(mathematics) The fourth power; the square of a square.
verb
(transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the fourth power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself three times.
biquadratic
biquadratic
adj
(mathematics) Of a polynomial expression, involving only the zeroth, second, and fourth powers of a variable, as x⁴ + 3x² + 2. Sometimes extended to any expression involving the biquadrate or fourth power (but no higher powers), as x⁴ − 4x³ + 3x² − x + 1.
noun
(mathematics) A biquadratic equation.
biquadratics
biquadratics
noun
plural of biquadratic
briquetted
briquetted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of briquet
simple past tense and past participle of briquette
cathedralesque
cathedralesque
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cathedral.
conquistador
conquistador
noun
A conqueror, but especially one of the Spanish soldiers that invaded Central and South America otherwise known as the doorways to the new world, in the 16th century and defeated the Incas and Aztecs.
conquistadores
conquistadores
noun
plural of conquistador
conquistadors
counterquartered
counterquartered
adj
(heraldry) Doubly divided into quarters, so that each quarter is itself quartered.
critiqued
critiqued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of critique
croqueted
croqueted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of croquet
derequisition
derequisition
verb
(transitive) To return or release (something previously requisitioned).
desquamatory
desquamatory
adj
(surgery) Relating to the removal of the laminae of exfoliated bones.
detraque
disequilibrate
disequilibrate
verb
(transitive) To bring out of a state of equilibrium; to unbalance.
disequilibration
disequilibration
noun
The act of bringing about a state of disequilibrium
disfrequent
disquarter
disquieter
disquieter
noun
One who, or that which, disquiets, or makes uneasy; a disturber.
disquiparant
disquiparation
disquisitionary
disquisitionary
adj
Pertaining to disquisition; disquisitional.
disquisitor
disquisitor
noun
A person who makes a disquisition; an inquirer or investigator.
disquisitorial
disquisitorial
adj
Of or pertaining to a disquisitor.
disquisitory
disquisitory
adj
Of or pertaining to disquisition; disquisitive.
earthquaked
earthquaked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of earthquake
equatorward
equatorward
adj
toward the equator
equatorwards
equatorwards
adv
Towards the equator.
equibiradiate
equidifferent
equidifferent
adj
Having equal differences.
equidistribution
equidistribution
noun
An equal distribution.
equilibrated
equilibrated
adj
Subject to equilibration
verb
simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate
equiponderant
equiponderant
adj
(obsolete) Having equal weight.
equiponderate
equiponderate
verb
To counterbalance.
equiponderated
equiponderated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate
equiponderating
equiponderating
verb
present participle of equiponderate
equiponderation
equiponderation
noun
An equiponderating, or counterbalancing.
equiradiate
equiradiate
adj
having equal-length radii
forequoted
forequoted
adj
Cited before; quoted in an earlier part of the treatise or essay.
frequented
frequented
verb
simple past tense and past participle of frequent
grandiloquent
grandiloquent
adj
(of a person, their language or writing) Given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive number of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid
grandiloquently
grandiloquently
adv
showing grandiloquence
headquarter
headquarter
verb
(US, intransitive) To establish headquarters.
(US, transitive) To provide (an organization) with headquarters.
headquartered
headquartered
adj
if an organization is headquartered somewhere, it has its headquarters in that place
verb
simple past tense and past participle of headquarter
headquartering
headquartering
verb
present participle of headquarter
headquarters
headquarters
noun
A place of concentrated activity or influence.
The center of an organization's operations or administration.
The military installation from which troops are commanded and orders are issued; the military unit consisting of a commander and his support staff.
hindquarter
hindquarter
noun
(in the plural) The hind biped (leg) of a quadruped, or all body parts situated behind the hind legs' trunk-attachment.
(metonymically, derogatory, usually in the plural) Human behind, butt.
Either rear half of a side of beef, mutton, veal, lamb or by extension from another edible mammal.
hindquarters
hindquarters
noun
plural of hindquarter
hydroxyanthraquinone
hydroxyanthraquinone
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of several organic compounds that can be viewed as derivatives of an anthraquinone through replacement of one hydrogen atom by a hydroxyl group.
interquarreled
intersqueezed
irondequoit
liquidator
liquidator
noun
Any of the workers involved in cleaning up the Chernobyl disaster
One supporting the political policy of liquidationism; a liquidationist.
One who liquidates.
liquidators
liquidators
noun
plural of liquidator
liquidatorship
liquidatorship
noun
The role or business of a liquidator.
marquardt
nonsequestered
nonsequestered
adj
Not sequestered.
outqueried
ovatoquadrangular
palatoquadrate
palatoquadrate
noun
(biology) The dorsal part of the mandibular arch in some fish
paraquadrate
paraquadrate
adj
Synonym of squamosal
parietoquadrate
parqueted
parqueted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of parquet
perquadrat
pirquetted
preacquitted
preadequate
preadequately
preadequateness
predelinquent
predelinquent
adj
At risk of falling into delinquency.
noun
A young person who is at risk of falling into delinquency.
predelinquently
preliquidate
preliquidated
preliquidating
preliquidation
preliquidation
adj
Before liquidation.
prequarantined
prequoted
pseudoequalitarian
pseudoequalitarian
adj
Apparently, but not actually, equalitarian.
pterygoquadrate
pterygoquadrate
adj
(anatomy) Of or relating to the pterygoid and quadrate bones or cartilages.
qadarite
qadarite
Noun
A member of the an early Islamic movement which held that man was endowed by God with free will.
quadmeter
quadragintesimal
quadrangulate
quadrangulate
verb
(transitive) To divide (a plane or other surface) into quadrangles, often by removing the dividing line between two adjacent triangles (following a previous triangulation)
quadrant
quadrant
noun
(college basketball) One of the four categories of team wins and losses, as categorized by strength of schedule.
(geometry) One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°.
(mathematics) One of the four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis.
(nautical) A measuring device with a graduated arc of 90° used in locating an altitude.
(obsolete) A square or quadrangle.
One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.
quadrantal
quadrantal
adj
(geometry) Of or relating to a quadrant, or included in the fourth part of a circle.
noun
An ancient Roman unit of measure for liquids.
cube
quadrantes
quadrantes
noun
plural of quadrans
quadrantid
quadrantid
Noun
Any of the meteors in a January meteor shower whose radiant is inside the constellation Boötes.
quadrantile
quadrantile
adj
quadrantal
quadrantlike
quadrantlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a quadrant.
quadrantly
quadrantly
adv
squarely
quadrants
quadrants
noun
plural of quadrant
quadrat
quadrat
noun
(Egyptology) A virtual rectangular subdivision of a line or column of hieroglyphs within which a group of hieroglyphs is arranged.
(letterpress typography, obsolete) A quad; a blank metal block used to fill space in lines of type.
(sciences) An area of land, marked for studying its plants, animals, soil, natural processes, etc.
quadrate
quadrate
adj
(archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
(archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
noun
(anatomy) The quadrate bone.
(astrology) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
(geometry) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
(archaic, transitive) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).
(archaic, transitive) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
(archaic, transitive, intransitive) To square.
quadrated
quadrated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quadrate
quadrateness
quadrateness
noun
Quality of being quadrate.
quadrates
quadrates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quadrate
quadratic
quadratic
adj
(mathematics) of a function, of the form y=ax²+bx+c.
(mathematics) of a polynomial, involving the second power (square) of a variable but no higher powers, as ax²+bx+c.
(mathematics) of an equation, of the form ax²+bx+c=0.
square-shaped
noun
(mathematics) A quadratic polynomial, function or equation.
quadratical
quadratical
adj
(rare) quadratic
quadratically
quadratically
adv
In a quadratic way.
quadratics
quadratics
noun
plural of quadratic
quadratifera
quadratiferous
quadrating
quadrating
verb
present participle of quadrate
quadratojugal
quadratojugal
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the quadratojugal bone.
noun
(anatomy) A small jaw bone found in the skull of most reptiles, amphibians and birds.
quadratomandibular
quadratomandibular
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the quadrate bone and the mandible.
quadrator
quadratosquamosal
quadratosquamosal
adj
(anatomy) Both quadrate and squamosal
quadratrix
quadratrix
noun
(mathematics) A curve having ordinates which are a measure of the area (or quadrature) of another curve.
quadrats
quadrats
noun
plural of quadrat
quadratum
quadrature
quadrature
noun
(art) A painting painted on a wooden panel.
(astronomy) A situation in which the directions of two celestial bodies (or a celestial body and the Sun) form a right-angle from the perspective of the observer.
(mathematics) The act or process of constructing a square that has the same area as a given plane figure, or of computing that area.
(mathematics, mathematical analysis) The act or process of solving an indefinite integral by symbolic means.
(mathematics, numerical analysis) The calculation of a definite integral by numerical means.
(physics) The condition in which the phase angle between two alternating quantities is 90°.
The process of making something square; squaring.
quadratures
quadratures
noun
plural of quadrature
quadratus
quadratus
noun
(anatomy) Any of several roughly square or rectangular muscles, e.g. in the abdomen, thigh, and eye socket.
quadrialate
quadrialate
adj
Having four winglike extensions or parts.
quadriannulate
quadriannulate
adj
(biology) Having four rings.
quadriarticulate
quadriarticulate
adj
(entomology) Having four joints.
quadriarticulated
quadriarticulated
adj
Alternative form of quadriarticulate
quadricapsulate
quadricarinate
quadricarinate
adj
(biology) Having four carinae.
quadricentennial
quadricentennial
adj
Relating to a 400th anniversary.
quadricentennials
quadricentennials
noun
plural of quadricentennial
quadriciliate
quadriciliate
adj
Having four cilia.
quadricipital
quadricipital
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the quadriceps.
quadricostate
quadricostate
adj
Having four ribs.
quadricotyledonous
quadricovariant
quadricovariant
noun
(mathematics) a covariant of degree 4
quadricrescentic
quadricrescentoid
quadricrescentoid
adj
(zoology, dentistry) Having four crescentic folds.
quadricuspidate
quadricyclist
quadricyclist
noun
One who rides a quadricycle.
quadridentate
quadridentate
adj
Having four teeth.
quadridentated
quadridentated
adj
Alternative form of quadridentate
quadriderivative
quadridigitate
quadridigitate
adj
Having only four fingers on a hand, or toes on a foot
quadrienniumutile
quadrifoliate
quadrifoliate
adj
(botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
quadrifoliolate
quadrifoliolate
adj
(botany) Having four leaflets.
quadrifrontal
quadrifrontal
adj
(architecture) In the form of a quadrifrons.
quadrifurcate
quadrifurcate
adj
Branching fourfold; having four branches.
verb
Furcate (fork or divide) into four branches or channels.
quadrifurcated
quadrifurcated
adj
Having four forks or branches; quadrifurcate.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quadrifurcate
quadrifurcation
quadrifurcation
noun
A division into four branches
quadrigamist
quadrigamist
noun
(rare) Someone who has four spouses at the same time.
quadrigate
quadrigati
quadrigati
noun
plural of quadrigatus
quadrigatus
quadrigatus
noun
A medium-sized silver coin minted by the Roman Republic during the 3rd century B.C..
quadrigeminate
quadrigeminate
adj
Synonym of quadrigeminal
quadrijugate
quadrijugate
adj
(botany) Pinnate, with four pairs of leaflets.
quadrilaminate
quadrilaminate
adj
Having four layers.
quadrilateral
quadrilateral
adj
Having four sides.
noun
A polygon with four sides.
An area defended by four fortresses supporting each other.