6-letter words starting with al
- alecto — one of the three Furies; the others are Megaera and Tisiphone
- alegar — malt vinegar
- alegge — to alleviate or lighten (a grief or burden)
- aleman — Mateo (maˈteo). 1547–?1614, Spanish novelist, author of the picaresque novel Guzmán de Alfarache (1599)
- alephs — Plural form of aleph.
- aleppo — an ancient city in NW Syria: industrial and commercial centre; scene of heavy fighting from 2012 between various rebel forces and army units loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. Pop: 2 505 000 (2005 est)
- alerce — the wood of the sandarac tree
- alerts — Plural form of alert.
- alesia — an ancient city and fortress in Gaul: Caesar captured Vercingetorix here 52 b.c.
- aletes — a son of Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. He became ruler of Mycenae after the death of his parents.
- alette — (in classical architecture) a part of a pier, flanking a pilaster or engaged column and supporting either impost of an arch.
- alevin — a young fish, esp a young salmon or trout
- alexia — a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by impaired ability to read
- alexic — relating to or of the neurological condition alexia
- alexin — complement (def 10).
- alexis — a masculine and feminine name
- alfaro — (Flavio) Eloy [flah-vyaw-e-loi] /ˈflɑ vyɔ ɛˈlɔɪ/ (Show IPA), 1864–1912, Ecuadorian political leader: president 1897–1901, 1907–11.
- alfoil — Aluminium foil.
- alfold — Also called Great Alföld. a vast plain in E Hungary, extending to the border of Ukraine and into Serbia and W Romania.
- alfred — an old-fashioned male forename
- alfven — Hannes Olaf Gösta (ˈhannɛs ˈuːlaf ˈjøsta). 1908–95, Swedish physicist, noted for his research on magnetohydrodynamics; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1970
- algate — by any means; anyway
- algins — any hydrophilic, colloidal substance found in or obtained from various kelps, as alginic acid or one of its soluble salts.
- algoid — resembling or relating to algae
- algren — Nelson. 1909–81, US novelist. His novels, mostly set in Chicago, include Never Come Morning (1942) and The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)
- alhaji — (in West Africa) a Muslim who has been to Mecca as a pilgrim (often used as a title).
- alibis — Plural form of alibi.
- alible — nourishing; nutritious
- alicia — a feminine name
- alidad — Archaic form of alidade.
- aliens — Plural form of alien.
- alieve — (philosophy, psychology) To subconsciously feel as if something is true, even if one does not believe it; to hold an alief.
- alight — If something is alight, it is burning.
- aligns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of align.
- alined — to arrange in a straight line; adjust according to a line.
- alines — (especially in women's clothing) a cut of garment consisting basically of two A -shaped panels for the front and back, designed to give increasing fullness toward the hemline.
- alioth — a binary star, the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Major and in the handle of the Big Dipper: magnitude, 1.8
- aliped — (of bats and similar animals) having the digits connected by a winglike membrane
- alisma — a flowering marsh plant of the genus Alsima, with round leaves
- alison — a feminine name
- alissa — a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “joy.”.
- aliter — Otherwise.
- aliyah — immigration to the Holy Land
- aliyos — the act of proceeding to the reading table in a synagogue for the reading of a portion from the Torah.
- aliyot — the act of proceeding to the reading table in a synagogue for the reading of a portion from the Torah.
- aljabr — (tool) An implementation of MACSYMA for the Macintosh by Fort Pond Research.
- alkali — An alkali is a substance with a pH value of more than 7. Alkalis form chemical salts when they are combined with acids.
- alkane — any saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH2n+2
- alkene — any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH2n
- alkies — Plural form of alkie.