12-Letter Words Containing Q

Person one knows slightly

Someone one knows slightly

It was auld to Burns

Current inactivity gets the nod

Tacit approval

Consent

Acquirement

Acquisition

Acquittance

The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy.

""MOSQUITO a winged insect, also MOSSIE""

Antiquarian

Antiquation

Of or pertaining to aquiculture.

Aquaculture

Aquarellist

Aquatintist

Aquiculture

Aquilinity

Barquentine

Biquadratic

Inflected form of UNIQUENESS Inflected form of UNIQUE something that is rare or the only one of its kind

Chloroquine

It may showcase art films

Cinquecento

CLIQUISH {cliquey=adj}

Coequality

Colloquial

Spanish adventurer of the 16th century

Pizarro or Cortes

16th-century Spanish invader of Peru

They follow the game

Results - parlour game

Crime series creates results

As a result

As a result, chess opening only covers queen's remarkable gambit ultimately

In a coquettish manner.

Corequisite

Croquignole

So as to fail in duty.

Becoming liquid

LIQUESCING liquesce

""DESQUAMATE To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.""

""The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.""

Where go-go crowds go.

Girl's payments, of a kind, covering old-time musical entertainment

Removed from competition

Ruled inadmissible

Not allowed to race? It's why some people are driven!

Disqualify

Disquietude

""A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation.""

Equability

Advocate of basic democratic principles

""The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized.""

Equanimity

Equational

Horse show rider.

Female riding a horse

Female rider

Equilibrant

LIBRATED librate

Equilibrate

""EQUILIBRATE To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.""

Equilibrist

Equilibrium

Equinoctial

""Equal in force, power, effectiveness, or significance.""

Equipollent

PROBABLE something that is likely to occur

Marked by or having equity; just and impartial. See Synonyms at fair 1 .

Equivalence

In the same way

VOCALITY the possession of exercise of vocal powers

""EQUIVOCATE To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity. as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity.""

Use of intentionally vague language

Use of deliberately vague language

A beating about the bush

Equivocator

Bit of a nag and that's the whole thing summed up, so to speak (wordplay)

More than just two legs of quadruped making the whole, we're told

The quality of being frequent.

Old king with quotes about a lake cuts a bizarre figure

Play by Terence Rattigan

Traditional pantomime episode

Pantomime; buffoonery

Harquebusie

Where to see a psychiatrist (wordplay)

Place for a pirates privy (wordplay)

Military command center (wordplay)

Animal's rear

Concealed around new accommodation in rear

Posterior

""A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, obtained by the reduction of quinone. It is a diacid phenol, resembling, and metameric with, pyrocatechin and resorcin. Called also dihydroxy benzene. C6H4(OH)2, obtained by the reduction of quinone. It is a diacid phenol, resembling, and metameric with, pyrocatechin and resorcin. Called also dihydroxy benzene.""

Shortcomings

Lady Anne's last antique restored in shoddy fashion

Trivial innocent quest arranged, time being short

Illogical

Without eloquence.

Inequality

INEQUIVALVE

Infrequence

Not very often

Not often

Flinty queen stirred to embrace her husband? Not often!

In an iniquitous manner; unjustly; wickedly.

Inquisition

Lacquerware

Lacquerwork

Process of becoming fluid

'Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows / That - of her clothes' (Herrick)

Liquidambar

These are killing the business community? They're wind-ups!

Liquidness

In a loquacious manner.

Man, long quiet, getting drunk and boastful

Lofty quote naming suspect, criminal finally caught

Maquiladora

Marquessate

Marqueterie

Marquisette

Space men, witches, clowns, etc.

Pretending

Metasequoia

""A potentially habit-forming drug, C 16 H 14 N 2 O, formerly used as a sedative and hypnotic.""

Erroneous or inaccurate quotation.

In a sycophantic way ("Richard III")

In a servile way

Opaqueness

EQUIPPED equip

Anemone with bell-shaped purple flowers

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Superlative adjective

QUALIFIED qualify

Prequalify

REQUIRING require

Something that is required in advance

Student's concern.

Something required as a prior condition

Quacksalver

Four-sided

""Of or for a four-channel sound system in which speakers are positioned at all four corners of the listening space, reproducing signals that are independent of each other.""

Quadrennial

Quadrennium

""QUADRICEPS The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.""

Quadrillion

Variant of quadraphonic .

Complete paralysis of the body from the neck down.

One paralysed in every limb

""Having a valence of four; capable of combining with, being replaced by, or compared with, four monad atoms; tetravalent; said of certain atoms and radicals; thus, carbon and silicon are quadrivalent elements. thus, carbon and silicon are quadrivalent elements.""

Having four hands; of or pertaining to the Quadrumana.

Quaintness

QUALMISH having qualms

→ quantifiable hc_En_Fr()

QUANTITATE

QUANTITATE

Relating to measurable amounts

Involving amount or size

Measurable

""QUANTIZE to express in terms of quanta, also QUANTISE""

Isolating

Ones calling the plays

Monday morning pundits

Gridiron VIPs

Quarterdeck

Match in knockout tournament

Match between two sides in the last eight of knockout competition

Quartersaw

Stout pole once used as a weapon

Pole has lodgings by Welsh river

Long wooden pole once used as a weapon

Quaternary

Quaternity

""The fifteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style.as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style.""

Queasiness

Open to doubt

Like some ethics

Doubtful - possibly dishonest

In a questionable manner.

Unquestioning; incurious.

Quicksilver

Of a lustrum

Happening once every five years

Recurring every five years

Period of five years

Period or cycle of five years

Central aspect (of something)

The most perfect or typical example

Most vital part

Quintillion

Quirkiness

Quislingism

Quitclaim

In a quixotic way.

QUIZZICAL Relating to quizzing: given to quizzing; of the nature of a quiz; farcical; sportive.

Racquetball

Reacquaint

Reconquer

Reequipment

Relacquer

Gave up

Relinquish

Reliquefy

Necessities

Demands about four sheets of paper for tenor in the Men's

Right to go into mass meeting with hospital department's demands

Formal demands

Sequacious

One after the other

In succession, it's Queen badly needing friend

Confiscating band of gold after search in bishop's domain

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

Sequestrate

SOLILOQUISE

Soliloquise

Soliloquist

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

Does a stage routine.

Squareness

SQUARISH somewhat square

Squirarchy

Squirrel

In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue.

Subsequence

Later on

Afterwards

Consequently, transport returned in an orderly fashion

Abstract noun (-ity)

TRANQUILIZE

Soothing agent.

Sedative.

Sedates

Superlative adjective

Peace

""To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind.as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind.""

Quality or state of being tranquil.

In omnipresent way

In omnipresent manner

Going everywhere

Not acquainted.

""Rarely visited; seldom or never resorted to by human beings; as, an unfrequented place or forest. as, an unfrequented place or forest.""

Uniqueness

See rutherfordium .

Inextinguishable; unsatisfiable

Fully accepted.

Beyond doubt

Not challenged

That may be vanquished.