Anagrams of: ARQUISTS_

• colorless glass made of almost pure silica

• a hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities

• an examination consisting of a few short questions

• examine someone's knowledge of something

• somewhat square in appearance or form

• a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1

• (physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3

• fresh unripened cheese of a smooth texture made from pasteurized milk, a starter, and rennet

• a strange attitude or habit

• a narrow groove beside a beading

• twist or curve abruptly

• a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man

• an algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree

• a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1

• any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits

• edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable

• a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets

• to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition