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12-letter words containing las

  • plastic arts — arts producing works or effects that are three-dimensional, as sculpture or ceramics
  • plastic bomb — a bomb made of plastic explosive.
  • plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
  • plastic foam — expanded plastic.
  • plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
  • plastination — a technique for embalming bodies by impregnating whole organs with silicon polymers
  • plastocyanin — a blue protein found in green plants and in some bacteria
  • pomona glass — an American art glass having one of its surfaces stained a pale amber color and the other surface etched.
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • preclassical — occurring or existing in, produced during or characteristic of a period prior to the classical period
  • proper class — a class which cannot itself be a member of other classes
  • protoplasmic — Biology. (no longer in technical use) the colloidal and liquid substance of which cells are formed, excluding horny, chitinous, and other structural material; the cytoplasm and nucleus.
  • pulp plaster — plaster containing shredded wood fiber.
  • pyloroplasty — the surgical alteration of the pylorus, usually a widening to facilitate the passage of food from the stomach to the duodenum.
  • quartz glass — lechatelierite.
  • reclassified — to classify anew.
  • reform flask — an English salt-glazed stoneware flask of the early 19th century formed as an effigy of one of the figures connected with the Reform Bill of 1832.
  • rolled glass — a sheet of glass made by the extrusion of molten glass between two rollers.
  • safety glass — a pane made by joining two plates or panes of glass with a layer of usually transparent plastic or artificial resin between them that retains the fragments if the glass is broken.
  • sand-blasted — a blast of air or steam laden with sand, used to clean, grind, cut, or decorate hard surfaces, as of glass, stone, or metal.
  • sandblasting — the act or process of using a sandblast to clean, grind, or decorate a surface
  • second-class — of a secondary class or quality.
  • seeing glass — a looking glass; mirror.
  • silas marner — a novel (1861) by George Eliot.
  • silica glass — a very clear, strong glass produced when pure silica is fused at high temperature, used as in optical instruments
  • slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
  • social class — a broad group in society having common economic, cultural, or political status.
  • splash guard — a large flap behind a rear tire to prevent mud, water, etc., from being splashed on the following vehicle.
  • spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
  • storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
  • studio glass — art glass produced by an independent artisan in the studio.
  • superelastic — capable of returning to its original length, shape, etc., after being stretched, deformed, compressed, or expanded: an elastic waistband; elastic fiber.
  • superplastic — (of some metals and alloys) having the capacity to undergo extreme deformation at high temperatures.
  • synchroflash — of or relating to photography employing a device that synchronizes the photoflash with the shutter.
  • thalassaemia — a hereditary disease, common in many parts of the world, resulting from defects in the synthesis of the red blood pigment haemoglobin
  • thalassaemic — a person who has the blood disorder thalassaemia
  • thalassocrat — a nation that has dominion over the seas.
  • the classics — a body of literature regarded as great or lasting, esp that of ancient Greece or Rome
  • thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
  • unclassified — not assigned to a class or category; not arranged according to characteristics: Reported instances fall into two main types, with a few unclassified anomalies.
  • vacuum flask — A vacuum flask is a container which is used to keep hot drinks hot or cold drinks cold. It has two thin silvery glass walls with a vacuum between them.
  • viscoelastic — pertaining to a substance having both viscous and elastic properties.
  • water splash — a place where a stream runs over a road
  • weatherglass — any of various instruments, as a barometer or a hygroscope, designed to indicate the state of the atmosphere.
  • window glass — glass used in windows
  • wineglassful — the capacity of a wineglass, typically containing four to six fluid ounces.
  • wollastonite — a mineral, calcium silicate, CaSiO 3 , occurring usually in fibrous white masses.
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