7-letter words containing la
- blarney — Blarney is things someone says that are flattering and amusing but probably untrue, and which you think they are only saying in order to please you or to persuade you to do something.
- blasted — Some people use blasted to express anger or annoyance at something or someone.
- blaster — a sudden and violent gust of wind: Wintry blasts chilled us to the marrow.
- blastie — a wretched, ugly little creature
- blasto- — (in biology) indicating an embryo or bud or the process of budding
- blatant — You use blatant to describe something bad that is done in an open or very obvious way.
- blately — bashful; shy.
- blather — If someone is blathering on about something, they are talking for a long time about something that you consider boring or unimportant.
- blatted — drunk
- blatter — a prattle
- blaubok — a large blue-haired antelope, Hippotragus leucophaeus, of southern Africa: extinct since 1800
- blawort — the plant Campanula rotundifolia
- blaydon — an industrial town in NE England, in Gateshead unitary authority, Tyne and Wear. Pop: 14 648 (2001)
- blaze 2 — An object-oriented successor to BLAZE.
- blazing — Blazing sun or blazing hot weather is very hot.
- boffola — a particularly funny joke
- bogland — an area of wetland, usually extensive
- bolland — Jean de [French zhahn duh] /French ʒɑ̃ də/ (Show IPA), or Johan van [Flemish yoh-hahn vahn] /Flemish yoʊˈhɑn vɑn/ (Show IPA), or John, 1596–1665, Belgian Jesuit hagiographer.
- bollard — Bollards are short thick concrete posts that are used to prevent cars from going on to someone's land or on to part of a road.
- bonsela — a present or gratuity
- borlaug — Norman (Ernest). 1914–2009, US agronomist, who bred new strains of high-yielding cereal crops for use in developing countries. Nobel peace prize 1970
- breslau — Wrocław
- brotula — any of several chiefly deep-sea fishes of the family Brotulidae.
- bullace — a small Eurasian rosaceous tree, Prunus domestica insititia (or P. insititia), of which the damson is the cultivated form
- bullary — a place where salt is prepared or boiled
- bullate — puckered or blistered in appearance
- burglar — A burglar is a thief who enters a house or other building by force.
- by-play — secondary action or talking carried on apart while the main action proceeds, esp in a play
- byplace — a private place
- byrlady — a mild oath
- c-clamp — a general-purpose clamp shaped like the letter C
- cabbala — cabala
- caffila — a caravan train
- calabar — a port in SE Nigeria, capital of Cross River state. Pop: 418 000 (2005 est)
- calaloo — Alternative spelling of callaloo.
- calamar — a squid
- calamus — any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus, some species of which are a source of rattan and canes
- calando — (to be performed) with gradually decreasing tone and speed
- calapan — a seaport on NE Mindoro, in the central Philippines.
- callais — a green stone found as beads and ornaments in the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age of W Europe
- callant — a youth; lad
- camilla — Roman Legend. a woman warrior who fought on the side of Turnus against Aeneas.
- candela — the basic SI unit of luminous intensity; the luminous intensity in a given direction of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 × 1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of (1⁄683) watt per steradian
- canella — the fragrant cinnamon-like inner bark of a West Indian tree, Canella winterana (family Canellaceae) used as a spice and in medicine
- cannula — a narrow tube for insertion into a bodily cavity, as for draining off fluid, introducing medication, etc
- canolas — Plural form of canola.
- cantala — a tropical American plant, Agave cantala, similar to the century plant: family Agavaceae (agaves)
- canular — shaped like a cannula; tubular.
- capelan — Alternative form of capelin.
- capella — the brightest star in the constellation Auriga; it is a yellow giant and a spectroscopic binary. Visual magnitude: 0.08; spectral type: G6III and G2III; distance: 42 light years