10-letter words containing u, q, a, r
- 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
- semiquaver — a sixteenth note.
- 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
- 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
- squamiform — shaped like a scale.
- 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
- squirarchy — squirearchy.
- squirearch — a member of the squirearchy.
- squirt can — an oilcan with a flexible body that ejects oil when compressed.
- subquarter — one of the quarterings of a grand quarter.
- tarquinius — (Lucius Tarquinius Priscus) died 578 b.c, king of Rome 616–578.
- torquemada — Tomás de [taw-mahs th e] /tɔˈmɑs ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1420–98, Spanish inquisitor general.
- tranquilly — free from commotion or tumult; peaceful; quiet; calm: a tranquil country place.
- try square — a device for testing the squareness of carpentry work or the like, or for laying out right angles, consisting of a pair of straightedges fixed at right angles to one another.
- ubiquarian — of or relating to the doctrine, especially as advocated by Luther, that the body of Christ is omnipresent and therefore exists in the Eucharistic bread.
- ubiquitary — existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent: ubiquitous fog; ubiquitous little ants.
- ultraquiet — especially or extremely quiet
- unacquired — to come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own: to acquire property.
- unquarried — (of rock, marble, etc) not quarried, dug up, or extracted from a quarry
- untranquil — not calm or tranquil; agitated; disturbed
- vanquisher — to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
- waterquake — The event in which an earthquake happens underwater, usually in an ocean or lake.