9-letter words starting with al
- allottees — Plural form of allottee.
- allottery — an allotment or allocation
- allotting — to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion: to allot the available farmland among the settlers.
- allotypic — relating to an allotype
- allow for — If you allow for certain problems or expenses, you include some extra time or money in your planning so that you can deal with them if they occur.
- allowable — If people decide that something is allowable, they let it happen without trying to stop it.
- allowably — In an allowable manner.
- allowance — An allowance is money that is given to someone, usually on a regular basis, in order to help them pay for the things that they need.
- allowedly — by general admission or agreement; admittedly
- allspices — Plural form of allspice.
- allthough — Obsolete form of although.
- allusions — Plural form of allusion.
- almandine — a deep violet-red garnet that consists of iron aluminium silicate and is used as a gemstone. Formula: Fe3Al2(SiO4)3
- almandite — almandine.
- almodóvar — Pedro. born 1949, Spanish film director. His provocative black comedies include Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), The Flower of My Secret (1995), Talk to Her (2002), Volver (2006), and The Skin I Live In (2011)
- almohades — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa during the 12th and 13th centuries.
- almoravid — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa from 1056 to 1147.
- almsgiver — a person who gives alms
- almshouse — Almshouses are houses in Britain which were built and run by charities to provide accommodation for poor or old people who could not afford to pay rent.
- almsman's — a person supported by or receiving alms.
- almswoman — a woman who gives or receives alms
- aloe vera — Aloe vera is a substance that contains vitamins and minerals and is often used in cosmetics. Aloe vera is also the name of the plant from which this substance is extracted.
- aloeswood — agalloch.
- aloha net — (networking) (From the Hawaiian greeting) One of the first functioning networks in the USA, conceived and implimented at the University of Hawaii campus at Manoa. Its purpose was to link the University mainframe computer to client computers located on outer islands at University campuses. Put in place in the early 1970s, it was dubed the Aloha Net. Key punch cards were fed through a reader, and sent over the commercial phone lines.
- aloneness — the state of being alone
- alongside — If one thing is alongside another thing, the first thing is next to the second.
- aloofness — the quality or state of being aloof, distant, or reserved; indifference: His girlfriend's recent aloofness may be a sign that the relationship is over.
- alopecoid — resembling a fox
- alpargata — a sandal
- alpenglow — a reddish light on the summits of snow-covered mountain peaks at sunset or sunrise
- alpenhorn — a long, powerful horn of wood or bark, with a cupped mouthpiece and a curved bell at opposite ends, used by Swiss herders and mountaineers.
- alpha ev6 — EV6
- alpha ray — ionizing radiation consisting of a stream of alpha particles
- alphabets — Plural form of alphabet.
- alphagram — The letters of a word, or any other set of letters, arranged into alphabetical order.
- alphasort — to arrange in alphabetical order
- alphonsus — a crater in the SE quadrant of the moon, about 112 km in diameter, in which volcanic activity may have occurred
- alpinists — Plural form of alpinist.
- alt-right — (in the US) a political movement whose supporters hold extreme right-wing views and reject mainstream politics
- altar boy — In the Roman Catholic church, an altar boy is a boy who helps the priest during Mass.
- altarwise — in the position of an altar
- altdorfer — Albrecht (ˈalbrɛçt). ?1480–?1538, German painter and engraver: one of the earliest landscape painters
- alter ego — Your alter ego is the other side of your personality from the one which people normally see.
- alterable — capable of being altered.
- alterably — In an alterable manner.
- altercate — to argue, esp heatedly; dispute
- alternant — alternating
- alternate — When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
- althusser — Louis. 1918–90, French Marxist philosopher, author of For Marx (1965) and Reading Capital (1965): committed to a mental hospital (1981) after killing his wife
- altigraph — an instrument that measures altitude and records the measurements graphically