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

  • alarm clock — An alarm clock is a clock that you can set to make a noise so that it wakes you up at a particular time.
  • albatrosses — Plural form of albatross.
  • albedometer — an instrument that measures the albedo of a surface.
  • album cover — the front of the outer packaging of a record album, usually decorated and showing its title and the name of the artist
  • alcyonarian — any of various colonial anthozoans of the subclass Alcyonaria with eight tentacles and other body parts in branches or segments of eight
  • 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)
  • alderperson — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
  • 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.
  • aleuromancy — (in ancient times) the use of flour as a means of divination.
  • alford plea — Law. a pleading of guilty in a plea bargain in which the defendant maintains his or her innocence.
  • algorithmic — a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
  • alkali rock — any igneous rock with a marked preponderance of alkali and a low percentage of silica.
  • alkyl group — any of a series of univalent groups of the general formula C n H 2n+1 , derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons, as the methyl group, CH 3 −, or ethyl group, C 2 H 5 −.
  • all aboard! — a warning to passengers to board a vehicle, ship, etc
  • all-purpose — You use all-purpose to refer to things that have lots of different uses or can be used in lots of different situations.
  • all-rounder — Someone who is an all-rounder is good at a lot of different skills, academic subjects, or sports.
  • allegorical — An allegorical story, poem, or painting uses allegory.
  • allegorized — Simple past tense and past participle of allegorize.
  • allegorizer — a person who talks in or explains by means of allegories
  • allegrettos — Plural form of allegretto.
  • allelomorph — allele
  • alleviators — Plural form of alleviator.
  • alleviatory — having the ability to reduce or moderate the severity of something
  • alligatored — Damaged by alligatoring.
  • allocentric — Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
  • allocheiria — a medical condition in which sensation is felt at a different point on the body from that stimulated
  • allochronic — (biology, of taxa) occurring in different geologic time.
  • allographic — Relating to allographs or allography.
  • allomorphic — any of two or more different forms of the same chemical compound.
  • allopurinol — a synthetic drug that reduces blood concentrations of uric acid and is administered orally in the treatment of gout. Formula: C5H4N4O
  • 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
  • allyl group — the univalent group C 3 H 5 , derived from propylene.
  • almond bark — a type of candy consisting of sheets or fairly thick pieces of semisweet or milk chocolate to which almonds or almond pieces have been added.
  • 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
  • almoravides — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa from 1056 to 1147.
  • aloha shirt — Hawaiian shirt
  • 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.
  • altar cloth — the cloth used for covering an altar: often applied also to the frontal
  • altar stone — a large stone used as an altar
  • alterations — adjustments
  • altercation — An altercation is a noisy argument or disagreement.
  • alternation — successive change from one condition or action to another and back again repeatedly
  • alternators — Plural form of alternator.
  • altoruffled — altogether ruffled
  • altostratus — Altostratus is a type of thick gray cloud that forms at intermediate altitudes.
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