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10-letter words starting with la

  • ladyfinger — a small, finger-shaped sponge cake.
  • ladykiller — A charming man who is very attractive to women.
  • laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
  • lag b'omer — a Jewish festival celebrated on the 18th day of Iyar, being the 33rd day of the Omer, traditionally in commemoration of the end of the plague that killed Rabbi Akiba's students or of the bravery of Bar Kokba.
  • lageniform — shaped like a flask; having an enlarged base tapering to a narrow neck.
  • lager lout — a rowdy or aggressive young drunk male
  • lagered-up — intoxicated, esp after drinking lager
  • lagerkvist — Pär [par] /pær/ (Show IPA), 1891–1974, Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1951.
  • lagerphone — (Australia) A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument. (From 1952.).
  • lagniappes — Plural form of lagniappe.
  • lagomorphs — Plural form of lagomorph.
  • lah-di-dah — affected; pretentious; foppish: a la-di-da manner.
  • laid paper — paper with fine parallel and cross lines produced in manufacturing.
  • lake frome — a shallow salt lake in NE South Australia: intermittently filled with water. Length: 100 km (60 miles). Width: 48 km (30 miles)
  • lake garda — a lake in N Italy: the largest lake in the country. Area: 370 sq km (143 sq miles)
  • lake huron — a member of an Indian tribe, the northwestern member of the Iroquoian family, living west of Lake Huron.
  • lake ilmen — a lake in NW Russia, in the Novgorod Region: drains through the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga. Area: between 780 sq km (300 sq miles) and 2200 sq km (850 sq miles), according to the season
  • lake mälar — a lake in S Sweden, extending 121 km (75 miles) west from Stockholm, where it joins with an inlet of the Baltic Sea (the Saltsjön). Area: 1140 sq km (440 sq miles)
  • lake nyasa — a lake in central Africa at the S end of the Great Rift Valley: the third largest lake in Africa, drained by the Shire River into the Zambezi. Area: about 28 500 sq km (11 000 sq miles)
  • lake poets — the English poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, who lived in and drew inspiration from the Lake District at the beginning of the 19th century
  • lake poopó — a lake in SW Bolivia, at an altitude of 3688 m (12 100 ft): fed by the Desaguadero River. Area: 2540 sq km (980 sq miles)
  • lake pskov — the S part of Lake Peipus in NW Russia, linked to the main part by a channel 24 km (15 miles) long. Area: about 1000 sq km (400 sq miles)
  • lake sevan — a lake in Armenia at an altitude of 1914 m (6279 ft). Area: 1417 sq km (547 sq miles)
  • lake tahoe — a lake between E California and W Nevada, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains at an altitude of 1899 m (6229 ft). Area: about 520 sq km (200 sq miles)
  • lake taupo — a lake in New Zealand, on central North Island: the largest lake of New Zealand. Area: 616 sq km (238 sq miles)
  • lake trout — a large, fork-tailed trout, Salvelinus namaycush, of the lakes of Canada and the northern U.S., valued as a food and game fish.
  • lake urmia — a shallow lake in NW Iran, at an altitude of 1300 m (4250 ft): the largest lake in Iran, varying in area from 4000–6000 sq km (1500–2300 sq miles) between autumn and spring
  • lake volta — an artificial lake in Ghana, extending 408 km (250 miles) upstream from the Volta River Dam on the Volta River: completed in 1966. Area: 8482 sq km (3275 sq miles)
  • lake worth — a city in SE Florida.
  • lakefronts — Plural form of lakefront.
  • lakeshores — Plural form of lakeshore.
  • lalochezia — (rare) The use of vulgar or foul language to relieve stress or pain.
  • laloplegia — paralysis of the speech organs in which the tongue is not affected.
  • lamarckian — of or relating to Jean de Lamarck or his theory of organic evolution.
  • lamarckism — the Lamarckian theory that characteristics acquired by habit, use, or disuse may be passed on to future generations through inheritance.
  • lamaseries — Plural form of lamasery.
  • lamb shift — the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom detected by Willis Eugene Lamb (1913–2008), the US physicist
  • lamb's fry — lamb's offal, esp lamb's testicles, as food
  • lambasting — to beat or whip severely.
  • lambdacism — excessive use of the sound l, its misarticulation, or its substitution for the sound r.
  • lambdoidal — Lambdoid.
  • lambrequin — a woven fabric covering for a helmet in medieval times to protect it from heat, rust, etc.
  • lame-brain — a dunce; booby; fool.
  • lamebrains — Plural form of lamebrain.
  • lamellated — Lamellate.
  • lamentable — that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.
  • lamentably — that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.
  • lamestream — noting or relating to traditional print and broadcast media, when regarded as lacking the fairness, creativity, etc., of independent online news sources.
  • laminarian — belonging or relating to the laminaria or to the zone where they grow, which is between two and ten fathoms deep
  • laminarins — Plural form of laminarin.
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