9-letter words containing q, u, o
- questions — Plural form of question.
- qui nhong — a port in SE Vietnam, on the South China Sea. Pop: 163 385 (1992 est)
- 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:
- quietsome — still, calm, quiet
- quillwork — a type of decoration using softened and usually dyed porcupine or bird quills.
- quillwort — any fernlike, aquatic marsh plant of the genus Isoëtes, characterized by clustered, quill-like leaves bearing sporangia in their bases.
- quilombos — Plural form of quilombo.
- quinoidal — of or resembling quinone.
- quinoline — a colorless, liquid, water-immiscible, nitrogenous base, C 9 H 7 N, having a disagreeable odor, occurring in coal tar, and usually prepared by oxidizing a mixture of glycerol and aniline: used as a solvent and reagent and to make dyes.
- quinology — The science of the cultivation of cinchona and its use in medicine as quinine.
- quinolone — Any of a class of antibiotics used in treating a variety of mainly Gram-negative infections, and thought to be responsible for antibiotic resistance in some microbes.
- quinonoid — of or resembling quinone.
- quintroon — a person having one octoroon and one White parent and therefore having one-sixteenth Black blood
- quixotism — (sometimes initial capital letter) quixotic character or practice.
- quo jure? — by what right?
- quoad hoc — as much as this; to this extent.
- quodlibet — a subtle or elaborate argument or point of debate, usually on a theological or scholastic subject.
- quotation — something that is quoted; a passage quoted from a book, speech, etc.: a speech full of quotations from Lincoln's letters.
- quotative — (linguistics) Form of the complementizer related to the verb say, found in many languages of West Africa and South Asia.
- quotidian — daily: a quotidian report.
- quotients — Plural form of quotient.
- quotition — division by repeated subtraction
- reconquer — to acquire by force of arms; win in war: to conquer a foreign land.
- requoting — to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
- roquefort — a blue-veined cheese with a strong flavour, made from ewes' milk: matured in caves
- siliquose — bearing siliques.
- siqueiros — David Alfaro [dah-veeth ahl-fah-raw] /dɑˈvið ɑlˈfɑ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1974, Mexican painter.
- sobriquet — a nickname.
- soliloquy — an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts): Hamlet's soliloquy begins with “To be or not to be.”.
- squadoosh — nothing
- squadrone — a former Scottish political party, active in the last parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union, in the early 18th century
- squamosal — Anatomy. of or relating to the thin, scalelike portion of the temporal bone that is situated on the side of the skull above and behind the ear.
- square go — a fair fight between two individuals
- squarrose — denoting any rough or ragged surface.
- squawroot — a fleshy, leafless plant, Conopholis americana, of the broomrape family, native to eastern North America, having a stout, yellowish, conelike stalk of lipped flowers, and growing in clusters, especially under oaks.
- squillion — an extremely large but unspecified number, quantity, or amount
- squiredom — the squirearchy.
- top quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 176 to 199 GeV/c2, a positive charge 2⁄3 that of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- totaquine — a mixture of quinine and other alkaloids derived from cinchona bark, used as a substitute for quinine in treating malaria
- tu quoque — you likewise: a retort made by a person accused of a crime implying that the accuser is also guilty of the same crime
- turquoise — Also, turquois. an opaque mineral, a basic hydrous copper aluminum phosphate often containing a small amount of iron, sky-blue or greenish-blue in color, cut cabochon as a gem. Compare bone turquoise.
- unquachog — a member of an American Indian people of eastern Long Island, New York.
- veronique — (of a dish) served in a white sauce and garnished with seedless white grapes