7-letter words starting with a
- almirah — a large Indian cupboard or cabinet, often of carved wood
- almohad — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa during the 12th and 13th centuries.
- almonds — Plural form of almond.
- almondy — containing or resembling almond
- almoner — In Britain, an almoner is a social worker who works in a hospital.
- almonry — the house of an almoner, usually the place where alms were given
- almsman — a person who gives or receives alms
- almuces — Plural form of almuce.
- alnager — an inspector of the quality and measurement of woollen cloth
- alodial — free from the tenurial rights of a feudal overlord.
- alodium — allodium
- alonely — in a solitary, or lonely, manner
- alongst — along
- aloofly — at a distance, especially in feeling or interest; apart: They always stood aloof from their classmates.
- alotted — Alternative form of allotted Simple past tense and past participle of allot.
- alpacas — Plural form of alpaca.
- alphard — (language) (Named after the brightest star in Hydra) A Pascal-like language developed by Wulf, Shaw and London of CMU in 1974. Alphard supports data abstraction using the 'form', which combines a specification and an implementation.
- alpheus — a river god, lover of the nymph Arethusa. She changed into a spring to evade him, but he changed into a river and mingled with her
- alphorn — a wind instrument used in the Swiss Alps, consisting of a very long tube of wood or bark with a cornet-like mouthpiece
- alpines — Plural form of alpine.
- already — You use already to show that something has happened, or that something had happened before the moment you are referring to. Speakers of British English use already with a verb in a perfect tense, putting it after 'have', 'has', or 'had', or at the end of a clause. Some speakers of American English use already with the simple past tense of the verb instead of a perfect tense.
- alright — all right
- alsatia — an area around Whitefriars, London, in the 17th century, which was a sanctuary for criminals and debtors
- alsoone — as soon
- alt bit — meta bit
- alt key — either of two keys on a PC keyboard that is held down while pressing another key, as to perform a specific operation or type a special character.
- altdorf — a town in central Switzerland, capital of Uri canton: setting of the William Tell legend. Pop: 8541 (2000)
- altered — to make different in some particular, as size, style, course, or the like; modify: to alter a coat; to alter a will; to alter course.
- alterer — someone or something that alters
- alterne — a neighbouring but different plant group
- altesse — a white grape variety from Savoy, France
- altezza — highness
- altgeld — John Peter, 1847–1902, U.S. politician, born in Germany: governor of Illinois 1892–96: made controversial decision to pardon those convicted in Haymarket Riot.
- althaea — any Eurasian plant of the malvaceous genus Althaea, such as the hollyhock, having tall spikes of showy white, yellow, or red flowers
- althing — the bicameral parliament of Iceland
- althorn — a valved brass musical instrument belonging to the saxhorn or flügelhorn families
- altmode — alt
- altname — An alternative name.
- altoist — a person who plays the alto saxophone
- altoona — city in central Pa.: pop. 50,000
- alumane — (inorganic compound) The compound aluminium hydride, AlH3.
- alumian — (mineral) natroalunite.
- alumina — an oxide of aluminum, Al2O3, present in bauxite and clay and found as different forms of corundum, including emery, sapphires, and rubies
- alumish — resembling alum
- alumium — (obsolete) Alternative name for aluminium / aluminum (the chemical element, symbol Al, with an atomic number of 13).
- alumnae — a woman who is a graduate or former student of a specific school, college, or university.
- alumnus — The alumni of a school, college, or university are the people who used to be students there.
- alundum — a hard material composed of fused alumina, used as an abrasive and a refractory
- alunite — a white, grey, or reddish mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium sulphate. It occurs in volcanic igneous rocks and is a source of potassium and aluminium compounds. Formula: KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6
- alvarez — Luis Walter. 1911–88, US physicist. He made (with Felix Bloch) the first measurement of the neutron's magnetic moment (1939). Nobel prize for physics 1968