14-letter words starting with a
- albrecht durer — Albrecht [ahl-brekht] /ˈɑl brɛxt/ (Show IPA), 1471–1528, German painter and engraver.
- album-oriented — of or designating a format featuring rock songs from LPs and CDs rather than singles, especially mainstream rock music.
- albumenization — An alternative form of albuminization.
- albuminization — A conversion into albumin.
- albury-wodonga — a town in SE Australia, in S central New South Wales, on the Murray River: commercial centre of an agricultural region. Pop: 69 880 (2001)
- alcmanic verse — a form of verse used in Greek drama and Latin dramatic poetry, composed in dactylic tetrameter.
- alcohol abuser — someone who drinks too much alcohol
- aldus manutius — 1450–1515, Italian printer, noted for his fine editions of the classics. He introduced italic type
- alektorophobia — The fear of chickens.
- aleurone layer — the outer protein-rich layer of certain seeds, esp of cereal grains
- aleutian range — a mountain range extending along the eastern coast of the Alaska Peninsula. Highest peak, Mt. Katmai, 6715 feet (2047 meters).
- alexander city — a city in E Alabama.
- alexander viii — (Pietro Ottoboni) 1610–91, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1689–91.
- alexipharmakon — an antidote to poison
- alexipharmical — Alternative form of alexipharmic.
- alfalfa weevil — a European weevil, Hypera postica, now also widely distributed in North America, that is an important pest, primarily of alfalfa, in both the larval and adult stages.
- alfred t mahan — Alfred Thayer [they-er] /ˈθeɪ ər/ (Show IPA), 1840–1914, U.S. naval officer and writer on naval history.
- alfred wegener — Alfred Lothar [ahl-freyt loh-tahr,, loh-tahr] /ˈɑl freɪt ˈloʊ tɑr,, loʊˈtɑr/ (Show IPA), 1880–1930, German meteorologist and geophysicist: originated theory of continental drift.
- algonquin park — a provincial park in S Canada, in E Ontario, containing over 1200 lakes. Area: 7100 sq km (2741 sq miles)
- alieni generis — of another kind.
- aligning punch — a drift for aligning rivet holes.
- alimentiveness — the desire to eat, or the instinct to find, food
- alive and well — If you say that someone or something is alive and well, you are emphasizing that they continue to survive.
- alkaline earth — any of the divalent electropositive metals beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, and radium, belonging to group 2A of the periodic table
- alkalinization — the process of becoming alkaline, or making alkaline
- all and sundry — All and sundry means everyone.
- all fools' day — April Fools' Day
- all or nothing — You can use all or nothing to say that either something must be done fully and completely or else it cannot be done at all.
- all over again — If you say that something is happening all over again, you are emphasizing that it is happening again, and you are suggesting that it is tiring, boring, or unpleasant.
- all souls' day — a day of prayer (Nov 2) for the dead in purgatory
- all systems go — ready for action
- all the better — You can say 'so much the better' or 'all the better' to indicate that it is desirable that a particular thing is used, done, or available.
- all year round — If something happens all year round, it happens throughout the year.
- all-conquering — having defeated all opponents over a long period of time
- all-metal body — a body composed only of metal, esp for a vehicle, camera, or gun
- all-or-nothing — not allowing for qualification or compromise; either fully or not at all operative: an all-or-nothing approach.
- allegorization — to make into an allegory; narrate allegorically.
- allelochemical — A chemical produced by a living organism, exerting a detrimental physiological effect on the individuals of another species when released into the environment.
- allelomorphism — the state of being or the passing on of allelomorphs
- alley cropping — a method of planting in which rows of trees are interspersed with rows of crops, improving the soil and providing nutrients, particularly nitrogen, to the crops.
- allhallows eve — Halloween.
- alliance party — a non-sectarian Northern Irish political party founded in 1970
- alligator clip — a spring-loaded fastening device having jaws with a sawlike edge that resemble those of an alligator, used as to make a temporary electrical connection
- alligator pear — avocado
- alliteratively — in an alliterative manner
- alloiostrophos — irregularly divided, not in a regular pattern of strophe and antistrophe
- allopatrically — In an allopatric manner.
- allopolyploidy — the state of having two or more sets of chromosomes derived from parents of different species or widely differing strains
- allosterically — In an allosteric manner.
- allotetraploid — a hybrid cell or individual possessing four times the chromosomes in a haploid organism