Nouns starting with A

• art critic — Noun – English ～ a critic of paintings
• Atlantic croaker — Noun – English ～ a silvery-bodied croaker with dark markings and tiny barbels
• African crocodile — Noun – English ～ a dangerous crocodile widely distributed in Africa
• Asian crocodile — Noun – English ～ estuarine crocodile of eastern Asia and Pacific islands
• autumn crocus — Noun – English ～ bulbous autumn-flowering herb with white, purple or lavender-and-white flowers; native to western and central Europe
• American crow — Noun – English ～ common crow of North America
• Alpha Crucis — Noun – English ～ the brightest star in the Southern Cross
• Amaranthus cruentus — Noun – English ～ tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal
• analytical cubism — Noun – English ～ the early phase of cubism
• articulatio cubiti — Noun – English ～ hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped
• Aegean culture — Noun – English ～ the prehistoric civilization on the islands in the Aegean sea and the surrounding countries; "by 800 BC the entire Aegean had adopted this style of pottery"
• Araucaria cunninghamii — Noun – English ～ pine of Australia and New Guinea; yields a valuable light even-textured wood
• acorn cup — Noun – English ～ cup-shaped structure of hardened bracts at the base of an acorn
• airing cupboard — Noun – English ～ a warm cupboard where you put newly washed clothes until they are completely dry
• Asclepias curassavica — Noun – English ～ tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics
• amicus curiae brief — Noun – English ～ a brief presented by someone interested in influencing the outcome of a lawsuit but who is not a party to it
• amicus curiae — Noun – English ～ an adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case; usually someone who wants to influence the outcome of a lawsuit involving matters of wide public interest
• air current — Noun – English ～ air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"
• alternating current — Noun – English ～ an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; "In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second"
• air cushion — Noun – English ～ a cushion usually made of rubber or plastic that can be inflated

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