6-letter words containing a, c, l
- lancet — a small surgical instrument, usually sharp-pointed and two-edged, for making small incisions, opening abscesses, etc.
- lascar — an East Indian sailor.
- launce — sand lance.
- launch — to set (a boat or ship) in the water.
- lauric — of or derived from lauric acid.
- le cap — a port in N Haiti: capital during the French colonial period. Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
- leachy — allowing water to percolate through, as sandy or rocky soil; porous.
- legacy — legacy system
- lepcha — a member of a people of Sikkim and adjacent areas of Nepal, Bhutan, and India.
- letcha — (slang) Let you.
- leucas — Levkas.
- lexica — a wordbook or dictionary, especially of Greek, Latin, or Hebrew.
- lilacs — Plural form of lilac.
- linacs — Plural form of linac.
- lo-cal — low-cal.
- locale — a place or locality, especially with reference to events or circumstances connected with it: to move to a warmer locale.
- locals — Plural form of local.
- locant — (organic chemistry) That part of the name of a compound (often a letter or number) that describes the position of an atom, residue or functional group e.g. the 2 in hexan-2-one.
- locate — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- lochan — (Scotland) A small loch.
- lochia — the liquid discharge from the uterus after childbirth.
- lolcat — (on the Internet) an image of a cat accompanied by misspelled or grammatically incorrect text that humorously represents the cat's imagined thoughts or comments on what the image is depicting.
- lorcha — a fast sailing boat, built in China, consisting of a junk-rigged vessel with a European-style hull
- lorica — Zoology. a hard protective case or sheath, as the protective coverings secreted by certain protists.
- lucian — a.d. 117–c180, Greek rhetorician and satirist.
- lucida — the brightest star in a constellation.
- lucina — a title or name given to Juno as goddess of childbirth
- lucuma — a genus of trees, family Sapotaceae, of sub-tropical regions in South America, bearing a sweet egg-shaped fruit of the same name
- lukacs — George, 1885–1971, Hungarian literary critic.
- lunacy — insanity; mental disorder.
- lurcat — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1892–1966, French painter and tapestry designer.
- lycaon — a king of Arcadia said to have offered Zeus a plate of human flesh to learn whether the god was omniscient
- lycian — of or relating to Lycia.
- machel — Samora Moisés [suh-mawr-uh moi-zes] /səˈmɔr ə mɔɪˈzɛs/ (Show IPA), 1933–86, Mozambique political leader: president 1975–86.
- mackle — a blur in printing, as from a double impression.
- macled — (mineralogy) Marked like macle (chiastolite).
- macula — a spot or blotch, especially on one's skin; macule.
- macule — mackle.
- malbec — a black grape originally grown in the Bordeaux region of France and now in Argentina and Chile, used for making wine
- maleic — (chemistry) of, or relating to maleic acid or its derivatives.
- malice — desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
- malloc — C's standard library routine for storage allocation. It takes the number of bytes required and returns a pointer to a block of that size. Storage is allocated from a heap which lies after the end of the program and data areas. Memory allocated with malloc must be freed explicitly using the "free" routine before it can be re-used.
- maloca — An ancestral longhouse used by the natives of the Amazon, notably in Colombia and Brazil.
- marcel — to wave (the hair) by means of special irons, producing the effect of regular, continuous waves (marcel waves)
- mascle — a lozenge represented as having a lozenge-shaped hole at the center.
- mclean — John (1785-1861), US Supreme Court associate justice 1829-61. The US postmaster general 1823-29, he was appointed to the Court by President Jackson.
- mescal — an intoxicating beverage distilled from the fermented juice of certain species of agave.
- mezcal — Alternative form of mescal.
- michal — a daughter of Saul, who became the wife of David. I Sam. 14:49; 18:27.
- mladic — Ratko (ˈratko). born 1943, Bosnian military figure, commander of the Bosnian Serb forces during the civil war of 1992–95; indicted by the UN for war crimes, including the massacre of 6000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica (1995); his trial at an international criminal tribunal in the Hague began in 2012