10-letter words starting with la
- landslides — Plural form of landslide.
- landwaiter — a British customs officer who enforces import-export regulations, collects import duties, etc.
- langlaufer — a participant in cross-country skiing.
- langostino — langoustine.
- langoustes — Plural form of langouste.
- language h — An early business-oriented language from NCR.
- languished — Simple past tense and past participle of languish.
- languisher — One who languishes.
- languishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of languish.
- languorous — characterized by languor; languid.
- laniferous — wool-bearing: sheep and other laniferous animals.
- lanosterol — a sterol, C 30 H 50 O, formed from squalene epoxide, that is a precursor in the biosynthesis of cholesterol and is a component of lanolin.
- lansquenet — landsknecht.
- lanternfly — any of several large tropical insects of the family Fulgoridae, formerly thought to be luminescent.
- lanterning — Present participle of lantern.
- lanternist — someone who operates a magic lantern
- lanthanide — any element of the lanthanide series.
- lanthanoid — (inorganic chemistry) lanthanide.
- lanuginose — covered with lanugo, or soft, downy hairs.
- lanuginous — covered with lanugo, or soft, downy hairs.
- lap dancer — a scantily dressed woman who dances erotically for individual members of the audience
- laparocele — (medicine) A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.
- laparotome — a cutting instrument for performing a laparotomy.
- laparotomy — incision through the abdominal wall.
- lapidarian — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapidaries — Plural form of lapidary.
- lapidarist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapidation — to pelt with stones.
- lapidified — Simple past tense and past participle of lapidify.
- lapidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lapidify.
- lapse rate — the rate of decrease of atmospheric temperature with increase of elevation vertically above a given location.
- lapstrakes — Plural form of lapstrake.
- laptev sea — an arm of the Arctic Ocean N of the Russian Federation in Asia, between Taimyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands.
- lar gibbon — white-handed gibbon.
- lardaceous — lardlike; fatty.
- lardy cake — a rich sweet cake made of bread dough, lard, sugar, and dried fruit
- large cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- large-size — (of clothing, goods, merchandise, etc) of a bigger size than average
- largemouth — Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by a large mouth.
- larithmics — the study of quantitative relations in population aggregates.
- larry wall — (person) A demigod, the author of Perl, patch, and rn. In the Perl README, he says, "I want you to know that I create nice things like this because it pleases the Author of my story. If this bothers you, then your notion of Authorship needs some revision. But you can use Perl anyway." E-mail: Larry Wall <[email protected]>.
- larvacidal — Alternative spelling of larvicidal.
- larvicidal — an agent for killing larvae.
- larvicides — Plural form of larvicide.
- laryngeals — Plural form of laryngeal.
- laryngitic — Pertaining to or suffering from laryngitis.
- laryngitis — inflammation of the larynx, often with accompanying sore throat, hoarseness or loss of voice, and dry cough.
- las cruces — a city in S New Mexico, on the Rio Grande.
- las palmas — Las. Las Palmas.
- lascivious — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.