Phrase Hound found 175 phrases and 87 compound words that contain quarter. The most common are listed below. Open quarter in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 175
- first quarterThe waxing lunar phase, from new moon to half way between new moon and full moon.
- last quarterThe waning lunar phase halfway between full moon and new moon.
- Third quarter
- Fourth quarter
- Second quarter
- quarter of an hourfifteen minutes.
- one quarterrare spelling of one-quarter
- quarter-centuryA period of twenty-five years.
- quarter-mileA quarter of a statute mile, a measurement of 440 yards, or 1,320 feet, or 402.336 metres.
- quarter dayEach of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, formerly established as a time for rents and other payments to be due, tenancies to begin and end, and various meetings and assemblies to be held.
- academic quarterThe traditional fifteen-minutes discrepancy between the time a university lecture nominally will start (according to schedule) and the time it actually starts, used in some educational institutions.
- quarter restA rest of the same duration as a quarter note.
- three-quarterof three fourths of the usual dimension
- quarter glassThe small triangular-shaped side window on some vehicles, originally used as a vent.
- Fiscal Quarter
- French QuarterA neighborhood and National Historic Landmark in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Latin QuarterA neighborhood of Paris, France, around the Sorbonne.
- quarter horseAn American breed of horse originally bred for short-distance racing.
- draw and quarterTo execute (someone) by castration, disembowelling, beheading and quartering.
- Empty QuarterA desert encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula.
- quarter-finalAlternative form of quarterfinal: One of the four competitions in a knockout tournament whose winners go on to play in the two semifinals.
- quarter-hourquarter of an hour; period of time equal to 15 minutes; a quarter.
- quarter-staffAlternative form of quarterstaff: A wooden staff with an approximate length between 2 and 2.5 meters, sometimes tipped with iron, used as a weapon in rural England during the Early Modern period.
- quarter-zipHaving a short zip (approximately a quarter of the height of the garment) descending from the collar.
- quarter eagleA former gold coin of the United States, worth two dollars and fifty cents.
Compound words 87
- quarterbackAn offensive back whose primary job is to pass the ball in a play.
- quartermasterAn officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies. Master of quartering.
- quarterfinalOne of the four competitions in a knockout tournament whose winners go on to play in the two semifinals.
- quarterfinalista person or team that takes part in a quarterfinal
- quarterstaffA wooden staff with an approximate length between 2 and 2.5 meters, sometimes tipped with iron, used as a weapon in rural England during the Early Modern period.
- hindquarterEither rear half of a side of beef, mutton, veal, lamb or by extension from another edible mammal.
- QuartermanA surname.
- quarterlightAlternative spelling of quarter light: The small triangular-shaped side window on some vehicles, originally used as a vent.
- forequarterThe foreleg, shoulder and surrounding area of the body of a quadruped.
- quarterfoldA fold produced by folding a sheet of paper or other material once in half and then again in half at a right angle, resulting in four roughly equal panels or quadrants.