- sinarquist — a member or advocate of an ultrareactionary, semifascist movement organized in Mexico about 1937.
- soubriquet — sobriquet.
- squamiform — shaped like a scale.
- square tin — a medium-sized loaf having a crusty top, baked in a tin with a square base
- squaretail — any of several fishes of the genus Tetragonurus, inhabiting deep waters of tropical and temperate seas, having a squarish tail and an armor of tough, bony scales.
- squarewise — in a square position or shape
- squarishly — in a squarish manner
- squirarchy — squirearchy.
- squirearch — a member of the squirearchy.
- squirelike — like a squire, or like the behaviour of a squire
- squireling — a landowner of a small estate.
- squirreled — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- squirrelly — eccentric; flighty.
- squirt can — an oilcan with a flexible body that ejects oil when compressed.
- squirt gun — spray gun.
- tarquinius — (Lucius Tarquinius Priscus) died 578 b.c, king of Rome 616–578.
- tourniquet — Medicine/Medical, Surgery. any device for arresting bleeding by forcibly compressing a blood vessel, as a bandage tightened by twisting.