6-letter words containing l, a
- alexic — relating to or of the neurological condition alexia
- alexin — complement (def 10).
- alexis — a masculine and feminine name
- alfaro — (Flavio) Eloy [flah-vyaw-e-loi] /ˈflɑ vyɔ ɛˈlɔɪ/ (Show IPA), 1864–1912, Ecuadorian political leader: president 1897–1901, 1907–11.
- alfoil — Aluminium foil.
- alfold — Also called Great Alföld. a vast plain in E Hungary, extending to the border of Ukraine and into Serbia and W Romania.
- alfred — an old-fashioned male forename
- alfven — Hannes Olaf Gösta (ˈhannɛs ˈuːlaf ˈjøsta). 1908–95, Swedish physicist, noted for his research on magnetohydrodynamics; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1970
- algate — by any means; anyway
- algins — any hydrophilic, colloidal substance found in or obtained from various kelps, as alginic acid or one of its soluble salts.
- algoid — resembling or relating to algae
- algren — Nelson. 1909–81, US novelist. His novels, mostly set in Chicago, include Never Come Morning (1942) and The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)
- alhaji — (in West Africa) a Muslim who has been to Mecca as a pilgrim (often used as a title).
- alibis — Plural form of alibi.
- alible — nourishing; nutritious
- alicia — a feminine name
- alidad — Archaic form of alidade.
- aliens — Plural form of alien.
- alieve — (philosophy, psychology) To subconsciously feel as if something is true, even if one does not believe it; to hold an alief.
- alight — If something is alight, it is burning.
- aligns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of align.
- alined — to arrange in a straight line; adjust according to a line.
- alines — (especially in women's clothing) a cut of garment consisting basically of two A -shaped panels for the front and back, designed to give increasing fullness toward the hemline.
- alioth — a binary star, the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Major and in the handle of the Big Dipper: magnitude, 1.8
- aliped — (of bats and similar animals) having the digits connected by a winglike membrane
- alisma — a flowering marsh plant of the genus Alsima, with round leaves
- alison — a feminine name
- alissa — a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “joy.”.
- aliter — Otherwise.
- aliyah — immigration to the Holy Land
- aliyos — the act of proceeding to the reading table in a synagogue for the reading of a portion from the Torah.
- aliyot — the act of proceeding to the reading table in a synagogue for the reading of a portion from the Torah.
- aljabr — (tool) An implementation of MACSYMA for the Macintosh by Fort Pond Research.
- alkali — An alkali is a substance with a pH value of more than 7. Alkalis form chemical salts when they are combined with acids.
- alkane — any saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH2n+2
- alkene — any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH2n
- alkies — Plural form of alkie.
- alkine — any member of the alkyne series.
- alkoxy — denoting an alkyl group bonded to an oxygen atom
- alkyds — Plural form of alkyd.
- alkyne — any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon with a carbon–carbon triple bond
- all in — If you say that you are all in, you mean that you are extremely tired.
- all of — You use all of before a number to emphasize how small or large an amount is.
- all on — the cry uttered by a whipper-in to signify that all the hounds are accounted for.
- all up — the whole of (used in referring to quantity, extent, or duration): all the cake; all the way; all year.
- all-in — Wrestling. without restrictions; with virtually every type of hold permitted.
- allays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of allay.
- allege — If you allege that something bad is true, you say it but do not prove it.
- allele — any of two or more variants of a gene that have the same relative position on homologous chromosomes and are responsible for alternative characteristics, such as smooth or wrinkled seeds in peas
- allene — (organic chemistry) Any of a class of hydrocarbons having two double bonds from one carbon atom to two others - R2C=C=CR2; especially the parent compound CH2=C=CH2 (propadiene).