| applause | (noun) a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together | Synonyms: clapping, hand clapping |
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| auscultation | (noun) listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope) | - |
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| auspex | (noun) (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy | Synonyms: augur |
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| auspice | (noun) a favorable omen | - |
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| auspices | (noun) kindly endorsement and guidance | Synonyms: aegis, protection |
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| auspiciousness | (noun) the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result | Synonyms: propitiousness |
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| austenite | (noun) a solid solution of ferric carbide or carbon in iron; cools to form pearlite or martensite | - |
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| austereness | (noun) extreme plainness | Synonyms: severeness, severity |
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| austerity | (noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: asceticism, nonindulgence |
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| austral | (noun) the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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| australopithecine | (noun) any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago | - |
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| catacaustic | (noun) a caustic curve formed by light reflecting from a curved surface. | - |
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| causa | (noun) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | Synonyms: case, cause, lawsuit, suit |
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| causalgia | (noun) a burning pain in a limb along the course of a peripheral nerve; usually associated with skin changes | - |
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| causality | (noun) the relation between causes and effects | - |
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| causation | (noun) the act of causing something to happen | Synonyms: causing |
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| cause | (noun) any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results | Synonyms: causal agency, causal agent |
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| (noun) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | Synonyms: case, causa, lawsuit, suit |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, crusade, drive, effort, movement |
| (noun) a justification for something existing or happening | Synonyms: grounds, reason |
| (noun) events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something | - |
| causerie | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| causeway | (noun) a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand | - |
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| causing | (noun) the act of causing something to happen | Synonyms: causation |
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| caustic | (noun) the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface or object | - |
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| (noun) any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue | - |
| clause | (noun) (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate functioning as a part of a complex sentence | - |
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| (noun) a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will) | Synonyms: article |
| claustrophobe | (noun) a person suffering from claustrophobia | - |
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| claustrophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space | - |
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| claustrum | (noun) a layer of grey matter in the brain adjacent to the lenticular nucleus | - |
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| degaussing | (noun) the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field | - |
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| encaustic | (noun) a paint consisting of pigment mixed with melted beeswax; it is fixed with heat after application | - |
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| exhaust | (noun) system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged | Synonyms: exhaust system |
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| (noun) gases ejected from an engine as waste products | Synonyms: exhaust fumes, fumes |
| exhaustion | (noun) the act of exhausting something entirely | - |
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| (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: debilitation, enervation, enfeeblement |
| (noun) extreme fatigue | - |
| gauss | (noun) a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter | - |
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| gaussmeter | (noun) a meter to compare strengths of magnetic fields | Synonyms: magnetometer |
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| hausen | (noun) valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas | Synonyms: Acipenser huso, beluga, white sturgeon |
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| hausmannite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese tetroxide; a source of manganese | - |
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| haustorium | (noun) a root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host | - |
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| heliopause | (noun) the boundary marking the edge of the sun's influence; the boundary (roughly 100 AU from the sun) between the interplanetary medium and the interstellar medium; where the solar wind from the sun and the radiation from other stars meet | - |
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| holocaust | (noun) an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire) | - |
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| implausibility | (noun) the quality of provoking disbelief | Synonyms: implausibleness |
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| implausibleness | (noun) the quality of provoking disbelief | Synonyms: implausibility |
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| inauspiciousness | (noun) the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result | Synonyms: unpropitiousness |
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| inexhaustibility | (noun) The state or condition of being impossible to exhaust; of being unlimited. | - |
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| mausoleum | (noun) a large burial chamber, usually above ground | - |
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| menopause | (noun) the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends | Synonyms: change of life, climacteric |
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| microgauss | (noun) a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one millionth of a gauss | - |
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| nausea | (noun) disgust so strong it makes you feel sick | - |
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| (noun) the state that precedes vomiting | Synonyms: sickness |
| nauseant | (noun) a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: emetic, vomit, vomitive |
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| nauseatingness | (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: disgustingness, distastefulness, sickeningness, unsavoriness |
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| pause | (noun) temporary inactivity | - |
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| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: break, intermission, interruption, suspension |
| plausibility | (noun) apparent validity | Synonyms: plausibleness |
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| plausibleness | (noun) apparent validity | Synonyms: plausibility |
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| sausage | (noun) a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon | Synonyms: blimp, sausage balloon |
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| (noun) highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings | - |
| tropopause | (noun) the region of discontinuity between the troposphere and the stratosphere | - |
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