5-letter words containing au
- pause — a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action: a short pause after each stroke of the oar.
- piaui — a state in NE Brazil. 96,860 sq. mi. (250,870 sq. km). Capital: Teresina.
- pikau — a pack, knapsack, or rucksack
- pilau — pilaf.
- raupo — a New Zealand bulrush, Typha orientalis, with sword-shaped leaves, traditionally used for construction and decoration
- sauba — a South American ant, Ecodoma cephalotes, known for defoliating trees and carrying the leaves into underground nests
- sauce — any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
- sauch — sallow2 .
- saucy — impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.
- saudi — a native or inhabitant of Saudi Arabia.
- saugh — sallow2 .
- sault — a waterfall or rapid.
- sauna — a bath that uses dry heat to induce perspiration, and in which steam is produced by pouring water on heated stones.
- saury — a sharp-snouted fish, Scomberesox saurus, inhabiting temperate regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
- saute — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- scaup — any of several diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. marila (greater scaup) of the Northern Hemisphere, having a bluish-gray bill.
- shaul — a wooden scoop made for winnowing corn
- shaun — a male given name, form of John.
- taube — an early German monoplane
- taunt — to reproach in a sarcastic, insulting, or jeering manner; mock.
- tauon — tau lepton.
- taupe — a moderate to dark brownish gray, sometimes slightly tinged with purple, yellow, or green.
- taupo — Lake, a lake in N New Zealand, in the central part of North Island: largest lake in New Zealand. About 234 sq. mi. (605 sq. km).
- thaub — the principal outer garment in some parts of north and central Africa, consisting of a length of cloth that is sewn into a long loose skirt or is draped around the body and fastened over one shoulder.
- vauch — to move fast
- vault — the act of vaulting.
- vaunt — to speak vaingloriously of; boast of: to vaunt one's achievements.
- waugh — Alec (Alexander Raban) 1898–1981, English novelist, traveler, and lecturer (son of Arthur, brother of Evelyn).
- waulk — (transitive, obsolete, Northern England, Scotland) to make cloth (especially tweed in Scotland) denser and more felt-like by soaking and beating.
- wauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waul.
- whaup — a curlew, Numenius arquata.
- yauco — a city in SW Puerto Rico.
- yauld — active; vigorous.