10-letter words starting with la
- laser beam — a beam of radiation produced from a laser, used in surgery, communications, weapons systems, printing, recording and various industrial processes.
- laser disc — video, audio format: optical disc
- laser disk — Computers, Television. optical disk.
- laser show — a display of coloured laser lights for entertainment purposes, often accompanying a music concert, etc
- laser trap — a device in which atoms or particles are slowed by the use of lasers and then confined to a small region of space.
- laserscope — a surgical instrument that employs a laser beam to destroy diseased tissue or to create small channels; used to open clogged arteries and, in ophthalmology, to treat patients with glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy.
- last rites — anointing of the sick.
- last sleep — death
- last straw — the last of a succession of irritations, incidents, remarks, etc., that leads to a loss of patience, a disaster, etc.: He has been late before, but this is the last straw.
- last thing — as the final action, esp before retiring to bed at night
- last-ditch — done finally in desperation to avoid defeat, failure, disaster, etc.: a last-ditch attempt to avert war.
- latch hook — a handheld tool similar to a latch needle, used for drawing loops of yarn through canvas or similar material to make rugs and the like.
- latch onto — 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.
- late greek — the Greek of the early Byzantine Empire and of patristic literature, from about a.d. 100 to 700. Abbreviation: LGk.
- late hours — rising and going to bed later than is usual
- late latin — the Latin of the late Western Roman Empire and of patristic literature, from about a.d. 150 to 700. Abbreviation: LL.
- late riser — somebody who tends to wake up and get out of bed at a later time than considered normal
- late-night — of or occurring late at night: a late-night TV talk show.
- latecomers — Plural form of latecomer.
- latenesses — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- lateralise — Alt form lateralize.
- laterality — the use of one hand in preference to the other. Compare handedness.
- lateralize — (of the brain) show laterality.
- latescence — the state or quality of being latescent
- lathyritic — Of or pertaining to lathyrism.
- laticifers — Plural form of laticifer.
- latifundia — a great estate.
- latifundio — a great estate of Latin America or Spain.
- latin rite — Also called Roman liturgy, Roman rite. the forms of worship and liturgy expressed in Liturgical Latin in the Roman Catholic Church in the West.
- latinizing — Present participle of latinize.
- latissimus — Either of a pair of large, roughly triangular muscles covering the lower part of the back, extending from the sacral, lumbar, and lower thoracic vertebrae to the armpits.
- latitation — the state of lying hidden
- latrotoxin — (biochemistry) Any of a group of neurotoxins found in the venom of spiders of the genus Latrodectus.
- latter-day — of a later or following period: latter-day pioneers.
- lattermath — a second mowing or crop of grass from land that has already been harvested in the same year
- lattermost — latest; last.
- latticinio — an opaque, white glass first produced in Venice during the Renaissance, often used in thread form to decorate clear glass pieces.
- laudations — Plural form of laudation.
- lauderhill — a city in SE Florida: suburb of Fort Lauderdale.
- laudianism — the policies and practices of Archbishop Laud or his supporters.
- laugh away — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- laugh down — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- laugh line — crow's-foot (def 1).
- laughingly — With amused ridicule or ludicrous inappropriateness.
- laumontite — a white zeolite mineral, chiefly hydrated silicate of aluminum and calcium.
- launceston — a city on N Tasmania.
- launch pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- launchings — Plural form of launching.
- launderers — Plural form of launderer.
- laundering — Present participle of launder.