11-letter words containing al
- altostratus — Altostratus is a type of thick gray cloud that forms at intermediate altitudes.
- alzheimer's — a common form of dementia, believed to be caused by changes in the brain, usually beginning in late middle age, characterized by memory lapses, confusion, emotional instability, and progressive loss of mental ability.
- amalgamable — that can be amalgamated
- amalgamated — Combined from two or more entities into one specific entity whilst retaining the defining characteristics of the original source entities.
- amalgamates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amalgamate.
- amalgamator — a person or object that carries out amalgamation
- amatorially — in an amatory manner
- amber alert — a notification to the general public, such as by commercial radio or electronic traffic-condition signs, regarding an abduction of a child
- ambilateral — affecting both sides of an organ or of the body
- ambivalence — the simultaneous existence of two opposed and conflicting attitudes, emotions, etc
- ambivalency — uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.
- ambrosially — In an ambrosial manner.
- amobarbital — a drug with sedative, hypnotic, and analgesic properties used to relieve insomnia and control convulsions
- amphichiral — (mathematics) superimposable on its mirror image; achiral.
- anal erotic — a person who experiences sexual gratification of the anal area
- analeptics' — restoring; invigorating; giving strength after disease.
- analogistic — a person who employs or argues from analogy.
- analogizing — Present participle of analogize.
- analogously — having analogy; corresponding in some particular: A brain and a computer are analogous.
- analphabete — illiterate person
- analysation — Alternative form of analyzation.
- analyticity — the property of being analytic
- analyzation — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- anaphorical — of or relating to an anaphora
- ancestorial — of, belonging to, or relating to ancestors
- ancestrally — Pertaining to ancestry.
- anchor ball — a day shape consisting of a black ball not less than 2 feet (0.6 meters) in diameter, displayed in the fore rigging of a vessel at anchor.
- anecdotally — in an anecdotal manner
- anecdotical — relating to anecdotes
- anencephaly — congenital malformation of the skull with absence of all or part of the brain
- angel falls — a waterfall in SE Venezuela, on the Caroní River; regarded as the highest in the world. Height: 979 m (3212 ft)
- angelically — of or belonging to angels: the angelic host.
- animal farm — a political satire (1945) by George Orwell.
- animal heat — heat produced in the body of an animal by chemical changes that occur when food is assimilated
- animal park — a zoo in which wild animals are housed and displayed in large open spaces designed to resemble their native habitats.
- animal pole — the formative part of an ovum, having the greatest amount of cytoplasm and containing the nucleus.
- animalcular — Of, relating to, or resembling, animalcules.
- animalcules — Plural form of animalcule.
- animalculum — animalcule.
- animalistic — If you describe a person or their behaviour as animalistic, you mean that they do not try to hide or control their basic feelings and physical needs.
- animalizing — Present participle of animalize.
- anisocercal — (of fish) having unequal tail-fin lobes
- annual ring — a ring of wood indicating one year's growth, seen in the transverse section of stems and roots of woody plants growing in temperate climates
- annual wage — a provision in a contract with an employer guaranteeing the employee a minimum income or work over a period of one year.
- anomalistic — tending to be anomalous
- anomalously — deviating from or inconsistent with the common order, form, or rule; irregular; abnormal: Advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe.
- antalkaline — neutralizing an alkali or counteracting alkalinity
- antecubital — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or situated in the anterior part of the elbow (cubitus).
- antenatally — prenatal: an antenatal clinic.
- antenuptial — a contract made between a man and a woman before they marry, agreeing on the distribution of their assets in the event of divorce