6-letter words containing l
- aidful — helpful; assisting
- aiglet — a metal or plastic tag or sheath at the end of a lace used for tying, as of a shoelace.
- aileen — a feminine name
- ailing — An ailing organization or society is in difficulty and is becoming weaker.
- aimful — possessing purpose or aim
- airily — in a jaunty or high-spirited manner
- airtel — A form of communication formerly used within the FBI.
- aisles — a walkway between or along sections of seats in a theater, classroom, or the like.
- akeley — Carl Ethan, 1864–1926, U.S. naturalist, explorer, and sculptor.
- akmola — Astana
- al-lat — a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess personifying the sun and considered to be a daughter of Allah.
- aladin — 1. (language) A Language for Attributed Definitions. 2. (tool) An interactive mathematics system for the IBM 360.
- alagez — Aragats
- alagna — Roberto. born 1963, Italian opera singer, born in France; a lyric tenor
- alagoz — Turkish name of Mount Aragats.
- alalia — a complete inability to speak; mutism
- alaman — Lucas [loo-kahs] /ˈlu kɑs/ (Show IPA), 1792–1853, Mexican historian and politician.
- alamos — a poplar.
- alania — North Ossetia.
- alanna — (dialect, Ireland, as a term of address) child.
- alanyl — the acyl radical of alanine, found in certain proteins
- alaric — ?370–410 ad, king of the Visigoths, who served under the Roman emperor Theodosius I but later invaded Greece and Italy, capturing Rome in 410
- alarms — Plural form of alarm.
- alarum — an alarm, esp a call to arms
- alaska — the largest state of the US, in the extreme northwest of North America: the aboriginal inhabitants are Inuit and Yupik; the earliest White settlements were made by the Russians; it was purchased by the US from Russia in 1867. It is mostly mountainous and volcanic, rising over 6000 m (20 000 ft), with the Yukon basin in the central region; large areas are covered by tundra; it has important mineral resources (chiefly coal, oil, and natural gas). Capital: Juneau. Pop: 648 818 (2003 est). Area: 1 530 694 sq km (591 004 sq miles)
- alated — having wings; winged.
- albano — Lake, a crater lake in C Italy, SE of Rome.
- albany — a city in E New York State, on the Hudson River: the state capital. Pop: 93 919 (2003 est)
- albata — a variety of German silver consisting of nickel, copper, and zinc
- albedo — the ratio of the intensity of light reflected from an object, such as a planet, to that of the light it receives from the sun
- albeit — You use albeit to introduce a fact or comment which reduces the force or significance of what you have just said.
- albers — Josef. 1888–1976, US painter, designer, and poet, born in Germany. His works include a series of abstract paintings entitled Homage to the Square
- albert — a kind of watch chain usually attached to a waistcoat
- albiet — Misspelling of albeit.
- albino — An albino is a person or animal with very white skin, white hair, and pink eyes.
- albion — Britain or England
- albite — a colourless, milky-white, yellow, pink, green, or black mineral of the feldspar group and plagioclase series, found in igneous sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. It is used in the manufacture of glass and ceramics. Composition: sodium aluminium silicate. Formula: NaALSi3O8. Crystal structure: triclinic
- alboin — died 573 ad, king of the Lombards (565–73); conqueror of N Italy
- alborg — seaport in N Jutland, Denmark: pop. 159,000
- albugo — a disease of the eye in which a white opacity forms on the cornea
- albums — Plural form of album.
- alcade — a mayor having judicial powers.
- alcaic — of or relating to a metre used by the 7th-century bc Greek lyric poet Alcaeus, consisting of a strophe of four lines each with four feet
- alcamo — a city in NW Sicily, Italy, near the site of the ancient Greek settlement of Segesta.
- alcids — Plural form of alcid.
- alcman — 7th century bc, Greek lyric poet
- alcock — Sir John William. 1892–1919, English aviator who with A.W. Brown made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic (1919)
- alcool — a form of pure grain spirit distilled in Quebec
- alcott — Louisa May. 1832–88, US novelist, noted for her children's books, esp Little Women (1869)
- alcove — An alcove is a small area of a room which is formed by one part of a wall being built further back than the rest of the wall.