7-letter words containing lat
- oblates — Plural form of oblate.
- oblatum — (geometry) An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis.
- oculate — Having eyes.
- of late — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- ovulate — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- oxalate — any salt or ester of oxalic acid, occurring in plants, especially spinach, rhubarb, and certain other vegetables and nuts, and capable of forming an insoluble salt with calcium and interfering with its absorption by the body.
- palatal — Anatomy. of or relating to the palate.
- palatia — a palace, especially the palace of an ancient Roman emperor.
- palatka — a city in NE Florida.
- pilates — a system of physical conditioning involving low-impact exercises and stretches designed to strengthen muscles of the torso and often performed with specialized equipment.
- pilatus — a mountain in central Switzerland, near Lucerne: a peak of the Alps; cable railway. 6998 feet (2130 meters).
- plataea — an ancient city in Greece, in Boeotia: Greeks defeated Persians here 479 b.c.
- plateau — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- platina — a native alloy of platinum with palladium, iridium, osmium, etc.
- plating — a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
- platini — Michel. born 1955, French footballer, manager, and administrator; scored 41 goals in 72 games for France (1976–87); European Footballer of the Year (1983–85); president of UEFA (2007–2015)
- platoon — a military unit consisting of two or more squads or sections and a headquarters.
- platted — a plait or braid.
- platter — a large, shallow dish, usually elliptical in shape, for holding and serving food, especially meat or fish.
- platypi — a small, aquatic, egg-laying monotreme, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, of Australia and Tasmania, having webbed feet, a tail like that of a beaver, a sensitive bill resembling that of a duck, and, in adult males, venom-injecting spurs on the ankles of the hind limbs, used primarily for fighting with other males during the breeding season.
- polatsk — a city in N Belarus, on the Dvina River.
- prelate — an ecclesiastic of a high order, as an archbishop, bishop, etc.; a church dignitary.
- prolate — elongated along the polar diameter, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its longer axis (opposed to oblate).
- reflate — to increase again the amount of money and credit in circulation.
- relatch — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- related — associated; connected.
- relater — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- relator — a person who relates or tells; narrator.
- relatum — one of the objects between which a relation is said to hold
- replate — to put new plating on
- reslate — to slate (a roof etc) again
- rotblat — Joseph, 1908–2005, English physicist and anti–nuclear arms activist, born in Poland: Nobel prize 1995.
- runflat — (of a motor vehicle) having a safety feature that prevents tyres becoming dangerous or liable to damage when flat
- slather — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slating — a fine-grained rock formed by the metamorphosis of clay, shale, etc., that tends to split along parallel cleavage planes, usually at an angle to the planes of stratification.
- slatkin — Leonard. born 1944, US conductor; musical director of the St Louis Symphony Orchestra (1979–96) and of the National Symphony Orchestra (1996–2008)
- slatted — a slap; a sharp blow.
- slatter — to be slovenly in dress
- solated — to change from a gel to a sol.
- solatia — something given in compensation for inconvenience, loss, injury, or the like; recompense.
- spalato — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: Roman ruins.
- splatch — a large splash or splatter
- stylate — having a style.
- sublate — to deny or contradict; negate.
- t-plate — a metal plate shaped like a T used to strengthen or effect a right-angled joint between two beams, etc
- ululate — to howl, as a dog or a wolf; hoot, as an owl.
- unlatch — to unfasten (a door, window shutter, etc.) by lifting the latch.
- vallate — bordered by a ridge, raised edge, or the like.
- velated — Biology. having a velum.
- violate — to break, infringe, or transgress (a law, rule, agreement, promise, instructions, etc.).