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10-letter words containing s, q, u, a

  • quittances — Plural form of quittance.
  • quizmaster — a person who asks questions of contestants in a game, especially as part of a radio or television program.
  • quo vadis? — where are you going?
  • quotations — Plural form of quotation.
  • quotatious — using or involving many quotations
  • quotidians — Plural form of quotidian.
  • rafinesque — Constantine Samuel, 1783–1840, U.S. naturalist, born in Turkey.
  • rainsquall — squall1 (def 1).
  • ramboesque — looking or behaving like, or characteristic of, Rambo, a fictional film character noted for his mindless brutality
  • red square — a large, open square in central Moscow, adjacent to the Kremlin: site of military parades, Lenin's tomb, and St. Basil's cathedral.
  • requiescat — a wish or prayer for the repose of the dead.
  • riot squad — a group of police officers having special training and equipment for quelling riots and other public disturbances.
  • romanesque — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture prevailing in western or southern Europe from the 9th through the 12th centuries, characterized by heavy masonry construction with narrow openings, features such as the round arch, the groin vault, and the barrel vault, and the introduction or development of the vaulting rib, the vaulting shaft, and central and western towers for churches.
  • satyresque — possessing the qualities of a satyr
  • sea squill — sea onion (def 1).
  • sea squirt — any tunicate, especially a sessile ascidian, so called from its habit of contracting its body and ejecting streams of water when disturbed.
  • seaquarium — an area of salt water where sea animals are kept so people can look at them
  • semiopaque — partly or nearly opaque.
  • semiquaver — a sixteenth note.
  • sequacious — following with smooth or logical regularity.
  • sequential — characterized by regular sequence of parts.
  • sequestral — a fragment of bone that has become necrotic as a result of disease or injury and has separated from the normal bone structure.
  • set square — a thin flat piece of plastic, metal, etc, in the shape of a right-angled triangle, used in technical drawing
  • sinarquist — a member or advocate of an ultrareactionary, semifascist movement organized in Mexico about 1937.
  • sou marque — a billon coin of France, issued in the 18th century for circulation in the colonies.
  • squabasher — a person who squabashes someone or something
  • squabbling — act of quarrelling
  • squad room — a room in a police station where police officers assemble, as for inspection, roll call, or duty assignments.
  • squadronal — belonging or relating to a squadron or squadrons
  • squamation — the state of being squamate.
  • squamiform — shaped like a scale.
  • squamosity — the state or condition of being covered with, formed of, resembling, or consisting of scales
  • squamulose — furnished or covered with tiny scales.
  • squanderer — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
  • square leg — the position of a fielder on the left of the batsman and almost on the opposite side of the wicket.
  • square off — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • square one — a starting point; initial stage or step: If this plan fails, we'll have to go back to square one.
  • square peg — a person or thing that is a misfit, such as an employee in a job for which he or she is unsuited
  • square rod — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one rod on each side.
  • square set — a set having 12 timbers joined to form eight 90° solid angles.
  • square tin — a medium-sized loaf having a crusty top, baked in a tin with a square base
  • square-cut — cut so as to be rectangular, straight, or level
  • square-law — of or relating to an electronic circuit or device that produces an output voltage proportional to the square of its input voltage over the range of input voltages for which it is designed to function: square-law detector.
  • squarehead — a stupid person.
  • squareness — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • squaretail — any of several fishes of the genus Tetragonurus, inhabiting deep waters of tropical and temperate seas, having a squarish tail and an armor of tough, bony scales.
  • squaretoed — having a broad, square toe, as a shoe.
  • squarewise — in a square position or shape
  • squarishly — in a squarish manner
  • squash bug — a dark-brown bug, Anasa tristis, that sucks the sap from the leaves of squash, pumpkin, and other plants of the gourd family.
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