9-letter words with AU in the middle
Delve into the fascinating world of words where the letter AU is nestled in the middle. This section highlights the unique placement of AU in various words, illustrating how it contributes to their sound and meaning. From everyday language to more unusual terms, discover how AU in the middle shapes the essence of these words.
Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
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beautiful | 14 | delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration | a beautiful child |
exhausted | 20 | drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | the day's shopping left her exhausted |
slaughter | 13 | the savage and excessive killing of many people | - |
astronaut | 9 | a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts |
traumatic | 13 | psychologically painful | few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child |
chauffeur | 20 | drive someone in a vehicle | - |
holocaust | 14 | the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945 | - |
launching | 15 | the act of propelling with force | - |
menopause | 13 | the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends | - |
inaudible | 12 | impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear | an inaudible conversation |
hydraulic | 18 | moved or operated or effected by liquid (water or oil) | hydraulic erosion |
plausible | 13 | apparently reasonable and credible, and therefore convincing | a plausible excuse |
mausoleum | 13 | a large burial chamber, usually above ground | - |
dauntless | 10 | invulnerable to fear or intimidation | - |
inaugural | 10 | serving to set in motion | the magazine's inaugural issue |
laughable | 15 | arousing or provoking laughter | it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much |
onslaught | 13 | (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | - |
cosmonaut | 13 | a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts |
undaunted | 11 | unshaken in purpose | - |
debauched | 18 | unrestrained by convention or morality | Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society |
causality | 14 | the relation between causes and effects | - |
nauseated | 10 | feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | - |
tarpaulin | 11 | waterproofed canvas | - |
thesaurus | 12 | a book containing a classified list of synonyms | - |
marauding | 13 | characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | bands of marauding Indians |
laundress | 10 | a working woman who takes in washing | - |
faultless | 12 | without fault or error | faultless logic |
cauterize | 20 | burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | The surgeon cauterized the wart |
prelaunch | 16 | - | - |
causation | 11 | the act of causing something to happen | - |
jaundiced | 20 | affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc | - |
schnauzer | 23 | old German breed of sturdy black or greyish wire-haired terriers having a blunt muzzle ranging in size from fairly small to very large; used as ratters and guard dogs or police dogs | - |
inaudibly | 15 | in an inaudible manner | she spoke inaudibly low |
beauteous | 11 | (poetic) beautiful, especially to the sight | - |
gauleiter | 10 | - | - |
staunchly | 17 | in a staunch manner | he staunchly defended his principles |
tautology | 13 | (logic) a statement that is necessarily true | the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology |
laughably | 18 | so as to arouse or deserve laughter | her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well |
causative | 14 | producing an effect | poverty as a causative factor in crime |
naughtier | 13 | - | - |
sauceboat | 13 | a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce | - |
haughtily | 19 | in a haughty manner | he peered haughtily down his nose |
exhauster | 19 | - | - |
sauciness | 11 | inappropriate playfulness | - |
plausibly | 16 | easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | he talked plausibly before the committee |
raucously | 14 | in a rowdy manner | - |
launchpad | 17 | a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched | - |
defaulter | 13 | someone who fails to meet a financial obligation | - |
debauchee | 17 | a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | - |
debaucher | 17 | someone who assaults others sexually | - |
mistaught | 15 | - | - |
misaunter | 11 | - | - |
misgauged | 14 | - | - |
misgauges | 13 | - | - |
mosasauri | 11 | - | - |
mosasaurs | 11 | - | - |
nauseants | 9 | - | - |
nauseates | 9 | - | - |
nautiloid | 10 | - | - |
nauplioid | 12 | - | - |
naugahyde | 17 | - | - |
naughties | 13 | - | - |
naughtily | 16 | in a disobedient or naughty way | behaved naughtily when they had guests and was sent to his room |
naumachia | 16 | a naval spectacle; a mock sea battle put on by the ancient Romans | - |
noncausal | 11 | not causative | - |
nonauthor | 12 | - | - |
omadhauns | 15 | - | - |
oceanauts | 11 | - | - |
outcaught | 15 | - | - |
outhauler | 12 | - | - |
outlaunch | 14 | - | - |
outlaunce | 11 | - | - |
outlaughs | 13 | - | - |
outvaunts | 12 | - | - |
overhauls | 15 | - | - |
oversauce | 14 | - | - |
pauperism | 15 | a state of extreme poverty or destitution | - |
pauperize | 22 | reduce to beggary | - |
paupiette | 13 | - | - |
pauropods | 14 | - | - |
pauseless | 11 | - | - |
pausingly | 15 | - | - |
pauperise | 13 | reduce to beggary | - |
paupering | 14 | - | - |
paucities | 13 | - | - |
paughtier | 15 | - | - |
pauldrons | 12 | - | - |
paulownia | 14 | - | - |
paunchier | 16 | - | - |
paunching | 17 | - | - |
pauperess | 13 | - | - |
paravaunt | 14 | - | - |
mesopause | 13 | - | - |
maudlinly | 15 | - | - |
maulgring | 13 | - | - |
maulstick | 17 | a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | - |
maundered | 13 | - | - |
maunderer | 12 | - | - |
maungiest | 12 | - | - |
mausolean | 11 | - | - |
mauveines | 14 | - | - |
megafauna | 15 | - | - |
megagauss | 13 | - | - |
meiofauna | 14 | - | - |
withhault | 18 | - | - |
williwaus | 15 | - | - |
zorbonaut | 20 | - | - |
wauchting | 18 | - | - |
waughting | 17 | - | - |
waukmills | 18 | - | - |
waulkmill | 18 | - | - |
saucepots | 13 | - | - |
saucerful | 14 | - | - |
saucisses | 11 | - | - |
saucisson | 11 | - | - |
saufgards | 14 | - | - |
sauntered | 10 | - | - |
saunterer | 9 | someone who walks at a leisurely pace | - |
saucepans | 13 | - | - |
sauceless | 11 | - | - |
sauropods | 12 | - | - |
sauteeing | 10 | - | - |
sauternes | 9 | semisweet golden-colored table or dessert wine from around Bordeaux in France; similar wine from California | - |
sautoires | 9 | - | - |
saliaunce | 11 | - | - |
scrauched | 17 | - | - |
scraughed | 16 | - | - |
sclaunder | 12 | - | - |
semitaurs | 11 | - | - |
scuppaugs | 16 | - | - |
shauchled | 18 | - | - |
shauchles | 17 | - | - |
sprauchle | 16 | - | - |
staumrels | 11 | - | - |
staunched | 15 | - | - |
stauncher | 14 | - | - |
staunches | 14 | - | - |
stegosaur | 10 | herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon | - |
subclause | 13 | - | - |
subcaudal | 14 | - | - |
subcauses | 13 | - | - |
strauchts | 14 | - | - |
straughts | 13 | - | - |
rigaudons | 11 | - | - |
ribaudred | 13 | - | - |
rhizocaul | 23 | - | - |
rybaudrye | 18 | - | - |
rousseaus | 9 | - | - |
taikonaut | 13 | - | - |
teleosaur | 9 | - | - |
tautonymy | 17 | - | - |
tautonyms | 14 | - | - |
tautomers | 11 | - | - |
tauntings | 10 | - | - |
tauriform | 14 | - | - |
tautening | 10 | - | - |
thesaural | 12 | - | - |
thaumatin | 14 | - | - |
trauchled | 15 | - | - |
trauchles | 14 | - | - |
umlauting | 12 | - | - |
unaudited | 11 | - | - |
unfraught | 16 | - | - |
unhaunted | 13 | - | - |
updraught | 16 | - | - |
uphauding | 16 | - | - |
vaultages | 13 | - | - |
vaultiest | 12 | - | - |
vaultings | 13 | - | - |
vaultlike | 16 | - | - |
vauntages | 13 | - | - |
vauntiest | 12 | - | - |
vauntings | 13 | - | - |
supersaur | 11 | - | - |
plateaued | 12 | - | - |
plaustral | 11 | - | - |
pliosaurs | 11 | - | - |
postfault | 14 | - | - |
prauncing | 14 | - | - |
precaudal | 14 | - | - |
preaudits | 12 | - | - |
puissaunt | 11 | - | - |
pterosaur | 11 | an extinct reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a bird-like beak and membranous wings supported by the very long fourth digit of each forelimb | - |
rauwolfia | 15 | any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives or antihypertensives | - |
raunching | 15 | - | - |
raunchily | 17 | - | - |
raucities | 11 | - | - |
raunchier | 14 | - | - |
rampauged | 15 | - | - |
rampauges | 14 | - | - |
recaution | 11 | - | - |
rechauffe | 20 | warmed leftovers | - |
relaunder | 10 | - | - |
regauging | 12 | - | - |
petaurine | 11 | - | - |
petaurist | 11 | - | - |
hydronaut | 16 | - | - |
hypocaust | 19 | - | - |
indraught | 14 | - | - |
incaution | 11 | the trait of forgetting or ignoring possible danger | - |
inhaulers | 12 | - | - |
inhausted | 13 | - | - |
ionopause | 11 | - | - |
jaundices | 19 | - | - |
jauntiest | 16 | - | - |
kilobauds | 16 | - | - |
kilogauss | 14 | - | - |
keelhauls | 16 | - | - |
kaumatuas | 15 | - | - |
landaulet | 10 | - | - |
langlaufs | 13 | - | - |
laudanums | 12 | - | - |
laudation | 10 | - | - |
laudative | 13 | - | - |
laudators | 10 | - | - |
laudatory | 13 | full of or giving praise | a laudatory remark |
laughiest | 13 | - | - |
laundries | 10 | - | - |
laureated | 10 | - | - |
laureates | 9 | - | - |
laureling | 10 | - | - |
laurelled | 10 | crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory | - |
launderer | 10 | - | - |
laughings | 14 | - | - |
laughline | 13 | - | - |
laughsome | 15 | - | - |
laughters | 13 | - | - |
launchers | 14 | - | - |
laundered | 11 | - | - |
mairehaus | 14 | - | - |
maiasaura | 11 | - | - |
maiasaurs | 11 | - | - |
lunanauts | 9 | - | - |
lunarnaut | 9 | - | - |
marauders | 12 | - | - |
haughtier | 16 | - | - |
haulmiest | 14 | - | - |
haulyards | 16 | - | - |
haunching | 18 | - | - |
hauntings | 13 | - | - |
hausfraus | 15 | - | - |
haustella | 12 | - | - |
haustoria | 12 | - | - |
craunched | 17 | - | - |
craunches | 16 | - | - |
cybernaut | 16 | a computer user who uses the internet; someone who explores cyberspace | - |
decaudate | 13 | - | - |
defaulted | 14 | - | - |
dauberies | 12 | - | - |
daubingly | 16 | - | - |
daughters | 14 | - | - |
daundered | 12 | - | - |
daunering | 11 | - | - |
dauntoned | 11 | - | - |
dauphines | 15 | - | - |
debauches | 17 | - | - |
defrauded | 15 | - | - |
defrauder | 14 | a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | - |
degaussed | 12 | - | - |
degausser | 11 | - | - |
degausses | 11 | - | - |
deinosaur | 10 | - | - |
diapauses | 12 | - | - |
diapaused | 13 | - | - |
dinosaurs | 10 | - | - |
dispauper | 14 | - | - |
draughted | 15 | - | - |
draughter | 14 | - | - |
draunting | 11 | - | - |
downhauls | 16 | - | - |
emeraudes | 12 | - | - |
clubhauls | 16 | - | - |
coauthors | 14 | - | - |
concauses | 13 | - | - |
euphausid | 15 | - | - |
excaudate | 19 | - | - |
faubourgs | 15 | - | - |
fauchions | 17 | - | - |
faulchion | 17 | - | - |
faultiest | 12 | - | - |
faunistic | 14 | - | - |
fauteuils | 12 | - | - |
fauvettes | 15 | - | - |
extraught | 20 | - | - |
feldgraus | 14 | - | - |
flambeaus | 16 | - | - |
flambeaux | 23 | - | - |
flaunched | 18 | - | - |
flaunches | 17 | - | - |
flaunters | 12 | - | - |
flauntier | 12 | - | - |
flauntily | 15 | - | - |
flaunting | 13 | - | - |
flautists | 12 | - | - |
flaughter | 16 | - | - |
flaughted | 17 | - | - |
forfaults | 15 | - | - |
footfault | 15 | a fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline | - |
frautages | 13 | - | - |
frauleins | 12 | - | - |
fraudsman | 15 | - | - |
fraudsmen | 15 | - | - |
fraudster | 13 | - | - |
fraughans | 16 | - | - |
fraughted | 17 | - | - |
fraughter | 16 | - | - |
gaugeably | 16 | - | - |
gaunching | 16 | - | - |
gauntlets | 10 | - | - |
gauntness | 10 | extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | - |
gauntrees | 10 | - | - |
gauntries | 10 | - | - |
gauzelike | 23 | - | - |
gauziness | 19 | - | - |
gaugeable | 13 | - | - |
gaucherie | 15 | a socially awkward or tactless act | - |
gauchesco | 17 | - | - |
gaudeamus | 13 | - | - |
gauderies | 11 | - | - |
gaudiness | 11 | tasteless showiness | - |
gauffered | 17 | - | - |
glaucomas | 14 | - | - |
glauriest | 10 | - | - |
grauncher | 15 | - | - |
graunches | 15 | - | - |
graunched | 16 | - | - |
grandaunt | 11 | an aunt of your father or mother | - |
hadrosaur | 13 | any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic | - |
encaustic | 13 | a paint consisting of pigment mixed with melted beeswax; it is fixed with heat after application | - |
epifaunae | 14 | - | - |
epifaunal | 14 | - | - |
epifaunas | 14 | - | - |
enraunges | 10 | - | - |
enraunged | 11 | - | - |
envaulted | 13 | - | - |
epaulette | 11 | adornment consisting of an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder | - |
barosaurs | 11 | - | - |
baudricke | 18 | - | - |
baudricks | 18 | - | - |
bauhinias | 14 | - | - |
baulkiest | 15 | - | - |
baudekins | 16 | - | - |
bauchling | 17 | - | - |
banausian | 11 | - | - |
balisaurs | 11 | - | - |
belauding | 13 | - | - |
bemauling | 14 | - | - |
beaucoups | 15 | - | - |
beauffets | 17 | - | - |
beautying | 15 | - | - |
beauxites | 18 | - | - |
bedaubing | 15 | - | - |
berimbaus | 15 | - | - |
boxhauled | 22 | - | - |
bucentaur | 13 | - | - |
braunched | 17 | - | - |
braunches | 16 | - | - |
braunites | 11 | - | - |
caudicles | 14 | - | - |
caudillos | 12 | - | - |
cauldrife | 15 | - | - |
cauldrons | 12 | - | - |
caulicles | 13 | - | - |
cauliculi | 13 | - | - |
cauliform | 16 | - | - |
caulinary | 14 | - | - |
caudation | 12 | - | - |
caucusses | 13 | - | - |
cauchemar | 18 | - | - |
caucusing | 14 | - | - |
caucussed | 14 | - | - |
caulkings | 16 | - | - |
caumstone | 13 | - | - |
causalgia | 12 | a burning pain in a limb along the course of a peripheral nerve; usually associated with skin changes | - |
cauteries | 11 | - | - |
cauterise | 11 | burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | - |
cauterism | 13 | - | - |
cautioned | 12 | - | - |
cautioner | 11 | - | - |
cautionry | 14 | - | - |
cauterant | 11 | an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it | - |
cautelous | 11 | - | - |
causalgic | 14 | - | - |
causeless | 11 | having no justifying cause or reason | a senseless, causeless murder |
causeries | 11 | - | - |
causeways | 17 | - | - |
caustical | 13 | - | - |
caterwaul | 14 | utter shrieks, as of cats | - |
carnaubas | 13 | - | - |
carnosaur | 11 | large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having huge claws | - |
chaunters | 14 | - | - |
chaunting | 15 | - | - |
chaussure | 14 | - | - |
chaunging | 16 | - | - |
chauncing | 17 | - | - |
chauffers | 20 | - | - |
chauffing | 21 | - | - |
centaurea | 11 | knapweed; star thistle | - |
centauric | 13 | - | - |
chiausing | 15 | - | - |
clauchted | 17 | - | - |
claughted | 16 | - | - |
claustral | 11 | - | - |
claustrum | 13 | a layer of grey matter in the brain adjacent to the lenticular nucleus | - |
clausulae | 11 | - | - |
clausular | 11 | - | - |
assaulter | 9 | someone who attacks | - |
assaulted | 10 | - | - |
backhauls | 20 | - | - |
avaunting | 13 | - | - |
avifaunae | 15 | - | - |
avifaunal | 15 | of or relating to birds of a particular region or period | - |
avifaunas | 15 | - | - |
apatosaur | 11 | huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic | - |
antifraud | 13 | - | - |
antiauxin | 16 | - | - |
argonauts | 10 | - | - |
aquanauts | 18 | - | - |
applauded | 15 | - | - |
applauder | 14 | someone who applauds | - |
applauses | 13 | - | - |
archosaur | 14 | extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs; plesiosaurs; pterosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts | - |
araucaria | 11 | any of several tall South American or Australian trees with large cones and edible seeds | - |
allosaurs | 9 | - | - |
amenaunce | 13 | - | - |
amauroses | 11 | - | - |
amaurosis | 11 | partial or total loss of sight without pathology of the eye; caused by disease of optic nerve or retina or brain | - |
amaurotic | 13 | pertaining to blindness caused by amaurosis | - |
aboiteaux | 18 | - | - |
aboiteaus | 11 | - | - |
aboideaux | 19 | - | - |
aboideaus | 12 | - | - |
aeronauts | 9 | - | - |
aeropause | 11 | - | - |
mesosaurs | 11 | - | - |
inaurated | 10 | - | - |
inaurates | 9 | - | - |
krautrock | 19 | - | - |
pauperdom | 16 | - | - |
pauraques | 20 | - | - |
pahauteas | 14 | - | - |
caumstane | 13 | - | - |
haulbacks | 20 | - | - |
epauleted | 12 | - | - |
faultline | 12 | - | - |
fauxmance | 23 | - | - |
baulkline | 15 | - | - |
bacalhaus | 16 | - | - |