| alliterate |
to display or use alliteration. [2 definitions] |
| alliteration |
repetition of the same consonant sound in the stressed or initial syllables of words in a phrase or sentence. |
| all-natural |
containing only ingredients or materials that originate in nature and are not artificially created. |
| all-nighter |
a night spent without sleeping, esp. in order to work on something. |
| allo- |
other; different; variation. |
| allocate |
to assign or set aside (money or other resources) for some specific use. [2 definitions] |
| all of a sudden |
suddenly; without warning. |
| allogamy |
the technique or process of cross-fertilization in plants. |
| allogeneic |
belonging to the same species but genetically different. |
| allogenic |
caused by environmental factors that do not involve living organisms. [2 definitions] |
| allograft |
a tissue graft in which the donor and recipient are of the same species but are genetically different. |
| allomerism |
change in chemical composition without accompanying change in crystalline form. |
| allometric |
pertaining to allometry. |
| allometry |
the growth rate of part of an organism in comparison with the growth rate of the entire organism or some other part of it. [2 definitions] |
| allomorph |
any of several alternate structural forms of the same chemical compound; paramorph. [2 definitions] |
| allopath |
one who favors or practices allopathy. |
| allopathy |
treatment of disease with agents intended to produce effects that are different from those of the disease. (Cf. homeopathy.) |
| allopatric |
living in different geographic areas or in isolation, used esp. in reference to closely related species or to different populations of a single species. [2 definitions] |
| allophone |
in phonetics, any of the variants of a phoneme. |
| allosaurus |
any of various large meat-eating dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. |
| allot |
to designate (an amount) to be used or given out. [2 definitions] |