albuminousRelating to, containing, or having the properties of albumen or albumin.
alburnumsapwood; the soft, newer wood in the trunk of a tree found between the bark and the hardened heartwood.
AlcaeusA name of Greek origin, particularly borne by an Ancient Greek lyric poet of Mytilene (c. 620–6th century BCE).
AlcaicPertaining to Alcaeus, a Greek lyric poet of around 600 BC; especially, of a verse meter in a four-line stanza which he supposedly invented.
alcedineOf or relating to a kingfisher or kingfishers.
AlcmanAn Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a 7th-century-BCE choral lyric poet from Sparta.
AlcmeneDescendant of Perseus and Andromeda, the wife of Amphitryon, and mother, by Zeus, of Heracles/Hercules.
alectryomancyA form of divination in which the diviner observes a bird or birds (preferably a white rooster or cockerel) pecking at grain that the diviner has scattered on the ground.
AlemanniaThe territory inhabited by the Alemanni during late antiquity, roughly corresponding to parts of present-day southwestern Germany.
alembicationThe act of making something more refined or pure; distillation.
AlexandrettaFormer name of Iskenderun: a city in southern Turkey.
alpha privativeThe prefix a- (or an- when prefixing a root which begins with a vowel) found in some English words of Greek derivation. It expresses negation or absence. The prefix has cognates in other Indo-European languages, including in- in Latin and un- in English, all traceable back to Proto-Indo-European *n̥-.
alphosAny disease causing dull white or silvery spots on the skin, including non-contagious forms of leprosy and psoriasis.
amphictyonOne of the deputies from the confederated states of Ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters.
-anaA collection of things that relate to a specific place, person, etc.
anabathrumA raised seat, chair or platform; a pulpit.
anagogeThe spiritual or mystical interpretation of a word or passage beyond the literal, allegorical or moral sense (especially in Biblical criticism).