9-letter words containing q, u, i, r
- overquick — too quick: Let's not be overquick to criticize.
- pasquiler — a person who lampoons or pasquinades; a satirist
- pulqueria — a tavern selling pulque.
- quadratic — square.
- quadricep — Quadriceps.
- quadrifid — cleft into four parts or lobes.
- quadrigae — Plural form of quadriga.
- quadrille — a card game played by four persons.
- quadrivia — Plural form of quadrivium.
- quaeritur — the question is asked
- quagmires — Plural form of quagmire.
- quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
- qualifier — a person or thing that qualifies.
- quantizer — An electronic device that samples a varying quantity (e.g. a waveform) and generates a digital response.
- quantrill — William Clarke, 1837–65, Confederate guerrilla leader.
- quarriers — Plural form of quarrier.
- quarrying — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quartiles — Plural form of quartile.
- quartzite — a granular metamorphic rock consisting essentially of quartz in interlocking grains.
- quatrains — Plural form of quatrain.
- quavering — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quercetin — a yellow, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, C 1 5 H 1 0 O 7 , obtained from the bark of the quercitron and other vegetable substances, used as a yellow dye; flavin.
- quercitol — a colorless, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , obtained from acorns or oak bark: used chiefly in medicine.
- querencia — (bullfighting) The area of the bull-ring where the bull makes its stand. (from 1930s).
- querimony — a complaint
- questrist — one who quests
- quickdraw — (climbing) A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.
- quickener — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
- quickfire — Alternative form of quick-fire.
- quicklier — (rare, literary, dated) More quickly; with greater rapidity.
- quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
- quietener — a thing which quiets or sedates
- quillwork — a type of decoration using softened and usually dyed porcupine or bird quills.
- quillwort — any fernlike, aquatic marsh plant of the genus Isoëtes, characterized by clustered, quill-like leaves bearing sporangia in their bases.
- quinarius — a denomination of ancient Roman coinage, issued in silver or gold at various times and undergoing many changes of value.
- quintroon — a person having one octoroon and one White parent and therefore having one-sixteenth Black blood
- quipsters — Plural form of quipster.
- quirkiest — Superlative form of quirky.
- quit-rent — rent paid by a freeholder or copyholder in lieu of services that might otherwise have been required.
- quitrents — Plural form of quitrent.
- quiverful — The amount held by a quiver.
- quivering — the act or state of quivering; a tremble or tremor.
- quiverish — given to quivering, tremulous
- quivertip — A flexible tip to a fishing rod that bends when a fish takes the bait.
- reacquire — to come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own: to acquire property.
- rehnquist — William H(ubbs) [huhbz] /hʌbz/ (Show IPA), 1924–2005, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1972–86; chief justice 1986–2005.
- reliquary — a repository or receptacle for relics.
- reliquefy — to liquefy again
- reliquiae — remains, as those of fossil organisms.
- requalify — to qualify again