11-letter words containing a, s, l, i
- air marshal — a senior Royal Air Force officer of equivalent rank to a vice admiral in the Royal Navy
- air shuttle — a shuttle service operated by aircraft, usually covering short routes with frequent flights
- air vesicle — a large air-filled intercellular space in some aquatic plants
- airlessness — The state or condition of being poorly ventilated; lacking good air circulation, having stale air.
- airwaybills — Plural form of airwaybill.
- alabastrine — a finely granular variety of gypsum, often white and translucent, used for ornamental objects or work, such as lamp bases, figurines, etc.
- alaska time — Alaska-Hawaii time.
- albategnius — Latin name of Battani.
- albugineous — related to or resembling the white of an egg
- albuminoids — any of a class of simple proteins, as keratin, gelatin, or collagen, that are insoluble in all neutral solvents; scleroprotein.
- alcaligenes — any of several rod-shaped aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Alcaligenes, found in the intestinal tract of humans and other vertebrates and in dairy products.
- alchemistic — 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.
- alcoholysis — chemical decomposition resulting from the interaction of a compound and an alcohol.
- alessandria — a town in NW Italy, in Piedmont. Pop: 85 438 (2001)
- alfonso xii — 1857–85, king of Spain 1874–85.
- algesimeter — an instrument for determining the sensitiveness of the skin to a painful stimulus.
- algophilist — Person who is subject to algophilia; person who enjoys pain and gets sexual pleasure from it.
- alismaceous — of or relating to the genus Alisma
- 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
- alkyd resin — any synthetic resin made from a dicarboxylic acid, such as phthalic acid, and diols or triols: used in paints and adhesives
- allantoides — Plural form of allantois.
- allegations — Plural form of allegation.
- allegiances — the loyalty of a citizen to his or her government or of a subject to his or her sovereign.
- alleviators — Plural form of alleviator.
- alligations — Plural form of alligation.
- allocations — Plural form of allocation.
- allocutions — Plural form of allocution.
- alloplastic — of or relating to alterations made to a patient's external circumstances for the purpose of affecting his mental condition
- allopoiesis — Creation of something other than the self. Or creation by something else than the self.
- allotropism — a property of certain elements, as carbon, sulfur, and phosphorus, of existing in two or more distinct forms; allomorphism.
- allyl resin — any of several thermosetting synthetic resins made by polymerizing esters of allyl alcohol with a dibasic acid. They are used as adhesives
- almoravides — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa from 1056 to 1147.
- aloha shirt — Hawaiian shirt
- alphabetise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of alphabetize.
- altarpieces — Plural form of altarpiece.
- altazimuths — Plural form of altazimuth.
- alterations — adjustments
- alzheimer's — a common form of dementia, believed to be caused by changes in the brain, usually beginning in late middle age, characterized by memory lapses, confusion, emotional instability, and progressive loss of mental ability.
- amaryllises — Plural form of amaryllis.
- ambiguously — open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal: an ambiguous answer.
- ambitiously — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- ambrosially — In an ambrosial manner.
- ameliorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ameliorate.
- ametabolism — a form of growth or life cycle with little or no metamorphosis
- amiableness — The state or quality of being amiable.
- ammonolysis — solvolysis in liquid ammonia
- ammophilous — (of organisms) living or growing in sand
- amphibolous — ambiguous or equivocal, especially when due to the uncertain grammatical construction of a word or phrase.
- amphicelous — concave on both sides, as the bodies of the vertebrae of fishes.
- amphilochus — a seer, the son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle, and the brother of Alcmaeon.