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9-letter words containing l, a, t, o

  • allantois — a membranous sac growing out of the ventral surface of the hind gut of embryonic reptiles, birds, and mammals. It combines with the chorion to form the mammalian placenta
  • allegator — (obsolete) A person who alleges.
  • allentown — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Lehigh River. Pop: 105 958 (2003 est)
  • alligator — An alligator is a large reptile with short legs, a long tail and very powerful jaws.
  • allmouths — Plural form of allmouth.
  • allocated — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
  • allocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of allocate.
  • allocator — anyone or anything that allocates something
  • allograft — a tissue graft from a donor genetically unrelated to the recipient
  • allometry — the study of the growth of part of an organism in relation to the growth of the entire organism
  • allopathy — the orthodox medical method of treating disease, by inducing a condition different from or opposed to the cause of the disease
  • allopatry — the condition of existing in areas that are geographically separated from one another; esp the condition of genetically similar species which cannot interbreed because of this geographical separation
  • allostery — the condition of a protein (such as an enzyme) in which the structure and activity of the enzyme are modified by the binding of a metabolic molecule at a site other than the chemically active one
  • allotment — In Britain, an allotment is a small area of land in a town which a person rents to grow plants and vegetables on.
  • allotrope — any of two or more physical forms in which an element can exist
  • allotropy — the existence of an element in two or more physical forms. The most common elements having this property are carbon, sulphur, and phosphorus
  • allottees — Plural form of allottee.
  • allottery — an allotment or allocation
  • allotting — to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion: to allot the available farmland among the settlers.
  • allotypic — relating to an allotype
  • allthough — Obsolete form of although.
  • aloha net — (networking)   (From the Hawaiian greeting) One of the first functioning networks in the USA, conceived and implimented at the University of Hawaii campus at Manoa. Its purpose was to link the University mainframe computer to client computers located on outer islands at University campuses. Put in place in the early 1970s, it was dubed the Aloha Net. Key punch cards were fed through a reader, and sent over the commercial phone lines.
  • alphasort — to arrange in alphabetical order
  • altar boy — In the Roman Catholic church, an altar boy is a boy who helps the priest during Mass.
  • altdorfer — Albrecht (ˈalbrɛçt). ?1480–?1538, German painter and engraver: one of the earliest landscape painters
  • alter ego — Your alter ego is the other side of your personality from the one which people normally see.
  • altiplano — a plateau of the Andes, covering two thirds of Bolivia and extending into S Peru: contains Lake Titicaca. Height: 3000 m (10 000 ft) to 3900 m (13 000 ft)
  • altissimo — (of music) very high in pitch
  • alto clef — the clef that establishes middle C as being on the third line of the staff
  • alumroots — Plural form of alumroot.
  • alveolate — having many alveoli
  • amatorial — of or relating to lovers or lovemaking; expressive of love: amatory poems; an amatory look.
  • ambulator — a person who walks
  • amoralist — a person who adheres to the doctrine of amoralism
  • amorality — not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral.
  • ampholyte — an amphoteric electrolyte
  • anabolite — a product of anabolism
  • analogist — a person who employs or argues from analogy.
  • anatolian — of or relating to Anatolia or its inhabitants
  • anecdotal — Anecdotal evidence is based on individual accounts, rather than on reliable research or statistics, and so may not be valid.
  • ankylotic — Of or pertaining to ankylosis.
  • anorectal — relating to the anus and rectum
  • anovulant — any drug preventing ovulation
  • antelopes — Plural form of antelope.
  • anthelion — a faint halo sometimes seen in polar or high altitude regions around the shadow of an object cast onto a thick cloud bank or fog
  • anthology — An anthology is a collection of writings by different writers published together in one book.
  • anti-lock — designating or of an automotive braking system that prevents the wheels from locking during a sudden stop
  • antichlor — a substance used to remove chlorine from a material after bleaching or to neutralize the chlorine present
  • antidotal — a medicine or other remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc.
  • antilabor — opposed to labor unions or to the interests of workers
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