Nouns starting with A

• almond-leaves willow — Noun – English ～ willow of the western United States with leaves like those of peach or almond trees
• arroyo willow — Noun – English ～ shrubby willow of the western United States
• arctic willow — Noun – English ～ low creeping shrub of Arctic Europe and America
• Alexander Wilson — Noun – English ～ Scottish ornithologist in the United States (1766-1813)
• Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson — Noun – English ～ English writer of novels and short stories (1913-1991)
• antitrade wind — Noun – English ～ winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics
• Adolf Windaus — Noun – English ～ German chemist who studied steroids and cholesterol and discovered histamine (1876-1959)
• altar wine — Noun – English ～ used in a communion service
• angel-wing begonia — Noun – English ～ South American fibrous-rooted begonias having prominent basal leaf lobes suggesting angels' wings and racemes of coral-red flowers
• Austrian winter pea — Noun – English ～ variety of pea plant native to the Mediterranean region and North Africa and widely grown especially for forage
• American wistaria — Noun – English ～ an eastern United States native resembling the cultivated Japanese wisteria having pale purple-lilac flowers
• American wisteria — Noun – English ～ an eastern United States native resembling the cultivated Japanese wisteria having pale purple-lilac flowers
• absence without leave — Noun – English ～ unauthorized military absence
• adverse witness — Noun – English ～ a witness whose relationship to the opposing party is such that his or her testimony may be prejudiced against the opposing party; "a hostile witness can be asked leading questions and cross-examined"
• Arctic wolf — Noun – English ～ wolf of Arctic North America having white fur and a black-tipped tail
• arrow wood — Noun – English ～ closely related to southern arrow wood; grows in the eastern United States from Maine to Ohio and Georgia
• arrow wood — Noun – English ～ deciduous shrub of eastern North America having blue-black berries and tough pliant wood formerly used to make arrows
• American woodcock — Noun – English ～ small long-billed woodcock; prized as a game bird
• Alfred Edward Woodley Mason — Noun – English ～ English writer (1865-1948)
• Alpine woodsia — Noun – English ～ slender fern of northern North America with shining chestnut-colored stipes and bipinnate fronds with usually distinct marginal sori

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