authority
Power or right to make or enforce rules, give orders, or impose obligation; or a position having such power or right.
Persons, regarded collectively, who occupy official positions of power; police or law enforcement.
A reliable, definitive source of information on a subject.
Status as a trustworthy source of information, reputation for mastery or expertise; or claim to such status or reputation.
Official permission; authorisation to act in some capacity on behalf of a ruling entity.
A government-owned agency that runs a revenue-generating activity for public benefit.

authorization
An act of authorizing.
The state of being authorized to do something or to be somewhere; formally granted permission.
A document giving formal sanction, permission or warrant.
Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.

authorizations
plural of authorization

authorlessness
The condition of being without an author.

authorship
The quality or state of being an author; the function or dignity of an author.
The source; the origin; the origination.

authourities
plural of authourity

authourity
Obsolete form of authority.

autism
A pervasive neurological condition that is observable in early childhood and persists throughout the lifespan, characterised by atypical communication patterns (e.g., differences in body language or eye contact), delayed language development, and sensory processing sensitivities.
A pervasive neurological condition that is observable in early childhood and persists throughout the lifespan, characterised by atypical communication patterns (e.g., differences in body language or eye contact), delayed language development, and sensory processing sensitivities.
A diagnosis involving a pathological tendency to engage in self-centered fantasy thinking, historically considered a symptom of insanity or schizophrenia.
Abnormal and unhealthy focus or persistence, stereotypically coupled with low self-awareness and unhealthy hatred of opposition or criticism.

autismland
The domain or sphere of autistic people; a notional place representing autism.

autisms
plural of autism

autoabstract
An abstract (abridgement or summary of a publication) generated automatically by a computer.

autoabstracts
plural of autoabstract

autoactivation
autocatalysis

autoactivations
plural of autoactivation

autoactivity
Synonym of autoreactivity.

autoadjustment
automatic adjustment

autoadjustments
plural of autoadjustment

autoaggression
The behaviour of autoaggressive antibodies

autoalgometry
The use of an autoalgometer

autoalgorithm
An algorithm that is invoked automatically

autoalgorithms
plural of autoalgorithm

autoalignment
automatic alignment

autoamplification
amplification without external means

autoamputation
The spontaneous detachment from the body and elimination of an appendage or an abnormal growth, such as of a polyp.

autoamputations
plural of autoamputation

autoanalyses
plural of autoanalysis

autoanalysis
analysis of oneself
automated analysis

autoandrogynemorphophilia
The supposed paraphilic attraction to the thought of being a transgender man ("androgynemorph").

autoanswer
A feature of a telephone, modem, etc. that allows an incoming call to be answered automatically.

autoantigenicity
The condition of being an autoantigen

autoantisemitism
Antisemitic attitudes held by a Jew.

autoantonym
A word that has two opposing meanings.

autoantonyms
plural of autoantonym

autoantonymy
The state of being an autoantonym; the phenomenon that autoantonyms instantiate.

autoappendectomies
plural of autoappendectomy

autoappendectomy
An appendectomy performed on oneself via self-surgery.

autoarousal
Self-arousal, in particular
Self-arousal, in particular:
Self-arousal, in particular:

autoasphyxia
Synonym of autoasphyxiation.

autoasphyxiation
The practice of choking or strangling oneself for sexual gratification.

autoassociation
The condition of being autoassociative

autoassociations
plural of autoassociation

autoassociator
Synonym of autoencoder.

autoassociators
plural of autoassociator

autobarotropy
The state of a fluid in which pressure and density surfaces coincide, as a result of a combination of barotropy and piezotropy

autobaud
The automatic detection of a suitable baud rate by examining the incoming data.

autobenefactivity
The quality of being autobenefactive.

autobesity
The situation of cars being too big and heavy, taking too much space and causing road safety and pollution problems.

autobibliography
A self-compiled list of one's own writings or literary works.

autobiographicalness
The quality of being autobiographical.

autobiographism
The tendency of writers to base their writings on their own lives.

autobioluminescence
bioluminescence generated without any external influence

autobrake
A system that automatically applies an aircraft's hydraulic wheel brakes upon touchdown during landing, or when the throttle is reduced to idle during a rejected takeoff.

autobrakes
plural of autobrake

autocalibration
automatic calibration

autocalibrations
plural of autocalibration

autocannibalism
The eating of part of one's own body.

autocapitalization
The automatic capitalization of words by a word processor, as at the beginning of a sentence.

autocarpy
The property of being autocarpous.

autocastration
The removal of one's own testicles.

autocastrations
plural of autocastration

autocategorisation
Automatic categorisation.

autocategorization
Automatic categorization.

autocatheterism
The operation of introducing a catheter into one's own body.

autocatheterization
Synonym of autocatheterism.

autocentrism
The quality of being autocentric; the tendency to use the internalized set of rules for one's behavior.

autocephalia
Alternative form of autocephaly.

autocephalicity
The quality of being autocephalic.

autocephalies
plural of autocephaly

autocephaly
The condition where a church's leaders have severed ties to a larger body and thus no longer report to a higher authority.

autochorissexualism
A sexual orientation characterized by a disconnect between the self and sexual arousal or fantasies, e.g. having sexual fantasies that do not involve oneself, or experiencing arousal without an active desire for partnered sexual activity.

autochorissexuality
A sexual orientation characterized by a disconnect between the self and sexual arousal or fantasies, e.g. having sexual fantasies that do not involve oneself, or experiencing arousal without an active desire for partnered sexual activity.

autochromy
The production of autochrome photographs.

autochthoneity
The condition of being autochthonous.

autochthonism
The state of being autochthonal.

autochthonousness
The quality of being autochthonous.

autocide
Control of a pest through propagation of sterile males.
A substance produced by a bacterium that is fatal to that bacterium.

autocides
plural of autocide

autocinesis
Alternative form of autokinesis.

autocircumcision
Circumcision performed by and on oneself.

autocitation
The citing of one's own work; self-citation.

autoclassification
Automatic classification.

autoclassifier
Something that autoclassifies.

autoclassifiers
plural of autoclassifier

autoclavability
The ability of something to be treated in an autoclave without sustaining damage.

autoclavation
Treatment in an autoclave.

autoclavations
plural of autoclavation

autoclesis
The arousing of interest in something by mentioning it in a negative or dismissive way.

autocode
Any of several early assembly languages.

autocodes
plural of autocode

autocoherence
The condition of being autocoherent

autocolonialism
An autocolonial situation, one involving only the culture of a colonizing force.

autocombustion
spontaneous combustion

autocompensation
automatic compensation

autocompilation
automatic compilation

autoconcurrency
The situation where two instances of the same actions occur simultaneously and in parallel.