15-letter words containing qua
- age of aquarius — an astrological era believed to bring increased spirituality and harmony on earth.
- appropinquation — the action of approaching
- bughouse square — Informal. any intersection or park mall in a big city where political zealots, agitators, folk evangelists, etc., congregate to argue and make soapbox speeches.
- chi-square test — a test derived from the chi-square distribution to compare the goodness of fit of theoretical and observed frequency distributions or to compare nominal data derived from unmatched groups of subjects
- cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking) The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
- demisemiquavers — Plural form of demisemiquaver.
- domain squatter — (web) An unscrupulous person who registers a domain name in the hope of selling it to the rightful, expected owner at a profit. E.g. http://foldoc.com/.
- east massapequa — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
- epsilon squared — (jargon) A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
- equalitarianism — Egalitarianism.
- fair and square — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
- foolscap quarto — a book size, 63⁄4 by 81⁄2 inches (foolscap quarto)
- franklin square — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- gender equality — the state of having the same rights, status, and opportunities as others, regardless of one's gender.
- griqualand east — a former district in S South Africa, SW of Natal.
- griqualand west — a former district in S South Africa, N of the Orange River and W of the Orange Free State: diamonds found 1867.
- joseph jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
- lamb's-quarters — the pigweed, Chenopodium album.
- linear equation — a first-order equation involving two variables: its graph is a straight line in the Cartesian coordinate system.
- living quarters — accommodation
- massapequa park — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
- microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
- mixture quality — Mixture quality is the degree to which a mixture is an ideal mixture.
- narcotics squad — a department of the police which investigates crimes concerning illegal drugs
- non-qualitative — pertaining to or concerned with quality or qualities.
- nonquantifiable — not capable of being quantified
- nonquantitative — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
- pattypan squash — a flat, whitish variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo melopepo, having a scalloped edge.
- preacquaintance — prior acquaintance with a person or with information, the state of having been preacquainted
- preequalization — preemphasis.
- primary quality — any of the qualities inherent in an object, namely quantity, extent, figure, solidity, and motion or rest.
- probit equation — A probit equation is used to quantify the relationship between the concentration of a dangerous material and its effect on people.
- quadragenarians — Plural form of quadragenarian.
- quadric surface — a three-dimensional surface whose equation is a quadratic equation.
- quadripartition — A division into four parts.
- quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
- quadruplication — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- qualifying exam — any examination that one needs to pass in order to begin or continue with a course of study
- qualitativeness — The state or quality of being qualitative.
- quality control — a system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in an existing product or service by careful planning, use of proper equipment, continued inspection, and corrective action as required.
- quality of life — comfort and enjoyment in one's existence
- quality-of-life — affecting the quality of urban life: such quality-of-life crimes as fare-beating and graffiti writing.
- quantifiability — (uncountable) The condition of being quantifiable.
- quantifications — Plural form of quantification.
- quantity theory — a theory stating that the general price level varies directly with the quantity of money in circulation and the velocity with which it is circulated, and inversely with the volume of production expressed by the total number of money transactions
- quantum gravity — a theory of the gravitational interaction that involves quantum mechanics to explain the force
- quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
- quarrelsomeness — The quality of being quarrelsome; an argumentative nature. (from 17th c.).
- quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
- quarter blanket — a horse blanket, usually placed under a saddle or harness and extending to the horse's tail.
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