| AUTEURISMS | • AUTEURISM n. the profession of auteur, film director. |
| AUTEURISTS | • auteurists n. Plural of auteurist. • AUTEURIST n. a film director whose practice accords with the auteur theory, also AUTEUR. |
| AUTOCUTIES | • autocuties n. Plural of autocutie. • AUTOCUTIE n. a young and attractive but inexperienced female televison presenter. |
| AUTOECIOUS | • autoecious adj. Pertaining to a fungus, most often a rust, completing its life cycle on one host. • AUTOECIOUS adj. of fungus, etc., passing through all life stages on same species of host, also AUTECIOUS. |
| AUTOGUIDES | • autoguides v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of autoguide. • AUTOGUIDE n. a system whereby information on traffic conditions is collected by roadside sensors and relayed to drivers via receivers in their vehicles. |
| AUTUMNIEST | • AUTUMNY adj. (colloq.) autumn-like. |
| LAURUSTINE | • laurustine n. Alternative form of laurestine. • LAURUSTINE n. a winter-flowering shrub, also LAURUSTINUS. |
| LUXURIATES | • luxuriates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of luxuriate. • LUXURIATE v. to be luxuriant, grow profusely. |
| MUTUALISED | • mutualised v. Simple past tense and past participle of mutualise. • MUTUALISE v. to organize (a company etc.) on cooperative or mutual principles, also MUTUALIZE. |
| MUTUALISES | • mutualises v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mutualise. • MUTUALISE v. to organize (a company etc.) on cooperative or mutual principles, also MUTUALIZE. |
| MUTUALIZES | • mutualizes v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mutualize. • MUTUALIZE v. to organize (a company etc.) on cooperative or mutual principles, also MUTUALISE. |
| NAUTILUSES | • nautiluses n. Plural of nautilus. • NAUTILUS n. (Greek) a spiral-shelled mollusk. |
| QUAESITUMS | • QUAESITUM n. (Latin) something sought for; the true value. |
| SAUSSURITE | • saussurite n. (Mineralogy) A tough, compact mineral aggregate, of a white, greenish, or greyish colour. It is an aggregate… • SAUSSURITE n. a dull opaque mass of zoisite, albite, etc., formed by the alteration of feldspar. |
| UNSUITABLE | • unsuitable adj. Not suitable; unfit; inappropriate. • UNSUITABLE adj. not suitable. |
| USUCAPIENT | • usucapient n. One who acquires right or title through usucaption. • USUCAPIENT n. a person who claims and holds by usucapion, the acquisition of a property through long usage. |
| USURPATIVE | • usurpative adj. That usurps. • USURPATIVE adj. relating to usurpation. |