10-letter words containing la
- bomb lance — a harpoon fitted with an explosive head.
- bone black — a fine charcoal made by burning animal bones in closed containers: used as a pigment, in refining sugar, etc.
- bonnilasse — a pretty girl
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- borderland — The borderland between two things is an area which contains features from both of these things so that it is not possible to say that it belongs to one or the other.
- bottomland — a lowland alluvial area near a river
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bratislava — the capital of Slovakia since 1918, a port on the River Danube; capital of Hungary (1541–1784) and seat of the Hungarian parliament until 1848. Pop: 428 672 (2001)
- bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
- bridezilla — a woman whose behaviour in planning the details of her wedding is regarded as intolerable
- broadlands — a Palladian mansion near Romsey in Hampshire: formerly the home of Lord Palmerston and Lord Mountbatten
- bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burglarize — If a building is burglarized, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
- butt plate — a plate made usually of metal and attached to the butt end of a gunstock
- butylation — the introduction of butyl into a compound
- cable-laid — (of a rope) made of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction
- cacodylate — a salt of cacodylic acid.
- cadwalader — 7th century ad, legendary king of the Britons, probably a confusion of several historical figures
- calabashes — Plural form of calabash.
- calabooses — Plural form of calaboose.
- calamander — the hard black-and-brown striped wood of several trees of the genus Diospyros, esp D. quaesita of India and Sri Lanka, used in making furniture: family Ebenaceae
- calamities — a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury.
- calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
- calamondin — a small citrus tree, Citrus mitis, of the Philippines
- calaverite — a metallic pale yellow mineral consisting of a telluride of gold in the form of elongated striated crystals. It is a source of gold in Australia and North America. Formula: AuTe2
- calceolate — shaped like a slipper, as the large, middle petal of an orchid
- calculable — Calculable amounts or consequences can be calculated.
- calculated — If something is calculated to have a particular effect, it is specially done or arranged in order to have that effect.
- calculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calculate.
- calculator — A calculator is a small electronic device that you use for making mathematical calculations.
- calendulas — Plural form of calendula.
- call alarm — an electronic device that sends an alarm signal, usually to a distant monitoring centre
- calla lily — any southern African plant of the aroid genus Zantedeschia, esp Z. aethiopica, which has a white funnel-shaped spathe enclosing a yellow spadix
- calla-lily — Also called calla lily, arum lily. any of several plants belonging to the genus Zantedeschia, of the arum family, especially Z. aethiopica, having arrow-shaped leaves and a large white spathe enclosing a yellow spike.
- callathump — a shivaree.
- calyculate — having a calycule
- camarillas — Plural form of camarilla.
- camouflage — Camouflage consists of things such as leaves, branches, or brown and green paint, which are used to make it difficult for an enemy to see military forces and equipment.
- campanella — Tommaso. 1568–1639, Italian philosopher and Dominican friar. During his imprisonment by the Spaniards (1599–1626) he wrote his celebrated utopian fantasy, La città del sole
- campanular — shaped like a bell
- cancelable — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- cancellate — having a spongy or porous internal structure
- candelabra — A candelabra is an ornamental holder for two or more candles.
- candelilla — either of two wax-coated Mexican shrubs, Euphorbia antisyphilitica or Pedilanthus pavonis (or bracteatus)
- cannulated — Simple past tense and past participle of cannulate.
- canola oil — rapeseed oil
- cantillate — to chant (passages of the Hebrew Scriptures) according to the traditional Jewish melody
- capablanca — José Raúl (xoˈse raˈul), called Capa or the Chess Machine 1888–1942, Cuban chess player; world champion 1921–27
- cape blanc — a headland in N Tunisia: the northernmost point of Africa