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14-letter words containing ue

  • queens problem — eight queens puzzle
  • queensland nut — macadamia.
  • queer-sounding — that sounds odd or strange
  • querimoniously — in a querimonious manner
  • query language — the instructions and procedures used to retrieve information from a database
  • questionmaster — quizmaster.
  • questionnaires — Plural form of questionnaire.
  • quetzalcoatlus — A large toothless pterosaur of the genus Quetzalcoatlus.
  • quetzaltenango — a city in SW Guatemala: earthquake 1902.
  • queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
  • quinquecostate — having five lines or ribs
  • quinquefarious — consisting of or divided into five lines, sections, etc
  • quinquefoliate — (of leaves) having or consisting of five leaflets
  • quinquelingual — Written in five languages.
  • quinquennially — Every five years.
  • quinquepartite — divided into or consisting of five parts.
  • radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • rateable value — In Britain, the rateable value of a building was a value based on its size and facilities, which was used in calculating local taxes called rates.
  • rescue attempt — an attempt to bring a person or people out of danger, harm, attack, etc
  • rescue mission — mission (def 16).
  • revenue cutter — cutter (def 4).
  • 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.
  • rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
  • safety squeeze — squeeze play (def 1b).
  • samuel gompers — Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
  • saut de basque — a jump in which the dancer turns in the air while keeping the foot of one leg drawn up to the knee of the other.
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • sequestrectomy — the removal of dead spicules or portions, especially of bone.
  • settecentesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of the art and literature of 18th-century Italy.
  • seventh avenue — an avenue in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City.
  • sheep's fescue — a temperate perennial tufted grass, Festuca ovina, with narrow inwardly rolled leaves
  • shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • smokeless fuel — fuel which burns without producing smoke
  • smooth-tongued — fluent or convincing in speech; glib.
  • squeak through — to succeed, get through, survive, etc. by a narrow margin or with difficulty
  • squeeze bottle — a flexible plastic bottle the contents of which can be forced out by squeezing.
  • squeezed joint — a joint between two members cemented or glued together under pressure.
  • standard issue — something, such as a rifle, included as standard with military equipment
  • store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
  • survival value — the utility of a behavioral trait or of a physical feature of an organism in aiding the survival and reproduction of the organism.
  • synthetic fuel — fuel in the form of liquid or gas (synthetic natural gas) manufactured from coal or in the form of oil extracted from shale or tar sands.
  • the blue angel — a legendary German expressionist film of 1930, the first major German sound film, starring Marlene Dietrich
  • the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
  • the snow queen — a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, published in 1845; a young boy, Kay, falls under a troll's spell and his heart is turned to ice. He is carried off by the Snow Queen, who holds him captive until he is rescued by his devoted friend, Gerda
  • the true cross — the cross on which Christ was crucified, supposed relics of which were venerated by Christians in the middle ages
  • thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
  • tissue culture — the technique of cultivating living tissue in a prepared medium outside the body.
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