6-letter words that end in la
- radula — a chitinous band in the mouth of most mollusks, set with numerous, minute, horny teeth and drawn backward and forward over the floor of the mouth in the process of breaking up food.
- rambla — a dry ravine.
- ranula — a cystic tumor formed beneath the tongue, caused by obstruction of the sublingual or submaxillary gland or of a mucous gland.
- regula — (in a Doric entablature) a fillet, continuing a triglyph beneath the taenia, from which guttae are suspended.
- rosula — a rosette
- rotula — the kneecap
- rugola — arugula
- rugula — arugula.
- scilla — modern name of Scylla.
- scylla — Modern name Scilla. a rock in the Strait of Messina off the S coast of Italy.
- setula — a short, blunt seta.
- sheila — a female given name, form of Celia.
- shimla — a state in N India. 21,495 sq. mi. (55,673 sq. km). Capital: Shimla.
- simula — (language) SIMUlation LAnguage. See Lund Simula, SIMULA 67, SIMULA I. See also Association for SIMULA Users, C++SIM, FLEX, MODSIM, SIMSCRIPT. A simula-to-C compiler project is underway. E-mail: Harald Thingelstad <[email protected]>.
- situla — a deep urn, vase, or bucket-shaped vessel, especially one made in the ancient world.
- stella — Frank (Phillip) born 1936, U.S. painter.
- tabula — an ancient tablet for writing on
- taxila — an archaeological site near Rawalpindi, Pakistan: ruins of three successive cities on the same site, dating from about the 7th century b.c. to about the 7th century a.d.; Buddhist center.
- tegula — (in certain insects) a scalelike lobe at the base of the forewing.
- torula — a highly nutritious yeast produced commercially on a sugar recovered from the manufacture of wood products or from processed fruit.
- tra-la — nonsense syllables sung as a refrain, expressing gaiety.
- tugela — a river in E South Africa, rising in the Drakensberg where it forms the Tugela Falls, 856 m (2810 ft) high (highest waterfall in Africa), before flowing east to the Indian Ocean: scene of battles during the Zulu War (1879) and the Boer War (1899–1902). Length: about 500 km (312 miles)
- tuxtla — city in Chiapas state, SE Mexico: pop. 296,000
- ungula — Botany. an unguis.
- upsala — Uppsala.
- ursula — Saint, a legendary British princess who, with 11,000 virgins, is said to have been martyred by the Huns at Cologne.
- vizsla — one of a Hungarian breed of medium-sized, powerful hunting dogs having a short, smooth, rusty-gold coat, a square muzzle, and a docked tail.
- zonula — (anatomy) Any of several small belt-like regions.