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11-letter words containing la

  • belle glade — a city in SE Florida.
  • belly laugh — A belly laugh is a very loud, deep laugh.
  • bench lathe — a lathe mounted on a workbench
  • beneplacito — an indication of approval
  • beni mellal — a city in central Morocco.
  • betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
  • biauricular — having two auricles.
  • bible class — a class, typically one meeting weekly, for Bible study
  • biblioclasm — a person who mutilates or destroys books.
  • biblioclast — One who destroys books, especially the Bible.
  • bibliolater — someone who reveres the Bible
  • bibliolatry — excessive devotion to or reliance on the Bible
  • bifoliolate — (of compound leaves) consisting of two leaflets
  • bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
  • bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
  • binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
  • bitter lake — a salt lake containing in solution a high concentration of sulfates, carbonates, and chlorides.
  • black alder — a deciduous shrub (Ilex verticillata) of the holly family, native to E North America, with glossy leaves that turn black in the fall and bright-red berries
  • black angus — Aberdeen Angus
  • black birch — sweet birch.
  • black bread — a kind of very dark coarse rye bread
  • black bream — a dark-coloured food and game fish, Acanthopagrus australis, of E Australian seas
  • black chaff — a disease of wheat, characterized by dark, elongated stripes on the chaff, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas translucens undulosum.
  • black cumin — a Eurasian herb, Nigella sativa, having pungent aromatic seeds used as a spice, but unrelated to cumin.
  • black death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
  • black dwarf — a cold, dark dwarf star
  • black friar — a Dominican friar
  • black frost — a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation
  • black goods — electronic goods which are housed in black or dark casings, such as televisions, CD players, etc
  • black hills — a group of mountains in W South Dakota and NE Wyoming: famous for the gigantic sculptures of US presidents on the side of Mount Rushmore. Highest peak: Harney Peak, 2207 m (7242 ft)
  • black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
  • black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
  • black ivory — Black slaves collectively
  • black japan — a black bituminous varnish
  • black light — the invisible electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet and infrared regions of the spectrum
  • black magic — magic used for evil purposes by invoking the power of the devil
  • black maple — a tree, Acer saccharum nigrum, of eastern and central North America, having furrowed, blackish bark and yellow-green flowers.
  • black maria — a police van for transporting prisoners
  • black medic — a widespread weedy annual plant (Medicago lupulina) of the pea family, with small yellow flowers and black seed pods, sometimes grown for forage
  • black metal — a type of heavy-metal music characterized by extremely nihilistic and satanic lyrics, a repetitive drum beat rapidly alternating betweeen the snare and bass drum (a blast beat), and the ghoulish make-up worn by performers (corpse paint)
  • black molly — a jet-black molly, a color form especially of Poecilia latipinna or P. sphenops, popular as an aquarium fish.
  • black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
  • black olive — a tropical American tree, Bucida buceras, having leathery leaves and greenish-yellow flowers.
  • black perch — a livebearing surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, occurring in abundance along the coast of California, having brownish-black scales often tinged with blue or yellow and a thick, reddish mouth.
  • black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
  • black racer — blacksnake (def 1).
  • black shank — a disease of tobacco, characterized by wilting and by decayed, blackened roots and stems, caused by a fungus, Phytophthora parasitica nicotianae.
  • black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
  • black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
  • black stump — a long way off
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