14-letter words containing r, o, q
- quasi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- quasi-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- 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
- 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
- quinquefarious — consisting of or divided into five lines, sections, etc
- quintus prolog — (language, product) A version of Prolog developed by Quintus. Development of Quintus Prolog had transferred to the Swedish Institute of Computer Science by December 1998. Telephone: +1 (800) 542 1283.
- 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
- quotation mark — 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.
- 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.
- 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 oneself — to make amends for damage, a wrong, hurt, etc. done by oneself to another
- square shooter — an honest, fair person.
- squeak through — to succeed, get through, survive, etc. by a narrow margin or with difficulty
- terminus a quo — the end from which; beginning; starting point; earliest limiting point.
- tiger mosquito — a large Asian mosquito, Aedes albopictus, introduced into the southern U.S., that is a vector of dengue and other infectious diseases.
- torque spanner — a spanner having a torque-limiting mechanism which can be set to a predetermined value
- trick question — sth asked to mislead or incriminate sb
- vernal 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)
- wild liquorice — a North American plant, Glycyrrhiza lepidota, that is related to true liquorice and has similar properties