9-letter words containing q, u, i, s
- misquoted — Simple past tense and past participle of misquote.
- misquoter — a person who quotes others inaccurately or incorrectly
- misquotes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misquote.
- mosquitos — Plural form of mosquito.
- obsequial — Relating to an obsequy or funeral rite.
- obsequies — a funeral rite or ceremony.
- odalisque — a female slave or concubine in a harem, especially in that of the sultan of Turkey.
- pasquiler — a person who lampoons or pasquinades; a satirist
- physiqued — having a particular physique
- pipsqueak — a contemptibly small or unimportant person; a twerp.
- plastique — a ballet technique for mastering the art of slow, controlled movement and statuelike posing.
- quaesitum — something that is sought; the solution to a problem
- quagmires — Plural form of quagmire.
- quaintest — Superlative form of quaint.
- quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
- qualifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of qualify.
- qualities — an essential or distinctive characteristic, property, or attribute: the chemical qualities of alcohol.
- quantiles — Plural form of quantile.
- quantised — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quantizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quantize.
- quarriers — Plural form of quarrier.
- quartiles — Plural form of quartile.
- quasi-gay — of, relating to, or exhibiting sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one's own sex; homosexual: a gay couple. Antonyms: straight.
- quasimodo — Salvatore [sahl-vah-taw-re] /ˌsɑl vɑˈtɔ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1901–68, Italian poet: Nobel prize 1959.
- quatrains — Plural form of quatrain.
- quaysides — Plural form of quayside.
- queasiest — Superlative form of queasy.
- quebecois — Quebecer.
- queenfish — a silvery and bluish drum, Seriphus politus, inhabiting shallow waters along the coast of California.
- queenship — the state, office, or dignity of a queen.
- queenside — the side of the board on which the queen is positioned at the start of a game, left for white and right for black.
- questions — Plural form of question.
- questrist — one who quests
- quickness — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- quicksets — Plural form of quickset.
- 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:
- quickstep — (formerly) a lively step used in marching.
- quidnuncs — Plural form of quidnunc.
- quiescent — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
- quiesence — Misspelling of quiescence.
- quiet sun — the sun at the minimum of solar activity, occurring every 11 years.
- quietness — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
- quietsome — still, calm, quiet
- quillfish — a fish, Ptilichthys goodei, of the Bering Sea, having an eellike body with long, many-rayed fins.
- quilombos — Plural form of quilombo.
- quinarius — a denomination of ancient Roman coinage, issued in silver or gold at various times and undergoing many changes of value.
- quinellas — Plural form of quinella.
- quintains — Plural form of quintain.
- quintiles — Plural form of quintile.