11-letter words containing ua
- nova iguacu — a city in SE Brazil, NW of Rio de Janeiro.
- obliquation — the fact or process of veering or moving in an oblique or slantwise direction
- omnilingual — Having the ability to speak, or to understand, all languages.
- ouagadougou — a republic in W Africa: formerly part of French West Africa. 106,111 sq. mi. (274,827 sq. km). Capital: Ouagadougou.
- ov language — a type of language that has direct objects preceding the verb and that tends to have typological traits such as postpositions, suffixes, noun modifiers preceding nouns, adverbs preceding verbs, and auxiliary verbs following main verbs.
- peng dehuai — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist military leader: defense minister 1954–59.
- perpetuable — able to be perpetuated
- perpetually — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- perpetuance — to make perpetual.
- perpetuated — to make perpetual.
- perpetuates — to make perpetual.
- perpetuator — to make perpetual.
- persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- persuasible — capable of being persuaded; open to or yielding to persuasion.
- play truant — be absent from school without permission
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- polylingual — pertaining to, expressed in, or using several languages; multilingual.
- preacquaint — to acquaint (someone with information) in advance
- prepunctual — arriving before the appointed time
- punctualist — a person who is concerned with points of conduct
- punctuality — the quality or state of being punctual.
- punctuation — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
- punctuative — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
- pursuant to — legal: in accordance with
- qinhuangdao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
- quack grass — a couch grass, Agropyron repens, a pernicious weed in cultivated fields.
- quack-quack — a duck
- quacksalver — a quack doctor.
- quadrangles — Plural form of quadrangle.
- 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.
- quadraphony — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadrasonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- quadratical — (rare) quadratic.
- quadratures — Plural form of quadrature.
- quadrennial — occurring every four years: a quadrennial festival.
- quadrennium — a period of four years.
- quadricycle — a vehicle similar to the bicycle and tricycle but having four wheels.
- quadrigatus — a silver coin of ancient Rome, bearing an image of Jupiter in a quadriga on the reverse.
- quadrillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
- quadripedal — Four-footed.
- quadripoint — A point at which four borders meet.
- quadrupedal — four-footed.
- quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
- quadrupling — Present participle of quadruple.
- quail clock — a clock that announces the hours by a sound resembling that of a quail.
- quail-brush — a salt-tolerant, silvery gray shrub, Atriplex lentiformis breweri, of the amaranth family, native to southern California.
- quaintrelle — (obscure) A woman who emphasizes a life of passion expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm, and cultivation of life’s pleasures.
- quaking bog — a bog formed of peat or woven rushes and shrubs that forms over water or soft mud and shakes when walked upon.
- qualifiable — capable of being qualified: qualifiable statements.
- qualifiedly — With qualification; conditionally.