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13-letter words containing au

  • gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
  • greater scaup — any of several diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. marila (greater scaup) of the Northern Hemisphere, having a bluish-gray bill.
  • guinea-bissau — a republic on the W coast of Africa, between Guinea and Senegal: formerly a Portuguese overseas province; gained independence in 1974. 13,948 sq. mi. (36,125 sq. km). Capital: Bissau.
  • haute couture — high fashion; the most fashionable and influential dressmaking and designing.
  • haute cuisine — fine or gourmet cooking; food preparation as an art.
  • haute-garonne — a department in S France. 2458 sq. mi. (6365 sq. km). Capital: Toulouse.
  • honoris causa — for the sake of honour
  • hydraulic ram — a device by which the energy of descending water is utilized to raise a part of the water to a height greater than that of the source.
  • hydraulically — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
  • ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
  • ichthyosaurus — ichthyosaur.
  • in default of — If something happens in default of something else, it happens because that other thing does not happen or proves to be impossible.
  • inaugurations — Plural form of inauguration.
  • inexhaustible — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
  • inexhaustibly — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
  • john of gaunt — John of, John of Gaunt.
  • kaufmann peak — former name of Lenin Peak.
  • lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
  • laughableness — The state or quality of being laughable; ludicrousness.
  • laughing gull — a North American gull, Larus atricilla, having a high, laughlike call.
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
  • launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
  • launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
  • laundry-woman — laundress.
  • laurel cherry — a tree, Prunus caroliniana, of the rose family, of the southeastern U.S., having small, milky-white flowers and black, shiny fruit.
  • laurel family — the plant family Lauraceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees having simple, leathery leaves, aromatic bark and foliage, clusters of small green or yellow flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or drupe, and including the avocado, bay, laurels of the genera Laurus and Umbellularia, sassafras, spicebush (Lindera benzoin), and the trees that yield camphor and cinnamon.
  • laurel wreath — a wreath of interlocking laurel leaves and branches, which can be worn on the head to represent victory
  • lauroyl group — the monovalent organic group C 12 H 23 O–, derived from lauric acid.
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
  • liver sausage — liverwurst.
  • lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
  • lunar caustic — silver nitrate, AgNO 3 , especially in a sticklike mold, used to cauterize tissues.
  • madeira sauce — a savoury sauce made with Madeira wine and served with meat
  • manon lescaut — a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost.
  • mare australe — (Southern Sea) an area near the south pole of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
  • meadow beauty — any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, especially R. mariana or R. virginica, having showy rose-pink flowers with eight prominent bright yellow stamens.
  • medical audit — a review of the professional standards of doctors, usually within a hospital, conducted by a medical committee
  • merleau-ponty — Maurice, 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher.
  • milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
  • millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
  • mixing faucet — a single outlet for water from separately controlled hot-water and cold-water taps.
  • montauk point — the SE end of Long Island, in SE New York.
  • my giddy aunt — an exclamation of surprise
  • nautical mile — a unit of distance used chiefly in navigation, equal to 6080.20 feet (1853.25 meters) in the U.S., now replaced by the international nautical mile.
  • new australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
  • new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
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