Words in english starting with A

• American egret — Noun – English ～ a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America; it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus
• Adolf Eichmann — Noun – English ～ Austrian who became the Nazi official who administered the concentration camps where millions of Jews were murdered during World War II (1906-1962)
• Albert Einstein — Noun – English ～ physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955)
• Alfred Eisenstaedt — Noun – English ～ United States photographer (born in Germany) whose unposed documentary photographs created photojournalism (born in 1898)
• Aralia elata — Noun – English ～ deciduous clump-forming Asian shrub or small tree; adventive in the eastern United States
• Aspidistra elatio — Noun – English ～ evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant
• Arrhenatherum elatius — Noun – English ～ coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage
• American elder — Noun – English ～ common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies
• alternating electric current — Noun – English ～ an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; "In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second"
• atmospheric electricity — Noun – English ～ electrical discharges in the atmosphere
• Arizona elegans — Noun – English ～ nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales
• African elephant — Noun – English ～ an elephant native to Africa having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks
• American elk — Noun – English ～ large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
• American elk — Noun – English ～ common deer of temperate Europe and Asia
• Abronia elliptica — Noun – English ～ plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions
• American elm — Noun – English ～ large ornamental tree with graceful gradually spreading branches common in eastern North America
• air embolism — Noun – English ～ obstruction of the circulatory system caused by an air bubble as, e.g., accidentally during surgery or hypodermic injection or as a complication from scuba diving
• air embolism — Noun – English ～ pain resulting from rapid change in pressure
• all-embracing — Adjective – English ～ broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"
• all-encompassing — Adjective – English ～ broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"

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