8-letter words containing au
- maumetry — Archaic form of mammetry.
- mccauley — Mary Ludwig Hays, real name of Molly Pitcher.
- menelaus — Classical Mythology. a king of Sparta, the husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon, to whom he appealed for an army against Troy in order to recover Helen from her abductor, Paris.
- miauling — Present participle of miaul.
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- mirabeau — Honoré Gabriel Victor Riqueti [aw-naw-rey ga-bree-el veek-tawr reekuh-tee] /ɔ nɔˈreɪ ga briˈɛl vikˈtɔr rikəˈti/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1749–91, French Revolutionary statesman and orator.
- misgauge — To gauge (measure) incorrectly.
- monaural — monophonic (def 2).
- mosasaur — any of several extinct carnivorous marine lizards from the Cretaceous Period, having the limbs modified into broad, webbed paddles.
- my aunt! — an exclamation of surprise or amazement
- naufrage — (obsolete) shipwreck; ruin.
- naughtly — (obsolete) naughtily; wrongly.
- naumachy — naumachia.
- nauplial — of or relating to nauplius larva
- nauplius — (in many crustaceans) a larval form with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye, occurring usually as the first stage of development after leaving the egg.
- nauseant — producing nausea.
- nauseate — to affect with nausea; sicken.
- nauseous — affected with nausea; nauseated: to feel nauseous.
- nausicaä — a daughter of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians, who assisted the shipwrecked Odysseus after discovering him on a beach
- nautches — Plural form of nautch.
- nautical — of or relating to sailors, ships, or navigation: nautical terms.
- nautilus — Also called chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus. any cephalopod of the genus Nautilus, having a spiral, chambered shell with pearly septa.
- nicklaus — Jack (William) born 1940, U.S. golfer.
- no-fault — Also called no-fault insurance. a form of automobile insurance designed to enable the policyholder in case of an accident to collect a certain basic compensation promptly for economic loss from his or her own insurance company without determination of liability.
- nudicaul — having leafless stems.
- oceanaut — aquanaut.
- omadhaun — a foolish man or boy
- oo gauge — a model railroad gauge of 3/4 inch (19 mm).
- oom paul — Stephanus Johannes Paulus [ste-fah-nœs yoh-hah-nuh s poh-lœs] /stɛˈfɑ nœs yoʊˈhɑ nəs ˈpoʊ lœs/ (Show IPA), ("Oom Paul") 1825–1904, South African statesman: president of the Transvaal 1883–1900.
- outhauls — Plural form of outhaul.
- outlaugh — (transitive) To ridicule or laugh someone out of a purpose, principle, etc.; laugh down; discourage or put out of countenance by laughing.
- outvaunt — to outdo in boasting
- overhaul — to make necessary repairs on; restore to serviceable condition: My car was overhauled by an expert mechanic.
- paul iii — (Alessandro Farnese) 1468–1549, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1534–49.
- paul pry — an inquisitive, meddlesome person.
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- paulette — a female given name: derived from Paul.
- paulinus — Saint, died a.d. 644, Roman missionary in England with Augustine: 1st archbishop of York 633–644.
- paunched — a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
- pauraque — a large, tropical American goatsucker, Nyctidromus albicollis.
- pauropod — a member of the Pauropoda, a class of minute myriapods less than 2 mm (1⁄20 in.) in size, having 8 to 10 pairs of legs and branched antennae
- pauseful — taking many pauses; full of pauses
- perrault — Charles [chahrlz;; French sharl] /tʃɑrlz;; French ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1628–1703, French poet, critic, and author of fairy tales.
- plateaux — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- plaudite — a request for applause following a show or production
- plaudits — an enthusiastic expression of approval: Her portrayal of Juliet won the plaudits of the critics.
- plausive — applauding.
- pliosaur — a large dinosaur with a short neck
- preaudit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- rathenau — Walther [vahl-tuh r] /ˈvɑl tər/ (Show IPA), 1867–1922, German industrialist, writer, and statesman.