English words: alonest to alphitomancy
300 English words, part 58 of 158 of the words starting with A, A to Z. 23 have a page of their own.
English words alonest to alphitomancy
- alonest adjective: Most alone or isolated.
- along adverb, preposition /əˈlɒŋ/: By the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to.
- along about preposition: Approximately; at around some time.
- along of preposition: because of
- along the lines of preposition: Similar to, but not exactly equal.
- along the same vein prepositional phrase: Synonym of in the same vein.
- along the way adverb: During the course of an ongoing process.
- along with preposition: In addition to; coupled with.
- alongshelf adjective: Alongside an ice shelf or continental shelf
- alongshore adjective, adverb /əˈlɒŋʃɔː/: At or along a shore or coast.
- alongside adverb, preposition /əˌlɒŋˈsaɪd/: Along the side; by the side; side by side; abreast.
- alongside of preposition: Synonym of alongside.
- alongsides adverb, preposition /ə.lɒŋˈsaɪdz/: Synonym of alongside.
- alongst adverb, preposition: along
- Alonso proper noun: A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alfonso.
- Alonzo proper noun: A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alfonso.
- aloo noun /ˈæ.luː/: potato
- aloo bokhara noun: dried plum
- aloo bukhara noun: Alternative form of aloo bokhara.
- aloo chaat noun: An Indian dish of diced potatoes spiced with chilli, cumin, chaat masala, chutney and coriander.
- aloo gobi noun: A dry Indian dish made with potatoes, cauliflower, and spices.
- aloo gosht noun: A South Asian curry made from mutton and potatoes in a casserole
- aloo pie noun: A kind of potato samosa, popular in Trinidad and Tobago.
- aloo tikki noun: A potato croquette from the Indian subcontinent.
- aloof adjective, adverb, preposition /əˈluːf/: At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.
- aloofly adverb: In an aloof manner.
- aloofness noun: The state of being aloof.
- aloon-aloon noun: Alternative form of alun-alun.
- aloose adverb: Free from restraints.
- alop adjective /əˈlɒp/: Leaning over on one side; lopsided.
- alopecia noun /ˌæl.əʊˈpiː.ʃə/: Baldness.
- alopecia adnata noun: Underdevelopment of the eyelashes.
- alopecia androgenetica noun: Synonym of male pattern baldness.
- alopecia areata noun: A form of alopecia in which hair is lost from various areas of the body.
- alopecia capitis totalis noun: A Loss of hair from the entire scalp, with normal hair elsewhere on the body remaining.
- alopecia congenitalis noun: The congenital absence of scalp hair, which may occur with or without an underlying disorder.
- alopecia hereditaria noun: Synonym of male pattern baldness.
- alopecia liminaris frontalis noun: Hair loss occurring at the hairline, usually resulting from friction or trauma but occasionally from seborrheic dermatitis.
- alopecia medicamentosa noun: Diffuse hair loss of the scalp, caused by the administration of various types of drugs, particularly chemotherapy.
- alopecia pityrodes noun: Hair loss of the body as well as of the scalp, accompanied by the shedding of the epidermis in the form of fine scales.
- alopecia symptomatica noun: Hair loss due to systemic or psychological causes.
- alopecia totalis noun: Loss of hair from the entire scalp and face.
- alopecia universalis noun: The most severe form of alopecia areata, involving the loss of hair from the entire body.
- alopecial adjective: Relating to alopecia.
- alopecian adjective, noun: Suffering from or associated with hair loss.
- alopecic adjective: Relating to or suffering from alopecia.
- alopecist noun: One who undertakes to cure or prevent baldness.
- alopecoid adjective, noun: Similar to or resembling a fox.
- alopecurone noun: A flavonostilbene found in plants of the Sophora genus.
- alopecy noun: Dated form of alopecia.
- alopekis noun: A Thracian cap made from a fox scalp.
- aloperine noun: A quinolizidine alkaloid found in plants of the Sophora genus.
- alopiid noun: Any member of the Alopiidae.
- Alor proper noun: An outlying island of Indonesia, and the largest island in the Alor Archipelago.
- Alor boobook noun: A species of boobook owl, Ninox plesseni, endemic to the islands of Alor and Pantar in the Lesser Sundas.
- Alora proper noun: A female given name from the Bantu languages of African origin.
- aloracetam noun: A nootropic drug of the racetam family, developed for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
- aloricate adjective: Lacking a lorica
- Alos proper noun: A barangay of Alaminos, Pangasinan, Philippines.
- alosa noun: shad
- alose noun: European shad (Alosa alosa); the allice or allis.
- alosetron noun /əˈloʊ.səˌtɹɑn/: A 5-HT₃ antagonist used for the management of severe diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome in women.
- alosid noun: Any shad of the genus Alosa.
- alosine noun: Any shad of the subfamily Alosinae
- alotta determiner: Contraction of a lot of.
- alouate noun: Alternative form of alouatte.
- alouatte noun: A South American howler monkey (of the genus Alouatta).
- alouattine adjective: Relating to Alouattinae, a subfamily that includes the howler monkeys.
- aloud adjective, adverb /əˈlaʊd/: With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.
- Alouette noun /æluˈɛt/: A player for Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes.
- aloun-aloun noun: Alternative form of alun-alun.
- alovudine noun: An antiviral agent.
- alow adjective, adverb, preposition /əˈləʊ/: Low down.
- aloxiprin noun: aluminium acetylsalicylate, a drug used to treat pain and inflammation associated with muscular skeletal and joint disorders.
- aloxistatin noun: A protease inhibitor drug.
- aloxite noun: Synonym of aluminium oxide.
- Aloysius proper noun /æl.əʊˈɪʃ.əs/: A male given name from the Germanic languages, notably of a 16th-century Italian saint.
- alp noun /ælp/: A very high mountain. Specifically, one of the Alps, the highest chain of mountains in Europe.
- alpaca noun /ælˈpækə/: A sheep-like domesticated animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.
- alpaca back and sides noun: Synonym of broccoli haircut
- alpagat noun: A kind of sandal, alpargata.
- alpana noun: A Bengali folk art style involving colorful patterns and symbols painted on floors and walls with paints made from rice flour.
- alpargata noun /ˌæl.pɑːˈɡɑː.tə/: Synonym of espadrille.
- alpeen noun: A thick, knotted club or shillelagh.
- alpelisib noun: A drug used to treat breast cancer
- Alpen proper noun /ˈælp.ən/: A brand of muesli.
- Alpena proper noun: A town in Boone County and Carroll County, Arkansas, United States.
- alpenglow noun /ˈæl.pən.ɡloʊ/: 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.
- alpenhorn noun: Alternative spelling of alphorn.
- alpenrose noun: An evergreen alpine shrub of species Rhododendron ferrugineum.
- alpenstock noun /ˈælp.ən.stɑk/: A stout adjustable walking stick with a metal point, used by mountain climbers and walkers in hilly or uneven terrain.
- alpenstocker noun: A mountain-climber, especially one that uses an alpenstock.
- Alper proper noun: A surname.
- Alperin proper noun: A surname from Hebrew.
- Alpers' disease noun: A progressive degenerative disease of the central nervous system that occurs mostly in infants.
- Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome noun: Alpers' disease
- Alpers' syndrome noun: Alpers' disease
- Alpert proper noun: A surname.
- Alperton proper noun /ˈælpətən/: A suburban area and ward in the borough of Brent, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1883).
- Alpestrian noun: An alpinist; a mountain climber in the Alps.
- alpestrine adjective: Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; Alpine.
- alpha adjective, noun, prefix /ˈæl.fə/: 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.
- alpha acid noun: Any of a class of chemical compounds which collectively give hopped beer its characteristic bitter flavor.
- alpha-adrenergic blocking agent noun: Synonym of alpha-blocker
- alpha-adrenoreceptor noun: An alpha-adrenergic receptor.
- alpha-amino acid noun: Any amino acid that has the amino and carboxylic functional groups attached to the same carbon atom; especially those amino acids that occur naturally as...
- alpha and omega interjection, noun: The first and last; the beginning and end.
- alpha-antithrombin noun: Alternative form of α-antithrombin.
- alpha-beta filter noun: An algorithm for data estimation and smoothing, closely related to Kalman filters, based on an approximation model with two internal states, the first state...
- alpha-beta pruning noun: An algorithm for pruning a search tree by eliminating any branch that is demonstrably inferior to a branch previously encountered.
- alpha blending noun: A computer graphics technique that simulates translucency by combining colours.
- alpha blocker noun: A drug which blocks α1-adrenergic receptors in arteries and smooth muscles, and is used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostatitis and other...
- alpha brass noun: Any of various malleable brasses with more than 65% copper and less than 35% zinc.
- alpha carbon noun: The first carbon atom of an aliphatic chain that is attached to a functional group
- alpha cell noun: An acidophil of the adenohypophysis.
- Alpha Centaurian adjective, noun: Of or relating to Alpha Centauri.
- alpha chain disease noun: Synonym of immunoproliferative small intestinal disease.
- alpha channel noun: A numerical value specifying a level of translucency to be applied to a colour.
- alpha-chlorotoluene noun: Synonym of benzyl chloride.
- alpha city noun: A city that links a major economic state or region into the world economy.
- alpha conversion noun: One of the three rewrite rules of lambda calculus, in which a bound variable of a lambda term is replaced by another variable across its entire scope. So if...
- alpha-cyperone noun: A bicyclic ketone found in Cyperus species, with IUPAC name (4aS,7R)-1,4a-dimethyl-7-prop-1-en-2-yl-3,4,5,6,7,8-hexahydronaphthalen-2-one
- alpha-d-galactosidase noun: Any galactosidase that only hydrolyzes the alpha-d configuration of galactosides; a deficiency of this enzyme can lead to Fabry's disease
- alpha decay noun: radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle.
- alpha dog noun, verb: A dominant dog; a dog that is an alpha male or alpha female.
- alpha emission noun: A form of radioactivity in which alpha particles are emitted from the nucleus of an atom
- alpha emitter noun: a radioactive substance that decays by emitting alpha particles
- alpha error noun: type I error
- alpha female noun: The dominant female in a social or group hierarchy.
- alpha-fetoprotein noun: Alternative form of alphafetoprotein.
- alpha-foetoprotein noun: Alternative form of alphafetoprotein.
- alpha-gal noun: A carbohydrate found in most mammalian cell membranes.
- alpha-gal allergy noun: Synonym of alpha-gal syndrome.
- alpha-gal syndrome noun: A disease that causes an immunological response to alpha-gal, typically first causing gastrointestinal problems, and proceeding with other symptoms of...
- alpha geek noun: The person in a group who displays the most experience or knowledge, especially with respect to technology.
- alpha globin noun: One of the two globin subunits in the most common form of haemoglobin in humans.
- alpha helix noun: A secondary structure found in many proteins, in which the amino acids are arranged in a coil, or helix, with almost no free space on the inside and all...
- alpha hinge noun: On rotorcraft, a hinge perpendicular to the plane of rotor rotation about which the blades trail or lag.
- alpha-hydroxy acid noun: Any hydroxy acid, of general formula RCH(OH)COOH, used in the cosmetic industry for their supposed property of reducing wrinkles.
- alpha-hydroxyprogesterone noun: An alpha derivative of hydroxyprogesterone used for the diagnosis of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- alpha iron noun: Synonym of ferrite (an allotrope of iron).
- alpha-lactam noun: A lactam having a three-membered ring structure.
- alpha layer noun: An additional channel in a digital image or layer that stores transparency information for each pixel.
- alpha level noun: The significance level of a statistical test.
- alpha linolenic acid noun: An omega-3 fatty acid, (9Z,12Z,15Z)-octadeca-9,12,15-trienoic acid, an essential fatty acid, found in many seeds and oils, including flaxseed, walnuts,...
- alpha male adjective, noun: The dominant male in a group of animals.
- alpha max noun: The maximum angle of attack (AoA), maximum nose-up angle. The highest degree of displacement from (relative) horizontal (the airstream, not the ground...
- alpha-methylphenethylamine noun: Synonym of amphetamine.
- alpha-methyltryptamine noun: Alternative form of alphamethyltryptamine.
- alpha naphthol noun: Alternative form of α-naphthol.
- alpha-naphthylthiourea noun: A white, crystalline, organosulfur compound, C₁₁H₁₀N₂S, used as a pneumotoxic rodenticide, especially against adult brown rats.
- alpha pair noun: The dominant breeding pair in a pack of animals.
- alpha paper noun: A sensitized photographic paper that is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride, and is used for obtaining positives by artificial light.
- alpha particle noun: A doubly positively charged nucleus of a helium-4 atom (consisting of two protons and two neutrons), emitted as a consequence of radioactivity.
- alpha particle X-ray spectrometer noun: A spectrometer that analyzes the chemical composition of a sample of scattered X-rays and alpha particles after the sample has been irradiated with them.
- alpha-pinene noun: Alternative form of α-pinene
- alpha privative noun: The prefix a- (or an- when prefixing a root which begins with a vowel) found in some English words of Greek derivation. It expresses negation or absence....
- alpha privativum noun: The alpha privative, the prefix a-.
- alpha-PVP noun: Abbreviation of alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone.
- alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone noun: A synthetic stimulant drug of the cathinone class, C₁₅H₂₁NO, that is reputed to produce potent but short-lived, hallucinogenic effects.
- alpha quartz noun: A stable form of quartz below 573° C with trigonal-trapezohedral symmetry.
- alpha radiation noun: The radiation of alpha particles as a result of radioactive decay.
- alpha ray noun: A stream of alpha particles: a single ray of alpha radiation.
- alpha-receptor noun: Synonym of alpha-adrenoreceptor.
- alpha rhythm noun: Natural rhythmic electrical activity in the brain, occurring at a frequency of about 8 to 12 Hz.
- alpha roll noun, verb: A dog training technique in which the human trainer conveys dominance by pinning the dog on its back.
- alpha rolling noun, verb: The hot-rolling of titanium alloys within the alpha phase temperature range.
- alpha strike noun: A sudden, massive, devastating concentration of fire upon a single opponent in order to immediately neutralize the opponent with overwhelming force.
- alpha taxonomy noun: The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming living things.
- alpha test noun, verb: A process of alpha testing.
- alpha testing noun, verb: A process where a software application approaching full functionality is made available to a group of sophisticated users.
- alpha-thalassemia-intellectual disability syndrome noun: Synonym of ATR-16 syndrome.
- alpha-thalassemia mental retardation syndrome noun: Synonym of alpha-thalassemia-intellectual disability syndrome
- alpha-tocopherol noun: The predominant form of vitamin E.
- alpha up verb: To make or become more characteristic of an alpha male.
- alpha version noun: An early preview version of a program or application, typically unstable, but useful to show what the product will do. Sometimes no more features are added...
- alpha wave noun: An electrical signal produced by the brain while the subject is relaxed.
- alpha widow noun: A woman who, after experiencing a relationship with an exceptionally desirable man (an alpha male), is unable or unwilling to bond with less attractive men.
- alpha wrap noun: A form of helical scan in which the tape is wrapped around the head drum for a full 360 degrees (the tape looking like the lowercase Greek letter alpha)....
- alphabaculovirus noun: Any member of the genus Alphabaculovirus of viruses in the family Baculoviridae.
- alphabet noun, verb /ˈæl.fəˌbɛt/: The set of letters used when writing in a language.
- alphabet agency noun: Any of a number of US federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- alphabet block noun: A young child's toy in the form of a cube with a different letter of the alphabet on each of its sides.
- alphabet book noun: Synonym of ABC book.
- alphabet boy noun: A man who works for a government agency, such as the CIA, FBI or IRS
- alphabet brick noun: Synonym of alphabet block.
- alphabet of desire noun: A collection of sigils representing things or qualities that the creator wishes to manifest or connect to.
- alphabet oracle noun: A form of divination using individual letters of an alphabet, usually the Greek alphabet.
- alphabet soup noun: A type of soup that contains noodles in the shape of various alphabetical letters, sometimes also numbers.
- alphabetagamma adjective: Pertaining to the alpha, beta, and gamma positions on an organic molecule.
- alphabetarian noun /ˌæl.fə.bəˈtɛəɹi.ən/: One who is learning the alphabet; an abecedarian.
- alphabetary adjective: alphabetic; rudimentary
- alphabeted adjective, verb: Written using a specified alphabet
- alphabetic adjective, noun /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/: Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.
- alphabetical adjective, noun /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/: Pertaining to, furnished with, or expressed by letters of the alphabet.
- alphabetical jigsaw noun: A form of crossword in which clues are not numbered, but instead given in alphabetical order of their solution, and solvers must work out where each answer...
- alphabetical order noun /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl ˈɔː.də/: The sequence of a collection of items (such as words in a dictionary) arranged in order by position in the alphabet.
- alphabeticality noun: Synonym of alphabeticalness.
- alphabetically adverb /ˌalfəˈbɛtɪkli/: In an alphabetical manner.
- alphabeticalness noun: The state of being alphabetical.
- alphabetician noun: One who deals with the alphabet in some way, for example by attempting to make a series of utterances beginning with each letter of the alphabet in order.
- alphabeticise verb: Misconstruction of alphabetise.
- alphabeticity noun: The quality of being alphabetic.
- alphabeticize verb: Misconstruction of alphabetize.
- alphabetico-classed adjective: Arranged in alphabetical order.
- alphabetics noun: The science of representing spoken sounds by letters.
- alphabetiform adjective /ˌæl.fəˈbɛ.tɪˌfɔːm/: Having the form of a developed alphabet or its letters, as opposed to crude pictographic symbols.
- alphabetisation noun: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of alphabetization.
- alphabetise verb: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of alphabetize.
- alphabetised adjective, verb: Arranged in alphabetical order.
- alphabetiser noun: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of alphabetizer.
- alphabetism noun: An initialism: an abbreviation which is read letter by letter, such as UN.
- alphabetist noun: Someone who practices alphabetism, discrimination on the basis of the first letter of a name.
- alphabetitis noun: Mental weariness or lassitude brought about by an excessive exposure to letters, lettering, or acronyms
- alphabetizable adjective: That can be alphabetized.
- alphabetization noun: The act or process of arranging in alphabetical order.
- alphabetize verb: To arrange words or items in order of the first (and then subsequent) letters as they occur in the alphabet.
- alphabetized adjective, verb: American and Oxford British standard spelling of alphabetised.
- alphabetizer noun: One who, or that which, alphabetizes.
- alphabetlike adjective: Resembling an alphabet.
- alphabetological adjective: Relating to alphabetology.
- alphabetologist noun: One who studies alphabetology.
- alphabetology noun: The study of alphabetic writing.
- alphacetylmethadol noun: A synthetic opioid analgesic.
- alphacypermethrin noun: An isomer of cypermethrin.
- alphadione noun: Synonym of althesin.
- alphadolone noun: Alternative form of alfadolone.
- alphadontid noun: Any extinct marsupial of the family †Alphadontidae.
- Alphaeus proper noun: The name of the father of two of Jesus' disciples: Matthew and James, son of Alphaeus. Traditionally identified with Clopas.
- alphafetoprotein noun: A protein produced in the fetal liver
- alphaflexivirus noun: Any virus of the family Alphaflexiviridae
- alphafoetoprotein noun: Alternative form of alphafetoprotein.
- alphageometric adjective: Of or pertaining to alphageometrics.
- alphageometrics noun: A display made up of text characters combined with vector graphics (once an advanced form of videotex, introduced by the Telidon system).
- alphaglobin noun: Alternative form of alpha globin.
- alphagram noun /ˈæl.fəˌɡɹæm/: The letters of a word, or any other set of letters, arranged in alphabetical order.
- alphahelical adjective: Having the form of an alpha helix
- alphaherpesvirus noun: Any member of the subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae of DNA viruses.
- alphahypovirus noun: Any hypovirus of the genus Alphahypovirus
- alphaketoglutarate noun: Alternative form of alpha-ketoglutarate.
- alphaletovirus noun: A letovirus of the genus Alphaletovirus
- alphalike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of alphaviruses.
- alphalytic adjective: That hydrolyses a peptide at the alpha position
- alphamagic square noun: A magic square in which the number of letters in the name of each number in the square generates another magic square.
- alphamegamia noun: Chronophilia.
- alphameprodine noun: One of the isomers of meprodine.
- alphameric adjective /ˌæl.fəˈmɛ.ɹɪk/: Alternative form of alphanumeric.
- alphamerical adjective: alphanumeric / alphanumerical
- alphamerically adverb: In an alphameric manner.
- alphamerics noun: alphanumeric characters
- alphamethadol noun: A synthetic opioid analgesic.
- alphamethyltryptamine noun: A synthetic tryptamine drug that can act as a psychedelic hallucinogen, as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor, and as a stimulant.
- alphametic noun /ˌæl.fəˈmɛ.tɪk/: A puzzle that presents an arithmetic problem with letters in place of the digits, the reader challenged to deduce which digit corresponds to each letter.
- alphamosaic adjective /ˌæl.fə.məʊˈzeɪk/: Of or pertaining to alphamosaics.
- alphamosaics noun: A display made up of text characters combined with simple block graphics, as used in certain videotex systems.
- alphanecrovirus noun: Any virus of the genus Alphanecrovirus
- alphanodavirus noun: Any member of the genus Alphanodavirus of viruses in the family Nodaviridae.
- alphanumeric adjective, noun /ˌæl.fə.n(j)uːˈmɛ.ɹɪk/: Consisting of, or limited to, letters and/or numbers, especially the characters A to Z (lowercase and uppercase) and 0 to 9.
- alphanumerical adjective, noun /ˌælfən(j)uˈmɛɹɪkəl/: Consisting of only letters and numbers; alphanumeric.
- alphanumerically adverb /ˌælfən(j)uˈmɛɹɪkli/: In an alphanumeric / alphanumerical manner; using alphanumeric / alphanumerical characters.
- alphaolefin noun: An unsaturated hydrocarbon with a double bond at the alpha position (the first carbon atom in the chain), typically used in the production of polyethylene,...
- alphapapillomavirus noun: Any member of the genus Alphapapillomavirus of viruses in the family Papillomaviridae.
- alphapartitivirus noun: Any partitivirus of the genus Alphapartitivirus
- alphaphotographic adjective: Of or pertaining to alphaphotographics.
- alphaphotographics noun: A display made up of text characters combined with high-resolution photographic images (proposed as a future form of videotex).
- alphapolyomavirus noun: Any polyomavirus of the genus Alphapolyomavirus
- alphaprodine noun: One of two isomers of prodine.
- alphaproteobacterial adjective: Of or pertaining to the alphaproteobacteria.
- alphaproteobacterium noun: Any proteobacterium of the class Alphaproteobacteria
- alpharadin noun: The dichloride of an isotope of radium that is used as a cancer therapy
- Alphard proper noun: An orange giant star in the constellation of Hydra; Alpha (α) Hydrae.
- alpharetrovirus noun: Any virus of the genus Alpharetrovirus.
- Alpharetta proper noun: A city in Georgia, United States.
- alphasatellite noun: viral single-stranded satellite DNA.
- alphasort noun /ˈæl.fə.sɔːt/: The process of sorting in alphabetical order, especially when performed in an automated fashion.
- alphasorted adjective: In alphabetical order.
- alphasyllabary noun: A segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as a unit, and where each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation...
- alphasyllabic adjective: Relating to an alphasyllabary, or abugida.
- alphasyllabical adjective: Relating to an alphasyllabary, or abugida.
- alphasyllabically adverb: In an alphasyllabic way or manner.
- alphasyllable noun: A single unit of an alphasyllabary.
- alphatron noun /ˈæl.fəˌtɹɒn/: A kind of ionization tube for measuring vacuum.
- alphavirus noun: Any virus of the genus Alphavirus (family Togaviridae).
- alphaxalone noun: The neuroactive steroid and general anesthetic 3α-hydroxy-5α-pregnane-11,20-dione
- alpheid noun: Any member of the family Alpheidae, the pistol shrimps.
- alpheid shrimp noun: A pistol shrimp (Alpheidae).
- alphenal noun: 5-allyl-5-phenylbarbituric acid, a barbiturate derivative formerly used to treat epilepsy and convulsions.
- alphenic noun: White barley sugar
- alphette noun: An alpha female; a confident, self-assured woman.
- Alpheus proper noun /ælˈfiːəs/: A river in Hades.
- alphin noun: Alternative form of alfin.
- Alphington proper noun: An outer suburb of Exeter, Devon, England, south-west of the city centre (OS grid ref SX9190).
- alphitomancy noun: An Ancient Greek method of divination using barley meal, used for instance to reveal guilty parties; it entailed feeding a person or group barley meal, and...
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Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under A: 47,274 words, in 158 parts.