9-letter words containing a, l
- alappuzha — a port in SW Kerala, in S India, on the Arabian Sea.
- alarmable — able or prone to be alarmed or disturbed
- alarmedly — in an alarmed manner
- alarmists — Plural form of alarmist.
- albarello — an earthenware jar used to contain drugs, originating in the Middle East
- albatross — An albatross is a very large white seabird.
- albemarle — a city in central North Carolina.
- albert ii — full name Albert Felix Humbert Theodore Christian Eugene Marie. born 1934, king of Belgium (1993–2013); abdicated in favour of his son Philippe
- albertine — a female given name: derived from Albert.
- albertite — a black solid variety of bitumen that has a conchoidal fracture and occurs in veins in oil-bearing strata
- albertype — collotype.
- albescent — shading into, growing, or becoming white
- albinoism — Congenital lack of melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); the condition of being albino.
- albinotic — of or relating to albinism.
- albitical — related to or formed of albite
- albondiga — A Spanish or Latin American variety of meatball.
- albricias — an expression of joy
- albucasis — Abu al-Qāsim
- albuginea — (anatomy) A layer of white, fibrous tissue.
- alburnous — relating to alburnum
- albuterol — a bronchodilator used by sufferers of asthma, emphysema, and other lung conditions, to treat symptoms such as wheezing or shortness of breath
- alcántara — a town in W Spain: a Roman bridge spans the River Tagus. Pop: 1739 (2003 est)
- alcarraza — an earthenware container, traditionally made in Spain, that is used to cool water
- alcathous — a son of Pelops and Hippodamia who married Euachme and became king of Megara.
- alchemies — 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.
- alchemise — to change by or as by alchemy; transmute: to alchemize lead into gold.
- alchemist — An alchemist was a scientist in the Middle Ages who tried to discover how to change ordinary metals into gold.
- alchemize — to alter (an element, metal, etc) by alchemy; transmute
- alchymist — Alternative spelling of alchemist.
- alcimedes — the mother of Jason.
- alcimedon — an Arcadian hero whose daughter, Philao, was seduced by Hercules.
- alcoholic — An alcoholic is someone who cannot stop drinking large amounts of alcohol, even when this is making them ill.
- alcool-90 — (language) An object-oriented extension of ML with run-time overloading and a type-based notion of modules, functors and inheritance. It is built on CAML Light. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- alcyoneus — a giant who threw a stone at Hercules and was killed when Hercules hit the stone back with his club.
- aldebaran — a binary star, one component of which is a red giant, the brightest star in the constellation Taurus. It appears in the sky close to the star cluster Hyades. Visual magnitude: 0.85; spectral type: K5III; distance: 65 light years
- aldeburgh — a small resort in SE England, in Suffolk: site of an annual music festival established in 1948 by Benjamin Britten. Pop: 2654 (2001)
- aldehydes — Plural form of aldehyde.
- aldehydic — any of a class of organic compounds containing the group −CHO, which yields acids when oxidized and alcohols when reduced.
- alder fly — any of several dark-colored neuropterous insects of the family Sialidae, the larvae of which are aquatic and predacious on other aquatic insects.
- aldershot — a town in S England, in Hampshire: site of a large military camp. Pop: 58 170 (2001)
- aldington — Richard. 1892–1962, English poet, novelist, and biographer. His novels include Death of a Hero (1929) and The Colonel's Daughter (1931), which reflect postwar disillusion following World War I
- aleatoric — designating or of music that involves chance or unpredictability in composition or performance or both
- alecithal — (of an ovum) having little or no yolk
- alectryon — any sapindaceous tree of the genus Alectryon of Australasia, Southeast Asia, and Micronesia
- alehouses — Plural form of alehouse.
- alemannic — the group of High German dialects spoken in Alsace, Switzerland, and SW Germany
- alembroth — a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury, formerly believed to be a universal solvent
- aleph-bet — the Hebrew alphabet
- alepidote — (of a fish) not having scales.
- alertness — fully aware and attentive; wide-awake; keen: an alert mind.