10-letter words containing l
- all smiles — If you say that someone is all smiles, you mean that they look very happy, often when they have previously been worried or upset about something.
- all square — mutually clear of all debts or obligations
- all the go — very popular; in fashion
- all thumbs — clumsy
- all'antica — in the manner of the ancients.
- all'ottava — to be played an octave higher or lower than written
- all-around — You say all around to indicate that something affects all parts of a situation or all members of a group.
- all-comers — You use all-comers to refer to everyone who wants to take part in an activity, especially a competition.
- all-elbows — (jargon) Said of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) mess-dos program, such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that circulate on BBS systems: unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs without considering that other TSRs may also be resident. One particularly common form of rudeness is lock-up due to programs fighting over the keyboard interrupt.
- all-in-one — All-in-one means having several different parts or several different functions.
- all-seater — An all-seater stadium has enough seats for all the audience, rather than having some areas without seats where people stand.
- alla breve — a musical time signature indicating two or four minims to a bar
- alla prima — (of a painting) painted with a single layer of paint, in contrast to paintings built up layer by layer
- allargando — (to be performed) with increasing slowness
- allegation — An allegation is a statement saying that someone has done something wrong.
- allegeable — to assert without proof.
- allegement — (archaic) Allegation.
- allegiance — Your allegiance is your support for and loyalty to a particular group, person, or belief.
- allegories — Plural form of allegory.
- allegorist — a person who writes allegories
- allegorize — to transform (a story, narrative, fable, etc) into or compose in the form of allegory
- allegretto — (to be performed) fairly quickly or briskly
- allen park — a city in SE Michigan.
- allenstein — German name of Olsztyn.
- allergenic — causing allergic sensitization.
- allergists — Plural form of allergist.
- alleviated — to make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate: to alleviate sorrow; to alleviate pain.
- alleviates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alleviate.
- alleviator — a person or thing that alleviates.
- alley gate — a metal spiked gate erected behind a terrace of houses to deter burglars
- allhallond — relating to the period of time around Allhallows
- allhallown — relating to the period of time around Allhallows
- allhallows — All Saints' Day
- alliaceous — of or relating to Allium, a genus of plants that have a strong onion or garlic smell and often have bulbs: family Alliaceae. The genus occurs in the N hemisphere and includes onion, garlic, leek, chive, and shallot
- alliancing — Present participle of alliance.
- alligation — the act of joining or the condition of being joined to something
- alligators — either of two broad-snouted crocodilians of the genus Alligator, of the southeastern U.S. and eastern China.
- allignment — Archaic form of alignment.
- allis shad — a now rare migratory species of fish (Alosa alosa) of European coastal waters that travels up rivers to spawn: family Clupeiformes
- alliterate — to contain or cause to contain alliteration
- allocating — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
- allocation — An allocation is an amount of something, especially money, that is given to a particular person or used for a particular purpose.
- allocative — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- allochthon — a geological formation not formed in the region where found and moved to its present location by tectonic forces. Compare autochthon (def 3).
- allocution — a formal or authoritative speech or address, esp one that advises, informs, or exhorts
- allogamous — cross-fertilization in plants (opposed to autogamy).
- allogeneic — being genetically different, while belonging to the same species
- allografts — Plural form of allograft.
- allographs — Plural form of allograph.
- allomerism — similarity of crystalline structure in substances of different chemical composition