7-letter words containing u, s, a
- attunes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attune.
- aubades — Plural form of aubade.
- audions — an early type of triode.
- augusta — a city in the US, in Georgia. Pop: 193 316 (2003 est) (including Richmond)
- auguste — a type of circus clown who usually wears battered ordinary clothes and is habitually maladroit or unlucky
- aunties — Informal. aunt.
- aurates — Plural form of aurate.
- aurides — Plural form of auride.
- aurochs — a recently extinct member of the cattle tribe, Bos primigenius, that inhabited forests in N Africa, Europe, and SW Asia. It had long horns and is thought to be one of the ancestors of modern cattle
- auroras — Plural form of aurora.
- ausable — a river in NE New York, flowing NE through a gorge (Ausable Chasm) into Lake Champlain. 20 miles (32 km) long.
- auscult — To auscultate.
- ausform — to temper or deform steel in order to make it stronger and more durable
- auslaut — final position in a word, especially as a conditioning environment in sound change.
- auslese — a white wine, usually sweet, produced in Germany from individually selected bunches of very ripe grapes
- auspice — patronage or guidance (esp in the phrase under the auspices of)
- austere — If you describe something as austere, you approve of its plain and simple appearance.
- austral — of or coming from the south
- austria — a republic in central Europe: ruled by the Hapsburgs from 1282 to 1918; formed a dual monarchy with Hungary in 1867 and became a republic in 1919; a member of the European Union; contains part of the Alps, the Danube basin in the east, and extensive forests. Official language: German. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: euro. Capital: Vienna. Pop: 8 221 646 (2013 est). Area: 83 849 sq km (32 374 sq miles)
- austro- — Austro- combines with adjectives indicating nationality to form adjectives which describe something connected with Austria and another country.
- auteurs — Plural form of auteur.
- authors — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- autobus — a motor vehicle which can carry a large group of passengers
- autoist — motorist.
- autopsy — An autopsy is an examination of a dead body by a doctor who cuts it open in order to try to discover the cause of death.
- autumns — Plural form of autumn.
- auxesis — growth in animal or plant tissues resulting from an increase in cell size without cell division
- avarous — (obsolete) Avaricious.
- avenues — Plural form of avenue.
- avernus — a crater lake in Italy, near Naples: in ancient times regarded as an entrance to hell
- avulsed — Simple past tense and past participle of avulse.
- azotous — nitrous, containing nitrogen
- azygous — developing or occurring singly
- azymous — unleavened
- babassu — a Brazilian palm tree, Orbignya martiana (or O. speciosa), having hard edible nuts that yield an oil used in making soap, margarine, etc
- bacchus — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a god of wine and giver of ecstasy, identified with Dionysus
- backups — Plural form of backup.
- badious — chestnut coloured; brownish-red
- baguets — Plural form of baguet.
- balteus — (on an Ionic capital) the horizontal band connecting the volutes on either side.
- balthus — real name Balthasar Klossowski de Rola. 1908–2001, French painter of Polish descent, noted esp for his paintings of adolescent girls
- bangbus — A motorbus associated with licentious, often solicited sexual activity, especially in pornography.
- barques — Plural form of barque.
- bascule — a bridge with a movable section hinged about a horizontal axis and counterbalanced by a weight
- basescu — Traian. born 1951, Romanian politician, president of Romania (2004–14)
- bash up — If someone bashes you up, they attack you violently and injure you.
- bashful — Someone who is bashful is shy and easily embarrassed.
- basques — Plural form of basque.
- baubles — a showy, usually cheap, ornament; trinket; gewgaw.
- bauhaus — a German school of architecture and applied arts founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius on experimental principles of functionalism and truth to materials. After being closed by the Nazis in 1933, its ideas were widely disseminated by its students and staff, including Kandinsky, Klee, Feininger, Moholy-Nagy, and Mies van der Rohe