This habilitation thesis fits in the fields of algebraic and enumerative combinatorics, with connections with computer science. The main ideas developed in this work consist in endowing combinatorial objects (words, permutations, trees, integer partitions, Young tableaux, etc.) with operations in order to construct algebraic structures. This process allows, by studying algebraically the structures thus obtained (changes of bases, generating sets, presentations by generators and relations, morphisms, representations), to collect combinatorial information about the underlying objects. The algebraic structures the most encountered here are magmas, posets, associative algebras, dendriform algebras, Hopf bialgebras, operads, and pros. This work ...