8-letter words containing la
- landform — a specific geomorphic feature on the surface of the earth, ranging from large-scale features such as plains, plateaus, and mountains to minor features such as hills, valleys, and alluvial fans.
- landgrab — the seizing of land by a nation, state, or organization, especially illegally, underhandedly, or unfairly.
- landings — Plural form of landing.
- landlady — a woman who owns and leases an apartment, house, land, etc., to others.
- landless — without landed property; not owning land: a landless noble.
- landline — a circuit of wire or cable connecting two ground locations.
- landlock — (transitive) To enclose or nearly enclose (a harbour, vessel, etc.) with land.
- landlord — a person or organization that owns and leases apartments to others.
- landmark — a prominent or conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide, especially to ships at sea or to travelers on a road; a distinguishing landscape feature marking a site or location: The post office served as a landmark for locating the street to turn down.
- landmass — a part of the continental crust above sea level having a distinct identity, as a continent or large island.
- landmine — an explosive charge concealed just under the surface of the ground or of a roadway, designed to be detonated by pressure, proximity of a vehicle or person, etc.
- landrace — one of several widely distributed strains of large, white, lop-eared swine of northern European origin.
- landrail — The corncrake, Crex crex.
- landseer — Sir Edwin Henry, 1802–73, English painter, especially of animals.
- landshut — a city in SE Germany, in Bavaria: Trausnitz castle (13th century); manufacturing centre for machinery and chemicals. Pop: 60 282 (2003 est)
- landside — the part of a plow consisting of a sidepiece opposite the moldboard, for guiding the plow and resisting the side pressure caused by the turning of the furrow.
- landskip — landscape.
- landslip — the downward falling or sliding of a mass of soil, detritus, or rock on or from a steep slope.
- landsmal — Nynorsk.
- landsman — Also, landman. a person who lives or works on land.
- landward — Also, landwards. toward the land or interior.
- landwash — the foreshore, especially that part between high and low tidemarks.
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- lane-way — a lane
- laneways — Plural form of laneway.
- lanfranc — 1005?–89, Italian Roman Catholic prelate and scholar in England: archbishop of Canterbury 1070–89.
- lang lay — a wire rope in which the lays of the strands and of their component wires are the same.
- langauge — Misspelling of language.
- langered — (slang, Ireland) extremely drunk.
- langland — William, 1332?–c1400, English poet.
- langlauf — the sport of cross-country skiing.
- langmuir — Irving, 1881–1957, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- langosta — spiny lobster.
- langrage — a kind of shot consisting of bolts, nails, etc., fastened together or enclosed in a case, formerly used for damaging sails and rigging in sea battles.
- langshan — one of a breed of large, black or white, white-skinned Asiatic domestic chickens, having a single comb and feathered shanks and producing dark-brown eggs.
- langspel — a long and narrow old or traditional Scandinavian stringed instrument, played with the fingers and not a bow
- langston — John Mercer, 1829–97, U.S. public official, diplomat, and educator.
- langsyne — long since; long ago.
- language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
- languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
- languour — Alternative spelling of languor.
- laniakea — a huge supercluster of many thousands of galaxies: the Milky Way is included in one of its three component parts.
- laniards — Plural form of laniard.
- lankness — The property of being lank.
- lanneret — the male lanner, which is smaller than the female.
- lanoline — a fatty substance, extracted from wool, used in ointments, cosmetics, waterproof coatings, etc.
- lanosity — lanate.
- lansberg — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 29 miles (46 km) in diameter.
- lansbury — George. 1859–1940, British Labour politician, who led the Labour Party in opposition (1931–35). A committed pacifist, he resigned over the party's reaction to Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia
- lansdale — a city in SE Pennsylvania.