11-letter words containing la
- bottom land — bottom (def 4).
- boulangerie — a bakery shop, specif. one that specializes in breads, rolls, etc.
- boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
- bracteolate — having bractlets
- bragg's law — the principle that when a beam of X-rays of wavelength λ enters a crystal, the maximum intensity of the reflected ray occurs when sin θ = nλ/2d, where θ is the complement of the angle of incidence, n is a whole number, and d is the distance between layers of atoms
- bread plate — A bread plate is a small plate for bread that you eat along with your main meal.
- breastplate — A breastplate is a piece of armour that covers and protects the chest.
- breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
- bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
- bridge lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
- brith milah — the rite of circumcision on the eighth day after birth
- broad glass — cylinder glass.
- broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
- budget plan — the planning of one's spending
- burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
- bursiculate — resembling a pouch
- bush ballad — an old Australian bush poem in a ballad metre dealing with aspects of life and characters in the bush
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- cabin class — a class of accommodation on a passenger ship between first class and tourist class
- cadwallader — a male given name.
- caffe latte — latte
- calabazilla — a prostrate vine, Cucurbita foetidissima, of the gourd family, native to southwestern North America, having yellow flowers, round, inedible green and yellow fruit, and an unpleasant odor.
- calamondins — Plural form of calamondin.
- calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
- calceolaria — any tropical American scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Calceolaria: cultivated for its speckled slipper-shaped flowers
- calculating — If you describe someone as calculating, you disapprove of the fact that they deliberately plan to get what they want, often by hurting or harming other people.
- calculation — A calculation is something that you think about and work out mathematically. Calculation is the process of working something out mathematically.
- calculative — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- calculators — Plural form of calculator.
- calculatory — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- calico clam — any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Macrocallista, especially M. nimbosa, having a smooth, thick, rounded shell marked with violet-brown or lilac spots or streaks.
- callanetics — a system of exercise involving frequent repetition of small muscular movements and squeezes, designed to improve muscle tone
- cameo glass — an ornamental glass in which two layers, often blue and opaque white, have been cased, and on which the design has been treated in the manner of a cameo.
- camouflaged — concealed or disguised
- camouflages — Plural form of camouflage.
- camouflagic — relating to camouflage
- campanulate — (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell
- canalicular — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a canaliculus.
- cancelation — an act of canceling.
- cancellable — able to be cancelled
- cancellated — Anatomy. of spongy or porous structure, as bone.
- candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- candleflame — Flame of a candle.
- cannulation — a metal tube for insertion into the body to draw off fluid or to introduce medication.
- cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
- cape collar — a soft, wide, circular collar that covers the shoulders and the upper arms like a cape.
- capillaries — pertaining to or occurring in or as if in a tube of fine bore.
- capillarity — a phenomenon caused by surface tension and resulting in the distortion, elevation, or depression of the surface of a liquid in contact with a solid