| autacoid | (noun) any physiologically active internal secretion especially one of uncertain classification | Synonyms: autocoid |
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| autacoidal | (adjective) of or relating to an autacoid | - |
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| autarchic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchical, autarkical |
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| autarchical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchic, autarkical |
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| autarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autocracy |
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| (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarky |
| autarkic | (adjective) of countries; not relying on imports | Synonyms: autarkical |
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| autarkical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchic, autarchical |
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| (adjective) of countries; not relying on imports | Synonyms: autarkic |
| autarky | (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarchy |
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| auteur | (noun) a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works | - |
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| authentic | (adjective) not counterfeit or copied | Synonyms: bona fide, unquestionable, veritable |
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| (adjective) conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief | Synonyms: reliable |
| authentically | (adverb) genuinely; with authority | Synonyms: genuinely |
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| authenticate | (verb) establish the authenticity of something | - |
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| authenticated | (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: attested, documented |
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| authentication | (noun) validating the authenticity of something or someone | Synonyms: certification |
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| (noun) a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity | Synonyms: assay-mark, hallmark |
| authenticator | (noun) one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity | Synonyms: appraiser |
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| authenticity | (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: genuineness, legitimacy |
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| author | (noun) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | Synonyms: writer |
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| (noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: generator, source |
| (verb) be the author of | - |
| authoress | (noun) a woman author | - |
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| authorial | (adjective) of or by or typical of an author | Synonyms: auctorial |
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| authorisation | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorization, empowerment |
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| (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authority, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authority, authorization, sanction |
| (noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorization, mandate |
| authorise | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorize, clear, pass |
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| (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorize, empower |
| authorised | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authoritative, authorized |
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| authoriser | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authorizer |
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| authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| (noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
| authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| authoritative | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authorized |
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| (adjective) having authority or ascendancy or influence | Synonyms: important |
| (adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: definitive |
| authoritatively | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: magisterially |
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| authorities | (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: government, regime |
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| authority | (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
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| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, sanction |
| (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
| (noun) an authoritative written work | - |
| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office |
| (noun) an expert whose views are taken as definitive | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | - |
| authorization | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, empowerment |
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| (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, dominance, potency, say-so |
| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, sanction |
| (noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorisation, mandate |
| authorize | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, clear, pass |
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| (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, empower |
| authorized | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authoritative |
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| authorizer | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authoriser |
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| authorship | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: composition, penning, writing |
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| (noun) the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing | Synonyms: paternity |
| autism | (noun) (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as people | - |
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| autistic | (adjective) characteristic of or affected with autism | - |
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| auto | (noun) a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine | Synonyms: automobile, car, machine, motorcar |
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| autoalarm | (noun) a radio receiving device used on ships that rings an alarm bell when a distress signal is received. | Synonyms: auto-alarm |
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| autoantibody | (noun) an antibody acting against tissues of the organism that produces it | - |
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| autobahn | (noun) an expressway in a German-speaking country | - |
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| autobiographer | (noun) someone who writes their own biography | - |
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| autobiographic | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographical |
| autobiographical | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographic |
| autobiography | (noun) a biography of yourself | - |
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| autobus | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: bus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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| autocatalysis | (noun) catalysis in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction | - |
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| autocatalytic | (adjective) relating to or proceeding by autocatalysis | - |
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| autochthon | (noun) the earliest known inhabitants of a region | - |
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| autochthonal | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous |
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| autochthonic | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous |
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| autochthonous | (adjective) of rocks, deposits, etc.; found where they and their constituents were formed | - |
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| (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, endemic, indigenous |
| autochthony | (noun) nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) | Synonyms: endemism, indigenousness |
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| autoclave | (noun) a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments | Synonyms: steriliser, sterilizer |
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| (verb) subject to the action of an autoclave | - |
| autocoid | (noun) any physiologically active internal secretion especially one of uncertain classification | Synonyms: autacoid |
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| autocorrect | (noun) a system for automatically correcting text | - |
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| autocracy | (noun) a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual | - |
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| (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autarchy |
| autocrat | (noun) a cruel and oppressive dictator | Synonyms: despot, tyrant |
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| autocratic | (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| autocratically | (adverb) in an autocratic manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator | Synonyms: dictatorially, magisterially |
| autocue | (noun) a device that displays words for people to read | Synonyms: prompter |
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| autodidact | (noun) a person who has taught himself | - |
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| autodidactic | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of an autodidact | - |
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| autoecious | (adjective) of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire life cycle on a single host | Synonyms: homoecious |
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| autoerotic | (adjective) sexually satisfying yourself (as by masturbation) | - |
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| autoeroticism | (noun) using your own body as a sexual object | Synonyms: autoerotism |
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| autoerotism | (noun) using your own body as a sexual object | Synonyms: autoeroticism |
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| autofluorescence | (noun) self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| autofocus | (noun) an optical device for focussing a camera or other instrument automatically | - |
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| autogamic | (adjective) characterized by or fit for autogamy | Synonyms: autogamous |
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| autogamous | (adjective) characterized by or fit for autogamy | Synonyms: autogamic |
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| autogamy | (noun) self-fertilization in plants | - |
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| autogenesis | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: abiogenesis, autogeny, spontaneous generation |
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| autogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to autogenesis | - |
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| autogenic | (adjective) originating within the body | Synonyms: autogenous |
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| autogenics | (noun) training patients in self-induced relaxation | Synonyms: autogenic therapy, autogenic training |
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| autogenous | (adjective) originating within the body | Synonyms: autogenic |
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| autogeny | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: abiogenesis, autogenesis, spontaneous generation |
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| autogiro | (noun) an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller | Synonyms: autogyro, gyroplane |
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| autograft | (noun) tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person | Synonyms: autoplasty |
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| autograph | (noun) something written by one's own hand | - |
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| (noun) a person's own signature | Synonyms: John Hancock |
| (verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: inscribe |
| autographed | (adjective) bearing an autograph | - |
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| autographic | (adjective) written in the author's own handwriting | - |
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| autogyro | (noun) an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller | Synonyms: autogiro, gyroplane |
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| autoicous | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in separate clusters on the same plant | - |
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| autoimmune | (adjective) of or relating to the immune response of the body against substance normally present in the body | - |
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| autoimmunity | (noun) production of antibodies against the tissues of your own body; produces autoimmune disease or hypersensitivity reactions | - |
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| autoinjector | (noun) a hypodermic syringe to use in injecting yourself with a liquid | - |
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| autolatry | (noun) the worship of yourself | Synonyms: idiolatry, self-worship |
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| autoloader | (noun) a firearm that reloads itself | Synonyms: self-loader |
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| autoloading | (adjective) (of firearms) capable of automatic loading and firing continuously | Synonyms: self-loading, semiautomatic |
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| autologous | (adjective) derived from organisms of the selfsame individual | - |
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| autolysis | (noun) lysis of plant or animal tissue by an internal process | Synonyms: self-digestion |
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| autolytic | (adjective) of or relating to self-digestion | - |
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| automaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, car maker, car manufacturer, carmaker |
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| automat | (noun) a cafeteria where food is served from machines | - |
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| (noun) a vending machine from which you can get food | - |
| automate | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automatise, automatize |
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| automated | (adjective) operated by automation | Synonyms: machine-controlled, machine-driven |
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| automatic | (adjective) operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control | - |
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| (adjective) without volition or conscious control | Synonyms: reflex, reflexive |
| (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatonlike, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
| (noun) self-loading rifle capable of automatic fire | Synonyms: automatic rifle, machine rifle |
| (noun) a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released | Synonyms: automatic pistol |
| automatically | (adverb) in a reflex manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism | Synonyms: mechanically |