8-letter words starting with alc
- alcahest — the universal solvent sought by the alchemists.
- alcaides — Plural form of alcaide.
- alcandre — the wife of Polybus who received Helen and Menelaus on their way home from Troy.
- alcatraz — an island in W California, in San Francisco Bay: a federal prison until 1963
- alcazars — Plural form of alcazar.
- alcestis — the wife of king Admetus of Thessaly. To save his life, she died in his place, but was rescued from Hades by Hercules
- alchemic — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- alchevsk — a city in E Ukraine. Pop: 117 000 (2005 est)
- alchuine — (Ealhwine Flaccus) a.d. 735–804, English theologian and scholar: teacher and adviser of Charlemagne.
- alcidine — of, relating to, or belonging to the Alcidae, a family of sea birds including the auks, guillemots, puffins, and related forms
- alcimede — the mother of Jason.
- alcindor — (Ferdinand) Lew(is, Jr.) original name of Abdul-Jabbar.
- alcinous — (in Homer's Odyssey) a Phaeacian king at whose court the shipwrecked Odysseus told of his wanderings
- alcithoe — a daughter of Minyas who was driven mad for mocking Dionysus.
- alcmaeon — a son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle who commanded the second expedition against Thebes. He killed his mother for sending his father to certain death and was driven mad by the Furies.
- alcohols — Plural form of alcohol.
- alcolock — a breath-alcohol ignition-interlock device fitted to the ignition in certain motor vehicles. The driver must blow into a tube and, if his or her breath contains too much alcohol, a lock is activated to prevent the vehicle starting
- alcopops — Plural form of alcopop.
- alcorcon — city in central Spain, near Madrid: pop. 140,000
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