14-letter words containing q, u, i
- re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- reacquaintance — a person known to one, but usually not a close friend.
- relinquishment — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- required-cobol — A minimal subset of COBOL developed in 1961. It was later dropped entirely.
- requisitioning — the act of requiring or demanding.
- requisitionist — a person who requisitions; a person who makes a requisition
- sauve qui peut — a state of panic or disorder; rout
- sequaciousness — the condition or quality of being sequacious
- sesquipedalian — given to using long words.
- sesquipedalism — given to using long words.
- sesquipedality — given to using long words.
- sesquisulphide — a sulphide containing three sulphur atoms to two of some other element
- spring equinox — the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
- square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
- square-dancing — the activity of taking part in a square dance
- squared circle — a wrestling ring
- squared splice — square splice.
- squeezed joint — a joint between two members cemented or glued together under pressure.
- string quartet — a musical composition, usually in three or four movements, for four stringed instruments, typically two violins, viola, and cello.
- terminus a quo — the end from which; beginning; starting point; earliest limiting point.
- third quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the largest quartile; the 75th percentile; the value of the variable below which three quarters of the elements are located.
- thomas aquinas — Saint Thomas ("the Angelic Doctor") 1225?–74, Italian scholastic philosopher: a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.
- tiger mosquito — a large Asian mosquito, Aedes albopictus, introduced into the southern U.S., that is a vector of dengue and other infectious diseases.
- trick question — sth asked to mislead or incriminate sb
- ubiquitousness — existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent: ubiquitous fog; ubiquitous little ants.
- unacquaintance — the state of being unaware or ignorant
- underqualified — having the qualities, accomplishments, etc., that fit a person for some function, office, or the like.
- unequivalently — equal in value, measure, force, effect, significance, etc.: His silence is equivalent to an admission of guilt.
- unequivocating — to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge: When asked directly for his position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.
- unquantifiable — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- unquestionable — not open to question; beyond doubt or dispute; indisputable; undeniable; certain: an unquestionable fact.
- unquestionably — not open to question; beyond doubt or dispute; indisputable; undeniable; certain: an unquestionable fact.
- unvanquishable — not able to be vanquished or overcome; unconquerable; undefeatable
- vernal equinox — the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
- vexed question — an issue that is much debated and discussed
- well-qualified — having the qualities, accomplishments, etc., that fit a person for some function, office, or the like.
- wild liquorice — a North American plant, Glycyrrhiza lepidota, that is related to true liquorice and has similar properties