5-letter words starting with a
- alang — a type of grass grown in Malaysia and often used for thatching roofs
- alant — a genus of flowering plants more commonly known as Inula
- alapa — the light blow on the cheek delivered by the bishop in a confirmation service.
- alarm — Alarm is a feeling of fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
- alarp — As Low As Reasonably Practicable
- alary — of, relating to, or shaped like wings
- alate — having wings or winglike extensions
- alava — Cape, a cape in NW Washington: westernmost point in the contiguous U.S.
- alays — a mountain range in SW Kyrgyzstan, part of the Tien Shan. To 19,280 feet (5880 meters).
- alban — Saint. 3rd century ad, the first English martyr. He was beheaded by the Romans on the site on which St Alban's Abbey now stands, for admitting his conversion to Christianity. Feast day: June 17
- albay — former name of Legaspi.
- albee — Edward. 1928–2016, US dramatist. His plays include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), Seascape (1975), Marriage Play (1986), Three Tall Women (1990), and Goat (2004)
- album — An album is a record with about 25 minutes of music on each side. You can also refer to a collection of songs that is available on a record or CD as an album.
- alcid — any of twenty-two species of oceanic birds of the family Alcidae
- alcon — a noted archer who helped Hercules abduct the cattle of Geryon.
- alcor — (language) A subset of ALGOL.
- aldan — a river in E Russia in the SE Sakha Republic, rising in the Aldan Mountains and flowing north and west to the Lena River. Length: about 2700 km (1700 miles)
- aldat — (language) A database language, based on extended algebra.
- aldea — a village or a villa in Portugal or a Portuguese colony
- alden — John1599?-1687; Pilgrim settler in Plymouth Colony: character in Longfellow's poem “The Courtship of Miles Standish”
- alder — An alder is a species of tree or shrub that grows especially in cool, damp places and loses its leaves in winter.
- aldes — ALgorithm DEScription
- aldol — a colourless or yellowish oily liquid, miscible with water, used in the manufacture of rubber accelerators, as an organic solvent, in perfume, and as a hypnotic and sedative. Formula: CH3CHOHCH2CHO
- aleck — a male given name, form of Alexander.
- alecs — Plural form of alec.
- aleft — on or to the left
- alene — a female given name, form of Helen.
- aleph — the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet (א) articulated as a glottal stop and transliterated with a superior comma (')
- alert — If you are alert, you are paying full attention to things around you and are able to deal with anything that might happen.
- aleus — a king of Tegea and the father of Amphidamas, Auge, Cepheus, and Lycurgus.
- aleut — a member of a people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and SW Alaska, related to the Inuit
- alexa — a female given name, form of Alexandra.
- alfas — Plural form of alfa.
- alfie — a male given name, form of Alfred.
- alfur — a member of an aboriginal people of eastern Indonesia, especially of the Moluccas, whose features show both Malayan and Papuan characteristics.
- algae — Algae is a type of plant with no stems or leaves that grows in water or on damp surfaces.
- algal — Algal means relating to algae.
- algar — a male given name.
- alge- — algo-
- alger — Horatio. 1834–99, US author of adventure stories for boys, including Ragged Dick (1867)
- algid — chilly or cold
- algie — a male given name, form of Algernon.
- algin — alginic acid or one of its esters or salts, esp the gelatinous solution obtained as a by-product in the extraction of iodine from seaweed, used in mucilages and for thickening jellies
- algo- — denoting pain
- algol — the second brightest star in Perseus, the first known eclipsing binary. Visual magnitude: 2.2–3.5; period: 68.8 hours; spectral type (brighter component): B8V
- algor — chill
- algum — a type of wood, mentioned in the Bible
- alias — An alias is a false name, especially one used by a criminal.
- alibi — If you have an alibi, you can prove that you were somewhere else when a crime was committed.
- alice — a feminine name: dim. Elsie; var. Alicia