14-letter words containing u, t, n, a
- quasi-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- quasiessential — Almost essential.
- quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
- quattrocentist — a painter or writer of 15th-century Italy
- queensland nut — macadamia.
- questionmaster — quizmaster.
- questionnaires — Plural form of questionnaire.
- quetzaltenango — a city in SW Guatemala: earthquake 1902.
- quiescent tank — a tank, usually for sewage sludge, in which the sludge is allowed to remain for a time so that sedimentation can occur
- quincentennial — pertaining to or marking a period of 500 years.
- quinnat salmon — chinook salmon.
- quinquecostate — having five lines or ribs
- quinquefoliate — (of leaves) having or consisting of five leaflets
- quinquepartite — divided into or consisting of five parts.
- quintessential — of the pure and essential essence of something: the quintessential Jewish delicatessen.
- quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
- quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
- quizzification — mockery
- quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
- quota sampling — a method of conducting market research in which the sample is selected according to a quota-system based on such factors as age, sex, social class, etc
- quotation mark — one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usually shown as “ at the beginning and ” at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, of single marks of this kind, as “He said, ‘I will go.’ ” Frequently, especially in Great Britain, single marks are used instead of double, the latter being then used for a quotation within a quotation.
- quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
- quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
- radiostrontium — strontium 90.
- rainbow cactus — an erect stiff cactus, Echinocereus pectinatus rigidissimus, of Arizona and Mexico, having a cylindrical body, numerous interlocking spines, and pink flowers.
- raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- rate of return — The rate of return on an investment is the amount of profit it makes, often shown as a percentage of the original investment.
- raunch culture — a culture which promotes overtly sexual representations of women, as through the acceptance of pornography, stripping, nudity in advertising, etc, esp when this is encouraged by women
- re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- re-enumeration — an act of enumerating.
- re-measurement — the act of measuring.
- reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
- reacquaintance — a person known to one, but usually not a close friend.
- readjudication — an act of adjudicating.
- rearticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- reducing agent — a substance that causes another substance to undergo reduction and that is oxidized in the process.
- refund annuity — an annuity providing for a lump-sum payment or installment payments to the beneficiary for the amount remaining of the purchase price at the death of the annuitant.
- regulator gene — any gene that exercises control over the expression of another gene or genes.
- remanufacturer — a company or industry that engages in making an existing product new again
- repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
- restaurant car — dining car.
- restauranteurs — the owner or manager of a restaurant.
- resultant tone — a musical sound sometimes heard when two loud notes are sounded together, either lower in pitch than either (differential tone) or higher (summational tone)
- revenue stream — method of income
- revenue tariff — a tariff or duty imposed on imports primarily to produce public revenue.
- roentgenopaque — not permitting the passage of x-rays.