11-letter words containing t, q, u
- inquisitors — Plural form of inquisitor.
- irondequoit — a city in W New York.
- liquid diet — a diet restricted to liquids and, sometimes, certain semisolid foods, as custards, gelatin, etc.
- liquidating — Present participle of liquidate.
- liquidation — the process of realizing upon assets and of discharging liabilities in concluding the affairs of a business, estate, etc.
- liquidators — Plural form of liquidator.
- longinquity — long distance; remoteness
- low-quality — substandard; of inferior quality: It’s hard to make a delicious dish when you start with low-quality ingredients. Repairs made with low-quality parts are cheaper, but they won’t last long.
- malt liquor — beer having a relatively high alcohol content, usually 5 to 8 percent.
- marquessate — The territory of a marquess, margrave or person of comparable rank.
- marquisates — Plural form of marquisate.
- marquisette — a lightweight open fabric of leno weave in cotton, rayon, silk, or nylon.
- metasequoia — a tall deciduous coniferous tree, Metasequoia glyptostrobodes, first known as a fossil and then discovered alive in China.
- milquetoast — a very timid, unassertive, spineless person, especially one who is easily dominated or intimidated: a milquetoast who's afraid to ask for a raise.
- monchiquite — a type of rock made up of large crystals of, among other constituents, olivine and amphibole and which is found in an analcite groundmass
- montesquieu — (Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu) 1689–1755, French philosophical writer.
- mosquitoing — Present participle of mosquito.
- non-aquatic — of, in, or pertaining to water.
- nonsequitur — Alternative form of non sequitur.
- obliquation — the fact or process of veering or moving in an oblique or slantwise direction
- obliquities — Plural form of obliquity.
- obliquitous — the state of being oblique.
- patch quilt — a patchwork quilt
- perquisitor — the first person to own property that has subsequently been handed down to his heirs
- picturesque — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
- plastiqueur — a person, especially a terrorist, who makes, places, or detonates plastic bombs.
- plateresque — noting or pertaining to a 16th-century style of Spanish architecture characterized by profuse applications of delicate low-relief Renaissance ornament to isolated parts of building exteriors.
- potteresque — resembling or suggestive of scenes and situations described in the Harry Potter novels of J. K. Rowling
- pre-request — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
- preacquaint — to acquaint (someone with information) in advance
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- propinquity — nearness in place; proximity.
- pythonesque — denoting a kind of humour that is absurd and unpredictable; zany; surreal
- 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.
- quadratical — (rare) quadratic.
- quadratures — Plural form of quadrature.
- quadrigatus — a silver coin of ancient Rome, bearing an image of Jupiter in a quadriga on the reverse.
- quadripoint — A point at which four borders meet.
- quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
- quaintrelle — (obscure) A woman who emphasizes a life of passion expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm, and cultivation of life’s pleasures.
- qualitative — pertaining to or concerned with quality or qualities.
- 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.
- quantifying — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quantitated — Simple past tense and past participle of quantitate.
- quantometer — a spectroscopic instrument for measuring the percentage of different metals present in a sample
- quantum bit — the fundamental unit of information in a quantum computer, capable of existing in two states, 0 or 1, simultaneously or at a different time.
- quantum dot — (physics) (Or "single-electron transistor") A location capable of containing a single electrical charge; i.e., a single electron of Coulomb charge. Physically, quantum dots are nanometer-size semiconductor structures in which the presence or absence of a quantum electron can be used to store information. See also: quantum cell, quantum cell wire, quantum-dot cellular automata.
- quarantined — a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
- quarantines — Plural form of quarantine.