11-letter words containing au
- santa maura — Italian name of Levkas.
- santa paula — a city in SW California.
- satay sauce — a sauce made from peanuts
- sauce bercy — Bercy.
- saucer dome — a dome having the form of a segment of a sphere, with the center well below the springing line; a shallow dome, as in Roman or Byzantine architecture.
- sauerbraten — a pot roast of beef, marinated before cooking in a mixture of vinegar, sugar, and seasonings.
- sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.
- saul bellow — Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
- saurischian — any herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur of the order Saurischia, having a three-pronged pelvis resembling that of a crocodile. Compare ornithischian.
- sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
- saussuritic — relating to, resembling, or having saussurite
- sclerocauly — the feature of having a hard, dry stem
- screw auger — an auger having a helical outer surface suggesting a screw thread.
- self-caused — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- self-taught — taught to oneself or by oneself to be (as indicated) without the aid of a formal education: self-taught typing; a self-taught typist.
- slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
- st. laurent — Louis Stephen [lwee ste-fen] /lwi stɛˈfɛn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, prime minister of Canada 1948–57.
- stan laurel — Stan (Arthur Stanley Jefferson) 1890–1965, U.S. motion-picture actor and comedian, born in England.
- staunchless — not able to be stanched
- staunchness — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
- stegosaurus — any of a suborder (Stegosauria) of large ornithischian dinosaurs of the Upper Jurassic having a small head and heavy bony plates with sharp spikes down the backbone
- stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
- stratopause — the boundary or transition layer between the stratosphere and mesosphere.
- sub-clauses — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- summersault — to perform a somersault.
- taurobolium — the sacrifice of a bull, followed by the baptism of neophytes in the blood, as practiced in the ancient rites of Mithras or Cybele.
- taurocholic — of or derived from taurocholic acid.
- tautochrone — a curve upon which a moving object will reach a certain point at the same time through gravity from whichever point it starts
- tautologism — the use of tautology.
- tautologize — to use tautology.
- tautologous — needless repetition of an idea, especially in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in “widow woman.”.
- tautomerism — the ability of certain organic compounds to react in isomeric structures that differ from each other in the position of a hydrogen atom and a double bond.
- tautomerize — to undergo tautomerism.
- tautometric — having the same metre or arrangement of syllables
- tautophonic — having or repeating the same sound
- terre haute — a city in W Indiana, on the Wabash River.
- thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
- thaumaturge — a worker of wonders or miracles; magician.
- thaumaturgy — the working of wonders or miracles; magic.
- the centaur — the constellation Centaurus
- thesauruses — a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms, such as the online Thesaurus.com.
- thoreauvian — Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
- traumatised — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
- traumatized — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
- tyrannosaur — a large, carnivorous dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex, from the Late Cretaceous Epoch of North America, that walked erect on its hind feet.
- unaugmented — not increased or enlarged
- unauthentic — not false or copied; genuine; real: an authentic antique.