8-letter words containing la
- balancer — a person or thing that balances
- balances — Plural form of balance.
- balanoid — shaped like an acorn.
- balarama — the elder brother of Krishna and an incarnation of Vishnu.
- balayage — a technique for highlighting hair in which bleach or dye is painted onto sections of the hair with a brush
- ballader — A writer of ballads.
- ballades — Plural form of ballade.
- balladic — relating to ballads
- balladry — ballad poetry or songs
- ballance — John. 1839–93, New Zealand statesman, born in Northern Ireland: prime minister of New Zealand (1891–93)
- ballarag — (archaic, transitive) To bully; to threaten.
- ballarat — a town in SE Australia, in S central Victoria: originally the centre of a gold-mining region. Pop: 72 999 (2001)
- ballasts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ballast.
- ballclay — a type of fine-grained clay suitable for making ceramics
- bangalay — a myrtaceous Australian tree, Eucalyptus botryoides, valued for its hard red wood
- banyalla — Victorian box.
- bareland — (of a croft) having no house attached
- baselard — a historical (predominantly 13th–17th century) short Swiss sword with a distinctive crescent-shaped pommel and crossguard
- basilard — a medieval dagger having a tapering blade with straight transverse quillons and a T -shaped pommel.
- basilary — Basilar.
- beclamor — clamour excessively
- bedlamer — a harp seal, beyond the beater stage but not yet mature.
- bedplate — a heavy metal platform or frame to which an engine or machine is attached
- belabour — If you belabour someone or something, you hit them hard and repeatedly.
- belamour — a beloved person
- belandre — bilander.
- belaunde — Fernando [fer-nahn-daw] /fɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), (Fernando Belaúnde Terry) 1913?–2002, Peruvian architect and statesman: president 1963–68, 1980–85.
- bell lap — the final lap in a race of repeated circuits, signaled by the ringing of a bell.
- bellaire — a city in SE Texas, within the city limits of Houston.
- benguela — a port in W Angola: founded in 1617; a terminus (with Lobito) of the railway that runs from Beira in Mozambique through the Copper Belt of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Pop: about 200 000 (1990 est)
- beslaver — to fawn, or to slobber, over
- bilabial — of, relating to, or denoting a speech sound articulated using both lips
- bilander — a small two-masted cargo ship
- billable — referring to time worked, esp by a lawyer, on behalf of a particular client and for which that client will be expected to pay
- bioplasm — living matter; protoplasm
- bioplast — a very small unit of bioplasm
- biovular — (of twins) from two separate eggs
- blabbing — to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.
- black op — Often, black ops. a secret mission or campaign carried out by a military, governmental, or other organization, typically one in which the organization conceals or denies its involvement: Some national intelligence agencies use black ops to undermine enemy governments. The company even resorted to an industrial black op to steal secrets from its competitor.
- blackcap — a brownish-grey Old World warbler, Sylvia atricapilla, the male of which has a black crown
- blackcod — sablefish.
- blackest — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blackett — Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron. 1897–1974, English physicist, noted for his work on cosmic radiation and his discovery of the positron. Nobel prize for physics 1948
- blackfin — a type of tuna, Thunnus atlanticus
- blackfly — a black aphid, Aphis fabae, that infests beans, sugar beet, and other plants
- blackgum — Nyssa sylvatica, a deciduous tree of the genus Nyssa native to North America
- blackice — (software, security) A commercial firewall and intrusion detection system.
- blacking — any preparation, esp one containing lampblack, for giving a black finish to shoes, metals, etc
- blackish — Something that is blackish is very dark in colour.
- blackleg — a person who acts against the interests of a trade union, as by continuing to work during a strike or taking over a striker's job