11-letter words containing a, n, o, u
- arthur monk — (James) Arthur ("Art") born 1957, U.S. football player.
- ashwaubenon — a town in E Wisconsin.
- assumptions — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
- astoundment — the state of being astounded
- astronautic — Of or pertaining to astronautics.
- asyncronous — (spelling) It's spelled "asynchronous".
- at gunpoint — If you are held at gunpoint, someone is threatening to shoot and kill you if you do not obey them.
- athermanous — capable of stopping radiant heat or infrared radiation
- atramentous — similar to or as black as ink
- attenuation — the act of attenuating or the state of being attenuated
- attenuators — Plural form of attenuator.
- attribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- attuitional — of or relating to attuition
- auction off — If you auction off something, you sell it to the person who offers the most money for it, often at an auction.
- auctioneers — Plural form of auctioneer.
- auditionees — a person who competes or takes part in an audition.
- auditioning — Present participle of audition.
- austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
- austronesia — the islands of the central and S Pacific, including Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia
- authorising — Present participle of authorise.
- authorizing — Present participle of authorize.
- auto racing — the sport of racing automobiles in which drivers compete against each other on a course designed for racing or on closed public roads.
- auto-immune — Auto-immune describes medical conditions in which normal cells are attacked by the body's immune system.
- autoantigen — an antigen of one's own cells or cell products.
- autoantonym — (rare) A word that has two opposing meanings.
- autochanger — a device in a record player or CD player that enables a small stack of records or CDs to be dropped automatically onto the turntable or player tray one at a time and played separately
- autochthons — Plural form of autochthon.
- autochthony — pertaining to autochthons; aboriginal; indigenous (opposed to heterochthonous).
- autoclaving — Present participle of autoclave.
- autodynamic — Supplying its own power.
- autogenesis — spontaneous generation
- autogenetic — self-generated.
- autokinesis — a visual illusion occurring in low light, in which a stationary bright spot appears to be moving
- autokinetic — automatically self-moving
- autoloading — self-loading
- autonomical — autonomous.
- autophanous — illuminated by a self-contained power source
- autowinders — Plural form of autowinder.
- autozeroing — (electronics) A sampling technique that measures an offset from zero and later compensates by subtracting the difference.
- auxanometer — an instrument that measures the linear growth of plant shoots
- backcountry — an area far from cities and towns that is thinly populated and largely undeveloped; hinterland
- backgrounds — Plural form of background.
- baconburger — a hamburger topped with strips of cooked bacon.
- badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- balance out — If two or more opposite things balance out or if you balance them out, they become equal in amount, value, or effect.
- bandy about — If someone's name or something such as an idea is bandied about or is bandied around, that person or that thing is discussed by many people in a casual way.
- bannockburn — a village in central Scotland, south of Stirling: nearby is the site of a victory (1314) of the Scots, led by Robert the Bruce, over the English. Pop: 7396 (2001)
- barfulation — /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ Variation of barf used around the Stanford area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
- baroqueness — The state or condition of being baroque.
- baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)