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10-letter words containing l, y

  • lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
  • lackadaisy — alas
  • lady apple — a small, yellow apple with a red blush, grown as a specialty variety, and used for eating and in commercial canning.
  • lady's man — a man who strives especially to please women and to attract their attention and admiration.
  • ladybeetle — ladybug.
  • ladyfinger — a small, finger-shaped sponge cake.
  • ladykiller — A charming man who is very attractive to women.
  • lake nyasa — a lake in central Africa at the S end of the Great Rift Valley: the third largest lake in Africa, drained by the Shire River into the Zambezi. Area: about 28 500 sq km (11 000 sq miles)
  • lamb's fry — lamb's offal, esp lamb's testicles, as food
  • lamentably — that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.
  • laminotomy — (surgery) The neurosurgical procedure that removes part of a lamina of the vertebral arch in order to decompress the spinal cord.
  • lammas day — August 1, formerly observed in England as a harvest festival. In Scotland Lammas is a quarter day
  • lampoonery — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
  • land dayak — a member of any of several Dayak tribes of Sarawak and southwestern Borneo. Compare Iban.
  • land yacht — a wind-driven vehicle with a mast and sails, having three wheels, a single seat, and a steering wheel, used especially on beaches and other sandy areas.
  • lanternfly — any of several large tropical insects of the family Fulgoridae, formerly thought to be luminescent.
  • laparotomy — incision through the abdominal wall.
  • lardy cake — a rich sweet cake made of bread dough, lard, sugar, and dried fruit
  • larry wall — (person)   A demigod, the author of Perl, patch, and rn. In the Perl README, he says, "I want you to know that I create nice things like this because it pleases the Author of my story. If this bothers you, then your notion of Authorship needs some revision. But you can use Perl anyway." E-mail: Larry Wall <[email protected]>.
  • laryngeals — Plural form of laryngeal.
  • laryngitic — Pertaining to or suffering from laryngitis.
  • laryngitis — inflammation of the larynx, often with accompanying sore throat, hoarseness or loss of voice, and dry cough.
  • laterality — the use of one hand in preference to the other. Compare handedness.
  • lathyritic — Of or pertaining to lathyrism.
  • latter-day — of a later or following period: latter-day pioneers.
  • laugh away — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
  • laughingly — With amused ridicule or ludicrous inappropriateness.
  • laundryman — a person who works in or operates a laundry.
  • laundrymen — Plural form of laundryman.
  • lawn party — garden party.
  • lawyerlike — Resembling a lawyer or some aspect of one.
  • lay aboard — (formerly) to move alongside a warship to board it
  • lay an egg — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
  • lay before — If you lay an idea or piece of information before someone, you present it to them in detail, usually in order to obtain their approval or advice.
  • lay figure — a jointed model of the human body, usually of wood, from which artists work in the absence of a living model.
  • lay person — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
  • lay reader — a layperson authorized by a bishop to conduct certain parts of a service.
  • lay sb low — If a disease or illness lays you low, it makes you weak or ill.
  • lay sister — a woman who has taken religious vows and habit but is employed in her order chiefly in manual labor.
  • lay-people — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
  • layer cake — a cake made in layers, with a cream, jelly, or other filling between them.
  • lazy sml2c — A lazy version sml2c. Portable, written in SML. Language extensions include first-class continuations, asynchronous signal handling. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://dravido.soar.cs.cmu.edu/usr/nemo/sml2c.
  • lazy susan — a revolving tray for foods, condiments, etc., placed usually at the center of a dining table.
  • lazy tongs — extensible tongs for grasping objects at a distance, consisting of a series of pairs of crossing pieces, each pair pivoted together in the middle and connected with the next pair at the extremities.
  • lead story — the principal story in a newspaper
  • leaky heap — memory leak
  • lectionary — a book or a list of lections for reading in a divine service.
  • leftwardly — leftwards
  • legibility — Also, legibleness. the state or quality of being legible.
  • legitimacy — the state or quality of being legitimate.
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