8-letter words containing a, u, s, t
- aquatics — sports or pastimes performed in or on the water
- arcturus — the brightest star in the constellation Boötes: a red giant. Visual magnitude: –0.4; spectral type: K2III; distance: 37 light years
- arethusa — a North American orchid, Arethusa bulbosa, having one long narrow leaf and one rose-purple flower fringed with yellow
- arthouse — a cinema which specializes in showing films which are not part of the commercial mainstream
- asarotum — (in ancient Roman architecture) a painted pavement.
- asbestus — Mineralogy. a fibrous mineral, either amphibole or chrysotile, formerly used for making incombustible or fireproof articles.
- assaults — Plural form of assault.
- assoluta — absolute; supreme: a prima ballerina assoluta.
- astounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of astound.
- astucity — Craftiness; astuteness.
- asturian — of or relating to Asturias
- asturias — a region and former kingdom of NW Spain, consisting of a coastal plain and the Cantabrian Mountains: a Christian stronghold against the Moors (8th to 13th centuries); rich mineral resources
- astutely — of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious: an astute analysis.
- at issue — The question or point at issue is the question or point that is being argued about or discussed.
- atropous — growing straight, without inversion
- ats&gwtu — All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers Trade Union
- auctions — Plural form of auction.
- audients — Plural form of audient.
- auditees — Plural form of auditee.
- auditors — Plural form of auditor.
- augments — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of augment.
- augustan — characteristic of, denoting, or relating to the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar (63 bc–14 ad), his period, or the poets, notably Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, writing during his reign
- augustly — inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic: an august performance of a religious drama.
- augustus — original name Gaius Octavianus; after his adoption by Julius Caesar (44 bc) known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus. 63 bc–14 ad, Roman statesman, a member of the second triumvirate (43 bc). After defeating Mark Antony at Actium (31 bc), he became first emperor of Rome, adopting the title Augustus (27 bc)
- austerer — Comparative form of austere.
- austrian — Austrian means belonging or relating to Austria, or to its people or culture.
- autecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autistic — An autistic person suffers from autism.
- autolisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp used by the Autocad CAD package from Autodesk.
- autolyse — to undergo or cause to undergo autolysis
- automats — Plural form of automat.
- automous — Misspelling of autonomous.
- autonyms — Plural form of autonym.
- autopass — (programming)
- autopsic — relating to autopsy
- autosave — a function on a computer that automatically saves data at regular intervals
- autosome — any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome
- autostat — (language) A language for statistical programming.
- autostop — Hitchhiking.
- autotest — a motor race in which standard cars are driven around a racing circuit
- awfulest — Superlative form of awful.
- azimuths — Plural form of azimuth.
- bailouts — Plural form of bailout.
- baluster — any of a set of posts supporting a rail or coping
- banquets — Plural form of banquet.
- bash out — If you say that someone bashes something out, you mean that they produce it quickly or in large quantities, but without much care or thought.
- bathtubs — Plural form of bathtub.
- bathurst — a town in SE Australia, in E New South Wales: scene of a gold rush in 1851. Pop: 27 036 (2001)
- beauties — the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest).
- blastula — an early form of an animal embryo that develops from a morula, consisting of a sphere of cells with a central cavity