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albista: Duke of Alba
albista: a supporter of the Duke of Alba
albita: albite (plagioclase feldspar)
albiverde: of a number of sports teams having a white and green strip:
albiverde: someone connected with the above sports teams, as a fan, player, coach, etc.
albo: white
alboca: alternative spelling of alboka
albogue: a type of rudimentary flute
albohol: bindweed; sea heath
alboka: alboka
albokari: alboka player
albomicina: albomycin
albondiguilla: diminutive of albóndiga; dry boogerball
albor: whiteness (state of being white); dawnlight; dawn
alborada: sunrise; aubade
alborear: to dawn (to begin to brighten with daylight); to originate, to begin
alborecer: to dawn (to begin to brighten with daylight)
albornoz: burnoose; bathrobe
alboronía: A kind of stew from central and southern Spain, typically made with eggplants, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins, and paprika.
alborotado: excited, in disarray; rowdy
alborotador: troublemaker, agitator, tearaway
alborotador: troublemaking
alborotar: to stir up, agitate; to disturb, tease (provoke or disturb); to excite; to infect, ballyhoo (make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion); to bother
alboroto: fuss, commotion, ruckus, hubbub, brouhaha, ado, uproar, tumult, riot, bustle, din, rumpus, fracas, rowdiness; disturbance, racket, mayhem; rampage; hoopla, ballyhoo; bedlam
alborozado: overjoyed; ebullient
alborozar: to gladden, to make joyous
alborozo: joy, jubilation, delight; gaiety
albricias: albricias
albudeca: tasteless or watery melon
albufera: lagoon
albugínea: albuginea
albumen: egg white, albumen
albuminuria: albuminuria
albur: bleak (fish); dace; luck, chance, risk; a kind of humorous wordplay that relies on sexual innuendo; a risqué double entendre
albura: whiteness (state of being white); sapwood (wood just under the bark)
alburear: to engage in albures, a kind of wordplay involving sexual innuendo
alburero: person making albures
alburero: related to albures (form of sexual innuendo)
albéitar: farrier who can also cure minor animal (especially equine) illnesses; veterinarian
albérchigo: peach; apricot
albóndiga: meatball
albóndigas: plural of albóndiga; A soup made with albóndigas (meatballs)
albúmina: albumin
alca: auk
alca gigante: great auk
alcabala: alcavala; checkpoint (police post at an exit from a city or a highway)
alcacel: synonym of alcacer
alcacer: green rye; barley field
alcachofa: artichoke; shower head
alcachofa borriquera: cotton thistle
alcachofera: artichoke plant
alcahuete: gossip (person); go-between, matchmaker; pimp (prostitution solicitor); panderer, sycophant, ingratiator; enabler
alcahuetear: to act as a go-between, to play Cupid; to gossip
alcahuetería: pimping
alcaicería: A public marketplace where silk merchants would expose their merchandise in order to be charged with the duties they owed to the Moorish monarchs.; Any marketplace, especially for silk.
alcaide: commander of the defense of a castle; administrator of royal property; warden; administrator of a prison
alcaidesa: the wife of an alcaide
alcalareño: of, from or relating to Alcalá de Guadaíra
alcalareño: native or inhabitant of Alcalá de Guadaíra (usually male)
alcalaíno: native or inhabitant of Alcalá de Henares (usually male)