6-letter words containing ua
- quanah — (Quanah Parker) 1845?–1911, Comanche leader.
- quango — (especially in Great Britain) a semi-public advisory and administrative body supported by the government and having most of its members appointed by the government.
- quanta — plural of quantum.
- quants — Plural form of quant.
- quantz — Johann Joachim [yoh-hahn yoh-ah-khim] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyoʊ ɑ xɪm/ (Show IPA), 1697–1773, German flutist and composer: teacher of Frederick the Great.
- quapaw — a member of a North American Indian people formerly of Arkansas, now living mostly in northeastern Oklahoma.
- quarks — Physics. any of the hypothetical particles with spin 1/2, baryon number 1/3, and electric charge 1/3 or −2/3 that, together with their antiparticles, are believed to constitute all the elementary particles classed as baryons and mesons; they are distinguished by their flavors, designated as up (u), down (d), strange (s), charm (c), bottom or beauty (b), and top or truth (t), and their colors, red, green, and blue. Compare color (def 18), flavor (def 5), quantum chromodynamics, quark model.
- quarry — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quarte — the fourth of eight defensive positions.
- quarto — a book size of about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 cm), determined by folding printed sheets twice to form four leaves or eight pages. Symbol: 4to, 4°.
- quarts — Plural form of quart.
- quartz — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- quasar — one of over a thousand known extragalactic objects, starlike in appearance and having spectra with characteristically large redshifts, that are thought to be the most distant and most luminous objects in the universe.
- quashi — an unsophisticated or gullible male Black peasant
- quasi- — Quasi- is used to form adjectives and nouns that describe something as being in many ways like something else, without actually being that thing.
- quatch — a sound
- quater — (in prescriptions) four times.
- quatre — the four at cards, dice, or the like.
- quatro — a small guitar with four or five strings or pairs of strings, used in Latin American and Caribbean music.
- quaver — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quayle — James Danforth ("Dan") born 1947, vice president of the U.S. 1989–93.
- quazzy — unwell
- quinua — quinoa.
- ritual — an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.
- ruanda — a member of a people living in Rwanda and the E Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- sexual — of, relating to, or for sex: sexual matters; sexual aids.
- siouan — an American Indian language family formerly widespread from Saskatchewan to the lower Mississippi, also found in the Virginia and Carolina piedmont, and including Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Mandan, Osage, and Winnebago.
- souari — a S American tree of the genus Caryocar
- squail — to throw sticks (at) or hit with sticks
- squall — the act or sound of squalling: The baby's squall was heard next door.
- squama — a scale or scalelike part, as of epidermis or bone.
- square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- squark — strange quark.
- squash — to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
- squawk — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- stuart — a member of the royal family that ruled in Scotland from 1371 to 1714 and in England from 1603 to 1714.
- suable — liable to be sued; capable of being sued.
- suably — in a suable manner
- suakin — a port in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea: formerly the chief port of the African Red Sea; now obstructed by a coral reef. Pop: reliable recent estimates are not available
- suarez — Francisco [fran-sis-koh;; Spanish frahn-thees-kaw,, -sees-] /frænˈsɪs koʊ;; Spanish frɑnˈθis kɔ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), 1548–1617, Spanish theologian and philosopher.
- suaver — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
- taguan — a large nocturnal flying squirrel, Petaurista petaurista, of high forests in the East Indies that uses its long tail as a rudder
- tetuan — a seaport in N Morocco, on the Mediterranean: former capital of the Spanish zone of Morocco.
- truant — a student who stays away from school without permission.
- tuareg — a Berber or Hamitic-speaking member of the Muslim nomads of the Sahara.
- tuatua — an edible marine bivalve, Paphies subtriangulata, of New Zealand waters
- uakari — any of several medium-sized, tree-dwelling Amazon basin monkeys of the genus Cacajao, the only New World monkeys having a short tail: all are now rare.
- uaupes — a river in S central Colombia, where it rises and is called the (Vaupes) flowing in NW Brazil E and SE to the Rio Negro River. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- ungual — of, pertaining to, bearing, or shaped like a nail, claw, or hoof.
- utuado — a city in central Puerto Rico.