| ACQUIREMENT | • acquirement n. (Now rare, chiefly in the plural) Something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment. • acquirement n. The act or fact of acquiring something; acquisition. • ACQUIREMENT n. a skill of mind or body usually resulting from continued endeavor. |
| AQUAFARMING | • aquafarming n. (Agriculture) aquaculture. • AQUAFARMING n. marine farming. |
| AQUAMARINES | • aquamarines n. Plural of aquamarine. • AQUAMARINE n. a transparent blue, blue-green, or green variety of beryl used as a gem. |
| LAMBREQUINS | • lambrequins n. Plural of lambrequin. • LAMBREQUIN n. (French) a veil over a helmet; a strip of drapery over a window or doorway. |
| MESQUINERIE | • MESQUINERIE n. (French) the quality of being mesquin, mean. |
| PRIMAQUINES | • PRIMAQUINE n. an antimalarial drug. |
| QUADRENNIUM | • quadrennium n. A period of 4 years, particularly (historical) the sets of four years in the ancient Egyptian and Greek calendars. • QUADRENNIUM n. (Latin) a period of four years, also QUADRIENNIUM. |
| QUADRUMANES | • quadrumanes n. Plural of quadrumane. • QUADRUMANE n. a former name for primates other than man, also QUADRUMAN. |
| QUANTOMETER | • quantometer n. A device for performing spectrographic analysis. • QUANTOMETER n. (tradename) an instrument for measuring proportions of elements in metallic samples. |
| QUERIMONIES | • querimonies n. Plural of querimony. • QUERIMONY n. a complaint. |
| QUINQUEREME | • quinquereme n. (History) An ancient Carthaginian or Greek galley having three banks of oars, rowed by five oarsmen… • QUINQUEREME n. an ancient ship with five banks of oars. |
| REEQUIPMENT | • reequipment n. The act, or the result of reequipping. • re-equipment n. Alternative form of reequipment. • REEQUIPMENT n. the act of reequipping. |
| REQUIREMENT | • requirement n. A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory. Its adpositions are generally of in relation… • requirement n. Something asked. • requirement n. (Engineering, computing) A statement (in domain specific terms) which specifies a verifiable constraint… |
| REQUITEMENT | • requitement n. (Obsolete) requital. • REQUITEMENT n. the act of requiting. |
| SINARQUISMS | • SINARQUISM n. the fascist movement in Mexico, prominent around the time of the Second World War, also SINARCHISM. |
| SQUIRMINGLY | • squirmingly adv. With squirming motions. • SQUIRMING adv. SQUIRM, to wriggle. |