DEREQUISITION | • derequisition v. (Transitive) To return or release (something previously requisitioned). • DEREQUISITION v. to return (something that has been used for a military purpose) to civilian use. |
DESQUAMATIONS | • desquamations n. Plural of desquamation. • DESQUAMATION n. having one's skin fall off due to its being waterlogged. |
EQUIPONDERANT | • equiponderant adj. (Obsolete) Having equal weight. • EQUIPONDERANT adj. evenly balanced. |
EQUIPONDERATE | • equiponderate v. To counterbalance. • EQUIPONDERATE v. to be equal in weight; to balance. |
GRANDILOQUENT | • grandiloquent adj. (Of a person, their language or writing) Given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive… • GRANDILOQUENT adj. bombastic, also GRANDILOQUOUS. |
HYDROQUINONES | • hydroquinones n. Plural of hydroquinone. • HYDROQUINONE n. another name for quinol. |
NONDELINQUENT | • nondelinquent n. One who is not a delinquent. • NONDELINQUENT n. one who is not a delinquent. |
OVERQUALIFIED | • overqualified adj. Having too many qualifications to be deemed appropriate for a (usually unskilled) job. • OVERQUALIFIED adj. having more education, training, or experience than a job calls for. |
QUADRAPHONIES | • QUADRAPHONY n. a system of sound transmission using four speakers, also QUADRAPHONICS, QUADRIPHONICS, QUADROPHONICS, QUADROPHONY. |
QUADRIFOLIATE | • quadrifoliate adj. (Botany) Having four leaves or leaflets. • QUADRIFOLIATE adj. having four leaves. |
QUADRISECTION | • quadrisection n. The action of dividing something into four parts. • quadrisection n. One quarter of something. • QUADRISECTION n. division into four equal parts. |
QUADROPHONIES | • QUADROPHONY n. a system of sound transmission using four speakers, also QUADRAPHONICS, QUADRAPHONY, QUADRIPHONICS, QUADROPHONICS. |
QUARTODECIMAN | • Quartodeciman n. Any of a group of early Christians (especially in Asia Minor) who observed Pascha (Christian Passover… • Quartodeciman adj. Of or pertaining to these people. • QUARTODECIMAN n. an early Christian who celebrated Easter on Passover even if not a Sunday. |
QUASIPERIODIC | • quasiperiodic adj. Almost periodic; recurring at irregular intervals. • quasiperiodic adj. (Mathematics, of a function) Such that an increment of a variable leads to a multiplication by some function. • quasiperiodic adj. (Physics, of an oscillation) Having two unrelated periods. |
QUINDECILLION | • quindecillion num. (Rare, US, modern Britain and Australia short scale) 1048. • quindecillion num. (Rare, dated, Britain and Australia, long scale) 1090. • QUINDECILLION n. ten to the power of 48, or in Britain ten to the power of 90. |
QUODLIBETICAL | • quodlibetical adj. (Philosophy) Of or relating to quodlibet; of a question, posed extemporaneously. • QUODLIBETICAL adj. of or like a quodlibet, also QUODLIBETIC. |
REQUISITIONED | • requisitioned v. Simple past tense and past participle of requisition. • REQUISITION v. to make a demand for supplies. |
SOMNILOQUISED | • somniloquised v. Simple past tense and past participle of somniloquise. • SOMNILOQUISE v. to talk in one's sleep, also SOMNILOQUIZE. |
SOMNILOQUIZED | • somniloquized v. Simple past tense and past participle of somniloquize. • SOMNILOQUIZE v. to talk in one's sleep, also SOMNILOQUISE. |