5 Letter Words That Start With AL

aloof

Verb : At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.

Verb : Without sympathy; unfavorably.

Adjective : Reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant; standoffish.

allay

Verb : (transitive) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.

Verb : (transitive) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To subside, abate, become peaceful.

alien

Noun : A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.

Noun : (sometimes derogatory) A person in a country not their own.

Noun : Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.

alter

Verb : (transitive) To change the form or structure of.

Verb : (intransitive) To become different.

Verb : (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.

altar

Noun : A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.

Noun : (informal) A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.

Noun : (figurative) Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.

alert

Adjective : Attentive; awake; on guard.

Adjective : (obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.

Noun : An alarm.

algid

Adjective : (medicine) Cold, chilly; used of low body temperature, especially in connection with certain diseases such as malaria and cholera.

allow

Verb : (ditransitive) To let one have as a suitable share of something.

Verb : (transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to.

Verb : To not bar or obstruct.

allot

Verb : (transitive) To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.

Verb : (transitive) To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose.

Verb : Misspelling of a lot. [(informal) Very much; a great deal; to a large extent.]

alias

Verb : Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called; also known as; formerly known as.

Verb : (law) Used to connect the different names of a person who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful

Noun : Another name; especially, an assumed name.

alloy

Noun : A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal.

Noun : (archaic) A metal of lesser value, mixed with a metal of greater value.

Noun : An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc.

alarm

Noun : A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.

Noun : Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.

Noun : A device intended to warn or give notice of approaching danger.

alike

Adjective : Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.

Verb : In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.

Verb : Used after a list of subjects to indicate that something applies equally to all of them.

align

Verb : (intransitive) To form a line; to fall into line.

Verb : (transitive) To adjust to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line.

Verb : (transitive) To organize in a consistent, defined way, perhaps in an abstract sense.

alive

Adjective : Having life; living; not dead.

Adjective : In a state of action; in force or operation; existent.

Adjective : Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy.

alief

Noun : (philosophy, psychology) A primitive, subconscious belieflike attitude which may contradict one's conscious beliefs.

alibi

Noun : (law) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed.

Noun : (sometimes proscribed) An excuse, especially one used to avoid responsibility or blame.

Verb : (transitive) To provide an alibi for.

alley

Noun : A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.

Noun : (baseball) The area between the outfielders.

Noun : (bowling) An establishment where bowling is played.

alder

Noun : Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family.

Noun : An alderman or alderwoman.

Noun : A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived by alder trees.

album

Noun : (historical) In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.

Noun : A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.

Noun : A collection, especially of literary items

alone

Adjective : By oneself, solitary.

Adjective : (predicatively, chiefly in the negative) Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc.

Adjective : (obsolete) Apart from, or exclusive of, others.

alita

Noun : A female given name from Spanish.

alpha

Noun : The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α, α), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it is the predecessor to A.

Noun : Latin alpha: the Latin letter Ɑ (minuscule: ɑ).

Noun : (sciences) The name of the symbols Α and α used in science and mathematics, often interchangeable with the symbols when used as a prefix.

aloha

Noun : (Hawaii) Good wishes, love.

Noun : (Hawaii) An utterance of aloha (see Interjection, below).

Noun : (Internet, historical) ALOHAnet (an early computer networking system).

allee

Noun : A female given name from ?.

Noun : A tree-lined avenue, often particularly one that is part of a landscaped garden.

aloft

Verb : At, to, or in the air or sky.

Verb : Above, overhead, in a high place; up.

Verb : (nautical) In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging.

aloud

Verb : With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.

Verb : Audibly, as opposed to silently/quietly.

Adjective : Spoken out loud.

alkie

Noun : (informal) An alcoholic.

alula

Noun : (ornithology) A small projection of three or four feathers on the first digit of the wing on some birds.

Noun : A flower, a species of Hawaiian lobelioid

alamo

Noun : A poplar tree of Southwestern U.S.; a cottonwood (Populus spp.).

Noun : A fort in San Antonio, Texas, United States, site of the Battle of the Alamo.

Noun : A city, the county seat of Wheeler County, Georgia, United States.

allen

Noun : An English and Scottish surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name Alan.

Noun : A male given name from the Celtic languages, a variant of Alan; in modern use often transferred from the surname.

Noun : A number of places in the United States:

aland

Verb : (obsolete) On dry land, as opposed to in the water.

Verb : (now rare, poetic) To the land; ashore.

Noun : Alternative spelling of Åland [An archipelago in the Baltic Sea]

along

Verb : In company; together.

Verb : Onward, forward, with progressive action.

alate

Adjective : (entomology, botany) Having wings or winglike extensions or parts; winged.

Noun : A winged, reproductive form of several social insects.

Verb : (archaic) recently; lately; of late.

aleph

Noun : The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, ʾaleph), Aramaic 𐡀 (ʾ), Classical Syriac ܐ ('ālaph), Hebrew א (aleph) and Arabic ا (ʾalif).

Noun : (mathematics) The cardinality of an infinite well-ordered (or well-orderable) set.

alice

Noun : A female given name from the Germanic languages popular in England since the Middle Ages.

Noun : (cryptography, physics) The person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.

Noun : (Australia, slang, often with "the") The city of Alice Springs, Australia.

aloes

Noun : (plural only) The resin of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for its fragrant odour.

Noun : The wood of the agalloch.

aline

Verb : In line.

Noun : A female given name from French.

Noun : A ghost town in Idaho.

alfet

Noun : (historical) A cauldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm, used as a form of trial in Medieval England.

allan

Noun : A male given name from the Celtic languages, a less common spelling of Alan.

Noun : A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name, more often spelled Allen.

Noun : A town in the Rural Municipality of Blucher No.343, Saskatchewan, Canada.

aleck

Noun : A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, from Ancient Greek, of Scottish usage, variant of Alec.

almah

Noun : An Egyptian female singer or dancing-girl used for entertainment; sometimes a prostitute.

alloo

Verb : (Scotland) Pronunciation spelling of allow. [(ditransitive) To let one have as a suitable share of something.]

allée

Noun : An alley in a formal garden or park, bordered by trees or bushes.

alfiz

Noun : (architecture) In Mozarabic architecture, moulding which encloses the outward side of an arch.

algae

Noun : Algal organisms viewed collectively or as a mass; algal growth.

Noun : (countable) A particular kind of alga.

allah

Noun : (Islam) God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts

Noun : Alternative letter-case form of Allah [(Islam) God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts]

all in

Adjective : (somewhat dated) Very tired.

Adjective : (chiefly UK) With everything included.

Adjective : (poker) Having no further stake to wager, but remaining active in a hand.

alkyl

Noun : (organic chemistry) Any of a series of univalent radicals of the general formula CₙH₂ₙ₊₁ derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons. In other words, an alkane minus one hydrogen atom.

alary

Adjective : Pertaining to wings.

aleut

Adjective : Of the Aleutian Islands, their inhabitants or their language.

Noun : A member of the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska in the United States and of Kamchatka Krai in the Russia.

Noun : A native or inhabitant of the Aleutian Islands.

algor

Noun : Cold, chilliness.

alway

Verb : (archaic) Alternative form of always [At all times; throughout all time; since the beginning.]

alexa

Noun : A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Noun : (computing) A speech recognition and intelligent personal assistant application developed by Amazon Inc.

alogy

Noun : unreasonableness, absurdity

allie

Noun : A diminutive of the female given names Alice, Alison, or Alexandra or other names beginning with Al-, from the Germanic languages or Ancient Greek.

Noun : A diminutive of the male given names Alfred, Albert, Alan, or Alexander or other names beginning with Al-, from the Germanic languages, the Celtic languages, or Ancient Greek.

alian

Noun : A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

alfil

Noun : (chess) A fairy chess piece that moves two squares diagonally, leaping over any intermediary pieces.

allus

Verb : Pronunciation spelling of always, representing Northern British and Southern US English. [At all times; throughout all time; since the beginning.]

aleah

Noun : A female given name from Arabic.

alete

Adjective : (palynology) Forming single spores or pollen grains, and therefore lacking laesurae

almid

Noun : (zoology) Any annelid worm of the family Almidae.

aloed

Adjective : (poetic) On which aloes are growing.

alouf

algol

Noun : (astronomy) An eclipsing binary star in the constellation of Perseus; Beta (β) Persei. It represents the eye of Medusa, whose head is being held by Perseus.

Noun : (computer languages) An influential early high-level programming language designed for solving mathematical and scientific problems.

Noun : A family of programming languages derived from ALGOL 58.

algal

Adjective : Pertaining to, or like, algae.

Noun : An alga.

alger

Noun : (rare) A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Elgar.

Noun : A surname.

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albee

Noun : A surname.

allis

Noun : A surname

alife

Verb : (obsolete) with all one's heart; dearly.

Noun : Alternative form of A-life

Noun : Alternative form of A-life (artificial life)

alack

alton

Noun : A number of places in England:

Noun : An undefined locality in Idridgehay and Alton parish, Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, around Alton Hall and Alton Manor.

Noun : A town and civil parish with a town council in East Hampshire district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU7139).

alure

Noun : (obsolete) A walkway or passageway.

aleve

Noun : a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks aleve and anaprox and aflaxen

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alden

Noun : A surname originating as a patronymic.

Noun : A male given name from Old English transferred back from the surname.

aldan

allod

Noun : (historical) Allodium.

alvin

Noun : A male given name from Old English.

Noun : A number of places in the United States:

Noun : A locality in Yuma County, Colorado.

altho

alums

Noun : An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K₂SO₄·Al₂(SO₄)₃·24H₂O).

Noun : (inorganic chemistry) Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations.

Verb : (transitive) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.

albyn

Noun : (poetic) Scotland, especially the Highlands.

aliya

Noun : Alternative spelling of aliyah [(Judaism, countable) The calling up of someone to the bimah for the reading of the Torah.]

alvar

Noun : (geology) A limestone pavement.

alene

alpia

albay

Noun : A province of the Bicol Region, Luzon, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Legazpi

alcan

Noun : (slang, US, Canada) The Alaska Highway, which connects British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska.

alina

Noun : A female given name from the Germanic languages.

aliza

Noun : A female given name.

alvei

alala

Noun : A crow native to Hawaii, of species Corvus hawaiiensis.

Noun : (Greek mythology) A goddess, personification of the war cry/battle cry

Noun : (rare) A female given name.

alejo

Noun : A surname.

alofi

Noun : The capital of Niue.

alata

alles

Verb : (intensifier, sometimes childish) Wholly; entirely; completely; totally.

Verb : Apiece; each.

Verb : (degree) So much.

allex

Noun : A male or female given name of rare usage, variant of Alex.

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