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13-letter words containing ua

  • quarter round — a molding, as on an ovolo, whose section is a quarter circle.
  • quarter-bound — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • quarter-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person with one white grandparent, especially a person of American Indian ancestry.
  • quarter-final — A quarter-final is one of the four matches in a competition which decides which four players or teams will compete in the semi-final.
  • quarter-miler — an athlete who specializes in running the quarter mile or the 400 metres
  • quarter-phase — differing in phase by a quarter of a cycle; two-phase.
  • quarterbacked — Simple past tense and past participle of quarterback.
  • quarterdecker — an officer who serves on the quarterdeck; a gun situated on the quarterdeck
  • quarterfinals — Plural form of quarterfinal.
  • quartermaster — Military. an officer charged with providing quarters, clothing, fuel, transportation, etc., for a body of troops.
  • quarterstaves — Plural form of quarterstaff.
  • quartodeciman — one of a group of early Christians who observed Easter on the day of the Jewish Passover regardless of whether or not it was Sunday
  • quartziferous — consisting of or containing quartz: quartziferous rock.
  • quasi-crystal — a group of atoms resembling a crystal but not having symmetrical plane faces
  • quasi-federal — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
  • quasi-medical — of or relating to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment.
  • quasi-private — belonging to some particular person: private property.
  • quasi-retired — withdrawn from or no longer occupied with one's business or profession: a retired banker.
  • quasi-totally — constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
  • quasimilitary — Having certain military aspects.
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
  • quaternionist — a mathematician who works with quaternions
  • quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
  • quinquagenary — a 50th anniversary.
  • quinquagesima — the Sunday before Lent; Shrove Sunday.
  • re-evaluating — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
  • re-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
  • reacquainting — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
  • repunctuation — the act or process of punctuating differently or again
  • residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
  • revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
  • ritual murder — a human sacrifice made to appease a deity.
  • ritualization — the act of ritualizing.
  • river estuary — a river mouth
  • round kumquat — an evergreen, citrus shrub or small tree, Fortunella japonica, of Japan, having blunt, broad leaves and globe-shaped, edible fruit.
  • ruanda-urundi — a former territory in central Africa, E of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: formerly part of German East Africa; administered by Belgium as a League of Nations mandate 1923–46 and as a United Nations trust territory 1946–62; now divided into the independent states of Rwanda and Burundi.
  • san juan hill — a hill in SE Cuba, near Santiago de Cuba: captured by U.S. forces in battle during the Spanish-American War in 1898.
  • semimenstrual — (esp of tides) occurring twice monthly
  • sexual health — health care and counselling related to sexual relations, reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections, etc
  • sexualization — to render sexual; endow with sexual characteristics.
  • shih huang ti — 259–210 b.c, Chinese emperor c247–210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China.
  • sign language — Also called sign. any of several visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures, as used among deaf people.
  • situationally — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • squandermania — an extreme urge for, or level of pleasure obtained by, spending money recklessly
  • square matrix — a matrix in which the number of rows is equal to the number of columns.
  • square number — a number that is the square of another integer, as 1 of 1, 4 of 2, 9 of 3, etc.
  • square splice — a scarf joint between two pieces, having the form of a half-lap joint with a thicker and a thinner section for each piece, the thicker one being at the end: used to resist tension.
  • square-rigged — having square sails as the principal sails.
  • square-rigger — having square sails as the principal sails.
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