Words That Start With AL

altruism

Noun : Regard for others, both natural and moral without regard for oneself; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness.

Noun : (biology, sociobiology) Action or behaviour that benefits another or others at some cost to the performer.

aloof

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

Verb : Without sympathy; unfavorably.

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

alcove

Noun : (architecture) A small recessed area set off from a larger room.

Noun : A shady retreat.

Noun : (countable) The geographical and geological term for a steep-sided hollow in the side of an exposed rock face or cliff of a homogeneous rock type, that was water eroded.

altruistic

Adjective : Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish

alluring

Adjective : Having the power to allure.

Noun : The act or habit of enticing or attracting in order to seek a benefit or advantage.

alleviate

Verb : (transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.

Verb : (transitive), (finance) to pay down partially.

allure

Noun : The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.

Verb : (transitive) To entice; to attract.

Noun : The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.

alienation

Noun : The state of being alienated.

Noun : Emotional isolation or dissociation.

Noun : The act of alienating.

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.

Noun : Alleviation; abatement; check.

alarming

Adjective : Causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.

alien

Noun : A citizen or national of another sovereign state.

Adjective : Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.

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

alter

Verb : (ambitransitive) 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.

allegory

Noun : (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of symbols which may be interpreted to reveal a hidden, broader message, usually a moral or political one, about real-world issues and occurrences; also, the interpretation of such symbols.

Noun : (countable, by extension) A picture, story, or other form of communication in which one or more characters, events, or places are used to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.

Noun : (countable, by extension) A character or thing which symbolically represents someone or something else; an emblem, a symbol.

ally

Noun : A person who co-operates with or helps another; an associate; a friend.

Noun : A person, group, state, etc., which is associated or united by treaty with another for a common (especially military or political) purpose; a confederate.

Noun : People, groups, states, etc., which are associated or united with each other for a common purpose; confederates; also, the state of being allied; alliance, confederation.

although

Verb : despite the fact tha

alternative

Adjective : Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.

Noun : A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.

Noun : One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.

almighty

Adjective : (sometimes postpositive) Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful

Adjective : (by extension) Having very great power, influence, etc.

Adjective : (slang) Great; extreme; terrible.

alert

Adjective : Attentive; awake; on guard.

Noun : A notification of higher importance than an advisory.

Noun : An alarm.

algid

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

allusion

Noun : An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned.

allude

Verb : (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.

albeit

alliance

Noun : (countable) A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.

Noun : (countable) The act of allying or uniting.

Noun : (uncountable) The state of being allied.

altruist

Noun : A person showing altruism.

alluded

Verb : (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.

allow

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

Verb : To not bar or obstruct.

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

alienated

Adjective : Isolated; excluded; estranged.

alpenglow

Noun : A rosy or reddish glow seen during sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains, especially snow-covered mountains on the opposite side of the sun.

allege

Verb : (transitive) To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.

Verb : (transitive) To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc.

Verb : (archaic) To cite or quote an author or his work for or against.

alight

Verb : To set light to (something); to set (something) on fire; to ignite, to light.

Adjective : Burning, lit, on fire.

Verb : To cast light on (something); to illuminate, to light up.

alienate

Verb : To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.

Verb : To cause one to feel unable to relate.

Verb : To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

alacrity

Noun : Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.

Noun : Promptness; speed.

alexithymic

Noun : A person who has difficulty feeling, processing or understanding emotions

Adjective : (psychiatry, psychology) Pertaining to or having alexithymia.

Adjective : (anthropology) Lacking in emotion or emotional expression.

alleviation

Noun : the act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement

Noun : The act of alleviating; relief or mitigation.

alacritous

Adjective : (rare) Brisk, speedy, with alacrity, quick and eager.

alas

Noun : A type of geological depression which occurs in Yakutia, formed by the subsidence of permafrost.

allocentric

Adjective : Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.

Adjective : (also tourism) Of a tourist: tending to be adventurous and preferring novel and unfamiliar experiences.

Noun : (psychology, tourism) A tourist who tends to be adventurous and to prefer novel and unfamiliar experiences.

alteration

Noun : The act of altering or making different.

Noun : The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; a changed condition.

Noun : A minor adjustment to clothing, such as hemming or shortening, to make it fit better.

alongside

Verb : Along the side; by the side; side by side; abreast.

allot

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

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

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

altercation

Noun : (countable) An angry or heated dispute.

Noun : (uncountable) Angry or heated disputation.

Noun : (countable, law, historical) An act of posing questions to, and obtaining answers from, a witness in a court of law.

aleatory

Adjective : Depending on the throw of a die; random, arising by chance.

Adjective : (art, music) Produced with an element of chance (aleatoricism).

almoner

Noun : A person who distributes alms, especially the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses.

Noun : A person who dispenses alms on behalf of another person.

Noun : (chiefly British) A hospital official responsible for patient welfare and aftercare.

all-encompassing

Adjective : Including everything; universal.

alastor

Noun : An avenging spirit or deity, variously associated with the Erinyes, Nemesis, and more.

Noun : In more recent ages, a term of rebuke for a pestilent rascal.

Noun : (entomology) A genus of hunting wasp

alliciency

Noun : (obsolete) the power to attract; attractiveness; draw

alias

Noun : Another name; especially, an assumed name.

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

alloy

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

Verb : To mix or combine; often used of metals.

Verb : To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance.

alabaster

Noun : A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.

Noun : An off-white colour, like that of alabaster.

Adjective : Made of alabaster.

allegiance

Noun : Loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler.

also

Verb : (conjunctive, focus) In addition; besides; as well; further; too.

Verb : (obsolete) To the same degree or extent; so, as.

alarm

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.

Verb : (transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger or necessary action; to rouse to vigilance; to put on the alert.

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.

allusive

Adjective : that contains or makes use of allusions (indirect references or hints)

allotted

Adjective : given as a tas

aligned

Adjective : Having been placed, arranged or formed in alignment (with something).

Adjective : (figurative) Allied or working together with a common goal.

alcyon

Noun : Archaic form of halcyon. [(poetic) A kingfisher whose nesting by the sea was said, in classical mythology, to cause the Gods to restrain the wind and waves.]

all

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

Verb : Apiece; each.

Noun : Everything in general; all that matters.

alchemy

Noun : (uncountable) The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.

Noun : (countable) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.

Noun : (computing, slang, countable) Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.

align

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.

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

albescent

Adjective : Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.

allicient

Adjective : (formal) That attracts; attractive.

alogism

Noun : Irrationality; the rejection of logical thinking as a means of approaching truth.

Noun : An irrational statement or line of argument; a logical error.

Noun : An inconsistency or arbitrary situation that follows no logical pattern.

aliment

Noun : (figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.

Verb : To sustain, support.

Noun : (Scotland) An allowance for maintenance; alimony.

aliveness

Noun : The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.

allowance

Noun : An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.

Noun : Such a sum or portion granted to a family member or familiar, especially one's own child; pocket money for such a person.

Noun : Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.

alternate

Adjective : Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).

Adjective : (mathematics) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.

Adjective : (US) Other; alternative.

albatross

Noun : Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.

Noun : (figurative) A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.

Noun : (golf) A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole, except a par 3 hole.

alignment

Noun : An arrangement of items in a line.

Noun : The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.

Noun : (transport) The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.

alive

Adjective : Having life; living; not dead.

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

Adjective : Sprightly; lively; brisk.

allocation

Noun : The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.

Noun : That which is allocated; allowance, entitlement.

Noun : (embryology) Restriction of an embryonic cell and its clonal descendants to a particular cell type or body region

allocate

Verb : To set aside for a purpose.

Verb : To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition to.

Verb : (computing) To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.

alright

Adjective : (sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of all right; satisfactory; okay; in acceptable order. [Good; in acceptable, if not excellent condition.]

Verb : (sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of all right. [Fairly well.]

allocution

Noun : A formal speech, especially one which is regarded as authoritative and forceful.

Noun : (chiefly US, law) The question put to a convicted defendant by a judge after the rendering of the verdict in a trial, in which the defendant is asked whether he or she wishes to make a statement to the court before sentencing; the statement made by a defendant in response to such a question; the legal right of a defendant to make such a statement.

Noun : (chiefly US, law) The legal right of a victim, in some jurisdictions, to make a statement to a court prior to sentencing of a defendant convicted of a crime causing injury to that victim; the actual statement made to a court by a victim.

albicant

Adjective : (obsolete, rare) Growing or becoming white.

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.

alderman

Noun : A member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town.

Noun : (US, slang) A large, protruding, or swollen abdomen; a paunch, a potbelly.

Noun : (smoking) A long pipe for smoking.

altogether

Verb : Completely, wholly, or without exception.

Verb : On the whole; with everything considered.

Verb : With everything included.

alchemist

Noun : One who practices alchemy.

Noun : One who blends material or substances in the nature or supposed nature of alchemy.

alba

Noun : (poetry) A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.

Noun : A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba.

Noun : A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba.

alarmed

Adjective : Worried; anxious; panicky.

Adjective : (not comparable) Having an alarm fitted.

aloofness

Noun : The state of being aloof.

all-embracing

Adjective : Having a broad scope; of universal application.

alleviated

Adjective : Made more bearable.

aldermanic

Adjective : Of or pertaining to an alderman (“member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town”) or group of aldermen.

Adjective : (figurative) Having the (supposed) lifestyle or qualities of an alderman.

Adjective : Of a person or animal's body, girth, etc.: fleshy, plump, rotund.

alludes

Verb : (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.

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 : (bowling) An establishment where bowling is played.

Noun : (baseball) The area between the outfielders.

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.

all right

Adjective : Good; in acceptable, if not excellent condition.

Verb : Fairly well.

Adjective : In good health, unharmed.

alternatively

Verb : (conjunctive) Used to link a pair of opposing possibilities.

Verb : in an alternative way

alee

Verb : On the lee side of a ship, to the leeward side (vs aweather)

allegedly

Verb : According to someone's allegation.

Verb : According to someone's conspicuous impressions (which could subsequently be alleged).

alley cat

Noun : An urban feral cat.

Noun : (figurative, humorous) A sexually promiscuous person, especially a woman.

Noun : A (female) prostitute.

allo

Adjective : (informal) Allosexual and/or alloromantic; experiencing sexual and/or romantic attraction.

Noun : (informal) One who is allosexual and/or alloromantic.

all the same

Verb : (idiomatic) Anyway; nevertheless; nonetheless.

Adjective : Making no significant difference.

Adjective : Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all, same.

allegoric

Adjective : of, or relating to allegory

altitudinous

Adjective : (humorous) Lofty; very high.

alpheus

Noun : A male given name, of mostly historical usage.

Noun : (Greek mythology) The god or personification of the river Alpheus.

Noun : (Greek mythology) A river in Hades.

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