17-letter words containing la
- a law unto itself — a person or thing that is outside established laws
- abariringa island — a coral atoll in the S Pacific Ocean, part of Kiribati: largest of the Phoenix Islands. 3.5 sq. mi. (9 sq. km).
- ablative absolute — an absolute construction in Latin grammar in which a governor noun and a modifier in the ablative case function as a sentence modifier; for example, hostibus victis, "the enemy having been beaten"
- absentee landlord — a landlord who does not live in or near a property from which he draws an income
- absorption nebula — a cloud of interstellar gas and dust that absorbs and thus obscures the light from stars behind it, appearing as a dark patch in front of a bright nebula or in an otherwise bright area of sky.
- according to plan — If something happens according to plan, it happens in exactly the way that it was intended to happen.
- acellular vaccine — a vaccine that contains cellular material but not complete cells, specifically, antigenic or allergenic parts of cells.
- acidity regulator — a substance, such as citric acid, added to food to change or maintain its pH value
- acromioclavicular — (anatomy) Pertaining to both the acromion and the clavicle.
- active language i — (tool, mathematics) An early interactive mathematics system for the XDS 930 at the University of California at Berkeley.
- active vocabulary — the total number of words a person uses in his own speech and writing
- adenylate cyclase — an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of ATP to cyclic AMP.
- admiralty islands — a group of about 40 volcanic and coral islands in the SW Pacific, part of Papua New Guinea, in the Bismarck Archipelago: main island: Manus. Pop (whole province): 43 589 (2000). Area: about 2000 sq km (800 sq miles)
- affective fallacy — a proposition in literary criticism that a poem should be analyzed and described in terms of its own internal structure and not in terms of the emotional response it arouses in the reader.
- alaskan king crab — king crab (def 2).
- alcala de henares — city in central Spain, near Madrid: pop. 159,000
- ambulance service — the public organization that operates ambulances in a country
- american flagfish — flagfish (def 1).
- american highland — a region in Antarctica, W of Enderby Land and E of Wilkes Land: discovered 1939.
- american-flagfish — flagfish (def 1).
- andreanof islands — a group of islands in the central Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Area: 3710 sq km (1432 sq miles)
- angry fruit salad — (abuse) A bad visual-interface design that uses too many colours. (This term derives, of course, from the bizarre day-glo colours found in canned fruit salad). Too often one sees similar effects from interface designers using colour window systems such as X; there is a tendency to create displays that are flashy and attention-getting but uncomfortable for long-term use.
- angular frequency — the frequency of a periodic process, wave system, etc, expressed in radians per second
- angular leaf spot — a disease of plants, characterized by angular, watery spots on the leaves and fruit, caused by any of several bacteria, as Pseudomonas lachrymans.
- anti-anaphylactic — exaggerated allergic reaction to a foreign protein resulting from previous exposure to it.
- anti-assimilation — Sociology. the merging of cultural traits from previously distinct cultural groups, not involving biological amalgamation.
- anti-inflammatory — reducing inflammation
- anti-inflationary — of or relating to measures to counteract or combat inflation
- anti-isolationism — the policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, etc., seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement and remain at peace by avoiding foreign entanglements and responsibilities.
- antiprostaglandin — A prostaglandin inhibitor.
- appalachian trail — hiking trail extending from central Me. to N Ga., along the Appalachian Mountains: c. 2,050 mi (3,299 km)
- application layer — (networking) The top layer of the OSI seven layer model. This layer handles issues like network transparency, resource allocation and problem partitioning. The application layer is concerned with the user's view of the network (e.g. formatting electronic mail messages). The presentation layer provides the application layer with a familiar local representation of data independent of the format used on the network.
- articulated joint — Anatomy. a flexible joint.
- articulated lorry — a lorry made in two separate sections, a tractor and a trailer, connected by a pivoted bar
- articulatory loop — a short-term memory system that enables a person to remember short strings of words by rehearsing them repeatedly in his head
- ashby-de-la-zouch — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned (1569) in the castle. Pop: 11 409 (2001)
- assateague island — a narrow island in SE Maryland and E Virginia on Chincoteague Bay: annual wild pony roundup. 33 miles (53 km) long.
- assembly language — a low-level programming language that allows a programmer complete control of the machine code to be generated
- athlete's village — an area of accommodation for competitors taking part in a sports event
- autocorrelational — Of or pertaining to autocorrelation.
- balance of nature — the stable state in which natural communities of animals and plants exist, maintained by adaptation, competition, and other interactions between members of the communit ies and their nonliving environment
- balance of terror — military deterrence based on the possession of weapons of mass destruction by opponents in a conflict
- balance the books — do accounting
- balanced literacy — a method of teaching reading in which phonics and whole language approaches are both used to maximize student learning.
- balanced sentence — a sentence consisting of two or more clauses that are parallel in structure.
- bartholin's gland — either of two small glands near the vaginal opening: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous lubricating substance
- base rate fallacy — the tendency, when making judgments of the probability with which an event will occur, to ignore the base rate and to concentrate on other information
- basketball player — someone who plays basketball
- be black and blue — If you say that someone is black and blue, you mean that they are badly bruised.
- beardmore glacier — one of the largest glaciers, in central Antarctica. About 125 miles (200 km) long.
On this page, we collect all 17-letter words with LA. It’s easy to find right word with a certain length. It is the easiest way to find 17-letter word that contains LA to use in Scrabble or Crossword puzzles.