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11-letter words containing a, t, l, o

  • agglomerate — to form or be formed into a mass or cluster; collect
  • agitational — the act or process of agitating; state of being agitated: She left in great agitation.
  • agonistical — relating to conflict or struggle
  • 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.
  • albatrosses — Plural form of albatross.
  • albedometer — an instrument that measures the albedo of a surface.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • alethiology — the branch of logic dealing with truth and error.
  • 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.
  • alkanethiol — any compound containing an alkyl group joined to a mercapto group, as methyl mercaptan or methanethiol, CH 3 SH.
  • 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.
  • allantoidal — (anatomy) Of or relating to the allantois.
  • allantoides — Plural form of allantois.
  • allegations — Plural form of allegation.
  • allegrettos — Plural form of allegretto.
  • allelopathy — the inhibitory effect of one living plant upon another by the release of toxic substances
  • allemontite — a white to gray, brittle mineral, antimony arsenide, AsSb, occurring in reniform masses: formerly used as an ore of arsenic.
  • alleviation — an alleviating or being alleviated
  • alleviators — Plural form of alleviator.
  • alleviatory — having the ability to reduce or moderate the severity of something
  • alligations — Plural form of alligation.
  • alligatored — Damaged by alligatoring.
  • allineation — the state of being organized in a line or lines
  • alloantigen — an antigen present in some but not all individuals of the same species, as those in different human blood groups.
  • allocatable — that can be allocated.
  • allocations — Plural form of allocation.
  • allocentric — Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
  • 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
  • allotropism — a property of certain elements, as carbon, sulfur, and phosphorus, of existing in two or more distinct forms; allomorphism.
  • allotropous — (of flowers) having the nectar accessible to any species of insect
  • allow me to — Some people use Allow me to... as a way of introducing something that they want to say or do.
  • alloy steel — steel that has been alloyed with one or more other metals or elements to improve specific properties such as strength or resistance to wear
  • almond tree — a small widely cultivated rosaceous tree, Prunus amygdalus, that is native to W Asia and has pink flowers and a green fruit containing an edible nutlike seed
  • aloha shirt — Hawaiian shirt
  • aloha state — Hawaii (used as a nickname).
  • alpenstocks — Plural form of alpenstock.
  • alpha stock — any of the most active securities on the Stock Exchange of which there are between 100 and 200; at least ten market makers must continuously display the prices of an alpha stock and all transactions in them must be published immediately
  • alt.country — a genre of country music originating in the 1990s and influenced by both early country music and contemporary rock music
  • alt.sources — (messaging, programming)   A Usenet newsgroup for posting program source code.
  • altar board — an elaborately carved wooden panel, placed in a recess on top of an altar during the Mass, on which the chalice and paten rest.
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