8-letter words containing q
- squiring — (in England) a country gentleman, especially the chief landed proprietor in a district.
- squirish — like or appropriate to a squire
- squirmed — to wriggle or writhe.
- squirrel — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- squirted — to eject liquid in a jet from a narrow orifice: The hose squirted all over us.
- squirter — to eject liquid in a jet from a narrow orifice: The hose squirted all over us.
- squooshy — soft and squashy
- subequal — not quite equal
- t square — a T -shaped ruler, used primarily in mechanical drawing, having a short crosspiece that slides along the edge of the drawing board as a guide to the perpendicular longer section in making parallel lines, right angles, etc., and as a support for triangles.
- t-square — a T -shaped ruler, used primarily in mechanical drawing, having a short crosspiece that slides along the edge of the drawing board as a guide to the perpendicular longer section in making parallel lines, right angles, etc., and as a support for triangles.
- tanaquil — a legendary queen of Rome who prophesied the future greatness of Servius Tullius and helped him to gain the throne after the murder of her husband by a political faction.
- taqueria — a restaurant or stand specializing in Mexican dishes, as tacos and burritos.
- 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.
- tranquil — free from commotion or tumult; peaceful; quiet; calm: a tranquil country place.
- truqueur — a forger of artworks
- ubiquity — the state or capacity of being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresence: the ubiquity of magical beliefs.
- umquhile — (esp of a person now dead) former or previous
- uniquely — existing as the only one or as the sole example; single; solitary in type or characteristics: a unique copy of an ancient manuscript.
- 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.
- up quark — the quark having electric charge 2/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness and charm equal to 0.
- urquhart — Sir Thomas, 1611–60, Scottish author and translator.
- vanquish — to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
- verquere — a variation of backgammon
- wulumuqi — Ürümqi.
- yangquan — a city in E Shanxi province, in NE China.