4-letter words containing la
- lave — to wash; bathe.
- lavs — Plural form of lav.
- lavy — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Lavish; liberal.
- lawe — Obsolete spelling of law.
- lawl — (Internet) alternative spelling of lol.
- lawn — wireless local area network
- laws — Plural form of law.
- laya — (music) The term for tempo in Indian music.
- laye — Obsolete spelling of lay.
- layn — (Judaism) To read from the Torah scroll during a Jewish prayer service.
- lays — Plural form of lay.
- laze — to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend.
- lazy — averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
- lela — a female given name.
- lila — a female given name, form of Leila.
- lola — a female given name, form of Charlotte or Dolores.
- mala — in bad faith; not genuine.
- mela — a religious fair, especially one held in connection with a festival.
- mlab — Modeling LABoratory. An interactive mathematical modelling system.
- mola — any of several thin, silvery fishes of the family Molidae, of tropical and temperate seas.
- mpla — Movimento Popular de Libertacão de Angola: a political party that has ruled Mozambique since the country gained independence from Portugal in 1975
- nala — (Hinduism) a character in Hindu mythology, is the king of Nishadha Kingdom, son of Veerasena.
- nola — A very small bell used in the choir during consecration.Walters, Henry Beauchamp. Church Bells of England, [https://archive.org/stream/churchbellsofeng00waltrich#page/2/mode/2up p. 3].Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Music, Vol. 2, [https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=Yy6jaxVwSg8C&pg=PA452 p. 452].
- olaf — Saint (Olaf Haraldssön) a.d. 995–1030, king of Norway from 1016 to 1029; patron saint of Norway.
- olap — On-Line Analytical Processing
- olay — Palm leaves, prepared for being written upon with a style pointed with steel.
- olla — a pot, especially an earthen pot for holding water, cooking, etc.
- pela — a Chinese scale insect that excretes wax, Ericerus pela
- pila — an anatomical structure like a pillar in form
- plan — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- plat — a plait or braid.
- play — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pola — Pula.
- pula — a seaport in W Croatia, on the Istrian Peninsula.
- rlab — A MATLAB-like matrix-oriented programming language/toolbox. RLaB focusses on creating a good experimental environment (or laboratory) in which to do matrix mathematics. Currently RLaB has numeric scalars and matrices (real and complex), and string scalars, and matrices. RLaB also contains a list variable type, which is a heterogeneous associative array. Version 0.95 includes an interpreter, libraries and documentation. E-mail: Ian Searle <[email protected]>. ftp://evans.ee.adfa.oz.au. Requires GNUPLOT, lib[IF]77.a (from f2c). Ported to many platforms including Unix, OS/2, Amiga.
- sala — a large hall, living room, or reception room.
- slab — a broad, flat, somewhat thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid material.
- slag — British Slang. an abusive woman.
- slam — the winning or bidding of all the tricks or all the tricks but one in a deal. Compare grand slam (def 1), little slam.
- slap — a gap or opening, as in a fence, wall, cloud bank, or line of troops.
- slat — a slap; a sharp blow.
- slav — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- slaw — coleslaw.
- slay — to draw (warp ends) through the heddle eyes of the harness or through the dents of the reed in accordance with a given plan for weaving a fabric.
- sola — an Indian shrub, Aeschynomene aspera, of the legume family, the pith of which is used for making helmets.
- tala — a repeated rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed beats played on a percussion instrument in Indian music.
- tela — a seaport in N Honduras.
- tlas — (jargon) As of 2014-08-14, this dictionary included 1285 three-letter acronyms, which is 7% of the 26^3 = 17576 possible. Here's a grep command to find them: egrep '^[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]$' Dictionary or a GNU Emacs command: (occur "^[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]$") Here they are:
- tola — a unit of weight in India: the government tola is 180 ser and equals 180 grains (11.7 grams), the weight of a silver rupee.
- tula — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.