Nouns starting with A

• artist's model — Noun – English ～ a person who poses for a painter or sculptor
• acoustic modem — Noun – English ～ a modem that converts electrical signals to telephone tones and back again
• Aglaonema modestum — Noun – English ～ erect or partially climbing herb having large green or variegated leaves
• Amedeo Modigliano — Noun – English ～ Italian painter and sculptor (1884-1920)
• amplitude modulation — Noun – English ～ modulation of the amplitude of the (radio) carrier wave
• Andrija Mohorovicic — Noun – English ～ Yugoslav geophysicist for whom the Mohorovicic discontinuity was named (1857-1936)
• Abruzzi e Molise — Noun – English ～ a mountainous region of central Italy on the Adriatic
• Acanthus mollis — Noun – English ～ widely cultivated southern European acanthus with whitish purple-veined flowers
• Aleurites moluccana — Noun – English ～ large tree native to southeastern Asia; the nuts yield oil used in varnishes; nut kernels strung together are used locally as candles
• angular momentum — Noun – English ～ the product of the momentum of a rotating body and its distance from the axis of rotation; "any rotating body has an angular momentum about its center of mass"; "angular momentum makes the world go round"
• Aegypius monachus — Noun – English ～ of southern Eurasia and northern Africa
• African monitor — Noun – English ～ destroys crocodile eggs
• African green monkey — Noun – English ～ common savannah monkey with greenish-grey back and yellow tail
• adenosine monophosphate — Noun – English ～ a nucleotide found in muscle cells and important in metabolism; reversibly convertible to ADP and ATP
• Aspidophoroides monopterygius — Noun – English ～ small very elongate sea poachers
• Ashley Montagu — Noun – English ～ United States anthropologist (born in England) who popularized anthropology (1905-)
• Arnica montana — Noun – English ～ herb of pasture and open woodland throughout most of Europe and western Asia having orange-yellow daisylike flower heads that when dried are used as a stimulant and to treat bruises and swellings
• Asplenium montanum — Noun – English ～ a spleenwort of eastern North America
• anomalistic month — Noun – English ～ period between successive perigees; approximately 27.5546 days
• Atlantic moonfish — Noun – English ～ any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies

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