9-letter words containing e, 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.
- allicient — That attracts; attracting.
- alligated — to attach; bind.
- allineate — To align.
- allocable — able to be allocated
- 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.
- allogenic — Immunology. allogeneic.
- allometry — the study of the growth of part of an organism in relation to the growth of the entire organism
- 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/
- 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
- allottees — Plural form of allottee.
- allottery — an allotment or allocation
- allowable — If people decide that something is allowable, they let it happen without trying to stop it.
- 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.
- almandine — a deep violet-red garnet that consists of iron aluminium silicate and is used as a gemstone. Formula: Fe3Al2(SiO4)3
- almandite — almandine.
- almohades — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa during the 12th and 13th centuries.
- almsgiver — a person who gives alms
- almshouse — Almshouses are houses in Britain which were built and run by charities to provide accommodation for poor or old people who could not afford to pay rent.
- aloe vera — Aloe vera is a substance that contains vitamins and minerals and is often used in cosmetics. Aloe vera is also the name of the plant from which this substance is extracted.
- aloeswood — agalloch.
- aloha net — (networking) (From the Hawaiian greeting) One of the first functioning networks in the USA, conceived and implimented at the University of Hawaii campus at Manoa. Its purpose was to link the University mainframe computer to client computers located on outer islands at University campuses. Put in place in the early 1970s, it was dubed the Aloha Net. Key punch cards were fed through a reader, and sent over the commercial phone lines.
- aloneness — the state of being alone
- alongside — If one thing is alongside another thing, the first thing is next to the second.
- aloofness — the quality or state of being aloof, distant, or reserved; indifference: His girlfriend's recent aloofness may be a sign that the relationship is over.
- alopecoid — resembling a fox
- alpenglow — a reddish light on the summits of snow-covered mountain peaks at sunset or sunrise
- alpenhorn — a long, powerful horn of wood or bark, with a cupped mouthpiece and a curved bell at opposite ends, used by Swiss herders and mountaineers.
- alpha ev6 — EV6
- alphabets — Plural form of alphabet.
- altarwise — in the position of an altar
- altdorfer — Albrecht (ˈalbrɛçt). ?1480–?1538, German painter and engraver: one of the earliest landscape painters
- alter ego — Your alter ego is the other side of your personality from the one which people normally see.
- alterable — capable of being altered.
- alterably — In an alterable manner.
- altercate — to argue, esp heatedly; dispute
- alternant — alternating
- alternate — When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
- althusser — Louis. 1918–90, French Marxist philosopher, author of For Marx (1965) and Reading Capital (1965): committed to a mental hospital (1981) after killing his wife
- altimeter — An altimeter is an instrument in an aircraft that shows the height of the aircraft above the ground.
- altimetre — (nonstandard, and, now, largely obsolete) Alternative form of altimeter.