Nouns starting with A

• apothecary's shop — Noun – English ～ a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold
• Aster shortii — Noun – English ～ perennial of southeastern United States having usually blue flowers
• approach shot — Noun – English ～ a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green; "he lost the hole when his approach rolled over the green"
• American shrew mole — Noun – English ～ greyish-black shrew mole of the United States and Canada
• Asiatic shrew mole — Noun – English ～ shrew mole of eastern Asia
• ant shrike — Noun – English ～ antbirds superficially resembling shrikes
• Asarum shuttleworthii — Noun – English ～ wild ginger having persistent heart-shaped pungent leaves; West Virginia to Alabama
• air sickness — Noun – English ～ motion sickness experienced while traveling by air (especially during turbulence)
• altitude sickness — Noun – English ～ effects (as nosebleed or nausea) of oxygen deficiency in the blood and tissues at high altitudes
• American sign language — Noun – English ～ the sign language used in the United States
• ailanthus silkworm — Noun – English ～ large green silkworm of the cynthia moth
• Aeneas Silvius — Noun – English ～ Italian pope from 1458 to 1464 who is remembered for his unsuccessful attempt to lead a crusade against the Turks (1405-1464)
• Adolph Simon Ochs — Noun – English ～ United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935)
• Anabrus simplex — Noun – English ～ large dark wingless cricket-like katydid of arid parts of western United States
• actual sin — Noun – English ～ a sin committed of your own free will (as contrasted with original sin)
• Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina — Noun – English ～ Persian physician and influential philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037)
• arc sine — Noun – English ～ the inverse function of the sine; the angle that has a sine equal to a given number
• Alligator sinensis — Noun – English ～ small alligator of the Yangtze valley of China having unwebbed digits
• a cappella singing — Noun – English ～ singing without instrumental accompaniment
• a capella singing — Noun – English ～ singing without instrumental accompaniment

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