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

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.

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.

allure

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

Verb : (transitive) To entice; to attract.

Noun : (dated) Gait; bearing.

alienation

Noun : The act of alienating.

Noun : The state of being alienated.

Noun : Emotional isolation or dissociation.

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.

alarming

Adjective : Causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.

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.

allegory

Noun : (rhetoric) A narrative in which a character, place, or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.

Noun : A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation.

Noun : A symbolic representation which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, usually a moral or political one.

ally

Verb : (transitive)

Verb : To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty.

Verb : Chiefly followed by to or with: to connect or form a relation to (someone or something) by similarity in features or nature.

although

Verb : despite the fact tha

alternative

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

Adjective : (linguistics) Presenting two or more alternatives.

Adjective : Other; different from something else.

almighty

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

Adjective : (slang) Great; extreme; terrible.

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

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.

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 : (uncountable) The state of being allied.

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

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.

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 : (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.

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 : (obsolete, transitive) To state under oath, to plead.

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

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

alight

Verb : (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve.

Verb : (intransitive)

Verb : Often followed by from or off: to get off an animal which one has been riding; to dismount; to descend or exit from a vehicle; hence, to complete one's journey; to stop.

alienate

Adjective : (archaic, followed by "from") Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign

Noun : (obsolete) A stranger; an alien.

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 alleviating; relief or mitigation.

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

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 : Of spatial representations: linked to a reference frame based on the external environment and independent of one's current location in it (for example, giving a direction as "north" as opposed to "right").

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

alteration

Noun : The act of altering or making different.

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

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

alongside

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

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.]

altercation

Noun : (countable) An angry or heated dispute.

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

Noun : (uncountable) Angry or heated disputation.

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 : 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

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.

alabaster

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

Noun : (historical) A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.

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

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.

Verb : (degree) So much.

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 : (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.

albescent

Adjective : Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.

allicient

Adjective : (formal) That attracts; attractive.

alogism

Noun : (art) An early 20th century movement in painting and writing, emerging from the Russian avant-garde, which made use of antirational or nonsensical elements.

Noun : (art) An absurd or nonsensical element deliberately added to a work that belongs to the alogism movement.

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

aliment

Noun : (now rare) Food.

Noun : (figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.

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

aliveness

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

allowance

Noun : Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.

Noun : Acknowledgment.

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.

alternate

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

Adjective : (heraldry) Alternating; (of e.g. a pair of tinctures which a charge is coloured) succeeding in turns, or (relative to the field) counterchanged.

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.

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 : Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as puffins.

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 : An alliance of factions.

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.

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 : (UK, historical, slang, obsolete) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 pence.

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 : (not comparable) Having an alarm fitted.

Adjective : Worried; anxious; panicky.

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 : (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.

all right

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

Adjective : In good health, unharmed.

Verb : Fairly well.

alternatively

Verb : in an alternative way

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

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

Adjective : Making no significant difference.

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

Verb : (idiomatic) Anyway; nevertheless; nonetheless.

allegoric

Adjective : of, or relating to allegory

altitudinous

Adjective : (humorous) Lofty; very high.

alpheus

Noun : (Greek mythology) A river in Hades.

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

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

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