11-letter words containing lac
- blacktongue — canine pellagra.
- blonde lace — a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
- bobbin lace — lace made with bobbins rather than with needle and thread (needlepoint lace); pillow lace
- breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
- caprolactam — a white crystalline cyclic imine used in the manufacture of nylon. Formula: C5H10NHCO
- catallactic — relating to exchange
- clack valve — a simple nonreturn valve using either a hinged flap or a ball
- clackmannan — a town in E central Scotland, in Clackmannanshire. Pop: 3450 (2001)
- coelacanths — Plural form of coelacanth.
- commonplace — If something is commonplace, it happens often or is often found, and is therefore not surprising.
- complacence — a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.
- complacency — Complacency is being complacent about a situation.
- cotton lace — machine-made lace made from cotton
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- deglaciated — having had glaciation removed
- dilacerated — Simple past tense and past participle of dilacerate.
- emplacement — A structure on or in which something is firmly placed.
- fond du lac — a city in E Wisconsin, on Lake Winnebago.
- galactocele — A cystic tumor containing milk or a milky substance, usually located in the mammary glands, and caused by a protein plug that blocks off the outlet.
- galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
- gerlachovka — a mountain in N Slovakia: highest peak of the Carpathian Mountains. 8737 feet (2663 meters).
- glaciations — Plural form of glaciation.
- glacier bay — a national park in SE Alaska, made up of large tidewater glaciers. 4381 sq. mi. (11,347 sq. km).
- glacierized — Modified by the action of glaciers.
- high places — (in ancient Semitic religions) a place of worship, usually a temple or altar on a hilltop.
- house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
- huitlacoche — Corn smut prepared as a delicacy.
- hypallactic — relating to a hypallage
- implacental — Zoology. having no placenta, as a monotreme or marsupial.
- in place of — instead of, replacing
- interlacing — Present participle of interlace.
- ivory black — a fine black pigment made by calcining ivory.
- laccolithic — Relating to laccoliths.
- lace pillow — pillow (def 3).
- lacerations — Plural form of laceration.
- lacertilian — belonging or pertaining to the reptilian suborder Lacertilia, comprising the lizards.
- lachrymator — a chemical substance that causes the shedding of tears, as tear gas.
- lack-luster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lackey moth — a bombycid moth, Malacosoma neustria, whose brightly striped larvae live at first in a communal web often on fruit trees, of which they may become a pest
- laconically — using few words; expressing much in few words; concise: a laconic reply.
- lacquerware — Articles that have a decorative lacquer coating, viewed collectively.
- lacquerwork — lacquered wood, often with ivory inlays
- lacrimation — the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
- lacrimators — Plural form of lacrimator.
- lacrimatory — of, relating to, or causing the shedding of tears.
- lactalbumin — the simple protein of milk, obtained from whey, used in the preparation of certain foods and in adhesives and varnishes.
- lactational — Of or pertaining to lactation.
- lactic acid — a colorless or yellowish, syrupy, water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 6 O 3 , produced during muscle contraction as a product of anaerobic glucose metabolism, abundant in sour milk, prepared usually by fermentation of cornstarch, molasses, potatoes, etc., or synthesized: used chiefly in dyeing and textile printing, as a flavoring agent in food, and in medicine.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lactifluous — full or flowing with milk