| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626) |
1st Baron Verulam
,
Bacon
,
Baron Verulam
,
Francis Bacon
,
Sir Francis Bacon
,
Viscount St. Albans
|
| English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1867-1947) |
1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
,
Baldwin
,
Stanley Baldwin
|
| English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1848-1930) |
1st Earl of Balfour
,
Arthur James Balfour
,
Balfour
|
| English general during World War II; won victories over Rommel in North Africa and led British ground forces in the invasion of Normandy (1887-1976) |
1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
,
Bernard Law Montgomery
,
Montgomery
,
Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
|
| English writer of stories for children (1882-1956) |
A. A. Milne
,
Alan Alexander Milne
,
Milne
|
| English author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930) |
A. Conan Doyle
,
Arthur Conan Doyle
,
Conan Doyle
,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
|
| English poet (1859-1936) |
A. E. Housman
,
Alfred Edward Housman
,
Housman
|
| English writer (1865-1948) |
A. E. W. Mason
,
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
,
Mason
|
| unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries |
acre
|
| English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941) |
Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf
,
Virginia Woolf
,
Woolf
|
| English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805) |
Admiral Nelson
,
Horatio Nelson
,
Lord Nelson
,
Nelson
,
Viscount Nelson
|
| English physiologist who conducted research into the function of neurons; 1st baron of Cambridge (1889-1997) |
Adrian
,
Baron Adrian
,
Edgar Douglas Adrian
|
| right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice |
advowson
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| king of Wessex; defeated the Danes and encouraged writing in English (849-899) |
AElfred
,
Alfred
,
Alfred the Great
|
| prolific English writer of detective stories (1890-1976) |
Agatha Christie
,
Christie
,
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
|
| battle in northern France in which English longbowmen under Henry V decisively defeated a much larger French army in 1415 |
Agincourt
|
| English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1914) |
Alan Hodgkin
,
Hodgkin
,
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
|
| English mathematician who conceived of the Turing machine and broke German codes during World War II (1912-1954) |
Alan Mathison Turing
,
Alan Turing
,
Turing
|
| plant with terminal racemes of showy white to pink or purple flowers; the English cottage garden hollyhock |
Alcea rosea
,
Althea rosea
,
rose mallow
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| English writer; grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963) |
Aldous Huxley
,
Aldous Leonard Huxley
,
Huxley
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