Anagrams of: QUADRATICS_

• 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

• 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

• Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

• Plants used in making a quickset hedge

• The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.

• Quitchgrass.

• A fast bowler.

• To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.

• To quicken.