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Aldactone
- noun - a synthetic corticosteroid (trade name Aldactone) used to treat hypertension
Aldebaran
- noun - the brightest star in Taurus
Aldehydes
- noun - any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids
Aldehydic
- adjective - of or related to or containing aldehydes
Alder Fly
- noun - dark-colored insect having predaceous aquatic larvae
Aldershot
- unknown - Hampshire (UK) military base
- Hampshire town
Aleatoric
- unknown - depending on the throw of a die, happening by chance, random
- Part of a musical composition that is left to chance.
Alecithal
- - Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm.
Aleconner
- - Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.]
Alectoria
- noun - lichens having dark brown erect or pendulous much-branched cylindrical thallus