11-letter words containing o, u, a
- automagical — (of a usually complicated technical or computer process) done, operating, or happening in a way that is hidden from or not understood by the user, and in that sense, apparently “magical”: I just downloaded an automagical update to my word processing software that somehow fixed the problems.
- automatable — able to be done by machines without human action
- automatical — Archaic form of automatic.
- automatisms — Plural form of automatism.
- automatized — to make automatic.
- automatizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of automatize.
- automobiles — Plural form of automobile.
- automobilia — items connected with cars and motoring of interest to the collector
- automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
- autonomical — autonomous.
- autophagous — self-consuming or devouring of itself
- autophanous — illuminated by a self-contained power source
- autoplastic — Of or pertaining to autoplasty.
- autopoiesis — Self creation; self organization.
- autopotamic — (of an organism) living or growing only in flowing freshwater streams.
- autoreverse — a system in a tape player that automatically reverses the tape and plays another track when one track has finished
- autorotated — Simple past tense and past participle of autorotate.
- autosomally — in the manner of an autosome
- autostradas — Plural form of autostrada.
- autosuggest — to influence one's own thoughts or behaviour through methods other than conscious thought
- autotheists — Plural form of autotheist.
- autotoxemia — autointoxication
- autotrophic — (of organisms such as green plants) capable of manufacturing complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources such as carbon dioxide, water, and nitrates, using energy from the sun
- autowinders — Plural form of autowinder.
- autoworkers — Plural form of autoworker.
- autozeroing — (electronics) A sampling technique that measures an offset from zero and later compensates by subtracting the difference.
- auxanometer — an instrument that measures the linear growth of plant shoots
- auxochromic — any radical or group of atoms that intensifies the color of a substance.
- auxotrophic — designating or of a mutant organism requiring more nutritional substances than its prototrophic parent because it has lost the ability to make a certain enzyme
- average out — If a set of numbers average out to a particular figure or if you average them out to that figure, their average is calculated to be that figure.
- avoirdupois — a system of weights used in many English-speaking countries. It is based on the pound, which contains 16 ounces or 7000 grains. 100 pounds (US) or 112 pounds (Brit) is equal to 1 hundredweight and 20 hundredweights equals 1 ton
- azido group — the univalent group N 3 −, derived from hydrazoic acid.
- babassu oil — a yellow oil expressed or extracted from babassu nuts, used chiefly in the manufacture of soaps and cosmetics and as a cooking oil.
- babelicious — (of a woman) sexually very attractive.
- bacciferous — bearing berries
- baccivorous — feeding on berries
- back out of — to withdraw from (an enterprise)
- backcountry — an area far from cities and towns that is thinly populated and largely undeveloped; hinterland
- backgrounds — Plural form of background.
- baconburger — a hamburger topped with strips of cooked bacon.
- baculovirus — any of a family of viruses that attack insects and other arthropods, used as biological pesticides
- bad homburg — a city in W central Germany on the S slope of the Taunus Mountains, near Frankfurt.
- badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- balance out — If two or more opposite things balance out or if you balance them out, they become equal in amount, value, or effect.
- bandy about — If someone's name or something such as an idea is bandied about or is bandied around, that person or that thing is discussed by many people in a casual way.
- bannockburn — a village in central Scotland, south of Stirling: nearby is the site of a victory (1314) of the Scots, led by Robert the Bruce, over the English. Pop: 7396 (2001)
- barbarously — uncivilized; wild; savage; crude.
- barfulation — /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ Variation of barf used around the Stanford area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
- baroqueness — The state or condition of being baroque.
- barracoutas — Plural form of barracouta.