11-letter words containing s, q, n
- mosquitoing — Present participle of mosquito.
- nonsequitur — Alternative form of non sequitur.
- normanesque — in the style of Norman architecture, a variety of Romanesque architecture.
- obliqueness — The characteristic of being oblique.
- p's and q's — manners; behavior; conduct (usually preceded by mind or watch): The children were told to mind their p's and q's.
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- pythonesque — denoting a kind of humour that is absurd and unpredictable; zany; surreal
- qilian shan — a mountain range in W China, bordered between Qinghai and Gansu provinces.
- quadrangles — Plural form of quadrangle.
- quadrantids — a collection of meteors comprising a meteor shower (Quadran·tid me·teor show·er) visible around January 31 and having its apparent origin in the constellation Boötes.
- quadrasonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- quantasomes — any of numerous particles in a chloroplast, part of the thylakoid and functioning in photosynthesis.
- quantifiers — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
- quarantines — Plural form of quarantine.
- quasi-latin — an Italic language spoken in ancient Rome, fixed in the 2nd or 1st century b.c., and established as the official language of the Roman Empire. Abbreviation: L.
- quaternions — Plural form of quaternion.
- queen truss — a truss having queen posts with no king post.
- queenliness — The state of being queenly.
- queensberry — John Sholto Douglas, 8th Marquis of, 1844–1900, Scottish nobleman and sponsor of modern boxing rules.
- questionary — a questionnaire.
- questioners — Plural form of questioner.
- questioning — indicating or implying a question: a questioning tone in her voice.
- questionist — a person who questions
- quiescently — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
- quintuplets — Plural form of quintuplet.
- quislingism — the act of aiding or collaborating with an occupying force
- quonset hut — A Quonset hut is a military hut made of metal. The walls and roof form the shape of a semi-circle.
- requisition — the act of requiring or demanding.
- san joaquin — a river in California, flowing NW from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Sacramento River. 350 miles (560 km) long.
- semiquinone — any of the class of free radicals formed as intermediates in the oxidation of a hydroquinone to a quinone.
- sequestrant — any substance used to bring about sequestration, often by chelation. They are used in horticulture to counteract lime in the soil
- sesquiplane — a biplane having one wing with not more than half the surface area of the other wing.
- squall line — a line or extended narrow region within which squalls or thunderstorms occur, often several hundred miles long.
- square inch — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. 2 , sq. in. Abbreviation: in.
- square knot — a common knot in which the ends come out alongside of the standing parts.
- squarsonage — the residence of a squarson
- squassation — a form of strappado in which the victim, with arms bound behind and feet heavily weighted, was jerked up and down at the end of a rope passed under the arms.
- squattiness — the condition or quality of being squat
- squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
- squint-eyed — affected with or characterized by strabismus.
- squintingly — in a way that makes one squint
- squirreling — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- squishiness — soft and wet: The ground was squishy from the rain.
- st. quentin — a city in N France, on the Somme: retaken from the Germans 1918.
- subsequence — a sequence obtained from a given sequence by selecting terms from it and placing them in the order in which they occur in it.
- susquehanna — a river flowing S from central New York through E Pennsylvania and NE Maryland into Chesapeake Bay. 444 miles (715 km) long.
- unequalness — not equal; not of the same quantity, quality, value, rank, ability, etc.: People are unequal in their capacities.
- unrequisite — not essential; unnecessary
- unsequenced — the following of one thing after another; succession.
- unsquinting — to look with the eyes partly closed.