Nouns starting with A

• at-bat — Noun – English ～ (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit; "he was at bat when it happened"; "he got four hits in four at-bats"
• assault and battery — Noun – English ～ an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact
• automobile battery — Noun – English ～ a lead-acid storage battery in a motor vehicle; usually a 12-volt battery of six cells; the heart of the car's electrical system
• A battery — Noun – English ～ the battery used to heat the filaments of a vacuum tube
• Abukir Bay — Noun – English ～ a bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt
• algarroba bean — Noun – English ～ long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute
• asparagus bean — Noun – English ～ South American bean having very long succulent pods
• adzuki bean — Noun – English ～ bushy annual widely grown in China and Japan for the flour made from its seeds
• adsuki bean — Noun – English ～ bushy annual widely grown in China and Japan for the flour made from its seeds
• ant bear — Noun – English ～ nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
• ant bear — Noun – English ～ large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America
• alpine bearberry — Noun – English ～ deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar
• armor-bearer — Noun – English ～ a squire carrying the armor of a knight
• armorial bearing — Noun – English ～ heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
• alveolar bed — Noun – English ～ lung tissue densely packed with alveoli
• asparagus bed — Noun – English ～ a bed in which asparagus is growing
• alkali bee — Noun – English ～ a common solitary bee important for pollinating alfalfa in the western United States
• Africanized bee — Noun – English ～ a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas
• American beech — Noun – English ～ North American forest tree with light green leaves and edible nuts
• Asiatic beetle — Noun – English ～ introduced into United States from the Orient; larvae feed on roots of sugarcane and other grasses

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