10-letter words containing ala
- outbalance — to outweigh.
- palaeocene — of, denoting, or formed in the first epoch of the Tertiary period, which lasted for 10 million years
- palaeogaea — the Old World as a biological region
- palaeogene — of or formed in the Palaeocene, Eocene, and Oligocene epochs
- palaeolith — a stone tool dating to the Palaeolithic
- palaeology — the study of prehistory
- palaeotype — a system of Roman letters and symbols that represent spoken sounds
- palaeozoic — of, denoting, or relating to an era of geological time that began 600 million years ago with the Cambrian period and lasted about 375 million years until the end of the Permian period
- palaestral — relating to the palaestra
- palagonite — a yellow basaltic glass
- palatalize — to articulate (a consonant other than a normal palatal) as a palatal or with relatively more contact between the blade of the tongue and the hard palate, as in certain pronunciations of the l- sound in million.
- palatinate — the. either of two historic regions of Germany that constituted an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire: one (Lower Palatinate, or Rhine Palatinate, ) is now part of Rhineland-Palatinate and the other (Upper Palatinate, ) is now part of Bavaria.
- palatogram — Phonetics. a diagram or photograph obtained through palatography.
- palavering — a conference or discussion.
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- paralation — PARALlel reLATION. Sabot, MIT 1987. A framework for parallel programming. A "field" is an array of objects, placed at different sites. A paralation is a group of fields, defining nearness between field elements. Operations can be performed in parallel on every site of a paralation.
- ph balance — a method of expressing the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a solution
- phalangeal — of or relating to a phalanx.
- phalangist — a member of a Lebanese Christian paramilitary organization founded in 1936 and originally based on similar ideas to the fascist Falange in Spain
- rape alarm — a device that emits a shrill sound when activated, which a woman can carry as a protection against attack
- resealable — an embossed emblem, figure, symbol, word, letter, etc., used as attestation or evidence of authenticity.
- salability — subject to or suitable for sale; readily sold: The books were sent back by the store in salable condition.
- salad bowl — a large bowl in which a salad, especially a tossed salad, is served.
- salad days — a period of youthful inexperience: a man who never lost the immature attitudes of his salad days.
- salad fork — a small, broad fork, usually one of a set, for eating salad or dessert.
- salamander — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
- salary cap — a maximum limit on salaries.
- shakuntala — Sakuntala.
- sialagogic — encouraging salivary flow.
- sialagogue — sialagogic (def 1).
- side salad — A side salad is a bowl of salad for one person which is served with a main meal.
- stalactite — a deposit, usually of calcium carbonate, shaped like an icicle, hanging from the roof of a cave or the like, and formed by the dripping of percolating calcareous water.
- stalagmite — a deposit, usually of calcium carbonate, more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed on the floor of a cave or the like by the dripping of percolating calcareous water.
- thalassian — a sea turtle
- the galaxy — the spiral galaxy, approximately 100 000 light years in diameter, that contains the solar system about three fifths of the distance from its centre
- trans alai — a mountain range in central Asia, between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan). Highest peak, Lenin Peak.
- ultralarge — extremely or exceptionally large
- unbalanced — not balanced or not properly balanced.
- unhealable — to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.
- unsalaried — worker: hourly wage
- unscalable — capable of being scaled: the scalable slope of a mountain.
- unsealable — to break or remove the seal of; open, as something sealed or firmly closed: to unseal a letter; to unseal a tomb.
- victualage — food; provisions; victuals.
- word salad — incoherent speech consisting of both real and imaginary words, lacking comprehensive meaning, and occurring in advanced schizophrenic states.
- yorubaland — a former kingdom in W Africa, in the E part of the Slave Coast: now a region in SW Nigeria.