11-letter words containing al
- aldotetrose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having four carbon atoms.
- aleggeaunce — the alleviation of grief or a burden
- alembicated — (of a literary style) excessively refined; precious
- alendronate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of alendronic acid.
- aleppo gall — a type of nutgall occurring in oaks in W Asia and E Europe
- aleppo pine — a pine tree, Pinus halepensis, native to the Mediterranean area, that is planted as an ornamental and is a source of turpentine.
- alessandria — a town in NW Italy, in Piedmont. Pop: 85 438 (2001)
- alethiology — the branch of logic dealing with truth and error.
- aleuromancy — (in ancient times) the use of flour as a means of divination.
- alexander i — c. 1080–1124, king of Scotland (1107–24), son of Malcolm III
- alexander v — 1340?–1410, Cretan ecclesiastic: pope 1409–10.
- alexandrian — of or relating to Alexander the Great
- alexandrina — a female given name, form of Alexandra.
- alexandrine — a line of verse having six iambic feet, usually with a caesura after the third foot
- alexandrite — a green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone
- alexithymia — an inability to recognize, understand, and describe emotions
- alfilerilla — Alt form alfilaria.
- alfonso xii — 1857–85, king of Spain 1874–85.
- alford plea — Law. a pleading of guilty in a plea bargain in which the defendant maintains his or her innocence.
- alfred lunt — Alfred, 1893–1977, U.S. actor (husband of Lynn Fontanne).
- alfven wave — a generally transverse magnetohydrodynamic wave that is propagated in a plasma
- algesimeter — an instrument for determining the sensitiveness of the skin to a painful stimulus.
- algin fiber — an alkali-soluble fiber produced by injecting a fine stream of alkaline algin into an aqueous solution of a metallic salt, used chiefly in the manufacture of fine threads.
- algological — Of or pertaining to algology.
- algophagous — feeding on algae, as certain insects.
- algophilist — Person who is subject to algophilia; person who enjoys pain and gets sexual pleasure from it.
- algorithmic — a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
- alienatedly — In an alienated way.
- alimentally — So as to serve for nourishment or food.
- alismaceous — of or relating to the genus Alisma
- aliturgical — designating those days on which the celebration of certain liturgies, especially the Eucharist, is forbidden.
- alkalescent — developing alkaline qualities
- alkali blue — any of the class of blue pigments having the highest tinting strength, by weight, of all known blue pigments: used chiefly in the manufacture of printing inks.
- alkali flat — an arid plain encrusted with alkaline salts derived from the streams draining into it
- alkali rock — any igneous rock with a marked preponderance of alkali and a low percentage of silica.
- alkali soil — a soil that gives a pH reaction of 8.5 or above, found esp in dry areas where the soluble salts, esp of sodium, have not been leached away but have accumulated in the B horizon of the soil profile
- alkalifying — Present participle of alkalify.
- alkalimeter — an apparatus for determining the concentration of alkalis in solution
- alkalimetry — determination of the amount of alkali or base in a solution, measured by an alkalimeter or by volumetric analysis
- alkaliphile — Any organism that lives and thrives in an alkaline environment, such as a soda lake; a form of extremophile.
- alkanethiol — any compound containing an alkyl group joined to a mercapto group, as methyl mercaptan or methanethiol, CH 3 SH.
- alkyd resin — any synthetic resin made from a dicarboxylic acid, such as phthalic acid, and diols or triols: used in paints and adhesives
- alkyl group — any of a series of univalent groups of the general formula C n H 2n+1 , derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons, as the methyl group, CH 3 −, or ethyl group, C 2 H 5 −.
- all aboard! — a warning to passengers to board a vehicle, ship, etc
- all at once — If something happens all at once, it happens suddenly, often when you are not expecting it to happen.
- all ends up — totally or completely
- all get-out — used in comparisons to intensify an adjective
- all the way — You use all the way to emphasize how long a distance is.
- all up with — over; finished
- all' ottava — a direction (8va), placed above or below the staff to indicate that the passage covered is to be played one octave higher or lower respectively.