5-letter words containing au
- braun — Eva (ˈeːfa). 1910–45, Adolf Hitler's mistress, whom he married shortly before their suicides in 1945
- buzau — city in Walachia, SE Romania: pop. 149,000
- cauca — a river in W Colombia, rising in the northwest and flowing north to the Magdalena River. Length: about 1350 km (840 miles)
- cauda — the area behind the anus of an animal; tail
- caulk — If you caulk something such as a boat, you fill small cracks in its surface in order to prevent it from leaking.
- cauls — a form or plate for pressing a veneer or veneers being glued to a backing or to each other.
- cauri — a monetary unit of Guinea, the 100th part of a syli.
- causa — a reason or cause
- cause — 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?
- chaus — (dated) Felis chaus, the jungle cat.
- daube — a braised meat stew
- daubs — Plural form of daub.
- dauby — Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive.
- dauer — (nematology) A developmental stage of certain nematode larvae in which they exhibit increased durability.
- daugh — An old Scots unit of measure equal to four ploughgates.
- dault — a child who is brought up in a family to which he or she has no blood connection
- daunt — If something daunts you, it makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.
- dauts — to caress.
- donau — German name of Danube.
- dyaus — the Vedic god of the sky.
- faugh — Expressing disgust.
- fauld — a piece below the breastplate, composed of lames and corresponding to the culet in back.
- fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- fauna — the animals of a given region or period considered as a whole.
- fauns — one of a class of rural deities represented as men with the ears, horns, tail, and later also the hind legs of a goat.
- faurd — favoured
- faure — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
- faust — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), c1480–c1538, German magician, alchemist, and astrologer.
- fauve — (sometimes lowercase) any of a group of French artists of the early 20th century whose works are characterized chiefly by the use of vivid colors in immediate juxtaposition and contours usually in marked contrast to the color of the area defined.
- fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
- gaucy — plump; portly
- gaudi — Antonio (Antonio Gaudí i Cornet) 1852–1926, Spanish architect in the Catalan style.
- gauds — Plural form of gaud.
- gaudy — brilliantly or excessively showy: gaudy plumage.
- gauge — to determine the exact dimensions, capacity, quantity, or force of; measure.
- gault — A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks.
- gaumy — sticky; smeared
- gaunt — extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
- gaurs — Plural form of gaur.
- gause — Obsolete spelling of gauze.
- gauss — Karl Friedrich [kahrl free-drikh] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1777–1855, German mathematician and astronomer.
- gauze — any thin and often transparent fabric made from any fiber in a plain or leno weave.
- gauzy — like gauze; transparently thin and light.
- geaux — (jocular) informal form of go.
- ghaut — a wide set of steps descending to a river, especially a river used for bathing.
- glaum — to snatch at something
- glaur — mud or mire
- hanau — a city in Hesse, central Germany.
- hauch — (Scotland) A cough or gasp.
- haugh — a stretch of alluvial land forming part of a river valley; bottom land.