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13-letter words containing la

  • apicoalveolar — articulated with the tip of the tongue in contact with or in approximation to the alveolar ridge.
  • apostle plant — a plant, Neomarica northiana, of the iris family, native to Brazil, having large, fragrant white and violet flowers, and often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • appealability — an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea.
  • appellatively — (grammar) After the manner of appellative nouns; so as to express whole classes or species.
  • appendiculate — having appendicles
  • archipelagoes — Plural form of archipelago.
  • armor-plating — The armor-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering that is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
  • armour-plated — An armour-plated vehicle or building has a hard metal covering in order to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
  • articulations — Plural form of articulation.
  • ashlar veneer — a thin dressed stone with straight edges, used to face a wall
  • assimilations — Plural form of assimilation.
  • at the latest — You use at the latest in order to indicate that something must happen at or before a particular time and not after that time.
  • atlantic city — a resort in SE New Jersey on Absecon Beach, an island on the Atlantic coast. Pop: 40 385 (2003 est)
  • atlantic pact — North Atlantic Treaty.
  • atlantic time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
  • atrabilarious — Characterized by melancholy or gloom.
  • availableness — Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title.
  • avila camacho — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1897–1955, president of Mexico 1940–46.
  • azurmalachite — a blue-green ornamental stone consisting of a mixture of azurite and malachite.
  • baccalaureate — The baccalaureate is an examination taken by students at the age of eighteen in France and some other countries.
  • bachelor flat — a flat lived in, or intended for a bachelor
  • back-slapping — Back-slapping is noisy, cheerful behaviour which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
  • backdoor play — an offensive tactic whereby a player breaks away from a defender to receive a pass near the baseline in order to make a quick layup.
  • baffin island — the largest island of the Canadian Arctic, between Greenland and Hudson Bay. Area: 476 560 sq km (184 000 sq miles)
  • baggage claim — At an airport, the baggage claim is the area where you collect your baggage at the end of your trip.
  • balance shaft — a shaft in a vehicle engine that is designed to reduce the amount of vibration from other moving parts as it rotates
  • balance sheet — A balance sheet is a written statement of the amount of money and property that a company or person has, including amounts of money that are owed or are owing. Balance sheet is also used to refer to the general financial state of a company.
  • balance staff — a pivoted axle or shaft on which the balance is mounted.
  • balance wheel — a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece, thereby regulating its beat
  • balanced diet — a diet consisting of the proper quantities and proportions of foods needed to maintain health or growth.
  • balanced fund — a mutual fund made up of both stocks and bonds
  • balanced line — a transmission line in which the oppositely directed components are symmetrical with respect to each other and to the ground.
  • balanced step — any of a series of staircase winders so planned that they are nearly as wide at the inside of the stair as the adjacent fliers.
  • balanced tree — (algorithm)   An optimisation of a tree which aims to keep equal numbers of items on each subtree of each node so as to minimise the maximum path from the root to any leaf node. As items are inserted and deleted, the tree is restructured to keep the nodes balanced and the search paths uniform. Such an algorithm is appropriate where the overheads of the reorganisation on update are outweighed by the benefits of faster search. A B-tree is a kind of balanced tree that can have more than two subtrees at each node (i.e. one that is not restricted to being a binary tree).
  • balancing act — If you perform a balancing act, you try to deal successfully with two or more people, groups, or situations that are in opposition to each other.
  • ballad stanza — a four-line stanza, often used in ballads, in which the second and fourth lines rhyme and have three stresses each and the first and third lines are unrhymed and have four stresses each
  • balsam poplar — a poplar tree, Populus balsamifera, of NE North America, having resinous buds and broad heart-shaped leaves
  • basement flat — a flat below the ground floor of a building
  • basket clause — an all-inclusive or comprehensive clause in a contract
  • bass clarinet — a clarinet with the lowest range, in the octave below the B-flat clarinet
  • batan islands — a group of islands in the Philippines, north of Luzon. Capital: Basco. Pop: 16 467 (2000). Area: 197 sq km (76 sq miles)
  • bearing plate — a heavy metal plate for receiving and distributing concentrated weight, as from a column or one end of a truss.
  • bedding plane — the surface separating two successive layers of stratified rock
  • bedding plant — A bedding plant is a plant which lasts for one year. It is put in a flower bed before it flowers, and is then removed when it has finished flowering.
  • bedding-plant — bedmaker (def 1).
  • belly landing — the landing of an aircraft on its fuselage without use of its landing gear
  • benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
  • benzalacetone — benzylidene acetone.
  • bibliolatrous — characterized by bibliolatry
  • bidenticulate — having two small teeth or toothlike processes.
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