Anagrams of QUADRATIC_

• a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom

• French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)

• a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics

• 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

• a branch of algebra dealing with quadratic equations

• involving the second and no higher power of a quantity or degree

• an equation in which the highest power of an unknown quantity is a square

• a polynomial of the second degree

• any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)

• with little or no delay

• accomplished rapidly and without delay

• hurried and brief

• moving quickly and lightly

• apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity

• performed with little or no delay

• easily aroused or excited

• gotten through environmental forces

• 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