8-letter words containing q, u, i, t
- quantise — Alternative spelling of quantize.
- quantity — a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk; the ocean's vast quantity of fish.
- quantize — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quartier — a city district
- quartile — Statistics. (in a frequency distribution) one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into four groups having equal frequencies. Compare first quartile, median, third quartile.
- quartine — (botany, archaic) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
- quatrain — a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
- queen it — a female sovereign or monarch.
- queenite — a supporter of a queen
- queerity — queerness or peculiarity
- querists — Plural form of querist.
- questing — a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
- question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- quickest — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quickset — a plant or cutting, especially of hawthorn, set to grow, as in a hedge.
- quiddity — the quality that makes a thing what it is; the essential nature of a thing.
- quietens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quieten.
- quietest — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
- quieting — Present participle of quiet.
- quietism — a form of religious mysticism taught by Molinos, a Spanish priest, in the latter part of the 17th century, requiring extinction of the will, withdrawal from worldly interests, and passive meditation on God and divine things; Molinism.
- quietist — A mystic who follows quietism.
- quietive — a thing which quietens or calms
- quietude — the state of being quiet; tranquillity; calmness; stillness; quiet.
- quiktran — Fortran-like, interactive with debugging facilities. Sammet 1969, p.226.
- quillets — a subtlety or quibble.
- quilters — Plural form of quilter.
- quilting — a coverlet for a bed, made of two layers of fabric with some soft substance, as wool or down, between them and stitched in patterns or tufted through all thicknesses in order to prevent the filling from shifting.
- quintain — an object mounted on a post or attached to a movable crossbar mounted on a post, used as a target in the medieval sport of tilting.
- quintals — Plural form of quintal.
- quintant — a sextant having an arc equal to one fifth of a circle.
- quintero — Álvarez Quintero.
- quintets — Plural form of quintet.
- quintics — Plural form of quintic.
- quintile — Statistics. a quantile for the special case of five equal proportions.
- quipster — a person who frequently makes quips.
- quirites — the citizens of ancient Rome
- quirting — Present participle of quirt.
- quite so — indeed, precisely
- quitrent — rent paid by a freeholder or copyholder in lieu of services that might otherwise have been required.
- quitters — Plural form of quitter.
- quitting — to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
- quixotic — extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.
- quixotry — A wild, visionary idea, an eccentric notion or act; a quixotism.
- quotient — the result of division; the number of times one quantity is contained in another.
- requital — the act of requiting.
- requited — to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
- requiter — to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
- sequitur — a conclusion that follows from the premises
- squinted — to look with the eyes partly closed.
- squirted — to eject liquid in a jet from a narrow orifice: The hose squirted all over us.