albert | (n) prince consort of Queen Victoria of England (1819-1861), Syn. Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel, Prince Albert |
alberta | (n) one of the three prairie provinces in western Canada; rich in oil and natural gas and minerals |
alberti | (n) Italian architect and painter; pioneering theoretician of Renaissance architecture (1404-1472), Syn. Leon Battista Alberti |
lake albert | (n) a shallow lake on the border between Uganda and Congo in the Great Rift Valley, Syn. Lake Albert Nyanza, Mobuto Lake |
lane's prince albert | (n) apple used primarily in cooking |
prince albert | (n) a man's double-breasted frock coat |
prince albert yew | (n) small yew having attractive foliage and partially weeping branches cultivated as an ornamental; mountains of southern Chile, Syn. Prince Albert's yew, Saxe-gothea conspicua |
camus | (n) French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960), Syn. Albert Camus |
dreiser | (n) United States novelist (1871-1945), Syn. Theodore Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser |
edward | (n) King of England from 1901 to 1910; son of Victoria and Prince Albert; famous for his elegant sporting ways (1841-1910), Syn. Edward VII, Albert Edward |
einstein | (n) physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955), Syn. Albert Einstein |
giacometti | (n) Swiss sculptor and painter known for his bronze sculptures of elongated figures (1901-1966), Syn. Alberto Giacometti |
gore | (n) Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948), Syn. Al Gore, Albert Gore Jr. |
gregory | (n) Italian pope from 1831 to 1846; conservative in politics and theology; worked to propagate Catholicism in England and the United States (1765-1846), Syn. Bartolomeo Alberto Capillari, Gregory XVI |
guest | (n) United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959), Syn. Edgar Guest, Edgar Albert Guest |
horseradish sauce | (n) creamy white sauce with horseradish and mustard, Syn. sauce Albert |
lipmann | (n) United States biochemist (born in Germany) noted for his studies of metabolic processes (1899-1986), Syn. Fritz Albert Lipmann |
maupassant | (n) French writer noted especially for his short stories (1850-1893), Syn. Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant |
michelson | (n) United States physicist (born in Germany) who collaborated with Morley in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1852-1931), Syn. A. A. Michelson, Albert Michelson, Albert Abraham Michelson |
michener | (n) United States writer of historical novels (1907-1997), Syn. James Michener, James Albert Michener |
porter | (n) United States composer and lyricist of musical comedies (1891-1946), Syn. Cole Albert Porter, Cole Porter |
sabin | (n) United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906), Syn. Albert Sabin, Albert Bruce Sabin |
schweitzer | (n) French philosopher and physician and organist who spent most of his life as a medical missionary in Gabon (1875-1965), Syn. Albert Schweitzer |
sinatra | (n) United States singer and film actor (1915-1998), Syn. Frank Sinatra, Francis Albert Sinatra |
speer | (n) German Nazi architect who worked for Hitler (1905-1981), Syn. Albert Speer |
szent-gyorgyi | (n) United States biochemist (born in Hungary) who was the first to isolate vitamin C (1893-1986), Syn. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi |