16-letter words containing ala
- acanthocephalans — Plural form of acanthocephalan.
- alaska peninsula — an extension of the mainland of SW Alaska between the Pacific and the Bering Sea, ending in the Aleutian Islands. Length: about 644 km (400 miles)
- alaskan malamute — any of a breed of large, strong dog with a thick coat of gray or black-and-white and a bushy tail: it was developed as a sled dog by the Alaskan Eskimo
- andromeda galaxy — a spiral galaxy, appearing to the naked eye as a fuzzy oval patch in the constellation Andromeda; it is a close neighbor to our own galaxy.
- asalam-wa-leikum — a salutation used in India
- balance of power — The balance of power is the way in which power is distributed between rival groups or countries.
- balance of trade — A country's balance of trade is the difference in value, over a period of time, between the goods it imports and the goods it exports.
- balance transfer — the act of transferring debt from one credit card to another, assuming that the second card has better terms or interest rates than the first
- blind salamander — any of several North American salamanders, especially of the genera Typhlotriton, Typhlomolge, and Haideotriton, that inhabit underground streams or deep wells and have undeveloped eyes and scant pigmentation.
- calamian islands — a group of about 100 islands in the SW Philippines. 600 sq. mi. (1554 sq. km). Largest island, Busuanga.
- counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
- encephalomalacia — (medicine) A localized softening of the brain substance, due to hemorrhage or inflammation.
- escalator clause — a clause in a contract stipulating an adjustment in wages, prices, etc, in the event of specified changes in conditions, such as a large rise in the cost of living or price of raw materials
- family balancing — the choosing of the sex of a future child on the basis of how many children of each sex a family already has
- flying phalanger — any of various small phalangers of Australia and New Guinea, having a parachutelike fold of skin on each side of the body to give gliding assistance in leaping.
- fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
- galactic cluster — a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies.
- galactic equator — the great circle on the celestial sphere that is equidistant from the galactic poles, being inclined approximately 62° to the celestial equator and lying about one degree north of the center line of the Milky Way.
- himalayan balsam — a tall flowering plant, Impatiens glandulifera, brought from Asia to Europe as a garden plant but now growing wild in Europe, especially on river banks. It is considered invasive and environmentally damaging.
- irregular galaxy — a galaxy with no specific form and a relatively low mass.
- lower palatinate — See under Palatinate (def 1).
- malacostracology — (obsolete) carcinology, the study of crustaceans.
- malapportionment — (of a state or other political unit) poorly apportioned, especially divided, organized, or structured in a manner that prevents large sections of a population from having equitable representation in a legislative body.
- marmalade orange — a bitter variety of orange suitable for making marmalade
- nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
- one's salad days — If you refer to your salad days, you are referring to a period of your life when you were young and inexperienced.
- orange marmalade — preserve made from oranges
- palaeolithic man — any of various primitive types of man, such as Neanderthal man and Java man, who lived in the Palaeolithic
- phalansterianism — a system by which society would be reorganized into units comprising their own social and industrial elements; Fourierism.
- platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- rhine palatinate — See under Palatinate (def 1).
- shugart, alan f. — Alan F. Shugart
- smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
- strike a balance — compromise
- thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
- tiger salamander — a salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum, common in North America, having a dark body marked with yellowish spots or bars.
- upper palatinate — See under Palatinate (def 1).
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