4-letter words containing a, l
- clas — A Celtic monastery.
- clat — an irksome or troublesome task
- claw — The claws of a bird or animal are the thin, hard, curved nails at the end of its feet.
- clay — Clay is a kind of earth that is soft when it is wet and hard when it is dry. Clay is shaped and baked to make things such as pots and bricks.
- clea — a female given name, form of Cleopatra.
- coal — Coal is a hard black substance that is extracted from the ground and burned as fuel.
- cola — Cola is a sweet brown non-alcoholic fizzy drink.
- dahl — Roald (ˈrəʊəld). 1916–90, British writer with Norwegian parents, noted for his short stories and such children's books as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
- dale — A dale is a valley.
- dali — Salvador (ˈsælvədɔː). 1904–89, Spanish surrealist painter
- dalk — A pin; brooch; clasp.
- dalt — a foster child
- daly — (John) Auˈgustin (ɔˈgʌstɪn ) ; ôgusˈtin) 1838-99; U.S. playwright & theatrical manager
- danl — Daniel
- dasl — Datapoint's Advanced System Language. A cross between C and Pascal by Gene Hughes with custom features for Datapoint hardware (no stack). It is used internally by Datapoint.
- deal — If you say that you need or have a great deal of or a good deal of a particular thing, you are emphasizing that you need or have a lot of it.
- dhal — a tropical African and Asian leguminous shrub, Cajanus cajan, cultivated in tropical regions for its nutritious pealike seeds
- dial — A dial is the part of a machine or instrument such as a clock or watch which shows you the time or a measurement that has been recorded.
- dual — of, relating to, or noting two.
- dvla — Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
- eale — Obsolete form of ale.
- earl — a male given name: from the old English word meaning “noble.”.
- ebla — an ancient city whose remains are located near Aleppo in present-day Syria, the site of the discovery in 1974–75 of cuneiform tablets (Ebla Tablets) documenting a thriving culture of the third millennium b.c.
- egal — equal.
- elam — an ancient kingdom east of the River Tigris: established before 4000 bc; probably inhabited by a non-Semitic people
- elan — Energy, style, and enthusiasm.
- elat — Eilat
- elba — a mountainous island off the W coast of Italy, in the Mediterranean: Napoleon Bonaparte's first place of exile (1814–15). Pop: 30 000 (latest est). Area: 223 sq km (86 sq miles)
- elea — (in ancient Italy) a Greek colony on the Tyrrhenian coast of Lucana
- elia — a department of SW Greece, in the W Peloponnese: in ancient times most of the region formed the state of Elis. Pop: 183 521 (2001). Area: 2681 sq km (1035 sq miles)
- ella — A hardware design language from DRA Malvern. Implemented in ALGOL68-RS. E-mail: <[email protected]>. SPARC version.
- elsa — a feminine name
- enal — (organic chemistry) Any aldehyde having a neighbouring double bond.
- eula — end-user licence agreement: the agreement made by a user before being granted permission to use computer software
- eval — Evaluation.
- fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- falk — (UK, dialect) The razorbill.
- fall — to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
- falt — An old English measure of wheat in London containing 9 bushels.
- falx — a structure shaped like a sickle, as a fold of dura mater separating the cerebral hemispheres.
- faql — frequently asked question
- farl — a thin, circular cake of flour or oatmeal.
- feal — Archaic. faithful; loyal.
- fila — a threadlike structure; filament.
- fla. — Florida
- flab — flabby flesh; unwanted fat: Daily exercise will get rid of the flab around your waist.
- flag — flagstone (def 1).
- flak — antiaircraft fire, especially as experienced by the crews of combat airplanes at which the fire is directed.
- flam — a drumbeat consisting of two notes in quick succession, with the accent on the second.
- flan — Spanish Cookery. a dessert of sweetened egg custard with a caramel topping.