1. Of pasta cooked so as to be firm when eaten

See also: hard

Encyclopedia: Al dente

• basal body temperature method of family planning
• basal ganglion
• basal metabolic rate
• basal metabolism
• basal placentation
• basal temperature
• basal vein
• basalt
• basaltic
• bascule
• base
• base hit
• base metal
• base of operations
• base on balls
• base pair
• base rate
• base runner
• base-forming
• baseball
• baseball bat
• baseball cap
• baseball card
• baseball clinic
• Averrhoa bilimbi