14-letter words containing o, u, a
- antiregulatory — opposed to regulation
- antisubversion — opposed to or acting against subversion
- antoninus pius — 86–161 ad, emperor of Rome (138–161); adopted son and successor of Hadrian
- any occupation — Any occupation insurance covers a person if they cannot work under any circumstances, in any occupation, following an accident, injury, or disability.
- anyone's guess — something difficult to predict
- aperture ratio — relative aperture.
- aphthous fever — foot-and-mouth disease.
- apple turnover — a pastry containing apple
- aqueous humour — the watery fluid within the eyeball between the cornea and the lens
- aquifoliaceous — related to the Aquifoliaceae family of plants, the only living genus of which is the holly (Ilex) genus
- arboricultural — Of or pertaining to the care, planting and maintenance of trees.
- arborsculpture — The art and craft technique of growing and shaping tree trunks.
- area vasculosa — that part of the area opaca in which the blood cells and vessels are formed.
- argue the toss — to wrangle or dispute at length
- argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
- armour-plating — The armour-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering which is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
- arthroconidium — A kind of asexual fungal spore, typically produced by segmentation of pre-existing fungal hyphae.
- artifactitious — of, relating to, or of the nature of an artifact, or a man-made object that carries cultural significance.
- as all get-out — to a considerable degree; greatly
- as you like it — a comedy (1599?) by Shakespeare.
- assault course — An assault course is an area of land covered with obstacles such as walls which people, especially soldiers, use to improve their skills and strength.
- assault troops — soldiers of the infantry who are specially trained to lead an attack
- assault weapon — any of various automatic and semiautomatic military firearms utilizing an intermediate-power cartridge, designed for individual use. Compare assault rifle.
- asynchronously — In an asynchronous manner.
- at the outside — You use at the outside to say that you think that a particular amount is the largest possible in a particular situation, or that a particular time is the latest possible time for something to happen.
- atlas autocode — (language) The Autocode for the Ferranti Atlas, which may have been the first commercial computer with hardware-paged virtual memory. Whereas other autocodes were basically assembly languages, Atlas Autocode was high-level and block-structured, resembling a cross between Fortran and ALGOL 60. It had call-by value, loops, declarations, complex numbers, pointers, heap and stack storage generators, dynamic arrays, and extensible syntax.
- auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
- audio response — a computer response that is audible rather than textual or graphical
- audio-cassette — a cassette of tape on which sound only is recorded
- audiocassettes — Plural form of audiocassette.
- auditory canal — the narrow passageway from the outer ear to the eardrum.
- auditory nerve — either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, which connect the ear with the brain and carry impulses relating to sound and balance
- auger-electron — a nonradiative process in which an atom in an excited state undergoes a transition to a lower state by the emission of a bound electron (Auger electron) rather than by the emission of an x-ray.
- aurothiomalate — (chemistry) A thiomalate with the addition of gold.
- auspiciousness — The state or quality of being auspicious or successful.
- austro-asiatic — a hypothetical phylum or superfamily of languages consisting of Mon-Khmer and certain other languages of India and South-East Asia. Links with Malayo-Polynesian have also been suggested
- authentication — to establish as genuine.
- author catalog — a catalog whose entries are listed by author, editor, compiler, translator, or other party considered to have responsibility for the creation or assembly of the work specified.
- authorisations — Plural form of authorisation.
- authoritarians — Plural form of authoritarian.
- authority file — a file, either on cards or in machine-readable format, in which decisions involving bibliographic records, particularly for form of entry, are recorded to establish a precedent or rule for subsequent decisions and to provide for consistency of entries.
- authorizations — Plural form of authorization.
- autoactivation — (biochemistry) autocatalysis.
- autoantibodies — Plural form of autoantibody.
- autobiographer — a person who writes the story of his or her own life
- autobiographic — marked by or dealing with one's own experiences or life history; of or in the manner of an autobiography: autobiographical material; an autobiographical novel.
- autocollimator — an instrument combining the functions of a telescope and collimator, for detecting and measuring very small deviations in a beam of light.
- autoconfiscate — (software, jargon) A term coined by Noah Friedman meaning to set up or modify a source-code distribution so that it configures and builds using the GNU project's autoconf/automake/libtools suite.
- autocoprophagy — the consumption of one's own faeces
- autocorrelator — (electronics) A device that modifies a signal with a delayed copy of itself in order to detect any periodic signal hidden in the noise.