9-Letter Words Starting: AU

• grant authorization or clearance for

• give or delegate power or authority to

• Any microorganism that has lost the ability to synthesize an organic compound required for its growth, usually as a result of mutation

• someone who acts as assistant

• functioning in a supporting capacity

• furnishing added support

• The process of self-digestion by a cell through the action of enzymes originating within the same cell. Often a defensive and/or self-preservation measure.

• A type of programmed cell death accomplished through self-digestion.

• Self-consumption; the act of eating oneself.

• plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances

• a political system governed by a single individual

• a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual

• of or relating to or characterized by autarchy