Nouns starting with A

• arm's length — Noun – English ～ a distance sufficient to exclude intimacy
• anastigmatic lens — Noun – English ～ a lens designed to correct astigmatism
• accommodating lens implant — Noun – English ～ a lens implant containing a hinge that allows for both near and far vision (thus mimicking the natural lens of a young person)
• achromatic lens — Noun – English ～ a compound lens system that forms an image free from chromatic aberration
• Atriplex lentiformis — Noun – English ～ spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico
• Aldous Leonard Huxley — Noun – English ～ English writer; grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963)
• Anogramma leptophylla — Noun – English ～ small short-lived fern of Central and South America
• Alan Jay Lerner — Noun – English ～ United States lyricist who collaborated on musicals with Frederick Loewe (1918-1986)
• Ammotragus lervia — Noun – English ～ wild sheep of northern Africa
• air letter — Noun – English ～ a letter sent by air mail
• airmail letter — Noun – English ～ a letter sent by air mail
• acute leukemia — Noun – English ～ rapidly progressing leukemia
• amplitude level — Noun – English ～ the level on a scale of amplitude
• Abney level — Noun – English ～ a surveying instrument consisting of a spirit level and a sighting tube; used to measure the angle of inclination of a line from the observer to the target
• A level — Noun – English ～ the advanced level of a subject taken in school (usually two years after O level)
• ad-lib — Noun – English ～ remark made spontaneously without prior preparation; "his ad-libs got him in trouble with the politicians"
• armchair liberal — Noun – English ～ a person of liberal ideals who takes no action to realize them
• American licorice — Noun – English ～ North American plant similar to true licorice and having a root with similar properties
• artisan's lien — Noun – English ～ lien permitting an artisan to retain possession of a piece of work until has been paid for
• arteria lienalis — Noun – English ～ an artery that originates from the celiac trunk and supplies blood to the spleen

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