14-letter words containing au
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- reserve clause — the clause in the contract of a professional player in some sports that binds the player to a team for a season beyond the expiration of the contract in the event a new contract has not been made meanwhile or the player has not been sent to another team.
- restaurant car — dining car.
- restauranteurs — the owner or manager of a restaurant.
- rievaulx abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Helmsley in Yorkshire: built in the 12th century and abandoned at the dissolution of the monasteries; landscaped in the 18th century
- rolling launch — the process of introducing a new product into a market gradually
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- saut de basque — a jump in which the dancer turns in the air while keeping the foot of one leg drawn up to the knee of the other.
- sauve qui peut — a state of panic or disorder; rout
- self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
- self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- self-slaughter — suicide.
- semi-automated — partially automated.
- semi-automatic — partly automatic.
- semiautonomous — partially self-governing, especially with reference to internal affairs.
- sexual assault — abuse or violence of a sexual nature
- silent auction — an auction at which previously submitted written bids of prospective buyers are opened and compared, with each item being sold to the highest bidder.
- siraj-ud-daula — 1728?–57, nawab of Bengal 1756–57.
- slaughterhouse — a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir.
- slaughterously — murderously
- south st. paul — a city in SE Minnesota.
- spotted laurel — an evergreen cornaceous shrub, Aucuba japonica, of S and SE Asia, the female of which has yellow-spotted leaves
- standard gauge — a standard of measure or measurement.
- suicide clause — a clause in a life-insurance policy stating that the insurer is required to pay only the reserve or the total premiums paid if the policyholder should commit suicide within a stated period.
- summer sausage — dried or smoked sausage that keeps without refrigeration.
- tableau vivant — tableau (def 3).
- talaud islands — a group of islands in NE Indonesia. 495 sq. mi. (1281 sq. km).
- tanen taunggyi — a mountain range in NW Thailand and SE Burma, rising to a height of 7000 feet (2134 meters).
- thaumatography — a treatise or description of the wonders of the natural world
- thaumaturgical — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
- the last laugh — the final success in an argument, situation, etc, after previous defeat
- the pole vault — a field event in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
- thesaurismosis — storage disease.
- transcaucasian — a region in SE Europe, S of the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas: constituted a republic 1922–36 (Transcauca·sian So·cialist Fed·erated So·viet Repub·lic) area now includes the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
- traumatization — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
- traumatologist — a branch of surgery dealing with major wounds caused by accidents or violence.
- unauthenticity — the quality of lacking authenticity or not being genuine
- unbureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
- unchauvinistic — not chauvinistic
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- vienna sausage — a small frankfurter, often served as an hors d'oeuvre.
- wagner-jauregg — Julius [yoo-lee-oo s] /ˈyu liˌʊs/ (Show IPA), 1857–1940, Austrian psychiatrist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1927.
- weather bureau — the former name of the U.S. National Weather Service.
- weltanschauung — a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.