14-letter words containing r, e, q
- quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- quartermasters — Plural form of quartermaster.
- quasi-particle — an object that is similar to a particle, but does not meet the full criteria of a particle
- quasi-periodic — almost periodic
- quasi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- quasiparticles — Plural form of quasiparticle.
- quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
- quattrocentist — a painter or writer of 15th-century Italy
- queens problem — eight queens puzzle
- queer-sounding — that sounds odd or strange
- querimoniously — in a querimonious manner
- query language — the instructions and procedures used to retrieve information from a database
- questionmaster — quizmaster.
- questionnaires — Plural form of questionnaire.
- queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
- quick response — fast reaction time
- quick-tempered — easily angered.
- quickie strike — a labor strike that has not been called or sanctioned by the officials of the union.
- quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
- quicksilverish — resembling quicksilver
- quinquefarious — consisting of or divided into five lines, sections, etc
- quinquepartite — divided into or consisting of five parts.
- quiz programme — a radio or television programme in which the general or specific knowledge of the players is tested by a series of questions
- quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
- quotient group — a group, the elements of which are cosets with respect to a normal subgroup of a given group.
- radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- reacquaintance — a person known to one, but usually not a close friend.
- relinquishment — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- required-cobol — A minimal subset of COBOL developed in 1961. It was later dropped entirely.
- requisitioning — the act of requiring or demanding.
- requisitionist — a person who requisitions; a person who makes a requisition
- roentgenopaque — not permitting the passage of x-rays.
- sequestrectomy — the removal of dead spicules or portions, especially of bone.
- spring equinox — the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
- square bracket — bracket (def 3).
- square measure — a system of units for the measurement of surfaces or areas.
- square oneself — to make amends for damage, a wrong, hurt, etc. done by oneself to another
- square shooter — an honest, fair person.
- square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
- square-dancing — the activity of taking part in a square dance
- squared circle — a wrestling ring
- squared splice — square splice.
- squeak through — to succeed, get through, survive, etc. by a narrow margin or with difficulty
- string quartet — a musical composition, usually in three or four movements, for four stringed instruments, typically two violins, viola, and cello.
- terminus a quo — the end from which; beginning; starting point; earliest limiting point.
- the quaternary — the Quaternary period or rock system, divided into Pleistocene and Holocene (Recent) epochs or series
- third quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the largest quartile; the 75th percentile; the value of the variable below which three quarters of the elements are located.
- three-quarters — Three-quarters is an amount that is three out of four equal parts of something.
- tiger mosquito — a large Asian mosquito, Aedes albopictus, introduced into the southern U.S., that is a vector of dengue and other infectious diseases.