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- allantois — a membranous sac growing out of the ventral surface of the hind gut of embryonic reptiles, birds, and mammals. It combines with the chorion to form the mammalian placenta
- allegator — (obsolete) A person who alleges.
- allentown — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Lehigh River. Pop: 105 958 (2003 est)
- alligator — An alligator is a large reptile with short legs, a long tail and very powerful jaws.
- allmouths — Plural form of allmouth.
- 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.
- allocator — anyone or anything that allocates something
- allograft — a tissue graft from a donor genetically unrelated to the recipient
- allometry — the study of the growth of part of an organism in relation to the growth of the entire organism
- allopathy — the orthodox medical method of treating disease, by inducing a condition different from or opposed to the cause of the disease
- allopatry — the condition of existing in areas that are geographically separated from one another; esp the condition of genetically similar species which cannot interbreed because of this geographical separation
- 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
- allotropy — the existence of an element in two or more physical forms. The most common elements having this property are carbon, sulphur, and phosphorus
- allottees — Plural form of allottee.
- allottery — an allotment or allocation
- allotting — to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion: to allot the available farmland among the settlers.
- allotypic — relating to an allotype
- allthough — Obsolete form of although.
- 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.
- alphasort — to arrange in alphabetical order
- altar boy — In the Roman Catholic church, an altar boy is a boy who helps the priest during Mass.
- 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.
- altiplano — a plateau of the Andes, covering two thirds of Bolivia and extending into S Peru: contains Lake Titicaca. Height: 3000 m (10 000 ft) to 3900 m (13 000 ft)
- altissimo — (of music) very high in pitch
- alto clef — the clef that establishes middle C as being on the third line of the staff
- alumroots — Plural form of alumroot.
- alveolate — having many alveoli
- amatorial — of or relating to lovers or lovemaking; expressive of love: amatory poems; an amatory look.
- amatorian — amatorial
- amatoxins — Plural form of amatoxin.
- amaurotic — partial or total loss of sight, especially in the absence of a gross lesion or injury.
- amazonite — a green variety of microcline used as a gemstone. Formula: KAlSi3O8
- ambitions — an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment: Too much ambition caused him to be disliked by his colleagues.
- ambitious — Someone who is ambitious has a strong desire to be successful, rich, or powerful.
- ambrotype — an early type of glass negative that could be made to appear as a positive by backing it with black varnish or paper
- ambulator — a person who walks
- amebocyte — any cell capable of moving like an amoeba, esp. one that floats freely in the blood or other body fluids, such as a white blood corpuscle
- amenhotep — name of four kings of Egypt who ruled during the 16th, 15th, & 14th cent. b.c.
- ametropia — loss of ability to focus images on the retina, caused by an imperfection in the refractive function of the eye
- ametropic — relating to ametropia
- amidation — to convert into an amide.
- amination — to introduce an amino group into (a compound).
- ammocoete — the larva of primitive jawless vertebrates, such as the lamprey, that lives buried in mud and feeds on microorganisms
- ammoniate — to unite or treat with ammonia
- ammonites — a nomadic tribe living east of the Jordan: a persistent enemy of the Israelites
- ammonitic — Relating to, or containing, ammonites.