12-letter words containing r, e, q, u
- headquarters — a center of operations, as of the police or a business, from which orders are issued; the chief administrative office of an organization: The operatives were always in touch with headquarters.
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hydroquinone — a white, crystalline compound, C 6 H 6 O 2 , formed by the reduction of quinone: used chiefly in photography and to inhibit autoxidation reactions.
- infrequently — happening or occurring at long intervals or rarely: infrequent visits.
- inquiry desk — a section of an office, business etc, which deals with inquiries nor requests for information
- inquisitress — a woman who makes an inquisition.
- lacquer tree — any of several trees yielding a resin used as lacquer, as Rhus verniciflua, of Japan.
- last quarter — the instant, approximately one week after a full moon, when half of the moon's disk is illuminated by the sun.
- latin square — a square array of numbers, letters, etc., in which each item appears exactly once in each row and column: used in statistical analysis.
- leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
- liquor store — off-licence, shop selling alcohol
- macaberesque — resembling or suggestive of the danse macabre; macabre
- magic square — a square containing integers arranged in an equal number of rows and columns so that the sum of the integers in any row, column, or diagonal is the same.
- masquerading — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
- miter square — an instrument for laying out miter joints, consisting of two straightedges joined at a 45° angle.
- mitre square — a tool with two blades that are at a fixed angle to one another, used to bevel a mitre joint
- mousquetaire — musketeer.
- murder squad — the section of a police force that is responsible for dealing with murders
- non sequitur — Logic. an inference or a conclusion that does not follow from the premises.
- out-quarters — the outlying area of a building or district
- over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- overequipped — having too much equipment
- pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
- pearly queen — the female London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
- pectoriloquy — vocalization through the chest wall, indicating a cavity or consolidation of the lung
- perquisition — an intensive and meticulous examination, pursuit, or hunt for something
- prerequisite — required beforehand: a prerequisite fund of knowledge.
- presque isle — a city in NE Maine.
- pro-equality — the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability: promoting equality of opportunity in the workplace.
- quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
- quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
- quadraplegic — quadriplegic.
- quadriennial — quadrennial.
- quadriennium — quadrennium.
- quadriplegia — paralysis of all four limbs or of the entire body below the neck.
- quadriplegic — a person with quadriplegia.
- quadrisected — Simple past tense and past participle of quadrisect.
- quadrivalent — having a valence of four; tetravalent.
- quadruplexes — Plural form of quadruplex.
- quaquaversal — (of a geological formation) sloping downward from the center in all directions.
- quarry-faced — rock-faced.
- quarrymaster — a person in charge of a quarry
- quarter bend — a 90° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
- quarter mile — an event in which competitors run a quarter mile or 400 metres
- quarter note — a note equivalent to one fourth of a whole note; a crotchet.
- quarter rest — a rest equal in time value to a quarter note.
- quarter tone — an interval equivalent to half of a semitone.
- quarter turn — 90-degree rotation
- quarter-hoop — a hoop, especially of steel, fastened around a cask between the bilge and the chime.
- quarter-hour — a period of 15 minutes.