• allegory  (a literary, dramatic, or pictorial device in which characters and events stand for abstract ideas, principles, or forces, so that the literal sense has or suggests a parallel, deeper symbolic sense)

• allelomorph  (an allele)

• allelopathy  (the inhibition of growth in one species of plants by chemicals produced by another species)

• allergy  (an abnormally high sensitivity to certain substances, such as pollens, foods, or microorganisms. Common indications of allergy may include sneezing, itching, and skin rashes)

• allogeneic  (being genetically different although belonging to or obtained from the same species)

• allomorph  (any of the variant forms of a morpheme)

• allonym  (the name of a person, usually a historical person, assumed by a writer)

• allopathy  (a method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects different from those caused by the disease itself)

• allopatric  (occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic areas. Often used of populations of related organisms unable to crossbreed because of geographic separation.)

• allophane  (an amorphous, translucent, variously colored mineral, essentially hydrous aluminum silicate)

• allophone  (a predictable phonetic variant of a phoneme)

• isallobar  (a line on a weather map connecting places having equal changes in atmospheric pressure within a given period of time)

• morphallaxis  (the regeneration of a body part by means of structural or cellular reorganization with only limited production of new cells, observed primarily in invertebrate organisms, such as certain lobsters)

• parallax  (an apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight)

• parallel  (being an equal distance apart everywhere)

• trophallaxis  (mutual exchange of food between adults and larvae of certain social insects such as bees or wasps)

Definitions are taken from:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

Electronic version licensed from InfoSoft International, Inc. All rights reserved.

Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002.

https://unabridged.merriam-webster.com (30 Sep. 2006).

English-Word Information: Word Info about English Vocabulary (wordinfo.info).