6-letter words containing u, a
- atyrau — a port city in W Kazakhstan, at the mouth of the Ural River on the Caspian Sea.
- au jus — (of meat) served in its own gravy
- au vol — a cry used to encourage a hawk to fly.
- aubade — a song or poem appropriate to or greeting the dawn
- aubrey — John. 1626–97, English antiquary and author, noted for his vivid biographies of his contemporaries, Brief Lives (edited 1898)
- auburn — Auburn hair is reddish brown.
- auceps — a person who catches hawks
- aucuba — an ornamental evergreen Japanese laurel
- audial — of or relating to sound and the sense of hearing
- audile — a person who possesses a faculty for auditory imagery that is more distinct than his visual or other imagery
- auding — the practice of listening to and processing spoken language in order to understand
- audio- — indicating hearing or sound
- audion — an early type of triode.
- audism — The notion that one is superior based on one's ability to hear or behave in the manner of one who hears.
- audits — Plural form of audit.
- audrey — a feminine name
- augcog — augmented cognition
- augean — extremely dirty or corrupt
- augeas — king of the Epeans in Elis and one of the Argonauts.
- augend — a number to which another number, the addend, is added
- augers — Plural form of auger.
- aughts — Archaic. ownership; possession. property; a possession.
- augier — Guillaume Victor Émile [gee-yohm veek-tawr ey-meel] /giˈyoʊm vikˈtɔr eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1820–89, French dramatist.
- augite — a black or greenish-black mineral of the pyroxene group, found in igneous rocks. Composition: calcium magnesium iron aluminium silicate. General formula: (Ca,Mg,Fe,Al)(Si,Al)2O6. Crystal structure: monoclinic
- augurs — Plural form of augur.
- augury — An augury is a sign of what will happen in the future.
- august — August is the eighth month of the year in the Western calendar.
- auklet — any of various small auks of the genera Aethia and Ptychoramphus
- aulard — François Victor Alphonse [frahn-swa veek-tawr al-fawns] /frɑ̃ˈswa vikˈtɔr alˈfɔ̃s/ (Show IPA), 1849–1928, French historian.
- aulder — old.
- aumbry — ambry.
- auntie — Someone's auntie is their aunt.
- auntly — of or like an aunt
- aurate — any salt of auric acid
- aureus — a gold coin of the Roman Empire
- auride — (inorganic chemistry) Any anion of gold; any salt containing such an anion.
- aurify — to turn into gold
- auriga — a conspicuous constellation in the N hemisphere between the Great Bear and Orion, at the edge of the Milky Way. It contains the first magnitude star Capella and the supergiant eclipsing binary star Epsilon Aurigae
- auriol — Vincent (vɛ̃sɑ̃). 1884–1966, French statesman; president of the Fourth Republic (1947–54)
- aurist — a former name for audiologist
- auroch — Alternative spelling of aurochs.
- aurora — an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands, curtains, or streamers of light, usually green, red, or yellow, that move across the sky in polar regions. It is caused by collisions between air molecules and charged particles from the sun that are trapped in the earth's magnetic field
- aurous — of or containing gold, esp in the monovalent state
- auspex — in ancient Rome, an augur, or diviner, esp. one who watched for omens in the flight of birds
- aussat — the Australian-owned communications satellite launched in 1985
- aussie — Aussie means Australian.
- austen — Jane. 1775–1817, English novelist, noted particularly for the insight and delicate irony of her portrayal of middle-class families. Her completed novels are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), Northanger Abbey (1818), and Persuasion (1818)
- auster — the south wind
- austin — a city in central Texas, on the Colorado River: state capital since 1845. Pop: 672 011 (2003 est)
- ausubo — a tropical American tree, Manilkara bidentata, with hard, red wood