8-letter words containing t, u
- augustan — characteristic of, denoting, or relating to the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar (63 bc–14 ad), his period, or the poets, notably Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, writing during his reign
- augustly — inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic: an august performance of a religious drama.
- augustus — original name Gaius Octavianus; after his adoption by Julius Caesar (44 bc) known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus. 63 bc–14 ad, Roman statesman, a member of the second triumvirate (43 bc). After defeating Mark Antony at Actium (31 bc), he became first emperor of Rome, adopting the title Augustus (27 bc)
- auncient — Obsolete form of ancient.
- aunthood — the state of being, or relationship of, aunt
- auntlike — similar to or like an aunt
- aurality — the quality, condition, or degree of being aural
- aurulent — Gold in color.
- austerer — Comparative form of austere.
- austrian — Austrian means belonging or relating to Austria, or to its people or culture.
- autacoid — any natural internal secretion, esp one that exerts an effect similar to a drug
- autarchy — unlimited rule; autocracy
- autarkic — the condition of self-sufficiency, especially economic, as applied to a nation.
- autecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- authored — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- autistic — An autistic person suffers from autism.
- autobahn — An autobahn is a German motorway.
- autobank — a machine offering cash and other banking services
- autobaud — automatic baud rate detection
- autobiog — autobiography.
- autobody — Alternative form of auto body.
- autocade — a procession or parade of automobiles; motorcade.
- autocarp — any fruit that is produced through self-fertilization
- autocide — suicide by crashing the vehicle one is driving.
- autocode — (language) 1. The assembly language accepted by AUTOCODER. 2. A generic term for symbolic assembly language. Versions of Autocode were developed for Ferranti Atlas, Titan, Mercury and Pegasus and IBM 702 and IBM 705.
- autocoid — Alternative form of autacoid.
- autoconf — (software, tool) The GNU project's tool that configures a source code distribution to compile and run on a different platform. Among open source hackers, a mere running binary of a program is not considered a full release; what's interesting is a source tree that can be built into binaries using standard tools. Since the mid-1990s, autoconf, automake, and libtools have been the standard way to make a distribution portable so that it can be built on multiple operating systems without change.
- autocrat — An autocrat is a person in authority who has complete power.
- autodial — a telephone device that makes possible a service feature (au·to-dial) whereby a call is automatically made in response to a brief input signal from the user, as the pressing of a button.
- autodyne — denoting or relating to an electrical circuit in which the same elements and valves are used as oscillator and detector
- autofill — (computing) Any software feature that fills in (fields of a form, cells of a spreadsheet, etc.) automatically.
- autofire — (video games) A feature on a joystick that permits automatic firing, as though the player were repeatedly pressing the fire button.
- autoflow — (transitive, computing) To flow (text) automatically.
- autogamy — self-fertilization in flowering plants
- autogiro — a self-propelled aircraft supported in flight mainly by unpowered rotating horizontal blades
- autograf — (tool) A system for describing bar charts.
- autogyro — autogiro
- autoharp — a zither-like musical instrument used in country-and-western music, equipped with button-controlled dampers that can prevent selected strings from sounding, thus allowing chords to be played. It is plucked with the fingers or a plectrum
- autolisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp used by the Autocad CAD package from Autodesk.
- autoload — to load automatically
- autology — the study of oneself
- autoloom — (India) A type of power loom.
- autolyse — to undergo or cause to undergo autolysis
- autolyze — to affect with or undergo autolysis
- automata — automaton
- automate — To automate a factory, office, or industrial process means to put in machines which can do the work instead of people.
- automath — One who is self-taught; an autodidact.
- automats — Plural form of automat.
- automize — To automate or automatize.
- automous — Misspelling of autonomous.