9-letter words containing a, l
- alley-way — an alley or lane.
- alleyways — Plural form of alleyway.
- allianced — Simple past tense and past participle of alliance.
- alliances — Plural form of alliance.
- allicholy — a feeling of sadness and despondency
- allicient — That attracts; attracting.
- alligated — to attach; bind.
- alligator — An alligator is a large reptile with short legs, a long tail and very powerful jaws.
- allineate — To align.
- allingham — Margery. 1904–66, British author of detective stories, featuring Albert Campion. Her works include Tiger in the Smoke (1952) and The Mind Readers (1965)
- allmouths — Plural form of allmouth.
- allobaric — of or relating to change in atmospheric pressure: allobaric wind.
- allocable — able to be allocated
- allocarpy — the production of fruit through cross-fertilization
- allocated — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
- allocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of allocate.
- allocator — anyone or anything that allocates something
- allodynia — pain caused by a normally painless stimulus
- allogenic — Immunology. allogeneic.
- allograft — a tissue graft from a donor genetically unrelated to the recipient
- allograph — a document written by a person who is not a party to it
- allometry — the study of the growth of part of an organism in relation to the growth of the entire organism
- allomorph — any of the phonological representations of a single morpheme. For example, the final (s) and (z) sounds of bets and beds are allomorphs of the English noun-plural morpheme
- allopathy — the orthodox medical method of treating disease, by inducing a condition different from or opposed to the cause of the disease
- allopatry — the condition of existing in areas that are geographically separated from one another; esp the condition of genetically similar species which cannot interbreed because of this geographical separation
- allophane — a variously coloured amorphous mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium silicate and occurring in cracks in some sedimentary rocks
- allophone — any of several speech sounds that are regarded as contextual or environmental variants of the same phoneme. In English the aspirated initial (p) in pot and the unaspirated (p) in spot are allophones of the phoneme /p/
- alloplasm — part of the cytoplasm that is specialized to form cilia, flagella, and similar structures
- allostery — the condition of a protein (such as an enzyme) in which the structure and activity of the enzyme are modified by the binding of a metabolic molecule at a site other than the chemically active one
- allotment — In Britain, an allotment is a small area of land in a town which a person rents to grow plants and vegetables on.
- allotrope — any of two or more physical forms in which an element can exist
- allotropy — the existence of an element in two or more physical forms. The most common elements having this property are carbon, sulphur, and phosphorus
- allottees — Plural form of allottee.
- allottery — an allotment or allocation
- allotting — to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion: to allot the available farmland among the settlers.
- allotypic — relating to an allotype
- allow for — If you allow for certain problems or expenses, you include some extra time or money in your planning so that you can deal with them if they occur.
- allowable — If people decide that something is allowable, they let it happen without trying to stop it.
- allowably — In an allowable manner.
- allowance — An allowance is money that is given to someone, usually on a regular basis, in order to help them pay for the things that they need.
- allowedly — by general admission or agreement; admittedly
- allspices — Plural form of allspice.
- allthough — Obsolete form of although.
- allusions — Plural form of allusion.
- almandine — a deep violet-red garnet that consists of iron aluminium silicate and is used as a gemstone. Formula: Fe3Al2(SiO4)3
- almandite — almandine.
- almodóvar — Pedro. born 1949, Spanish film director. His provocative black comedies include Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), The Flower of My Secret (1995), Talk to Her (2002), Volver (2006), and The Skin I Live In (2011)
- almohades — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa during the 12th and 13th centuries.
- almoravid — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa from 1056 to 1147.
- almsgiver — a person who gives alms