Anagrams of: QUARTERHOUR_

• 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

• 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)

• Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes

• an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians

• any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots

• an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present

• a pleasingly sweet olfactory property

• 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

• shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity

• shake with fast, tremulous movements

• shake with seismic vibrations