11-letter words containing l, o, a, n
- agonistical — relating to conflict or struggle
- agonizingly — accompanied by, filled with, or resulting in agony or distress: We spent an agonizing hour waiting to hear if the accident had been serious or not.
- agony uncle — a man who writes the replies to readers' letters in an agony column
- agranulosis — (rare) agranulocytosis.
- agronomical — the science of soil management and the production of field crops.
- albendazole — An antiparasitic anthelmintic used especially against the larvae of tapeworms.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- alendronate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of alendronic acid.
- aleppo pine — a pine tree, Pinus halepensis, native to the Mediterranean area, that is planted as an ornamental and is a source of turpentine.
- aleuromancy — (in ancient times) the use of flour as a means of divination.
- alfonso xii — 1857–85, king of Spain 1874–85.
- 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-rounder — Someone who is an all-rounder is good at a lot of different skills, academic subjects, or sports.
- allantoidal — (anatomy) Of or relating to the allantois.
- allantoides — Plural form of allantois.
- allegations — Plural form of allegation.
- 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
- alligations — Plural form of alligation.
- 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.
- allocations — Plural form of allocation.
- allocentric — Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
- allochronic — (biology, of taxa) occurring in different geologic time.
- allocutions — Plural form of allocution.
- allophylian — (of languages, especially those of Europe and Asia) neither Indo-European nor Semitic.
- allopurinol — a synthetic drug that reduces blood concentrations of uric acid and is administered orally in the treatment of gout. Formula: C5H4N4O
- allowancing — Present participle of allowance.
- 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 cake — the residue of almonds from which oil has been expressed.
- almond meal — the meal obtained by pulverizing blanched almonds, used chiefly in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics.
- almond milk — a creamy mixture of blanched almonds, sugar, and water, blended to a smooth paste and sieved.
- 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
- almond-eyed — having narrow oval eyes
- alpenstocks — Plural form of alpenstock.
- alt.country — a genre of country music originating in the 1990s and influenced by both early country music and contemporary rock music
- 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.
- altiloquent — (of language) high-flown or pretentious.
- amblygonite — a white or greyish mineral consisting of lithium aluminium fluorophosphate in triclinic crystalline form. It is a source of lithium. Formula: (Li,Na)Al(PO4)(F,OH)