Anagrams of QUADRATRIX_

• 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

• 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

• A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing.

• Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds

• a curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree

• a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence

• a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate

• animal hunted or caught for food

• extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry

• a quarter of the circumference of a circle

• any of the four areas into which a plane is divided by two orthogonal coordinate axes

• the area enclosed by two perpendicular radii of a circle

• a measuring instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies

• relating to or consisting of or being in water

• operating or living or growing in water

• a plant that lives in or on water