11-letter words containing o, l, e
- affectional — relating to or implying affection.
- aftercooler — a device for cooling compressed air or gases to reduce their volume or temperature.
- afterschool — for students and taking place after they finish their day in school, usually in the late afternoon: He’s looking for an afterschool job. Is there afterschool tutoring in math?
- afterworlds — Plural form of afterworld.
- agglomerate — to form or be formed into a mass or cluster; collect
- agonic line — an imaginary line on the surface of the earth connecting points of zero magnetic declination
- agony uncle — a man who writes the replies to readers' letters in an agony column
- 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.
- ailurophile — a person who likes cats
- ailurophobe — a person who dislikes or is afraid of cats
- albatrosses — Plural form of albatross.
- albedometer — an instrument that measures the albedo of a surface.
- albendazole — An antiparasitic anthelmintic used especially against the larvae of tapeworms.
- albugineous — related to or resembling the white of an egg
- album cover — the front of the outer packaging of a record album, usually decorated and showing its title and the name of the artist
- alcoholized — Simple past tense and past participle of alcoholize.
- 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.
- aldohexoses — Plural form of aldohexose.
- 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.
- aleppo gall — a type of nutgall occurring in oaks in W Asia and E Europe
- aleppo pine — a pine tree, Pinus halepensis, native to the Mediterranean area, that is planted as an ornamental and is a source of turpentine.
- alethiology — the branch of logic dealing with truth and error.
- 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.
- alismaceous — of or relating to the genus Alisma
- 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-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.
- allantoides — Plural form of allantois.
- allegations — Plural form of allegation.
- 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
- 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
- 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.