icequake
noun
A violent shaking or series of abrupt movements which occur when an ice field, floe, etc., fractures as a result of lateral pressure.
Origin
Mid 18th century.
- quartz reef
- quartz reefing
- quartz watch
- quartzy
- quasar
- quash
- quashable
- Quashee
- Quashie
- quasi-
- quasi-contract
- quasi-contractual
- quasicrystal
- quasicrystalline
- quasida
- quasifission
- quasi-implication
- quasi in rem
- quasilinear
- quasi-modal
- Quasimodo
- Quasimodo, Salvatore
- quasimolecular
- quasi-nuptial
- quasi-optical