12-letter words containing q
- cinque terre — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
- citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
- cliquishness — The state of being cliquish.
- closet queen — a man who is homosexual but does not admit the fact
- colliquation — liquefaction
- colliquative — capable of liquefaction or dissolution
- colloquially — characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal.
- coloquintida — colocynth (defs 1, 2).
- conqueringly — in a conquering manner
- conquistador — The conquistadors were the sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors of Central and South America.
- consequenced — Simple past tense and past participle of consequence.
- consequences — a game in which each player writes down a part of a story, folds over the paper, and passes it on to another player who continues the story. After several stages, the resulting (nonsensical) stories are read out
- consequently — Consequently means as a result.
- coquettishly — (of a woman) characteristically flirtatious, especially in a teasing, lighthearted manner.
- coquilla nut — the nut of a South American palm tree, Attalea funifera, having a hard brown shell used for carving
- corequisites — Plural form of corequisite.
- croquet hoop — a hoop stuck into a croquet lawn
- croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
- crown quarto — a size of book, about 7½ × 10 inches (19 × 25 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: crown 4to.
- cyber mosque — a website dealing with Islamic religious matters
- date squares — a sweet made of a date filling on an oatmeal base with a crumble topping, cut into squares
- delinquently — failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense.
- deliquescent — the act or process of deliquescing.
- deliquescing — Present participle of deliquesce.
- desquamating — Present participle of desquamate.
- desquamation — to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off.
- desquamative — tending to cause desquamation; characterized by desquamation
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- diddly-squat — anything
- discotheques — Plural form of discotheque.
- disqualified — Simple past tense and past participle of disqualify.
- disqualifier — One who, or that which, disqualifies.
- disqualifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disqualify.
- disquisition — a formal discourse or treatise in which a subject is examined and discussed; dissertation.
- disquisitive — Relating to disquisition; fond of discussion or investigation; inquisitive.
- disquisitory — of or relating to disquisition
- dna sequence — the order of base pairs in a section of DNA
- doodly-squat — a minimum amount or degree; the least bit (usually used in the negative): This coin collection isn't worth doodly-squat in today's market.
- double quote — (character) '"' ASCII character 34. Often used in programming languages to delimit strings. In Unix shells and Perl it delimits a string inside which variable substitution may occur. Common names: quote. Rare: literal mark; double-glitch; ITU-T: quotation marks; ITU-T: dieresis; dirk; INTERCAL: rabbit-ears; double prime.
- double-quick — very quick or rapid.
- eloquentness — The quality of being eloquent.
- equalisation — Alternative spelling of equalization.
- equalitarian — Characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people.
- equalization — The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized.
- equestrienne — A female equestrian.
- equidistance — (uncountable) Equal distance.
- equifinality — The property of being equifinal.
- equigranular — (petrology) Composed chiefly of grains of similar size.
- equilaterals — Plural form of equilateral.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.