Index of English words, starting with "al"

(1) - Alliance (v. t.) To connect by alliance; to ally.
(2) - Alliance (n.) The persons or parties allied.
(3) - Alliance (n.) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
(4) - Alliance (n.) The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.

(1) - Allied (imp. & p. p.) of Ally
(2) - Allied (a.) United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.

(1) - Alligation (n.) A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values.
(2) - Alligation (n.) The act of tying together or attaching by some bond, or the state of being attached.

(1) - Alligator (n.) a kind of job press, called also alligator press.
(2) - Alligator (n.) a rock breaker
(3) - Alligator (n.) a form of squeezer for the puddle ball
(4) - Alligator (n.) Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator
(5) - Alligator (n.) A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.