ACQUISITOR | • acquisitor n. One who acquires. • ACQUISITOR n. one who makes an acquisition. |
AQUAFORTIS | • aquafortis n. Alternative form of aqua fortis. • aqua␣fortis n. (Inorganic chemistry, archaic) Nitric acid. • aqua␣fortis n. (Alchemy) A corrosive liquor made of saltpeter, serving as a solvent for dissolving silver and all other… |
AQUAPORINS | • aquaporins n. Plural of aquaporin. • AQUAPORIN n. any of a group of proteins in a cell membrane that allow the passage of water across the membrane. |
AQUAROBICS | • aquarobics n. Alternative form of aquaerobics. • AQUAROBICS n. a system of exercises, similar to aerobics, performed to music in chest-high water, also AQUAEROBICS. |
AQUIFEROUS | • aquiferous adj. (Geology) Of or pertaining to an aquifer. • aquiferous adj. Carrying water. • AQUIFEROUS adj. consisting or conveying water or a watery fluid. |
EQUATORIAL | • equatorial adj. Of, near, or relating to the equator. • equatorial adj. (Organic chemistry) perpendicular to the plane of a ring. • equatorial n. (Astronomy) A kind of telescope mounted so as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other… |
LIQUIDATOR | • liquidator n. One who liquidates. • liquidator n. One supporting the political policy of liquidationism; a liquidationist. • liquidator n. Any of the workers involved in cleaning up the Chernobyl disaster. |
MICROQUAKE | • microquake n. Microearthquake. • MICROQUAKE n. a very small earthquake. |
ORTANIQUES | • ortaniques n. Plural of ortanique. • ORTANIQUE n. (French) a cross between an orange and a tangerine. |
PARAQUITOS | • paraquitos n. Plural of paraquito. • PARAQUITO n. a small long-tailed parrot, also PARAKEET, PARAQUET, PAROQUET, PARRAKEET, PARROKET, PARROQUET. |
QUADRICONE | • quadricone n. (Geometry) A quadric cone. • QUADRICONE n. a quadric cone, or cone having a conic as base. |
QUADRIFORM | • quadriform adj. Having four forms, parts or aspects. • QUADRIFORM adj. having four forms or aspects. |
QUADRIPOLE | • quadripole n. (Electronics) An electrical circuit that has two pairs of external terminals. • quadripole n. (Physics) four poles disposed in a square fashion. • QUADRIPOLE n. a network with two input and two output terminals. |
QUARTATION | • quartation n. (Chemistry, archaic) The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of… • QUARTATION n. mixing one part gold with three parts silver prior to purifying it. |
QUATERNION | • quaternion n. A group or set of four people or things. • quaternion n. A word of four syllables. • quaternion n. (Mathematics) A type of four-dimensional hypercomplex number consisting of a real part and three imaginary… |
QUATORZAIN | • quatorzain n. A poem or stanza consisting of fourteen lines. • QUATORZAIN n. a poem of fourteen lines; a sonnet. |
QUATREFOIL | • quatrefoil n. (Architecture) A symmetrical shape that forms the overall outline of four partially-overlapping circles… • quatrefoil n. (Heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf with four lobes. • QUATREFOIL n. a four-petalled flower or leaf of four leaflets; an openwork design or ornament divided by cusps into four lobes, also QUATREFEUILLE. |
QUESTORIAL | • questorial adj. Alternative form of quaestorial. • QUESTORIAL adj. relating to a questor, also QUAESTORIAL. |
RADIOPAQUE | • radiopaque adj. Impenetrable to X-rays and other radiation. • RADIOPAQUE adj. not allowing passage of X-rays. |
SQUAMIFORM | • squamiform adj. Having the shape or structure of a scale. • SQUAMIFORM adj. shaped like a scale. |