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Alcea
- noun - genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers: hollyhocks; in some classification systems synonymous with genus Althaea
Alder
- noun - Kurt Alder ; 10 July 1902 – 20 June 1958) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.
- north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant
- wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc
Alfet
- - A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.
Alger
- noun - United States author of inspirational adventure stories for boys; virtue and hard work overcome poverty (1832-1899)
Alien
- adjective - a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
- a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
- anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
- arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
- being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"
- not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"
- transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the property to the heirs"
Allee
- unknown - A straight garden path usually in a formal garden
Allen
- noun - a soldier of the American Revolution whose troops helped capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British (1738-1789)
- Screw, one with a hexagonal recess in the head, named after its U.S. patentee
- United States comedienne remembered as the confused but imperturbable partner of her husband, George Burns (1906-1964)
- United States filmmaker and comic actor (1935-)
Aller
- - Of all; -- used in composition; as, alderbest, best of all, alderwisest, wisest of all.
Alley
- noun - a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins
- a narrow street with walls on both sides