15-letter words containing r, o, q, u
- quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- quasihistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- queen's proctor — a British judiciary officer who may intervene in probate, nullity, or divorce actions when collusion, suppression of evidence, or other irregularities are alleged.
- query expansion — (information science) Adding search terms to a user's search. Query expansion is the process of a search engine adding search terms to a user's weighted search. The intent is to improve precision and/or recall. The additional terms may be taken from a thesaurus. For example a search for "car" may be expanded to: car cars auto autos automobile automobiles. The additional terms may also be taken from documents that the user has specified as being relevant; this is the basis for the "more like this" feature of some search engines. The extra terms can have positive or negative weights.
- question master — quizmaster.
- question period — a period of time set aside each day for members of parliament to question government ministers
- quiche lorraine — a quiche containing bits of bacon or ham and often cheese.
- quickie divorce — the formal ending of a marriage by law, carried out in a faster manner than usual, esp online
- quotation marks — one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usually shown as “ at the beginning and ” at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, of single marks of this kind, as “He said, ‘I will go.’ ” Frequently, especially in Great Britain, single marks are used instead of double, the latter being then used for a quotation within a quotation.
- radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- required course — an obligatory course for all students
- secret mosquito — a high-pitched ringtone for a mobile phone, claimed by its distributors to be inaudible to most adults while remaining audible to children and teenagers
- sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
- silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
- squadron leader — air-force officer
- squeeze through — to press forcibly together; compress.
- squirrel monkey — either of two small, long-tailed monkeys, Saimiri oerstedii of Central America and S. sciureus of South America, having a small white face with black muzzle and gold, brown, or greenish fur: S. oerstedii is endangered.
- thermal equator — an imaginary line round the earth running through the point on each meridian with the highest average temperature. It lies mainly to the north because of the larger landmasses and therefore greater summer heating
- transequatorial — of, relating to, or near an equator, especially the equator of the earth.
- turquoise green — a light bluish green.
- video frequency — transmission frequency of the television picture.