9-letter words starting with la
- lawnmower — a hand-operated or motor-driven machine for cutting the grass of a lawn.
- lawyering — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- laxatives — Plural form of laxative.
- laxnesses — Plural form of laxness.
- lay aside — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lay clerk — lay vicar.
- lay it on — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lay vicar — a member of a cathedral choir appointed to sing certain parts of the services
- lay waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- layabouts — Plural form of layabout.
- layerable — one of several items of clothing worn one on top of the other.
- laymanize — to simplify (technical information) into a form that can be understood by ordinary people
- laypeople — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- lazarette — a hospital for those affected with contagious diseases, especially leprosy.
- lazaretto — a hospital for those affected with contagious diseases, especially leprosy.
- lazy list — A list which is built using a non-strict constructor. Any head or tail of the list may be an unevaluated closure. Also known as streams since they may be used to carry a sequence of values from the output of one function to an input of another. See also Lazy evaluation.
- lazybones — a lazy person.
- lazzarone — One of the poorer classes of Neapolitans; beggars.