13-letter words containing au
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- non-causative — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- nonauthorized — Not authorized.
- nonautomotive — Not automotive; not relating to automobiles.
- nonautonomous — Not autonomous.
- nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
- nondiapausing — lacking a diapause
- nonexhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- nonfraudulent — Not fraudulent.
- north augusta — a city in W South Carolina.
- not a sausage — nothing at all
- nouveau riche — a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
- object clause — the clause that acts as the object of a verb
- oblique fault — a fault that runs obliquely to, rather than parallel to or perpendicular to, the strike of the affected rocks
- over-cautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- parsley sauce — a white sauce containing chopped parsley
- paucis verbis — in or by few words; with brevity.
- pauperization — the act or process of making a pauper of or impoverishing
- perimenopause — the period leading up to the menopause during which some of the symptoms associated with menopause may be experienced
- phonautograph — a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
- pipiwharauroa — a Pacific migratory bird with a metallic green-gold plumage
- plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
- poet laureate — (in Great Britain) a poet appointed for life as an officer of the royal household, formerly expected to write poems in celebration of court and national events.
- pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
- postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
- postholocaust — following a holocaust
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- posttraumatic — occurring after physical or psychological trauma.
- precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
- premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
- réaumur scale — René Antoine Ferchault de [ruh-ney ahn-twan fer-shoh duh] /rəˈneɪ ɑ̃ˈtwan fɛrˈʃoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1683–1757, French physicist and inventor.
- restauranteur — the owner or manager of a restaurant.
- reverse fault — a fault in which the rock above the fault plane is displaced upward relative to the rock below the fault plane (opposed to gravity fault).
- rousseauistic — the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.
- saint austell — a town in SW England, in S Cornwall on St Austell Bay (an inlet of the English Channel): centre for the now-declining china clay industry; the Eden Project, a rainforest environment in the world's largest greenhouse, is nearby; administratively part of St Austell with Fowey 1968-74. Pop (with Fowey): 22 658 (2001)
- saint laurent — Louis Stephen [lwee ste-fen] /lwi stɛˈfɛn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, prime minister of Canada 1948–57.
- saint maurice — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing S and SE to the St. Lawrence River at Three Rivers: lower course in valley called La Mauricie. 325 miles (523 km) long.
- saint-gaudens — Augustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.
- saint-laurent — Louis Stephen [lwee ste-fen] /lwi stɛˈfɛn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, prime minister of Canada 1948–57.
- sauce supreme — suprême (def 1).
- saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
- saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
- sclerocaulous — having a hard, dry stem
- semi-autonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
- semiautomated — partially automated.
- semiautomatic — partly automatic.
- set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
- slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.