8-letter words containing q
- kong qiu — personal name of Confucius.
- kumquats — Plural form of kumquat.
- la tuque — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- lacquers — Plural form of lacquer.
- levesque — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1922–1987, Canadian political leader: premier of Quebec 1976–85.
- limequat — a hybrid citrus tree produced by crossing the lime and the kumquat.
- liquable — able to be melted
- liquated — Simple past tense and past participle of liquate.
- liquesce — to become liquid
- liqueurs — Plural form of liqueur.
- liquidly — In a liquid way.
- liquidus — (on a graph of temperature versus composition) the curve connecting the temperatures at which a liquid solution is in equilibrium with its vapor and with the solid solution.
- liquitab — a soluble plastic capsule containing liquid detergent or medicine
- liquored — Simple past tense and past participle of liquor.
- loquitur — (he or she) speaks (with the speaker’s name following, as a stage direction or to inform the reader).
- macaques — Plural form of macaque.
- manequin — Dated form of mannequin.
- maquette — a small model or study in three dimensions for either a sculptural or an architectural project.
- maquilas — a factory run by a U.S. company in Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and lax regulation.
- maroquin — morocco leather
- marquand — J(ohn) P(hillips) 1893–1960, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- marquees — Plural form of marquee.
- marquesa — A Spanish marchioness.
- marquess — marquee (def 3).
- marquise — the wife or widow of a marquis.
- masquers — Plural form of masquer.
- mbaqanga — a style of Black popular music of urban South Africa
- mesquite — a city in NE Texas, E of Dallas.
- miquelet — (in the Peninsular War) a Spanish guerrilla who fought against the French.
- miquelon — St. Pierre and Miquelon.
- misquote — a quotation that is incorrect.
- moquette — a type of fabric with a thick, velvety pile, used for carpets and in upholstering.
- moresque — Moorish.
- mosquito — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Culicidae, the females of which suck the blood of animals and humans, some species transmitting certain diseases, as malaria and yellow fever.
- muqaddam — a leader or person of authority
- musquash — Chiefly British. the fur of the muskrat.
- mysql ab — (company) The Swedish company that developes, distributes and supports the MySQL open source rdbms. MySQL AB is a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, themselves acquired by Oracle Corporation on 2009-04-20.
- mystique — a framework of doctrines, ideas, beliefs, or the like, constructed around a person or object, endowing the person or object with enhanced value or profound meaning: the mystique of Poe.
- narquois — mocking, malicious, or snide
- non seq. — non sequitur
- nonequal — as great as; the same as (often followed by to or with): The velocity of sound is not equal to that of light.
- nonquota — not included in a quota
- nut quad — a quad one en wide; en quad.
- obliqued — neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.
- 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
- palenque — a village in SE Mexico, in Chiapas state: ruins of an ancient Mayan city.