Anagrams of: CROQUANTE_

• The four aces, kings, queens, jacks, or tens, in the game of piquet, any of these counting as fourteen points.

• 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

• playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest

• an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice

• the harsh sound of a duck

• medically unqualified

• utter quacking noises

• act as a medical quack or a charlatan

• satisfy (thirst)

• put out, as of fires, flames, or lights

• suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device

• suppress or crush completely

• reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance

• cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid

• the act of conquering

• success in mastering something difficult

• an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone

• a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)

• one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear

• local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California)