12-letter words containing a, u, t, e
- appeal court — An appeal court is the same as a Court of Appeal.
- apple butter — a jam made from stewed spiced apples
- appurtenance — a secondary or less significant thing or part
- aquaintances — Plural form of aquaintance.
- arbitrageurs — Plural form of arbitrageur.
- arc spectrum — a spectrum formed from the light produced by an electric arc, characteristic of the gas or vapor through which the arc passes.
- arched truss — a truss having an archlike form but unlike a true arch in that it is free to move horizontally at its base, as in expanding or contracting because of temperature changes.
- architecture — Architecture is the art of planning, designing, and constructing buildings.
- armour plate — a tough heavy steel, usually containing chromium, nickel, and molybdenum and often hardened on the surface, used for protecting warships, tanks, etc
- arseniureted — combined with arsenic
- arthur evans — Sir Arthur John, 1851–1941, English archaeologist.
- articulately — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
- articulative — relating to articulation
- arts student — a person studying an arts subject
- ascomycetous — belonging or pertaining to the Ascomycota.
- assaultively — in an assaultive manner
- assentaneous — having a tendency to agree, comply or acquiesce
- assuefaction — the condition of being or becoming familiar with or used to something
- assumptively — taken for granted.
- at a premium — If something is at a premium, it is wanted or needed, but is difficult to get or achieve.
- at a venture — at random; by chance
- atheromatous — a sebaceous cyst.
- atmospherium — an optical system used to simulate images of atmospheric phenomena, as cloud formations, storms, and day and night, on the inside of a dome.
- attenborough — Sir David. born 1926, British naturalist and broadcaster; noted esp for his TV series Life on Earth (1978), The Living Planet (1983), The Life of Birds (1998), The Life of Mammals (2002), and First Life (2010)
- attitudinize — to adopt a pose or opinion for effect; strike an attitude
- attributable — If something is attributable to an event, situation, or person, it is likely that it was caused by that event, situation or person.
- au contraire — on the contrary
- auction sale — an instance of items being sold by auction
- auction site — a commercial website on which items are sold by internet auction
- auctioneered — Simple past tense and past participle of auctioneer.
- audio system — integrated equipment for producing amplified sound, as in a hi-fi or a mobile disco, or as a public-address system on stage
- auger effect — the spontaneous emission of an electron instead of a photon by an excited ion as a result of a vacancy being filled in an inner electron shell
- augmentation — the act of augmenting or the state of being augmented
- augmentative — tending or able to augment
- austenitized — to form austenite in (a ferrous alloy) by heating.
- austronesian — of or relating to Austronesia, its peoples, or their languages
- authenticate — If you authenticate something, you state officially that it is genuine after examining it.
- authenticity — the quality or state of being authentic; reliability; genuineness
- authorizable — able to be authorized
- auto-erotism — the arousal and satisfaction of sexual excitement within or by oneself, as by masturbation.
- autoanalyzer — any of various automatic devices that test and analyze chemicals, blood, etc.
- autocatalyse — to cause an internal, self-produced, chemical reaction
- autocatalyze — To cause, or to undergo autocatalysis.
- autochangers — Plural form of autochanger.
- autochthones — Alternative spelling of autochthons.
- autocomplete — a feature of a word processor, email program, web browser, etc., that automatically predicts the remaining characters in a word or phrase based on what has been typed or input before: If you supply the information, your browser will be able to use autocomplete to fill out online forms.
- autocritique — the examination of factors guiding one's thoughts, beliefs and actions; self-criticism
- autodestruct — likely to or possessing the power to destroy or obliterate itself or its possessor
- autodiallers — Plural form of autodialler.
- autoeciously — in an autoecious manner