12-letter words with Q in the middle
Delve into the fascinating world of words where the letter Q is nestled in the middle. This section highlights the unique placement of Q in various words, illustrating how it contributes to their sound and meaning. From everyday language to more unusual terms, discover how Q in the middle shapes the essence of these words.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| headquarters | 25 | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise | many companies have their headquarters in New York |
| consequences | 25 | - | - |
| acquaintance | 25 | personal knowledge or information about someone or something | - |
| disqualified | 26 | barred from competition for violation of rules | a disqualified player |
| tranquilizer | 30 | a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | - |
| consequently | 26 | (sentence connectors) because of the reason given | consequently, he didn't do it |
| subsequently | 26 | happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | he apologized subsequently |
| tranquillity | 24 | a state of peace and quiet | - |
| masquerading | 25 | - | - |
| conquistador | 24 | an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century) | - |
| cinematheque | 28 | - | - |
| prerequisite | 23 | something that is required in advance | Latin was a prerequisite for admission |
| relinquished | 25 | that has been withdrawn or retreated from | - |
| liquefaction | 26 | the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid | - |
| hindquarters | 25 | the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | - |
| unquestioned | 22 | generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute | - |
| infrequently | 27 | not many times | in your 1850 church you not infrequently find a dramatic contrast between the sumptuous appointments of the building itself and the inhuman barrack-like living conditions in the church room |
| unquenchable | 28 | impossible to quench | unquenchable thirst |
| tranquilized | 31 | - | - |
| acquiescence | 27 | agreement with a statement or proposal to do something | a murmur of acquiescence from the assembly |
| sequentially | 24 | in a consecutive manner | - |
| equivocation | 26 | a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth | - |
| unacquainted | 24 | not knowledgeable about something specified | a person unacquainted with our customs |
| equalization | 30 | the act of making equal or uniform | - |
| grotesquerie | 22 | ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | - |
| colloquially | 26 | with the use of colloquial expressions | this building is colloquially referred to as The Barn |
| equivocality | 29 | - | - |
| equivocating | 27 | - | - |
| equivocators | 26 | - | - |
| equivocatory | 29 | - | - |
| equivalently | 27 | - | - |
| equalitarian | 21 | a person who believes in the equality of all people | - |
| equanimities | 23 | - | - |
| equanimously | 26 | - | - |
| equatability | 26 | capability of being equated | - |
| equationally | 24 | - | - |
| equatorially | 24 | - | - |
| equestrienne | 21 | - | - |
| equalisation | 21 | the act of making equal or uniform | - |
| equabilities | 23 | - | - |
| equibalanced | 26 | - | - |
| equibalances | 25 | - | - |
| equidistance | 24 | - | - |
| equiparating | 24 | - | - |
| equiparation | 23 | - | - |
| equipollence | 25 | - | - |
| equipollency | 28 | - | - |
| equipollents | 23 | - | - |
| equiprobable | 27 | equally probable | - |
| equisetiform | 26 | - | - |
| equitability | 26 | - | - |
| equinumerous | 23 | - | - |
| equinoctials | 23 | - | - |
| equilaterals | 21 | - | - |
| equilibrants | 23 | - | - |
| equilibrated | 24 | - | - |
| equilibrates | 23 | - | - |
| equilibrator | 23 | - | - |
| equilibrists | 23 | - | - |
| equilibriums | 25 | - | - |
| equimultiple | 25 | - | - |
| equivalences | 26 | - | - |
| enquirations | 21 | - | - |
| exchequering | 34 | - | - |
| frequentable | 26 | - | - |
| frequentness | 24 | - | - |
| forequarters | 24 | - | - |
| foursquarely | 27 | - | - |
| harlequinade | 25 | acting like a clown or buffoon | - |
| harlequining | 25 | - | - |
| harquebusier | 26 | - | - |
| harquebusses | 26 | - | - |
| hydroquinols | 28 | - | - |
| hydroquinone | 28 | - | - |
| inadequacies | 24 | - | - |
| inadequately | 25 | in an inadequate manner or to an inadequate degree | the temporary camps were inadequately equipped |
| illiquations | 21 | - | - |
| illaqueating | 22 | - | - |
| illaqueation | 21 | - | - |
| infrequences | 26 | - | - |
| inquisitress | 21 | - | - |
| iniquitously | 24 | in an iniquitous manner | they really believed that the treaty of Versailles was iniquitously injust |
| inquilinisms | 23 | - | - |
| inquinations | 21 | - | - |
| inquirations | 21 | - | - |
| inquisitions | 21 | - | - |
| inconsequent | 23 | lacking worth or importance | his work seems trivial and inconsequential |
| ineloquences | 23 | - | - |
| ineloquently | 24 | without eloquence; in an inarticulate manner | - |
| inequalities | 21 | - | - |
| inequipotent | 23 | - | - |
| inequivalved | 28 | - | - |
| disqualifier | 25 | - | - |
| disqualifies | 25 | - | - |
| disquietedly | 26 | - | - |
| disquietened | 23 | - | - |
| disquietness | 22 | - | - |
| disquietudes | 23 | - | - |
| disquisition | 22 | an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion | - |
| disquisitive | 25 | - | - |
| disquisitory | 25 | - | - |
| embarquement | 27 | - | - |
| earthquaking | 29 | - | - |
| dulciloquies | 24 | - | - |
| barquantines | 23 | - | - |
| barquentines | 23 | - | - |
| autocritique | 23 | - | - |
| biquadratics | 26 | - | - |
| biuniqueness | 23 | - | - |
| bequeathment | 28 | - | - |
| benzoquinone | 32 | any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes | - |
| bequeathable | 28 | - | - |
| bouquetieres | 23 | - | - |
| cinquecentos | 25 | - | - |
| chiquichiqui | 40 | - | - |
| chequerboard | 29 | - | - |
| chequerworks | 33 | - | - |
| chloroquines | 26 | - | - |
| colliquative | 26 | - | - |
| colloquising | 24 | - | - |
| colloquizing | 33 | - | - |
| coloquintida | 24 | - | - |
| colliquation | 23 | - | - |
| cliquinesses | 23 | - | - |
| cliquishness | 26 | tendency to associate with only a select group | - |
| colliquating | 24 | - | - |
| coequalities | 23 | - | - |
| conqueringly | 27 | - | - |
| consequenced | 26 | - | - |
| conqueresses | 23 | - | - |
| corequisites | 23 | - | - |
| coquettishly | 29 | in a flirtatious manner | she smiled coquettishly |
| damasquining | 25 | - | - |
| croquignoles | 24 | - | - |
| delinquently | 25 | - | - |
| deliquescent | 24 | (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
| deliquescing | 25 | - | - |
| desquamatory | 27 | - | - |
| desquamative | 27 | - | - |
| desquamation | 24 | loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | - |
| desquamating | 25 | - | - |
| discotheques | 27 | - | - |
| aquaceutical | 25 | - | - |
| aquacultural | 23 | of or relating to aquiculture | aquacultural methods |
| aquacultures | 23 | - | - |
| aquafortises | 24 | - | - |
| aquafortists | 24 | - | - |
| aqualeathers | 24 | - | - |
| aquaplanings | 24 | - | - |
| appropinqued | 28 | - | - |
| appropinques | 27 | - | - |
| aquarellists | 21 | - | - |
| aquatintists | 21 | - | - |
| aquicultural | 23 | of or relating to aquiculture | - |
| aquicultures | 23 | - | - |
| aquilinities | 21 | - | - |
| arquebusiers | 23 | - | - |
| arquebusades | 24 | - | - |
| antimosquito | 23 | - | - |
| antiquarians | 21 | - | - |
| antiquations | 21 | - | - |
| absquatulate | 23 | run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | - |
| adequateness | 22 | the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: | - |
| acquiescents | 25 | - | - |
| acquirements | 25 | - | - |
| acquisitions | 23 | - | - |
| acquittanced | 26 | - | - |
| acquittances | 25 | - | - |
| relinquisher | 24 | - | - |
| relinquishes | 24 | - | - |
| reliquefying | 28 | - | - |
| relacquering | 24 | - | - |
| reequipments | 25 | - | - |
| requalifying | 28 | - | - |
| requickening | 28 | - | - |
| requirements | 23 | - | - |
| requisitions | 21 | - | - |
| requitements | 23 | - | - |
| sequaciously | 26 | - | - |
| sequestering | 22 | - | - |
| sequestrable | 23 | - | - |
| sequestrants | 21 | - | - |
| sequestrated | 22 | - | - |
| sequestrates | 21 | - | - |
| sequestrator | 21 | - | - |
| sesquialtera | 21 | - | - |
| sesquioxides | 29 | - | - |
| sesquitertia | 21 | - | - |
| soliloquizes | 30 | - | - |
| soliloquizer | 30 | - | - |
| soliloquised | 22 | - | - |
| soliloquiser | 21 | - | - |
| soliloquises | 21 | - | - |
| soliloquists | 21 | - | - |
| soliloquized | 31 | - | - |
| siliquaceous | 23 | - | - |
| statuesquely | 24 | - | - |
| squanderings | 23 | - | - |
| squarenesses | 21 | - | - |
| squarishness | 24 | - | - |
| squarsonages | 22 | - | - |
| squattocracy | 28 | - | - |
| squiralities | 21 | - | - |
| squirarchies | 26 | - | - |
| squirearchal | 26 | - | - |
| squamousness | 23 | - | - |
| squamosities | 23 | - | - |
| squalidities | 22 | - | - |
| squamoseness | 23 | - | - |
| squirrelfish | 27 | similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States | - |
| squirrelling | 22 | - | - |
| somniloquize | 32 | - | - |
| somniloquous | 23 | - | - |
| somniloquist | 23 | someone who talks while asleep | - |
| somniloquism | 25 | uttering speech while asleep | - |
| somniloquies | 23 | - | - |
| somniloquise | 23 | - | - |
| superquality | 26 | - | - |
| subsequences | 25 | - | - |
| teleferiques | 24 | - | - |
| telepherique | 26 | - | - |
| tranquilised | 22 | - | - |
| tranquiliser | 21 | - | - |
| tranquilises | 21 | - | - |
| tranquilizes | 30 | - | - |
| tranquillest | 21 | - | - |
| tranquillise | 21 | make calm or still | - |
| tranquillize | 30 | make calm or still | - |
| tranquilness | 21 | - | - |
| uncoquettish | 26 | - | - |
| ubiquitarian | 23 | - | - |
| ubiquitously | 26 | - | - |
| reconquering | 24 | - | - |
| racquetballs | 25 | - | - |
| reacquainted | 24 | - | - |
| unfrequented | 25 | devoid of creatures | a trail leading to an unfrequented lake |
| unfrequently | 27 | - | - |
| uniquenesses | 21 | - | - |
| unliquidated | 23 | - | - |
| underquoting | 23 | - | - |
| unvanquished | 28 | not conquered | - |
| unnilquadium | 24 | a radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized | - |
| unrequitedly | 25 | - | - |
| unqualifying | 28 | - | - |
| unquantified | 25 | - | - |
| unqueenliest | 21 | - | - |
| unquenchably | 31 | - | - |
| vanquishment | 29 | - | - |
| vanquishable | 29 | susceptible to being defeated | - |
| ventriloqual | 24 | - | - |
| metasequoias | 23 | - | - |
| methaqualone | 26 | sedative-hypnotic drug (trade name Quaalude) that is a drug of abuse | - |
| menaquinones | 23 | - | - |
| mesquineries | 23 | - | - |
| misquotation | 23 | an incorrect quotation | - |
| monchiquites | 28 | - | - |
| milquetoasts | 23 | - | - |
| multiloquent | 23 | - | - |
| multiloquies | 23 | - | - |
| multiloquous | 23 | - | - |
| mousquetaire | 23 | - | - |
| obsequiously | 26 | in an obsequious manner | she acts obsequiously toward her boss |
| opaquenesses | 23 | - | - |
| obliquations | 23 | - | - |
| overequipped | 29 | - | - |
| pauciloquent | 25 | - | - |
| pectoriloquy | 28 | - | - |
| paraquadrate | 24 | - | - |
| pasquinading | 25 | - | - |
| pasquinaders | 24 | - | - |
| pasqueflower | 29 | any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone | - |
| perquisition | 23 | - | - |
| perquisitors | 23 | - | - |
| preacquaints | 25 | - | - |
| postconquest | 25 | - | - |
| prerequiring | 24 | - | - |
| prequalified | 27 | - | - |
| prequalifies | 26 | - | - |
| liquefactive | 29 | - | - |
| liquescences | 25 | - | - |
| liquidambars | 26 | - | - |
| liquidations | 22 | - | - |
| liquidnesses | 22 | - | - |
| liquefacient | 26 | - | - |
| lacquerwares | 26 | - | - |
| lacquerworks | 30 | - | - |
| maquiladoras | 24 | - | - |
| marquessates | 23 | - | - |
| marqueteries | 23 | - | - |
| marquisettes | 23 | - | - |
| masqueraders | 24 | - | - |
| macaberesque | 27 | - | - |
| loquaciously | 26 | in a chatty loquacious manner | `When I was young,' she continued loquaciously, `I used to do all sorts of naughty things' |
| magniloquent | 24 | lofty in style | - |
| squeezeboxes | 39 | - | - |
| aquafarmings | 27 | - | - |
| genderqueers | 23 | - | - |
| mosquitofish | 29 | silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control | - |
| mosquitoiest | 23 | - | - |
| liquifactive | 29 | - | - |
| liquifaction | 26 | - | - |
| chivalresque | 29 | - | - |
| equivocacies | 28 | - | - |
| squirreliest | 21 | - | - |
| squirrellier | 21 | - | - |
| sesquialters | 21 | - | - |
| sesquipedals | 24 | - | - |
| videotheques | 28 | - | - |
| reliquifying | 28 | - | - |
