Anagrams of: QUAERITUR_

• 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 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

• a person who acquires something (usually permanently)

• a corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock

• the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card

• a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee

• underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc

• In a state of excitement, trepidation or agitation; quivering.

• Permission to use a port given to a ship after compliance with quarantine or on conviction that she is free of contagious disease.

• Practice; habits.

• come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

• take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect

• come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)

• locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar

• win something through one's efforts

• gain knowledge or skills

• gain through experience

• 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