| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| audacity | noun | Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness., Reckless daring; presumptuous impudence; — implying a contempt of law or moral restraints. |
| audience | adjective | The act of hearing; attention to sounds., Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business., An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers. |
| auditing | present participle & vb. noun | of Audit |
| audition | noun | The act of hearing or listening; hearing. |
| auditive | adjective | Of or pertaining to hearing; auditory. |
| auditory | adjective | Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear., An assembly of hearers; an audience., An auditorium. |
| auditual | adjective | Auditory. |
| auguring | present participle & vb. noun | of Augur |
| augurate | verb t. & i. | To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict., The office of an augur. |
| augurial | adjective | Relating to augurs or to augury. |
| augurist | noun | An augur. |
| augurous | adjective | Full of augury; foreboding. |
| auguries | plural | of Augury |
| augustan | noun | Of or pertaining to Augustus Caesar or to his times., Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg. |
| augustly | adverb | In an august manner. |
| aularian | adjective | Relating to a hall., At Oxford, England, a member of a hall, distinguished from a collegian. |
| aulnager | noun | See Alnage and Alnager. |
| auncetry | noun | Ancestry. |
| auntrous | adjective | Adventurous. |
| aurelian | adjective | Of or pertaining to the aurelia., An amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist. |
| auricled | adjective | Having ear-shaped appendages or lobes; auriculate; as, auricled leaves. |
| auricula | noun | A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear’s-ear., A species of Hirneola (H. auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula Judae, or Jew’s-ear., A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish, One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin. |
| auriform | adjective | Having the form of the human ear; ear-shaped. |
| ausonian | adjective | Italian. |
| auspices | plural | of Auspice |
| austrian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants., A native or an inhabitant of Austria. |
| austrine | noun | Southern; southerly; austral. |
| autarchy | noun | Self-sufficiency. |
| authorly | adjective | Authorial. |
| autocrat | adjective | An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar)., One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot. |
| autogamy | noun | Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon. |
| automath | noun | One who is self-taught. |
| automata | plural | of Automaton |
| autonomy | noun | The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state., The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man’s power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty. |
| autopsic | adjective | Alt. of Autopsical |
| autoptic | adjective | Alt. of Autoptical |
| autotype | noun | A facsimile., A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate. |
| autotypy | noun | The art or process of making autotypes. |
| autumnal | adjective | Of, belonging to, or peculiar to, autumn; as, an autumnal tint; produced or gathered in autumn; as, autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant., Past the middle of life; in the third stage. |
| auxiliar | adjective | Auxiliary., An auxiliary. |