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11-letter words containing a, l, o

  • agonizingly — accompanied by, filled with, or resulting in agony or distress: We spent an agonizing hour waiting to hear if the accident had been serious or not.
  • agony uncle — a man who writes the replies to readers' letters in an agony column
  • agranulosis — (rare) agranulocytosis.
  • agrobiology — the science of plant growth and nutrition in relation to agriculture
  • agronomical — the science of soil management and the production of field crops.
  • agrostology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of grasses
  • ahistorical — not related to history; not historical
  • ai-complete — (artificial intelligence, jargon)   /A-I k*m-pleet'/ (MIT, Stanford: by analogy with "NP-complete") A term used to describe problems or subproblems in artificial intelligence, to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the "strong AI problem" (that is, the synthesis of a human-level intelligence). A problem that is AI-complete is, in other words, just too hard. See also gedanken.
  • ailurophile — a person who likes cats
  • ailurophobe — a person who dislikes or is afraid of cats
  • alarm clock — An alarm clock is a clock that you can set to make a noise so that it wakes you up at a particular time.
  • albatrosses — Plural form of albatross.
  • albedometer — an instrument that measures the albedo of a surface.
  • albendazole — An antiparasitic anthelmintic used especially against the larvae of tapeworms.
  • albugineous — related to or resembling the white of an egg
  • album cover — the front of the outer packaging of a record album, usually decorated and showing its title and the name of the artist
  • albuminoids — any of a class of simple proteins, as keratin, gelatin, or collagen, that are insoluble in all neutral solvents; scleroprotein.
  • alcoholized — Simple past tense and past participle of alcoholize.
  • alcoholysis — chemical decomposition resulting from the interaction of a compound and an alcohol.
  • alcyonarian — any of various colonial anthozoans of the subclass Alcyonaria with eight tentacles and other body parts in branches or segments of eight
  • aldermaston — a village in S England, in West Berkshire unitary authority, Berkshire, SW of Reading: site of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment and starting point of the Aldermaston marches (1958–63), organized by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Pop: 927 (2001)
  • alderperson — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
  • aldohexoses — Plural form of aldohexose.
  • aldopentose — a monosaccharide with five carbon atoms
  • aldosterone — the principal mineralocorticoid secreted by the adrenal cortex. A synthesized form is used in the treatment of Addison's disease. Formula: C21H27O5
  • aldotetrose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having four carbon atoms.
  • 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.
  • alethiology — the branch of logic dealing with truth and error.
  • aleuromancy — (in ancient times) the use of flour as a means of divination.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • alismaceous — of or relating to the genus Alisma
  • 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
  • alkanethiol — any compound containing an alkyl group joined to a mercapto group, as methyl mercaptan or methanethiol, CH 3 SH.
  • 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 get-out — used in comparisons to intensify an adjective
  • 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.
  • all-purpose — You use all-purpose to refer to things that have lots of different uses or can be used in lots of different situations.
  • all-rounder — Someone who is an all-rounder is good at a lot of different skills, academic subjects, or sports.
  • allantoidal — (anatomy) Of or relating to the allantois.
  • allantoides — Plural form of allantois.
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