8-letter words containing ua
- outguard — a guard placed furthest away from the main contingent of an army
- paduasoy — a slightly corded, strong, rich, silk fabric.
- paraguay — a republic in central South America between Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. 157,047 sq. mi. (406,750 sq. km). Capital: Asunción.
- paraquat — a toxic herbicide, C 1 2 H 1 4 N 2 ⋅2CH 3 SO 4 , applied to food and flower crops and to highway borders as a defoliant and weed-killer.
- pasquale — a male given name.
- persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- piquancy — agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.
- punaluan — relating to punalua
- punctual — strictly observant of an appointed or regular time; not late; prompt.
- pursuant — proceeding after; following (usually followed by to): Pursuant to his studies he took a job in an office.
- qingyuan — former name of Baoding.
- quaalude — methaqualone
- quackery — the practice or methods of a quack.
- quacking — Present participle of quack.
- quackish — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
- quadbike — Alternative form of quad bike.
- quadcore — (computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of four cores.
- quadding — Also called quadrat. a piece of type metal of less height than the lettered types, serving to cause a blank in printed matter, used for spacing.
- quadplex — fourfold; quadruple.
- quadrans — a bronze coin of ancient Rome, the fourth part of an as.
- quadrant — a quarter of a circle; an arc of 90°.
- quadrate — square or rectangular.
- quadrats — Plural form of quadrat.
- quadriad — a group of four, especially a group of four persons with an interest or task in common.
- quadrics — Plural form of quadric.
- quadriga — a two-wheeled chariot drawn by four horses harnessed abreast.
- quadroon — a person having one-fourth black ancestry, with one black grandparent; the offspring of a mulatto and a white person.
- quadword — (computing) A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus typically 64 bits.
- quaestor — one of two subordinates of the consuls serving as public prosecutors in certain criminal cases.
- quaffing — to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
- quagmire — an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
- quagmiry — relating to a quagmire
- quailing — to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.
- quaintly — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- quakerly — like a Quaker.
- qualcomm — (company) A California-based technology company; their primary product is the OMNITRACS tractor-trailer-tracking system. They also develop the free and commercial versions of Eudora for Macintosh and IBM PC.
- qualming — the state of having a qualm
- qualmish — tending to have, or having, qualms.
- quandary — a state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do; dilemma.
- quandong — an Australian tree, Fusanus acuminatus, bearing a fruit with an edible, nutlike seed.
- quantico — a U.S. Marine Corps base and development and education command in NE Virginia, NE of Fredericksburg on the Potomac River.
- quantics — Plural form of quantic.
- quantify — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quantile — one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.
- quantise — Alternative spelling of quantize.
- quantity — a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk; the ocean's vast quantity of fish.
- quantize — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quantong — quandong.
- quanzhou — a seaport in SE Fujian province, in SE China, on Taiwan Strait.
- quarnero — Gulf of, an arm of the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia.