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13-letter words containing q, u, i, t, s

  • pre-requisite — required beforehand: a prerequisite fund of knowledge.
  • pseudoaquatic — not aquatic but indigenous to moist regions.
  • quality press — the more serious newspapers which give detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
  • quarterfinals — Plural form of quarterfinal.
  • quartziferous — consisting of or containing quartz: quartziferous rock.
  • quasi-crystal — a group of atoms resembling a crystal but not having symmetrical plane faces
  • quasi-private — belonging to some particular person: private property.
  • quasi-retired — withdrawn from or no longer occupied with one's business or profession: a retired banker.
  • quasi-totally — constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
  • quasimilitary — Having certain military aspects.
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
  • quaternionist — a mathematician who works with quaternions
  • question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
  • question time — a time set aside in a session during which members of a parliament may question a minister or ministers regarding state affairs.
  • questionaries — Plural form of questionary.
  • questioningly — In a questioning manner.
  • questionnaire — a list of questions, usually printed, submitted for replies that can be analyzed for usable information: a questionnaire used in market research.
  • quick-setting — setting quickly, as a cement, paint, or gelatin.
  • quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
  • quintessences — Plural form of quintessence.
  • reacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • requisitioner — the act of requiring or demanding.
  • saint-quentin — a city in N France, on the Somme: retaken from the Germans 1918.
  • sequentiality — characterized by regular sequence of parts.
  • sequestration — removal or separation; banishment or exile.
  • sesquiplicate — relating to or involving the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of given terms; i.e. the sesquiplicate ratio of given terms is the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of those terms
  • sesquiterpene — (originally) any of a class of monocyclic hydrocarbons of the formula C 10 H 16 , obtained from plants.
  • square matrix — a matrix in which the number of rows is equal to the number of columns.
  • squeezability — the quality of being capable of, or suitable for, being squeezed
  • sub-questions — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • subequatorial — of, relating to, or being a region near the equatorial region.
  • tahrir square — a large square in central Cairo, in Egypt. The name, meaning ‘liberation’, was used informally after the 1919 revolution and then officially after the 1952 revolution. Scene of mass demonstrations in 2011 against the government of president Hosni Mubarak
  • the squitters — diarrhoea
  • tree squirrel — any squirrel of the genus Sciurus, with a long, bushy tail, familiar in parks and wooded areas throughout temperate regions.
  • triquetrously — from a triquetrous point of view
  • uninquisitive — given to inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge; intellectually curious: an inquisitive mind.
  • unpicturesque — not visually pleasing; not striking or beautiful
  • unquestioning — indicating or implying a question: a questioning tone in her voice.
  • ventriloquism — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
  • ventriloquist — a person who performs or is skilled in ventriloquism.
  • ventriloquous — of or relating to ventriloquism or a ventriloquist
  • wife's equity — a wife's right to have provision made for her and her children out of her estate, without the aid of a court of equity, if her husband cannot obtain the funds
  • winter squash — any of several varieties of Cucurbita maxima or C. moschata that mature in late autumn and are used, when ripe, as a vegetable.
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