8-letter words containing la
- clawback — the recovery of a sum of money, esp by taxation or penalty
- clawfoot — (medicine, uncountable) A condition of the human foot in which the sole of the foot is distinctly hollow when bearing weight, i.e. it has a fixed plantar flexion.
- clawless — Having no claws.
- clawlike — resembling a claw or claws
- clay pit — a pit or mine from which clay is extracted
- claybank — a dull brownish-orange colour
- clayborn — a male given name.
- claylike — a natural earthy material that is plastic when wet, consisting essentially of hydrated silicates of aluminum: used for making bricks, pottery, etc.
- claymore — a large two-edged broadsword used formerly by Scottish Highlanders
- claypans — Plural form of claypan.
- clayware — pottery
- clitella — a ring or saddle-shaped region of glandular tissue in the body wall of certain annelids, as earthworms and some leeches, that after copulation secretes a cocoon in which the eggs and sperm are deposited for fertilization and development.
- clubland — A city's clubland is the area that contains all the best nightclubs.
- coahuila — a state of N Mexico: mainly plateau, crossed by several mountain ranges that contain rich mineral resources. Capital: Saltillo. Pop: 2 295 808 (2000). Area: 151 571 sq km (59 112 sq miles)
- cocobola — timber from trees of the genus Delbergia, including rosewood
- cola nut — any of the seeds of the cola tree, which contain caffeine and theobromine and are used medicinally and in the manufacture of soft drinks
- colamine — ethanolamine.
- colander — A colander is a container in the shape of a bowl with holes in it which you wash or drain food in.
- colatina — a city in SE Brazil.
- colation — The act of straining or filtering; filtration.
- coldslaw — coleslaw.
- coleslaw — Coleslaw is a salad of chopped raw cabbage, carrots, onions, and sometimes other vegetables, usually with mayonnaise.
- collaged — a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
- collagen — Collagen is a protein that is found in the bodies of people and animals. It is often used as an ingredient in cosmetics or is injected into the face in cosmetic surgery, in order to make the skin look younger.
- collages — Plural form of collage.
- collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
- collards — A cabbage of a variety that does not develop a heart.
- collared — the part of a shirt, coat, dress, blouse, etc., that encompasses the neckline of the garment and is sewn permanently to it, often so as to fold or roll over.
- collaret — a small collar
- collated — to gather or arrange in their proper sequence (the pages of a report, the sheets of a book, the pages of several sets of copies, etc.).
- collates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collate.
- collator — a person or machine that collates texts or manuscripts
- complain — to make an accusation; bring a formal charge
- conclave — A conclave is a meeting at which the discussions are kept secret. The meeting which is held to elect a new Pope is called a conclave.
- condylar — Anatomy. the smooth surface area at the end of a bone, forming part of a joint.
- conflate — If you conflate two or more descriptions or ideas, or if they conflate, you combine them in order to produce a single one.
- consuela — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “consolation.”.
- consular — Consular means involving or relating to a consul or the work of a consul.
- coolabah — an Australian myrtaceous tree, Eucalyptus microtheca, that grows along rivers and has smooth bark and long narrow leaves
- coolamon — a shallow dish of wood or bark, used for carrying water
- coolants — Plural form of coolant.
- coplanar — lying in the same plane
- copulate — If one animal or person copulates with another, they have sex. You can also say that two animals or people copulate.
- coquilla — a coquilla nut
- corelate — to correlate.
- corn law — any of the laws regulating domestic and foreign trading of grain, the last of which was repealed in 1846.
- cornflag — a gladiolus, any iridaceous plant of the genus Gladiolus
- cornland — the type of land that is suitable for growing corn or grain
- cortland — a variety of large, dark-red apple
- coupland — Douglas. born 1961, Canadian novelist and journalist; novels include Generation X (1991), Girlfriend in a Coma (1998), and City of Glass (2000)