16-letter words containing la
- a blaze of glory — If you go out in a blaze of glory, you do something very dramatic at the end of your career or your life which makes you famous.
- a la bonne heure — at the right moment.
- abscission layer — a layer of parenchyma cells that is formed at the bases of fruits, flowers, and leaves before abscission. As the parenchyma disintegrates, the organ becomes separated from the plant
- acanthocephalans — Plural form of acanthocephalan.
- accumulativeness — The state or qualities of being accumulative.
- acetylandromedol — grayanotoxin.
- acetylsalicylate — a salt or ester of acetylsalicylic acid.
- adam de la halle — c1240–87, French troubadour: composer.
- adhesive plaster — adhesive tape, especially in wide sheets.
- adjective clause — a relative clause that modifies a noun or pronoun, as the clause that I told you about in This is the book that I told you about and who saw us in It was she who saw us.
- aesthetic labour — workers employed by a company for their appearance or accent, with the aim of promoting the company's image
- affirmative flag — a flag having five horizontal stripes, blue, white, red, white, and blue, from top to bottom, signifying “yes”: letter C in the International Code of Signals.
- airplane carrier — an aircraft carrier.
- alaska peninsula — an extension of the mainland of SW Alaska between the Pacific and the Bering Sea, ending in the Aleutian Islands. Length: about 644 km (400 miles)
- alaskan malamute — any of a breed of large, strong dog with a thick coat of gray or black-and-white and a bushy tail: it was developed as a sled dog by the Alaskan Eskimo
- aleutian islands — a chain of over 150 volcanic islands, extending southwestwards from the Alaska Peninsula between the N Pacific and the Bering Sea
- alexander island — island of Antarctica, just west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, in the British Antarctic Territory: c. 16,700 sq mi (43,253 sq km)
- alkylating agent — any cytotoxic drug containing alkyl groups, such as chlorambucil, that acts by damaging DNA; widely used in chemotherapy
- alveolar process — the ridgelike border of the upper and lower jaws containing the sockets of the teeth.
- ambulance chaser — a lawyer who seeks to encourage and profit from the lawsuits of accident victims
- ambulance driver — a person whose job is to drive an ambulance
- ambulance stocks — high-performance stocks and shares recommended by a broker to a dissatisfied client to improve their relationship
- ambulance worker — any person who works in the ambulance service
- amending formula — a specified process or procedure by which a constitution may be amended
- amindivi islands — group of islands in the Arabian Sea, off the SW coast of India: the N part of Lakshadweep territory
- ammonium lactate — a colorless to yellow, water-soluble, syrupy liquid, C 3 H 9 NO 3 , used chiefly in electroplating.
- andorra la vella — the capital of Andorra, situated in the west of the principality. Pop: 22 035 (2003 est)
- andromeda galaxy — a spiral galaxy, appearing to the naked eye as a fuzzy oval patch in the constellation Andromeda; it is a close neighbor to our own galaxy.
- angular diameter — the angle that the apparent diameter of a celestial object subtends at the eye of the observer.
- angular momentum — a property of a mass or system of masses turning about some fixed point; it is conserved in the absence of the action of external forces
- angular velocity — the velocity of a body rotating about a specified axis measured as the rate of change of the angle subtended at that axis by the path of the body
- annular ligament — any of various ligaments that encircle a part, such as the wrist, ankle, or trachea
- antiinflammatory — Alternative spelling of anti-inflammatory.
- aplastic anaemia — anaemia caused by a defect in the body's ability to regenerate blood cells
- aquidneck island — an island in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
- armillary sphere — a model of the celestial sphere consisting of rings representing the relative positions of the celestial equator, ecliptic, etc, used by early astronomers for determining the positions of stars
- arrival platform — the platform where a train, or passenger arrives
- arteriocapillary — Relating to the arteries and the capillaries.
- as a last resort — If you do something as a last resort, you do it because you can find no other way of getting out of a difficult situation or of solving a problem.
- as large as life — real and living
- asalam-wa-leikum — a salutation used in India
- assimilationists — Plural form of assimilationist.
- at the last gasp — at the point of death
- atlantic charter — the joint declaration issued by F. D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill on Aug 14, 1941, consisting of eight principles to guide a postwar settlement
- atlantic croaker — a person or thing that croaks.
- atrioventricular — of, relating to, or affecting both the atria and the ventricles of the heart
- auckland islands — a group of six uninhabited islands, south of New Zealand. Area: 611 sq km (234 sq miles)
- aureate language — a style of poetic diction, used originally in 15th-century English poetry, characterized by the use of ornate phrases and Latinized coinages.
- automanipulation — physical stimulation of one's own genitals.
- avalon peninsula — a large peninsula of Newfoundland, between Trinity and Placentia Bays. Area: about 10 000 sq km (4000 sq miles)
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