13-letter words containing u, n, q, a
- quaternionist — a mathematician who works with quaternions
- queen dowager — the widow of a king.
- queen regnant — a queen who reigns on her own behalf
- queen's award — either of two awards instituted by royal warrant (1976) for a sustained increase in export earnings by a British firm (Queen's Award for Export Achievement) or for an advance in technology (Queen's Award for Technological Achievement)
- queen's metal — any of several alloys containing antimony and tin and resembling britannia metal
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- questionaries — Plural form of questionary.
- questionnaire — a list of questions, usually printed, submitted for replies that can be analyzed for usable information: a questionnaire used in market research.
- quincentenary — a 500th anniversary or its celebration.
- quincuncially — In a quincuncial fashion.
- quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
- quindecennial — of or relating to a period of 15 years or the 15th occurrence of a series, as an anniversary.
- quindicessima — (music) Two octaves higher. Marking indicates a passage to be transposed up two octaves. Abbreviation: 15ma.
- quinine water — carbonated water containing lemon, lime, sweetener, and quinine, often used as a mixer.
- quinquagenary — a 50th anniversary.
- quinquagesima — the Sunday before Lent; Shrove Sunday.
- quinquevalent — pentavalent.
- quintuplicate — a group, series, or set of five copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten matter.
- quota-hopping — (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
- reacquainting — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
- reacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- round kumquat — an evergreen, citrus shrub or small tree, Fortunella japonica, of Japan, having blunt, broad leaves and globe-shaped, edible fruit.
- saint-quentin — a city in N France, on the Somme: retaken from the Germans 1918.
- sequentiality — characterized by regular sequence of parts.
- sequestration — removal or separation; banishment or exile.
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- squandermania — an extreme urge for, or level of pleasure obtained by, spending money recklessly
- square number — a number that is the square of another integer, as 1 of 1, 4 of 2, 9 of 3, etc.
- squeaky clean — If you say that someone is squeaky clean, you mean that they live a very moral life and have never done anything wrong.
- squeaky-clean — scrupulously clean.
- state banquet — a formal banquet given for the head of a country
- strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
- thundersquall — a combined squall and thunderstorm.
- toque blanche — the tall white hat traditionally worn by a chef
- tranquillizer — a person or thing that tranquilizes.
- turban squash — a turban-shaped variety of winter squash, Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis.
- unconquerable — to acquire by force of arms; win in war: to conquer a foreign land.
- unconquerably — in an invincible manner
- unequivocally — in a way that is clear and unambiguous: The theme is unequivocally religious.
- unqualifiedly — not qualified; not fit; lacking requisite qualifications: unqualified for the job.
- unquarantined — a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
- ventriloquial — of, relating to, or using ventriloquism.
- wave equation — Mathematics, Physics. any differential equation that describes the propagation of waves or other disturbances in a medium.
- winter squash — any of several varieties of Cucurbita maxima or C. moschata that mature in late autumn and are used, when ripe, as a vegetable.