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9-letter words containing la

  • lautering — The step or process in brewing beer which separates the mash into clear liquid wort and grain.
  • lava flow — liquid or solidified lava which has erupted from a volcano onto the Earth's surface
  • lava lamp — lamp containing wax in coloured liquid
  • lava-lava — the principal garment for both sexes in Polynesia, especially in Samoa, consisting of a piece of printed cloth worn as a loincloth or skirt.
  • lava-like — resembling lava in behaviour or consistency
  • lavaliere — an ornamental pendant, usually jeweled, worn on a chain around the neck.
  • lavalleja — Juan Antonio [hwahn ahn-taw-nyaw] /ʰwɑn ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1784–1853, Uruguayan revolutionary: leader in war of independence against Brazil 1825.
  • lavateras — Plural form of lavatera.
  • lavations — Plural form of lavation.
  • lavenders — Plural form of lavender.
  • lavishing — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
  • lavoisier — Antoine Laurent [ahn-twan loh-rahn] /ɑ̃ˈtwan loʊˈrɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1743–94, French scientist: pioneer in the field of chemistry.
  • law agent — (in Scotland) a solicitor holding a certificate from the Law Society of Scotland and thereby entitled to appear for a client in any Sheriff Court
  • law clerk — an attorney, usually a recent law-school graduate, working as an assistant to a judge or being trained by another attorney.
  • law court — court of law.
  • law lords — (in Britain) members of the House of Lords who sit as the highest court of appeal, although in theory the full House of Lords has this role
  • lawgivers — Plural form of lawgiver.
  • lawgiving — Enacting laws; legislative.
  • lawlessly — In a lawless manner. Without constraint by law or moral code.
  • lawmakers — Plural form of lawmaker.
  • lawmaking — a person who makes or enacts law; legislator.
  • lawmonger — an inferior lawyer
  • lawnmower — a hand-operated or motor-driven machine for cutting the grass of a lawn.
  • lawyering — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
  • laxatives — Plural form of laxative.
  • laxnesses — Plural form of laxness.
  • lay aside — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • lay clerk — lay vicar.
  • lay it on — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • lay vicar — a member of a cathedral choir appointed to sing certain parts of the services
  • lay waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
  • layabouts — Plural form of layabout.
  • layerable — one of several items of clothing worn one on top of the other.
  • laymanize — to simplify (technical information) into a form that can be understood by ordinary people
  • laypeople — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
  • layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
  • lazarette — a hospital for those affected with contagious diseases, especially leprosy.
  • lazaretto — a hospital for those affected with contagious diseases, especially leprosy.
  • lazy list — A list which is built using a non-strict constructor. Any head or tail of the list may be an unevaluated closure. Also known as streams since they may be used to carry a sequence of values from the output of one function to an input of another. See also Lazy evaluation.
  • lazybones — a lazy person.
  • lazzarone — One of the poorer classes of Neapolitans; beggars.
  • leadplant — a North American shrub, Amorpha canescens, of the legume family, the leaves and twigs of which have a gray cast.
  • leaf lard — lard prepared from the leaf fat of the hog.
  • leaf-lard — lard prepared from the leaf fat of the hog.
  • leash law — a local ordinance requiring that dogs be leashed when not on their owners' property.
  • left-laid — noting a rope, strand, etc., laid in a left-handed, or counterclockwise, direction as one looks away along it (opposed to right-laid).
  • legislate — to exercise the function of legislation; make or enact laws.
  • lemon law — a law that requires manufacturers to replace, repair, or refund the cost of automobiles that prove to be defective.
  • levelland — a city in NW Texas.
  • libellant — a person who libels, or institutes suit.
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