Name Report For First Name ALTA:
ALTA
First name ALTA's origin is Spanish. ALTA means "high. abbreviation of altagracia - a reference to the high grace of jesus' mother mary". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ALTA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of alta.(Brown names are of the same origin (Spanish) with ALTA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with ALTA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming ALTA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ALTA AS A WHOLE:
altagracia altaira exaltacion gerwalta zaltana bhaltair ualtar altair baltasarNAMES RHYMING WITH ALTA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (lta) - Names That Ends with lta:
nantosuelta deltaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ta) - Names That Ends with ta:
aminata binata binta fanta ismitta leta nasheeta nashita bixenta adsaluta bricta amista paharita serenata alzbeta vlasta agneta almeta gjerta gusta alberta elberta hrothbeorhta fusberta admeta aleta atalanta baptista errita giancinta irta jocasta kineta minta panagiota rheta zeta zyta gitta amrita anahita jaganmata jarita jivanta samvarta shanta sita vineeta vinata aletta annuziata antonietta battista benedetta brunetta concetta donata edita elisabetta enrichetta esta guiditta lunetta renata rosetta traviata trista kita amayeta awanata awinita ayita huata kuwanlelenta mankalita peta tablita tadita tayanita antoaneta codruta constanta craita draguta elisabeta florenta georgeta lenuta luminita margareta nicoleta uta voileta voctorita nikita beta marjeta brigittaNAMES RHYMING WITH ALTA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (alt) - Names That Begins with alt:
alter altha althaea althea altheda althia altman altmann alton altsobaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (al) - Names That Begins with al:
al-ahmar al-asfan al-ashab al-fadee al-fahl al-hadiye al-sham ala' alacoque aladdin alafin alahhaois alai alaia alain alaina alaine alair alala alalim alamea alameda alan alana alandra alane alani alanna alannah alano alanson alanza alanzo alaqua alard alaric alarica alarice alarick alarico alarik alasda alasdair alastair alaster alastor alastrina alastrine alastriona alaula alawa alayla alayna alayne alaysha alayziah alba albaric albe alberga albern albert alberteen albertina albertine alberto albertyna albertyne albin albinia albinus albion albiona alborz albracca albrecht albreda albu alburn alburt alcestis alchfrith alcides alcina alcinoos alcinous alcippe alcmaeon alcmene alcottNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ALTA:
First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 'a':
aala aaleahya aarika aarshiya aashka aasiya abba abda abdalla abdera abdulla abeba abelia abella abellona abena abequa aberfa abhaya abia abida abisha abjaja abra abraha abriana abrianna acacia academia acantha acca acharya acima ada adaira adairia adalbrechta adalgisa adalheida adalia adalicia adalwolfa adama adamina adana adanna adara adda addula adeela adela adelajda adelia adelina adelinda adelisa adelita adella adelpha adena adeola adharma adia adianna adiba adiella adila adima adina adira adisa aditya adiva adjoa admina adolpha adoncia adonia adora adowa adra adreana adreanna adriana adrianna adsila adwoa adya aeaea aegina aeldra aenedlea aerwyna aethelha aethelreda aethra aetna afafa afia afinaEnglish Words Rhyming ALTA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ALTA AS A WHOLE:
| altaian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Altaic |
| altaic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia. |
| altar | noun (n.) A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity. |
| noun (n.) In the Christian church, a construction of stone, wood, or other material for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist; the communion table. |
| altarage | noun (n.) The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church. |
| noun (n.) The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. |
| altarist | noun (n.) A chaplain. |
| noun (n.) A vicar of a church. |
| altarpiece | noun (n.) The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos. |
| altazimuth | noun (n.) An instrument for taking azimuths and altitudes simultaneously. |
| exaltate | adjective (a.) Exercising its highest influence; -- said of a planet. |
| exaltation | noun (n.) The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation. |
| noun (n.) The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property. | |
| noun (n.) That place of a planet in the zodiac in which it was supposed to exert its strongest influence. | |
| noun (n.) An abnormal sense of personal well-being, power, or importance, -- a symptom observed in various forms of insanity. |
| gibraltar | noun (n.) A strongly fortified town on the south coast of Spain, held by the British since 1704; hence, an impregnable stronghold. |
| noun (n.) A kind of candy sweetmeat, or a piece of it; -- called, in full, Gibraltar rock. |
| maltalent | noun (n.) Ill will; malice. |
| saltarella | noun (n.) See Saltarello. |
| saltarello | noun (n.) A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella. |
| saltation | noun (n.) A leaping or jumping. |
| noun (n.) Beating or palpitation; as, the saltation of the great artery. | |
| noun (n.) An abrupt and marked variation in the condition or appearance of a species; a sudden modification which may give rise to new races. |
| saltatoria | noun (n. pl.) A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets. |
| saltatorial | adjective (a.) Relating to leaping; saltatory; as, saltatorial exercises. |
| adjective (a.) Same as Saltatorious. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Saltatoria. |
| saltatorious | adjective (a.) Capable of leaping; formed for leaping; saltatory; as, a saltatorious insect or leg. |
| saltatory | adjective (a.) Leaping or dancing; having the power of, or used in, leaping or dancing. |
| superaltar | noun (n.) A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, on which different objects can be placed; a predella or gradino. |
| superexaltation | noun (n.) Elevation above the common degree. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ALTA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (lta) - English Words That Ends with lta:
| delta | noun (n.) A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a river; as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi. |
| noun (n.) The fourth letter of the Greek alphabet (/ /), answering to D. | |
| noun (n.) an object having the shape of the capital /. | |
| noun (n.) The closed figure produced by connecting three coils or circuits successively, end for end, esp. in a three-phase system; -- often used attributively, as delta winding, delta connection (which see), etc. |
| lavolta | noun (n.) An old dance, for two persons, being a kind of waltz, in which the woman made a high spring or bound. |
| pelta | noun (n.) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped. |
| noun (n.) A flat apothecium having no rim. |
| volta | noun (n.) A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ALTA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (alt) - Words That Begins with alt:
| alt | noun (a. & n.) The higher part of the scale. See Alto. |
| altering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alter |
| alterability | noun (n.) The quality of being alterable; alterableness. |
| alterable | adjective (a.) Capable of being altered. |
| alterableness | noun (n.) The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability. |
| alterant | noun (n.) An alterative. |
| adjective (a.) Altering; gradually changing. |
| alteration | noun (n.) The act of altering or making different. |
| noun (n.) The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. |
| alterative | noun (n.) A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations. |
| adjective (a.) Causing ateration. | |
| adjective (a.) Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. |
| altercating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Altercate |
| altercation | noun (n.) Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. |
| altercative | adjective (a.) Characterized by wrangling; scolding. |
| alterity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. |
| altern | adjective (a.) Acting by turns; alternate. |
| alternacy | noun (n.) Alternateness; alternation. |
| alternate | noun (n.) That which alternates with something else; vicissitude. |
| noun (n.) A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty. | |
| noun (n.) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means. | |
| adjective (a.) Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal. | |
| adjective (a.) 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; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line. | |
| adjective (a.) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. | |
| verb (v. t.) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly. | |
| verb (v. i.) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other. | |
| verb (v. i.) To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains. |
| alternating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alternate |
| alternateness | noun (n.) The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns. |
| alternation | noun (n.) The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear. |
| noun (n.) Permutation. | |
| noun (n.) The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. |
| alternative | noun (n.) An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left. |
| noun (n.) Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives. | |
| noun (n.) The course of action or the thing offered in place of another. | |
| noun (n.) A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among. | |
| adjective (a.) Offering a choice of two things. | |
| adjective (a.) Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction. | |
| adjective (a.) Alternate; reciprocal. |
| alternativeness | noun (n.) The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two. |
| alternity | noun (n.) Succession by turns; alternation. |
| althaea | noun (n.) Alt. of Althea |
| althea | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks. |
| noun (n.) An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family. |
| altheine | noun (n.) Asparagine. |
| althorn | noun (n.) An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. |
| altiloquence | noun (n.) Lofty speech; pompous language. |
| altiloquent | adjective (a.) High-sounding; pompous in speech. |
| altimeter | noun (n.) An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. |
| altimetry | noun (n.) The art of measuring altitudes, or heights. |
| altincar | noun (n.) See Tincal. |
| altiscope | noun (n.) An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects. |
| altisonant | adjective (a.) High-sounding; lofty or pompous. |
| altisonous | adjective (a.) Altisonant. |
| altissimo | noun (n.) The part or notes situated above F in alt. |
| altitude | noun (n.) Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree. |
| noun (n.) The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon. | |
| noun (n.) The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Height of degree; highest point or degree. | |
| noun (n.) Height of rank or excellence; superiority. | |
| noun (n.) Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs. |
| altitudinal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to height; as, altitudinal measurements. |
| altitudinarian | adjective (a.) Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. |
| altivolant | adjective (a.) Flying high. |
| alto | noun (n.) Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor. |
| noun (n.) An alto singer. |
| altometer | noun (n.) A theodolite. |
| altrical | adjective (a.) Like the articles. |
| altrices | noun (n. pl.) Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to praecoces. |
| altruism | noun (n.) Regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness. |
| altruist | noun (n.) One imbued with altruism; -- opposed to egoist. |
| altruistic | adjective (a.) Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish; -- opposed to egoistic or selfish. |
| alternat | noun (n.) A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations. |
| alternator | noun (n.) An electric generator or dynamo for producing alternating currents. |
| althing | noun (n.) The national assembly or parliament of Iceland. See Thing, n., 8. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ALTA:
English Words which starts with 'a' and ends with 'a':
| abaca | noun (n.) The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila. |
| abada | noun (n.) The rhinoceros. |
| abanga | noun (n.) A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest. |
| abba | noun (n.) Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch. |
| abdominalia | noun (n. pl.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages. |
| aboma | noun (n.) A large South American serpent (Boa aboma). |
| abracadabra | noun (n.) A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon. |
| abranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration. |
| abscissa | noun (n.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes. |
| abuna | noun (n.) The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church. |
| acacia | noun (n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals. |
| noun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates. | |
| noun (n.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic. |
| acantha | noun (n.) A prickle. |
| noun (n.) A spine or prickly fin. | |
| noun (n.) The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra. |
| acanthocephala | noun (n. pl.) A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines. |
| acarina | noun (n. pl.) The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange. |
| acciaccatura | noun (n.) A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura. |
| aceldama | noun (n.) The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. |
| acephala | noun (n. pl.) That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca. |
| acetabulifera | noun (n. pl.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda. |
| achatina | noun (n.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa. |
| acholia | noun (n.) Deficiency or want of bile. |
| acicula | noun (n.) One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal. |
| acinesia | noun (n.) Same as Akinesia. |
| aconitia | noun (n.) Same as Aconitine. |
| acontia | noun (n. pl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated. |
| acrania | noun (n.) Partial or total absence of the skull. |
| noun (n.) The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists. |
| acrasia | noun (n.) Alt. of Acrasy |
| acraspeda | noun (n. pl.) A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora. |
| acrisia | noun (n.) Alt. of Acrisy |
| acrita | noun (n. pl.) The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed. |
| actinaria | noun (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. |
| actinia | noun (n.) An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidae. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.]. |
| noun (n.) A genus in the family Actinidae. |
| actinotrocha | noun (n. pl.) A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles. |
| actinozoa | noun (n. pl.) A group of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa and Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example. |
| actinula | noun (n. pl.) A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form. |
| adansonia | noun (n.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. |
| adelphia | noun (n.) A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc. |
| adenalgia | noun (n.) Alt. of Adenalgy |
| adularia | noun (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone. |
| adversaria | noun (n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. |
| adynamia | noun (n.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. |
| aegicrania | noun (n. pl.) Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls. |
| aerophobia | noun (n.) Alt. of Aerophoby |
| aesthesia | noun (n.) Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia. |
| aga | noun (n.) Alt. of Agha |
| agha | noun (n.) In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect. |
| agalactia | noun (n.) Alt. of Agalaxy |
| agama | noun (n.) A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards. |
| agora | noun (n.) An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city. |
| agouara | noun (n.) The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America. |
| agouta | noun (n.) A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti. |
| agraphia | noun (n.) The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia. |
| aha | noun (n.) A sunk fence. See Ha-ha. |
| (interj.) An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise. |
| ailuroidea | noun (n. pl.) A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas. |
| akinesia | noun (n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement. |
| ala | noun (n.) A winglike organ, or part. |
| alalonga | noun (n.) Alt. of Alilonghi |
| albata | noun (n.) A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German. |
| albuminuria | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine. |
| alcanna | noun (n.) An oriental shrub (Lawsonia inermis) from which henna is obtained. |
| alcarraza | noun (n.) A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface. |
| alcyonacea | noun (n. pl.) A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria. |
| alcyonaria | noun (n. pl.) One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea. |
| alfa | noun (n.) Alt. of Alfa grass |
| alfalfa | noun (n.) The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc. |
| alfilaria | noun (n.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California. |
| alga | noun (n.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc. |
| algaroba | noun (n.) The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread. |
| noun (n.) The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico. |
| algarovilla | noun (n.) The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthae). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye. |
| algebra | noun (n.) That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude. |
| noun (n.) A treatise on this science. |
| alhambra | noun (n.) The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada. |
| alhenna | noun (n.) See Henna. |
| allantoidea | noun (n. pl.) The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals. |
| alleluia | noun (n.) Alt. of Alleluiah |
| alma | noun (n.) Alt. of Almah |
| almadia | noun (n.) Alt. of Almadie |
| almagra | noun (n.) A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver. |
| alopecia | noun (n.) Alt. of Alopecy |
| alpaca | noun (n.) An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama. |
| noun (n.) Wool of the alpaca. | |
| noun (n.) A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton. |
| alpha | noun (n.) The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning. |
| alpia | noun (n.) The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds. |
| alula | noun (n.) A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard. |
| alumina | noun (n.) One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3. |
| alumna | noun (n. fem.) A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college. |
| amalgama | noun (n.) Same as Amalgam. |
| amblyopia | noun (n.) Alt. of Amblyopy |
| amblypoda | noun (n. pl.) A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States. |
| ambrosia | noun (n.) The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it. |
| noun (n.) An unguent of the gods. | |
| noun (n.) A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell. | |
| noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The food of certain small bark beetles, family Scolytidae believed to be fungi cultivated by the beetles in their burrows. |
| amenorrhoea | noun (n.) Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge. |
| amentia | noun (n.) Imbecility; total want of understanding. |
| ametabola | noun (n. pl.) A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis. |
| ametropia | noun (n.) Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye. |
| amia | noun (n.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin. |
| amma | noun (n.) An abbes or spiritual mother. |
| ammonia | noun (n.) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn. |
| ammonitoidea | noun (n. pl.) An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite. |
| amnesia | noun (n.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. |
| amniota | noun (n. pl.) That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals. |
| amoeba | noun (n.) A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda. |
| amoebea | noun (n. pl.) That division of the Rhizopoda which includes the amoeba and similar forms. |
| amorosa | noun (n.) A wanton woman; a courtesan. |
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