10-letter words starting with la
- laminarize — to make or design (a surface on an aircraft, or the flow over such a surface) so that it will be laminar
- laminating — Present participle of laminate.
- lamination — act or process of laminating; the state of being laminated.
- laminboard — A compound wood board consisting of thin strips of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood, considered to be of higher quality than blockboard.
- lamingtons — Plural form of lamington.
- laminotomy — (surgery) The neurosurgical procedure that removes part of a lamina of the vertebral arch in order to decompress the spinal cord.
- lamivudine — (medicine) A nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor, 2',3'-dideoxy-3'-thiacytidine that is used for the treatment of HIV and chronic hepatitis B.
- lammas day — August 1, formerly observed in England as a harvest festival. In Scotland Lammas is a quarter day
- lammastide — the season of Lammas.
- lamp shell — a mollusklike marine animal; brachiopod.
- lamp-black — a fine black pigment consisting of almost pure carbon collected as soot from the smoke of burning oil, gas, etc.
- lamp-shade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampadaire — a pedestal of the Empire period for a lamp or candelabrum.
- lamper eel — lamprey.
- lampholder — a fixture for an electric light bulb
- lampoonery — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- lampooning — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- lampshades — Plural form of lampshade.
- lancashire — a county in NW England. 1174 sq. mi. (3040 sq. km).
- lance rest — a support for a couched lance, fixed to the breastplate of a suit of armor.
- lanceolate — shaped like the head of a lance.
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- land agent — a person or firm engaged at a commission to obtain grants of public lands or to negotiate the buying and selling of private lands between two or more parties.
- land dayak — a member of any of several Dayak tribes of Sarawak and southwestern Borneo. Compare Iban.
- land force — an armed force serving on land
- land grant — a tract of land given by the government, as for colleges or railroads.
- land of oz — an unreal, otherworldly, or magical place.
- land power — a nation having an important and powerful army.
- land rover — a four-wheel drive vehicle
- land snail — any gastropod of the widely distributed order Stylommatophora, containing usually small, brown or mottled hermaphroditic snails: some more colorful species, introduced into North America, are agricultural pests.
- land yacht — a wind-driven vehicle with a mast and sails, having three wheels, a single seat, and a steering wheel, used especially on beaches and other sandy areas.
- land's end — a cape in Cornwall that forms the SW tip of England.
- land-damne — to make life unbearable for someone
- landammann — the chairman of the governing council in any of several Swiss cantons
- landaulets — Plural form of landaulet.
- landgraves — Plural form of landgrave.
- landholder — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
- landladies — Plural form of landlady.
- landlocked — shut in completely, or almost completely, by land: a landlocked bay.
- landlouper — A vagabond; a vagrant.
- landlubber — an unseasoned sailor or someone unfamiliar with the sea.
- landmarked — a prominent or conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide, especially to ships at sea or to travelers on a road; a distinguishing landscape feature marking a site or location: The post office served as a landmark for locating the street to turn down.
- landmasses — Plural form of landmass.
- landmining — the laying of landmines
- landowners — Plural form of landowner.
- landowning — an owner or proprietor of land.
- landscaped — Simple past tense and past participle of landscape.
- landscaper — a gardener who does landscape gardening.
- landscapes — Plural form of landscape.