Index of English words, starting with "al"

(1) - Alterative (n.) A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
(2) - Alterative (a.) Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health.
(3) - Alterative (a.) Causing ateration.

(1) - Altercate (v. i.) To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.

(1) - Altercation (n.) Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.

(1) - Alternate (v. i.) To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.
(2) - Alternate (v. i.) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
(3) - Alternate (v. t.) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
(4) - Alternate (n.) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
(5) - Alternate (n.) A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
(6) - Alternate (n.) That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
(7) - Alternate (a.) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.
(8) - Alternate (a.) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line.
(9) - Alternate (a.) Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.