8-letter words containing q, u, o
- obliques — Collectively, the abdominal muscles responsible for rotation of the trunk.
- obliquid — aimed in an oblique direction
- oldsquaw — A marine diving duck that breeds in Arctic Eurasia and North America, the male having very long tail feathers and mainly white plumage in winter.
- opaquely — not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
- outquote — to quote more than
- paroquet — parakeet.
- piquillo — a variety of sweet red pepper grown in the Ebro River Valley in N Spain
- pop quiz — impromptu test
- postquel — POSTGRES QUERy Language. The language used by the POSTGRES database system.
- quadcore — (computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of four cores.
- quadroon — a person having one-fourth black ancestry, with one black grandparent; the offspring of a mulatto and a white person.
- quadword — (computing) A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus typically 64 bits.
- quaestor — one of two subordinates of the consuls serving as public prosecutors in certain criminal cases.
- qualcomm — (company) A California-based technology company; their primary product is the OMNITRACS tractor-trailer-tracking system. They also develop the free and commercial versions of Eudora for Macintosh and IBM PC.
- quandong — an Australian tree, Fusanus acuminatus, bearing a fruit with an edible, nutlike seed.
- quantico — a U.S. Marine Corps base and development and education command in NE Virginia, NE of Fredericksburg on the Potomac River.
- quantong — quandong.
- quanzhou — a seaport in SE Fujian province, in SE China, on Taiwan Strait.
- quarnero — Gulf of, an arm of the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia.
- quarrion — A cockatiel, Nymphicus hollandicus.
- quatorze — a set of four cards of the same denomination, aces, kings, queens, jacks, or tens, scoring 14 points.
- queendom — the position or status of a queen.
- queerdom — the state of being a homosexual
- question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- qui nhon — a seaport in SE Vietnam, on the South China Sea coast.
- quiberon — a peninsula in NW France, on the S coast of Brittany: British naval victory over the French 1759. 6 miles (10 km) long.
- quilombo — (historical, in Brazil) A remote, inland settlement originally settled by fugitive slaves (or others).
- quinones — Plural form of quinone.
- quintero — Álvarez Quintero.
- quite so — indeed, precisely
- quixotic — extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.
- quixotry — A wild, visionary idea, an eccentric notion or act; a quixotism.
- quo modo — in what manner?
- quoining — The stone or brick used to form a quoin of a wall or building.
- quotable — able to be quoted or easily quoted, as by reason of effectiveness, succinctness, or the like: the most quotable book of the season.
- quotably — in a quotable manner
- quotient — the result of division; the number of times one quantity is contained in another.
- requoted — to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
- roquette — arugula.
- sequoyah — 1770?–1843, Cherokee Indian scholar: inventor of a syllabary for writing Cherokee.
- soliquid — a semisolid, semiliquid solution
- squadron — a portion of a naval fleet or a detachment of warships; a subdivision of a fleet.
- squaloid — of, relating to, or like a shark, or specifically the dogfish (Squalidae) family of sharks
- squamous — covered with or formed of squamae or scales.
- squarson — a clergyman who is also main local landowner
- squiggol — Bird-Meertens Formalism
- squooshy — soft and squashy
- torquate — ringed about the neck, as with feathers or a color; collared.
- torquing — Mechanics. something that produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation; the moment of a force or system of forces tending to cause rotation.
- unquoted — to close a quotation (often used with the word quote, which notes the opening of the quotation): The senator said, quote, I am unalterably opposed to this policy, unquote.