8-letter words containing t, q
- quartzes — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- quatorze — a set of four cards of the same denomination, aces, kings, queens, jacks, or tens, scoring 14 points.
- quatrain — a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
- queen it — a female sovereign or monarch.
- queenite — a supporter of a queen
- queenlet — a queen of a small realm
- queerest — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- queerity — queerness or peculiarity
- quelpart — former name of Cheju (def 1).
- querists — Plural form of querist.
- questant — a person who quests
- questers — Plural form of quester.
- questing — a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
- question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- quetzals — Plural form of quetzal.
- quickest — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quickset — a plant or cutting, especially of hawthorn, set to grow, as in a hedge.
- quiddity — the quality that makes a thing what it is; the essential nature of a thing.
- quietens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quieten.
- quietest — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
- quieting — Present participle of quiet.
- quietism — a form of religious mysticism taught by Molinos, a Spanish priest, in the latter part of the 17th century, requiring extinction of the will, withdrawal from worldly interests, and passive meditation on God and divine things; Molinism.
- quietist — A mystic who follows quietism.
- quietive — a thing which quietens or calms
- quietude — the state of being quiet; tranquillity; calmness; stillness; quiet.
- quiktran — Fortran-like, interactive with debugging facilities. Sammet 1969, p.226.
- quillets — a subtlety or quibble.
- quilters — Plural form of quilter.
- quilting — a coverlet for a bed, made of two layers of fabric with some soft substance, as wool or down, between them and stitched in patterns or tufted through all thicknesses in order to prevent the filling from shifting.
- quintain — an object mounted on a post or attached to a movable crossbar mounted on a post, used as a target in the medieval sport of tilting.
- quintals — Plural form of quintal.
- quintant — a sextant having an arc equal to one fifth of a circle.
- quintero — Álvarez Quintero.
- quintets — Plural form of quintet.
- quintics — Plural form of quintic.
- quintile — Statistics. a quantile for the special case of five equal proportions.
- quipster — a person who frequently makes quips.
- quirites — the citizens of ancient Rome
- quirting — Present participle of quirt.
- quite so — indeed, precisely
- quitrent — rent paid by a freeholder or copyholder in lieu of services that might otherwise have been required.
- quitters — Plural form of quitter.
- quitting — to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
- quixotic — extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.
- quixotry — A wild, visionary idea, an eccentric notion or act; a quixotism.
- quotable — able to be quoted or easily quoted, as by reason of effectiveness, succinctness, or the like: the most quotable book of the season.
- quotably — in a quotable manner
- quotient — the result of division; the number of times one quantity is contained in another.
- racquets — Plural form of racquet.
- requital — the act of requiting.