16-letter words containing q, u, i, r
- alvarez quintero — Joa‧ˈquín (hwɑˈkin ) ; hwäkēnˈ) 1873-1944; Sp. playwright
- antitorque rotor — (on certain helicopters) a small rotor on the tail, turning in the vertical plane and providing a thrust whose torque opposes and compensates for the torque of the main rotor.
- basque provinces — an autonomous region of N Spain, comprising the provinces of Álava, Guipúzcoa, and Vizcaya: inhabited mainly by Basques, who retained virtual autonomy from the 9th to the 19th century. Pop: 1 840 700 (2003 est). Area: about 7250 sq km (2800 sq miles)
- board of inquiry — a group set up to inquire into accidents, etc
- boutique brewery — microbrewery.
- burning question — urgent matter for discussion
- california quail — a quail, Callipepla californica, of the western coast of the U.S., having grayish-brown plumage with black, white, and chestnut markings.
- chinese chequers — a board game played with marbles or pegs
- court of inquiry — A court of inquiry is a group of people who are officially appointed to investigate a serious accident or incident, or an official investigation into a serious accident or incident.
- disequilibration — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
- eigenfrequencies — Plural form of eigenfrequency.
- elegiac quatrain — a poetic stanza consisting of four lines of iambic pentameter rhyming alternately.
- equidistribution — An equal distribution.
- farquhar islands — an island group in the Indian Ocean: administratively part of the Seychelles
- flowering quince — any shrub belonging to the genus Chaenomeles, of the rose family, native to eastern Asia, having showy, waxy flowers and a quincelike fruit, grown widely as an ornamental.
- galactic equator — the great circle on the celestial sphere that is equidistant from the galactic poles, being inclined approximately 62° to the celestial equator and lying about one degree north of the center line of the Milky Way.
- grand inquisitor — (often initial capital letters) the presiding officer of a court of inquisition.
- in quadruplicate — in four identical copies
- indian liquorice — a woody leguminous climbing plant, Abrus precatorius, native to tropical Asia and naturalized elsewhere, having scarlet black-spotted poisonous seeds, used as beads, and roots used as a substitute for liquorice
- josquin des prés — Josquin [zhuhs-kan;; French zhaws-kan] /ˈʒʌs kæn;; French ʒɔsˈkɛ̃/ (Show IPA), c1445–1521, Flemish composer.
- josquin des prez — 1440?-1521; Fr. composer
- judicial inquiry — a formal legal investigation conducted into a matter of public concern by a judge, appointed by the government
- loire-atlantique — a department in NW France. 2695 sq. mi. (6980 sq. km). Capital: Nantes.
- magnetic equator — aclinic line.
- married quarters — the housing provided on a military base for married servicemen or servicewomen
- marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
- medium frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 kilohertz. Abbreviation: MF.
- munching squares — A display hack dating back to the PDP-1 (ca. 1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T - see HAKMEM items 146--148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen. The initial value of T is treated as a parameter, which, when well-chosen, can produce amazing effects. Some of these, later (re)discovered on the LISP Machine, have been christened "munching triangles" (try AND for XOR and toggling points instead of plotting them), "munching w's", and "munching mazes". More generally, suppose a graphics program produces an impressive and ever-changing display of some basic form, foo, on a display terminal, and does it using a relatively simple program; then the program (or the resulting display) is likely to be referred to as "munching foos". [This is a good example of the use of the word foo as a metasyntactic variable.]
- musique concrete — tape-recorded musical and natural sounds, often electronically distorted, arranged in planned combinations, sequences, and rhythmic patterns to create an artistic work.
- nash equilibrium — (in game theory) a stable state of a system involving the interaction of two or more players in which no player can gain by a unilateral change of strategy if the strategies of the other players remain unchanged
- oblique triangle — any triangle that does not have a right angle (contrasted with right triangle).
- proto-algonquian — the unattested parent language from which the Algonquian languages are descended.
- quadricentennial — of, relating to, or marking the completion of a period of four hundred years.
- quadrimillennial — Occurring every four thousand years.
- quarter sessions — an English court of general criminal jurisdiction for crimes less than homicide, held quarterly.
- quarter-finalist — A quarter-finalist is a person or team that is competing in a quarter-final.
- quasi-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
- quasi-compulsory — required; mandatory; obligatory: compulsory education.
- quasi-democratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- quasi-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- quasi-managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- quasi-stationary — a person or thing that is stationary.
- quatercentennial — pertaining to or marking a period of 400 years.
- quiet revolution — a period during the 1960s in Quebec, marked by secularization, educational reforms, and rising support for separation from the rest of Canada
- quinquagenarians — Plural form of quinquagenarian.
- required reading — If you say that something is required reading for a particular group of people, you mean that you think it is essential for them to read it because it will give them information which they should have.
- return on equity — the amount of profit computed by dividing net income before taxes less preferred dividends by the value of stockholders' equity, usually expressed as a percentage. Abbreviation: ROE.
- riccati equation — a differential equation, dy/dx + fy 2 + gy + h = 0, where f, g, and h are functions of x.
- saturated liquid — a liquid whose temperature and pressure are such that any decrease in pressure without change in temperature causes it to boil.
- sports equipment — gear used to play sport
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