Words That Start With AL

all

Verb : Wholly; entirely; completely; totally.

Verb : Apiece; each.

Verb : (degree) So much.

albeit

along

Verb : In company; together.

Verb : Onward, forward, with progressive action.

allegory

Noun : (rhetoric) A narrative in which a character, place, or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.

Noun : A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation.

Noun : A symbolic representation which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, usually a moral or political one.

algorithm

Noun : (countable) A collection of ordered steps that solve a mathematical problem. A precise step-by-step plan for a computational procedure that possibly begins with an input value and yields an output value in a finite number of steps.

Noun : (loosely) A flowchart illustrating a decision-making process for human users, especially health care professionals.

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ally

Verb : (transitive)

Verb : To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty.

Verb : Chiefly followed by to or with: to connect or form a relation to (someone or something) by similarity in features or nature.

alleviate

Verb : (transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.

alacrity

Noun : Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.

Noun : Promptness; speed.

alternative

Adjective : Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.

Adjective : (linguistics) Presenting two or more alternatives.

Adjective : Other; different from something else.

align

Verb : (intransitive) To form a line; to fall into line.

Verb : (transitive) To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line.

Verb : (transitive) To organize in a consistent, defined way, perhaps in an abstract sense.

aleatory

Adjective : Depending on the throw of a die; random, arising by chance.

Adjective : (art, music) Produced with an element of chance (aleatoricism).

aloof

Verb : At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.

Verb : Without sympathy; unfavorably.

Adjective : Reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant; standoffish.

alert

Adjective : Attentive; awake; on guard.

Adjective : (obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.

Noun : An alarm.

altruism

Noun : Regard for others, both natural and moral without regard for oneself; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness.

Noun : (biology, sociobiology) Action or behaviour that benefits another or others at some cost to the performer.

allude

Verb : (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.

allow

Verb : (ditransitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.

Verb : (transitive, catenative) To enable; to permit; to grant license to; to consent to.

Verb : To not bar or obstruct.

alright

Adjective : (sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of all right; satisfactory; okay; in acceptable order. [Good; in acceptable, if not excellent condition.]

Verb : (sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of all right. [Fairly well.]

alight

Verb : (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve.

Verb : (intransitive)

Verb : Often followed by from or off: to get off an animal which one has been riding; to dismount; to descend or exit from a vehicle; hence, to complete one's journey; to stop.

alone

Adjective : By oneself, solitary.

Adjective : (predicatively, chiefly in the negative) Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc.

Adjective : (obsolete) Apart from, or exclusive of, others.

alien

Noun : A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.

Noun : (sometimes derogatory) A person in a country not their own.

Noun : Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.

alloy

Noun : A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal.

Noun : (archaic) A metal of lesser value, mixed with a metal of greater value.

Noun : An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc.

alliteration

Noun : The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.

Noun : The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.

alumni

Noun : (often proscribed) An individual alumnus or alumna.

although

Verb : despite the fact tha

altruistic

Adjective : Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish

alter

Verb : (transitive) To change the form or structure of.

Verb : (intransitive) To become different.

Verb : (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.

alternate

Adjective : Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).

Adjective : (heraldry) Alternating; (of e.g. a pair of tinctures which a charge is coloured) succeeding in turns, or (relative to the field) counterchanged.

Adjective : (mathematics) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.

al

Noun : The Indian mulberry, Morinda citrifolia, especially as used to make dye.

Noun : (sciences) Alfen number

Noun : A diminutive of the male given names Alan, Albert, Alexander, Alfred, or other names beginning with Al-[[#English|]], from the Celtic languages, the Germanic languages, Ancient Greek, or Old English.

altogether

Verb : Completely, wholly, or without exception.

Verb : On the whole; with everything considered.

Verb : With everything included

alas

Noun : A type of depression which occurs in Yakutia, formed by the subsidence of permafrost.

allure

Noun : The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.

Verb : (transitive) To entice; to attract.

Noun : (dated) Gait; bearing.

allay

Verb : (transitive) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.

Verb : (transitive) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To subside, abate, become peaceful.

alcohol

Noun : (organic chemistry, countable) Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH).

Noun : (colloquial) Ethanol.

Noun : (uncountable) Beverages containing ethanol, collectively.

alliance

Noun : (uncountable) The state of being allied.

Noun : (countable) The act of allying or uniting.

Noun : (countable) A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.

algae

Noun : Algal organisms viewed collectively or as a mass; algal growth.

Noun : (countable) A particular kind of algae.

also

Verb : (conjunctive, focus) In addition; besides; as well; further; too.

Verb : (obsolete) To the same degree or extent; so, as.

allege

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To state under oath, to plead.

Verb : (archaic) To cite or quote an author or his work for or against.

Verb : (transitive) To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc.

alive

Adjective : Having life; living; not dead.

Adjective : In a state of action; in force or operation; existent.

Adjective : Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy.

ale

Noun : (dated) A beer made without hops.

Noun : A beer produced by so-called warm fermentation and not pressurized.

Noun : A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.

allusion

Noun : An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned.

alpha

Noun : The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α, α), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it is the predecessor to A.

Noun : Latin alpha: the Latin letter Ɑ (minuscule: ɑ).

Noun : (sciences) The name of the symbols Α and α used in science and mathematics, often interchangeable with the symbols when used as a prefix.

allegiance

Noun : Loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler.

alchemy

Noun : (uncountable) The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.

Noun : (countable) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.

Noun : (computing, slang, countable) Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.

alias

Verb : Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called.

Verb : (law) Used to connect the different names of a person who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful

Noun : Another name; an assumed name.

alignment

Noun : An arrangement of items in a line.

Noun : The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.

Noun : An alliance of factions.

allocate

Verb : To set aside for a purpose.

Verb : To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition to.

Verb : (computing) To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.

alley

Noun : A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.

Noun : (baseball) The area between the outfielders.

Noun : (bowling) An establishment where bowling is played.

alum

Noun : An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K₂SO₄·Al₂(SO₄)₃·24H₂O).

Noun : (chemistry) Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations.

Verb : (transitive) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.

alarm

Noun : A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.

Noun : Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.

Noun : A sudden attack; disturbance.

almond

Noun : (countable) The seed within the drupe of a small deciduous tree in family Rosaceae, Prunus amygdalus, considered a culinary nut.

Noun : (countable) The tree that produces almonds.

Noun : Other plants that produce almond-like nuts:

altar

Noun : A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.

Noun : (informal) A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.

Noun : (figurative) Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.

always

Verb : At all times; throughout all time; since the beginning.

Verb : Constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals (opposed to sometimes or occasionally).

Verb : (informal) In any event.

allowance

Noun : Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting

Noun : Acknowledgment.

Noun : An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose

altercation

Noun : (countable) An angry or heated dispute.

Noun : (countable, law, historical) An act of posing questions to, and obtaining answers from, a witness in a court of law.

Noun : (uncountable) Angry or heated disputation.

alphabet

Noun : The set of letters used when writing in a language.

Noun : A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)

Noun : A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)

altitude

Noun : The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.

Noun : A vertical distance.

Noun : (geometry) The distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the opposite side of the vertex.

alibi

Noun : (law) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed.

Noun : (sometimes proscribed) An excuse, especially one used to avoid responsibility or blame.

Verb : To provide an alibi for.

albatross

Noun : Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.

Noun : Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as puffins.

Noun : (golf) A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole, except a par 3 hole.

alleged

Adjective : Asserted but not proved.

Adjective : Supposed but doubtful.

alongside

Verb : Along the side; by the side; side by side; abreast.

alot

Verb : (nonstandard, proscribed) Alternative form of a lot (compare to awhile). [(informal) Very much; a great deal; to a large extent.]

Noun : (nonstandard, proscribed) Alternative form of a lot

ala

Noun : (anatomy) A wing or winglike anatomic process or part, especially of bone.

Noun : (botany) The flattened border of some stems, fruits, and seeds, or one of the two side petals of certain flowers in the pea family.

Noun : (architecture) In ancient Rome, a small room opening into a larger room or courtyard.

allot

Verb : (transitive) To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.

Verb : (transitive) To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose.

Verb : Misspelling of a lot. [(informal) Very much; a great deal; to a large extent.]

alameda

Noun : A tree-lined avenue in Spain or Portugal.

Noun : A municipality of Málaga, Spain.

Noun : A city in Alameda County, California, United States.

alienate

Adjective : (archaic, followed by "from") Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign

Noun : (obsolete) A stranger; an alien.

Verb : To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

alga

Noun : (biology) Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.

alba

Noun : (poetry) A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.

Noun : A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba.

Noun : A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba.

algebra

Noun : (uncountable, mathematics) Elementary algebra: A system for representing and manipulating unknown quantities (variables) in equations.

Noun : (uncountable, mathematics, sometimes capitalized) Abstract algebra: A broad field of study in modern mathematics (often mentioned alongside analysis) loosely characterized by its concern for abstraction and symmetry, dealing with the behavior, classification, and application of a large class of objects (called algebraic structures) and the maps between them (called, most generally, morphisms).

Noun : (countable, mathematics, algebra) Any of several objects of study in Algebra

alumnus

Noun : A male pupil or student.

Noun : A male graduate.

Noun : A student of any gender.

alps

Noun : (usually with "the") A mountain range in Western Europe, running from France to Slovenia, the highest peak of which is Mont Blanc, at 4808 metres.

alcove

Noun : (architecture) A small recessed area set off from a larger room.

Noun : A shady retreat.

Noun : (countable) The geographical and geological term for a steep-sided hollow in the side of an exposed rock face or cliff of a homogeneous rock type, that was water eroded.

already

Verb : Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.

Verb : So soon.

Verb : (US) An intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation.

allocation

Noun : The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.

Noun : That which is allocated; allowance, entitlement.

Noun : (embryology) Restriction of an embryonic cell and its clonal descendants to a particular cell type or body region

alike

Adjective : Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.

Verb : In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.

almost

Verb : Very close to, but not quite.

Verb : (mathematics) Up to, except for a negligible set (where negligible is not universally but contextually defined).

Verb : (measure theory, probability theory) Up to a null set; except for a set of measure 0.

ali

Noun : A male given name from Arabic.

Noun : The Muslim caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib, considered by Shias to be Muhammad's successor.

Noun : A surname from Arabic.

allegation

Noun : An assertion, especially an accusation, not necessarily based on facts.

Noun : The act of alleging.

aliquot

Adjective : Contained in the whole an integral number of times, a factor or divisor.

Noun : (chemistry, biotechnology) A portion of a total amount of a solution or suspension.

Verb : (chemistry, biotechnology, transitive, informal) To separate a volume of solution or suspension into aliquots.

albedo

Noun : (physics, meteorology, astronomy, optics) The fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body, commonly expressed as a percentage.

Noun : (botany) The whitish inner portion of the rind of citrus fruits that is a source of pectin, commonly referred to as the pith.

Noun : (alchemy) One of the four major stages of the magnum opus, involving purification of the prima materia.

alluring

Noun : The action of the verb allure.

Adjective : Having the power to allure.

alms

Noun : Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.

Noun : A surname from German.

Noun : (motor racing) Initialism of American Le Mans Series. (an enclosed-wheel enclosed-cockpit four-wheel custom-built prototype sports car racing series)

aloft

Verb : At, to, or in the air or sky.

Verb : Above, overhead, in a high place; up.

Verb : (nautical) In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging.

alto

Noun : A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody.

Noun : A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part.

Noun : (colloquial, music) An alto saxophone

aloe

Noun : (in the plural) The resins of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for their fragrant aroma, produced after infection by the fungus Phialophora parasitica.

Noun : Any plant of the large and variable genus Aloe.

Noun : Misnomer for any large, vaguely aloe-like plant, such as Agave

alee

Verb : On the lee side of a ship, to the leeward side (vs aweather)

allotted

Adjective : given as a tas

aloha

Noun : (Hawaii) Good wishes, love.

Noun : (Hawaii) An utterance of aloha (see Interjection, below).

allowed

Adjective : Permitted, authorized.

Adjective : (now rare) Allotted.

Adjective : (now rare) Acknowledged; admitted to be true.

alder

Noun : Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family.

Noun : An alderman or alderwoman.

Noun : A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived by alder trees.

alia

Noun : A female given name from Arabic.

aliment

Noun : (now rare) Food.

Noun : (figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.

Noun : (Scotland) An allowance for maintenance; alimony.

alabaster

Noun : A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.

Noun : (historical) A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.

Noun : (color) An off-white colour, like that of alabaster.

alt

Noun : (music) High pitch, of a voice or instrument; especially, the octave above the top line of the treble stave.

Noun : (now archaic) A state of excitement, a heightened emotional condition.

Noun : (Internet slang, gaming) An alternate or secondary character.

allegedly

Verb : According to someone's allegation.

Verb : According to someone's conspicuous impressions (which could subsequently be alleged).

alienation

Noun : The act of alienating.

Noun : The state of being alienated.

Noun : Emotional isolation or dissociation.

album

Noun : (historical) In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.

Noun : A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.

Noun : A collection, especially of literary items

alluded

Verb : (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.

alpaca

Noun : A sheep-like domesticated animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.

Noun : (uncountable) Wool from the alpaca, with strong very long fibres and coloring from black to brown to white.

Noun : A garment made of such wool.

allergy

Noun : (pathology, immunology) A disorder of the immune system causing adverse reactions to substances (allergens) not harmful to most and marked by the body's production of histamines and associated with atopy, anaphylaxis, and asthma.

Noun : (pathology) Any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance.

Noun : Altered susceptibility to a first treatment as exhibited in reaction to a subsequent one.

alamo

Noun : A poplar tree of Southwestern U.S.; the cottonwood.

Noun : A fort in San Antonio, Texas, United States, site of the Battle of the Alamo.

Noun : A city, the county seat of Wheeler County, Georgia, United States.

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