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.