7-letter words containing a, t, u, e
- auteuil — a former town, now part of Paris, France: noted for residences of Boileau, Talleyrand, Molière, La Fontaine, and other eminent people.
- auteurs — Plural form of auteur.
- autocue — An Autocue is a device used by people speaking on television or at a public event, which displays words for them to read.
- autopen — a mechanical device used to produce imitation signatures
- auxetic — something that promotes auxesis
- ayuthea — a city in central Thailand, on the Chao Phraya: former national capital.
- azurite — an azure-blue mineral associated with copper deposits. It is a source of copper. Composition: copper carbonate. Formula: Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2. Crystal structure: monoclinic
- baguets — Plural form of baguet.
- ballute — a type of inflatable device resembling a cross between a parachute and a balloon, designed to slow descent rapidly
- balteus — (on an Ionic capital) the horizontal band connecting the volutes on either side.
- banquet — A banquet is a grand formal dinner.
- bateaux — Also, batteau. Nautical. Chiefly Canadian and Southern U.S.. a small, flat-bottomed rowboat used on rivers. a half-decked, sloop-rigged boat used for fishing on Chesapeake Bay; skipjack. (in some regions) a scow.
- bateful — (obsolete) Exciting contention; contentious.
- batteau — bateau (def 1).
- batture — A sea bed or a river bed that has been raised or elevated.
- battute — a beat.
- batuque — a Brazilian round dance of African origin.
- bautzen — a town in E Germany, in Saxony: site of an indecisive battle in 1813 between Napoleon's army and an allied army of Russians and Prussians. Pop: 42 160 (2003 est)
- bauxite — Bauxite is a clay-like substance from which aluminium is obtained.
- beat up — If someone beats a person up, they hit or kick the person many times.
- beat-up — Informal. dilapidated; in poor condition from use: a beat-up old jalopy.
- beautie — Obsolete spelling of beauty.
- bleaunt — a short tunic or blouse, worn in the Middle Ages.
- boutade — an outburst; sally
- bullate — puckered or blistered in appearance
- bursate — resembling or containing a bursa
- cajeput — cajuput
- calumet — a long-stemmed ceremonial pipe, smoked by North American Indians as a token of peace, at sacrifices, etc.
- capture — If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.
- capulet — the family name of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- caquetà — the Japurá River from its source in Colombia to the border with Brazil
- catechu — a water-soluble astringent resinous substance obtained from any of certain tropical plants, esp the leguminous tree Acacia catechu of S Asia, and used in medicine, tanning, and dyeing
- catouse — New England. a noisy disturbance; commotion.
- caudate — having a tail or a tail-like appendage
- causate — (philosophy) The effect of a cause.
- causeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cause.
- cautery — the coagulation of blood or destruction of body tissue by cauterizing
- centaur — In classical mythology, a centaur is a creature with the head, arms, and upper body of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- chanute — a town in SE Kansas.
- chateau — A château is a large country house or castle in France.
- chuleta — a cutlet or chop.
- cluebat — (computing slang) A bat (club) with which someone clueless is (figuratively or in one's imagination) struck.
- cocteau — Jean (ʒɑ̃). 1889–1963, French dramatist, novelist, poet, critic, designer, and film director. His works include the novel Les Enfants terribles (1929) and the play La Machine infernale (1934)
- couteau — a large two-edged knife used formerly as a weapon
- creatur — Obsolete spelling of creature.
- cuneate — wedge-shaped: cuneate leaves are attached at the narrow end
- cuprate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several non-stoichiometric compounds, of general formula XYCumOn, many of which are superconductors.
- curated — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curates — Plural form of curate.
- curtate — shortened