5-letter words containing la
- flash — a precedence code for handling messages about initial enemy contact or operational combat messages of extreme urgency within the U.S. military.
- flask — the armored plates making up the sides of a gun-carriage trail.
- flate — (intransitive, obsolete) To feel nausea.
- flats — horizontally level: a flat roof.
- flava — a distinctive individual style
- flawn — Obsolete form of flan.
- flaws — Plural form of flaw.
- flaxy — made of flax.
- flays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flay.
- fulah — Fulani (def 1).
- galah — an Australian cockatoo, Kakatoe roseicapilla, having rose-colored underparts.
- galas — Plural form of gala.
- galax — a plant, Galax urceolata, of the southeastern U.S., having rounded, evergreen leaves and spikes of small white flowers.
- galla — Oromo.
- glace — frozen.
- glade — an open space in a forest.
- glads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glad.
- glady — resembling a glade
- glaik — a flash of light
- glair — the white of an egg.
- glama — the longest river in Norway, flowing S to the Skagerrak. 365 miles (587 km) long.
- gland — a sleeve within a stuffing box, fitted over a shaft or valve stem and tightened against compressible packing in such a way as to prevent leakage of fluid while allowing the shaft or stem to move; lantern ring.
- glans — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
- glare — a bright, smooth surface, as of ice.
- glark — /glark/ To figure something out from context. "The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context." Interestingly, the word was originally "glork"; the context was "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the January 1981 "Scientific American"). It is conjectured that hackish usage mutated the verb to "glark" because glork was already an established jargon term. Compare grok, zen.
- glary — smooth and slippery, as ice.
- glass — Carter, 1858–1946, U.S. statesman.
- glatt — (Yinglish, of an animal, Judaism) Having none of a particular kind of adhesion on the outside of its lungs; only meat from a glatt animal can be kosher.
- glaum — to snatch at something
- glaur — mud or mire
- glave — glaive.
- glaze — to furnish or fill with glass: to glaze a window.
- glazy — Having the appearance of a glaze.
- gulag — the system of forced-labor camps in the Soviet Union.
- gular — Zoology. the upper part of the throat or gullet. the front or forward part of the neck.
- gulas — Plural form of gula.
- gusla — a Balkan single-stringed musical instrument that is played with a bow
- halal — (of an animal or its meat) slaughtered or prepared in the manner prescribed by Islamic law.
- halas — George Stanley, 1895–1983, U.S. football coach and team owner.
- hekla — an active volcano in SW Iceland. 4892 feet (1491 meters).
- helas — alas
- hella — very; extremely: Those pictures were hella good.
- hilal — Of or pertaining to a hilum.
- hilar — Botany. the mark or scar on a seed produced by separation from its funicle or placenta. the nucleus of a granule of starch.
- hilla — a city in central Iraq, S of Baghdad.
- holla — Used to call attention to something.
- huila — Mount, a volcano in central Colombia. 18,700 feet (5700 meters).
- hulas — Plural form of hula.
- idola — Plural form of idolum.
- iglau — Jihlava.